All posts by Stephen Hawkins

Jenny LeBlanc and Kyle Bravo: New Wave

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present New Wave, an exhibition by Jenny LeBlanc and Kyle Bravo. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from August 6 – September 17, 2016. The gallery will host an opening reception, with the artists in attendance, on Saturday, August 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with White Linen Night.

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Bunny Matthews: Before and After

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Before and After, an exhibition of drawings by Bunny Matthews. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from August 6 – September 17, 2016. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, August 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with White Linen Night.

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George Dureau: From the Estate

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work from the estate of George Dureau. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from August 6 – September 17, 2016. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, August 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with White Linen Night.

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“PHOTOS: The Unexpected Beauty of George Dureau,” The Advocate

In 2012, Higher Pictures in New York exhibited a selection of George Dureau’s photographs of New Orleans locals shot between 1973 and 1986. Dureau traveled in the high art world but also allowed his work to be displayed in the legendary leather-S/M magazine Drummer. That exhibit, thankfully, sparked renewed interest in Dureau’s work, which led to a new monograph, George Dureau: The Photographs, published by Aperture in June of this year.

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“Spotlight: Jim Richard,” New American Paintings

Since the late 1970s, New Orleans artist Jim Richard has been making paintings, drawings, and collages in which art-stuffed modernist interiors melt into multihued graphic fields. Devoid of inhabitants, his signature claustrophobic spaces are visual essays on taste and influence, composed as if with maximum disorientation in mind.

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“Local color, global appeal,” The Magazine Antiques

simon gunning

Focused on craft and dedicated to traditional methods, Gunning has sidestepped current art world fashions. But, in New Orleans, that’s just another sign that he belongs here, for the city’s distinct culture has rarely shifted to suit national tastes.

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“James Drake,” THE magazine

James Drake is interested in systems, the micro- and the macrocosmic. Having recently opened the show Drawing, Reading, and Counting at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans (May 7 – June 18), the Texas-born, Santa Fe-based artist is still at work within a system he created for himself over four years ago; creating numbered drawings on nineteen by twenty-four inch paper every day.

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Chihuly: Faxes

Get a glimpse inside Dale Chihuly’s creative process in Chihuly Faxes. With 21 color photographs and 130 faxes handpicked from an archive of 7,500, this publication, featuring a foreword by renowned author Francine Prose, boasts an analysis of technology’s role in communicating bold ideas.

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Chihuly: On Fire

Chihuly On Fire encompasses four decades of his breathtaking work in an extensive, illustrated chronology with 177 illustrations, including 166 full-color plates and a comprehensive essay by art historian and acclaimed author, Henry Adams.

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