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Simon Gunning
The Sweet Sight of Light 3 Oct - 14 Nov 2026 Arthur Roger Gallery presents Simon Gunning: The Sweet Sight of Light (Oct 3 – Nov 14, 2026), featuring monumental new oil paintings, vibrant swamp and river landscapes, and intricate fish market drawings on paper by the renowned Gulf South master artist.
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Francis X. Pavy
Les Oiseaux du Fais Do-Do 3 Oct - 14 Nov 2026 Francis X. Pavy: Les Oiseaux du Fais Do-Do runs from October 3 to November 14, 2026, at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans. This exhibition features new oil paintings and mixed-media works celebrating the rich musicality, folklore, and nocturnal landscapes of French Louisiana. Read more -
Bunny Matthews
3 Oct - 14 Nov 2026 Explore original drawings, colored pencil works, and biting social satire by iconic New Orleans cartoonist Bunny Matthews (1951–2021), creator of Vic and Nat'ly, on view at Arthur Roger Gallery from October 3 – November 14, 2026 Read more
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Altered States
Off the Playa 1 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present ALTERED STATES , an umbrella exhibition bringing together three distinct presentations that examine transformation through light, perception, memory, and technology. Featuring artists whose practices have largely developed outside the traditional commercial gallery system, the exhibition highlights visionary approaches that challenge conventional boundaries... Read more -
Ché Reed
Vignettes of an Autistic Mind 1 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Vignettes of an Autistic Mind introduces the first public exhibition of drawings by New Orleans artist and musician Ché Reed. Working primarily in ink on handmade paper, Reed creates intricate compositions that reflect decades of sustained artistic practice. A graduate of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Reed continued... Read more -
Keith Duncan
Brass Gods 1 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Brass Gods , an exhibition of paintings by Keith Duncan. Created between 2021 and 2022, the series examines the vitality, labor, and resilience of New Orleans' brass band musicians, whose performances animate the city's streets while navigating the realities of public space,... Read more -
Mitchell Gaudet
Re-Purpose 1 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Re-Purpose, a solo exhibition of monumental sculptural works by Louisiana artist Mitchell Gaudet. Working at the intersection of sculpture, architecture, and spiritual symbolism, Gaudet combines reclaimed religious iconography—including wood Buddhas, santos, and plaster lambs—with luminous cast glass, steel, cast iron, concrete, and precious metal leaf. Rather than treating these salvaged items as relics of the past, Gaudet transforms them into vessels for renewal, inviting viewers into an immersive meditation on memory, devotion, and transformation. Read more -
Sean Svetlik
Machine Hand 1 Aug - 12 Sep 2026 Read more -
Mary Jane Parker
Overgrown 2 May - 27 Jun 2026 Read more -
Holton Rower
If All the Nice People Rose Up 2 May - 4 Jul 2026 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present If All the Nice People Rose Up, a solo exhibition of recent Pour Paintings by Holton Rower. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from May 2 to July 11, 2026. The gallery will... Read more -
Fahamu Pecou
God Snapped When She Made Water and Black Women 2 May - 4 Jul 2026 In this recent body of work, Pecou expands his ongoing exploration of Blackness by positioning Black women as central figures within a broader cosmology. Drawing from mythology and contemporary culture, the works—ranging from monumental paintings to intricate sculptural objects—reframe Black femininity as a site of reflection and cultural continuity. As... Read more -
Shawne Major
Crown Shyness 2 May - 3 Jul 2026 Crown Shyness is Shawne Major’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring Major’s signature mixed-media tapestries, which function as meticulously entwined explorations of human psychology and the filters of reality Since the early 1990s, Major has eschewed traditional paint to focus on a personal vernacular of found objects and hand-sewn... Read more -
Gene Koss
Amongst the Vines 7 Mar - 18 Apr 2026 For over 50 years, Gene Koss has pioneered the use of cast glass as a monumental art form. This exhibition highlights his enduring connection to the landscape, nature, and the agrarian life that has long served as his primary inspiration. The featured works draw specifically from the topography and rural... Read more -
Amy Weiskopf
7 Mar - 18 Apr 2026 While Amy Weiskopf is a master of the still life genre, her paintings bypass the traditional peonies and Delftware of centuries past. Instead, she elevates 'crooked cucumbers, peeling onions, and multi-colored squash' into imaginative, often surreal settings. Many of the works in this exhibition were painted during her time in... Read more -
