David Leventi August 2010 Exhibition Walkthrough
David Leventi discusses his August 2010 exhibition Opera Houses at the Arthur Roger Gallery.
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David Bates: The Katrina Paintings
Overwhelmed by the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, Texas-based painter David Bates has chronicled the people and places along America’s bucolic Gulf Coast, making portraits of the people dispossessed by the disaster.
“Field Recordings by Courtney Egan,” Gambit
Botanical art has been with us since the earliest days of civilization, turning up on ancient Egyptian tombs and Greek and Roman monuments. Plants and animals are always in a state of evolutionary flux, so the artists of the past have been a major source of information about species no longer with us today. But art too evolves, and Courtney Egan’s Field Recordings expo reflects a turning point, not only for botanical art but also for video, liberated at last from monitors and projection screens. All that Egan’s work requires is a room with twilight lighting, a cool aesthetic gloom of the sort closed curtains or blinds can easily provide.
Dale Chihuly: Mille Fiori
Dale Chihuly is arguably the best known glass artist in the world. Each title in the ‘Chihuly Mini Book’ series takes readers on a visual tour of Chihuly’s work, exploring what makes each of his genres unique.
“New Orleans artist Courtney Egan creates still lifes that move,” The Times-Picayune
In the dimly lit studio, where Egan was preparing for an exhibit of her works titled “Field Studies” at Heriard-Cimino Gallery, the spinning flower seemed almost real, as if you could reach out and touch it. But it was actually an example of what Egan, one of New Orleans’ premier video artists, described as her “pretty trickery.” The trumpet flower, bee and yellow droplets were all the product of sly video projection.
3 Questions For … Gene Koss
by Andrew Page for UrbanGlass GLASS Quarterly Hot Sheet: What are you working on?Gene Koss: I’m currently working on a monumental sculpture 13-by-10-by-30 feet titled Line Fence. It’s inspired by the feeling of…
Robert Polidori 2010 Exhibition Walkthrough
John Scott December 2009 Exhibition Walkthrough with Richard Powell
Richard Powell discusses the John Scott exhibition on view at Arthur Roger@434 December 5 – 26, 2009.
“In the Studio: Wayne Gonzales,” Art in America
The painter Wayne Gonzales messes with our expectations. He cracks open images we think we already know and injects them with subversive sensuality and doubt.
“A rich palette tells the tale of Canada’s cities,” Financial Post
Creative Spaces | A Tour of Innovative Workplaces DELOITTE’S NEW OFFICE Artist commissioned to capture the flavour of Canada by SARAH TRELEAVEN When accounting firm Deloitte refurbished its five-storey national…