Lesley Dill
Wild Grace This Private Hallucinatory Moment 6 Dec 2025 - 13 Feb 2026 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Lesley Dill: Wild Grace – This Private Hallucinatory Moment , an exhibition of hand-cut copper and text works by Lesley Dill. Each day in Lesley Dill’s Brooklyn Heights studio begins and ends with poetry. Surrounded by a small team of interns, she... Read more -
John Waters
The Worst of Waters 4 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 For over two decades, Arthur Roger Gallery has been home to Waters’ provocative and hilarious explorations of taste, trash, and taboo. In The Worst of Waters , he once again leaves an indelible mark on the cultural landscape–violating our very conception of natural categories and deftly replacing them with his... Read more -
John Hartman
Downriver: City to Sea 4 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Downriver | From City to Sea , an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist John Hartman, on view from October 4 through November 15, 2025. This exhibition brings together sweeping aerial perspectives of New Orleans and the shifting barrier islands of... Read more -
Brandon Surtain
Remember? 4 Oct - 15 Nov 2025 Surtain’s series is “rooted in memory, joy, and community,” honoring pre-Katrina New Orleans, “when the city felt like one big front porch.” His vividly composed canvases—children diving for a football, laughing through water gun fights, makeshift parades—evoke the rhythms and bonds that shaped his Mid-City childhood. Works such as the... Read more -
Luis Cruz Azaceta
In the Age of Anxiety 2 Aug - 13 Sep 2025 Art in the Age of Anxiety , is Luis Cruz Azaceta’s twelfth exhibition with the Arthur Roger Gallery, and features recent large-scale canvases completed in the artist’s distinctive graphic mode. The works on display are imbued with a vibrance and urgency inherent to Azaceta’s perennial exploration of the human condition,... Read more -
Troy Dugas
In the Loops Between 2 Aug - 13 Sep 2025 In the Loops Between presents a new series of fiber-based works by Troy Dugas, in which animal forms surface from dense, tactile compositions of looping fabric strips. These figures—silent, symbolic, and softly powerful—evoke the visual language of folk art, with its warmth, ritual, and embedded storytelling. They embody a precarious... Read more -
Allison Stewart
Field Notes for a Future Perfect 2 Aug - 13 Sep 2025 Allison Stewart’s latest exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery gestures towards “the future perfect tense,” a verb form used to describe actions that will have happened by a certain point in the future. This grammatical structure, both precise and speculative, becomes a powerful metaphor throughout the exhibition: a way of... Read more -
Wayne Gonzales
3 May - 12 Jul 2025 Wayne Gonzales is a self-described analytic painter whose work addresses the pliancy of photography and its relationship to history and memory. He culls source images online and from his personal collection, dissecting them to weigh the material and emotional layers within before reassembling their valued parts on canvas. The result... Read more -
James Drake
Silver and Gold Metalpoints for Colleen 3 May - 12 Jul 2025 For his eighteenth exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery, artist James Drake employs the distinctive qualities of metalpoint to convey a deeply personal and intricate expression of love and loss. As a medium, metalpoint reached the peak of its popularity among Renaissance masters such as Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht... Read more -
Francis X. Pavy
Echoes of Hue and Song 1 Feb - 26 Apr 2025 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Echos of Hue and Song, an exhibition of recent works by Francis X. Pavy. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia St, from February 1 – April 12, 2025. The gallery will host an opening with... Read more -
Stephen Paul Day
All About Alice 1 Feb - 12 Apr 2025 In All About Alice, artist Stephen Paul Day beckons from the proverbial rabbit hole. Ever the aficionado of evolving contexts and cultural palimpsest, Day’s ninth solo exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery is no mere effort to re-illustrate Lewis Carroll’s classic, but rather an exercise in cultivating a tangible atmosphere... Read more -
Jacqueline Bishop
Anthology: The Gathering of Flowers 7 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Anthology: The Gathering of Flowers is Jacqueline Bishop’s ninth exhibition with the Arthur Roger Gallery, and features recent paintings, works on paper, and a collaboration with sculptor MaPo Kinnord. This body of work, created over the past 6 years, is distinguished by the artist’s use of a palette dominant in... Read more -
Linda Ridgeway
A Memory from the River Ouse 7 Dec 2024 - 25 Jan 2025 Linda Ridgway is renowned for her lyrical works across a variety of mediums, often autobiographically inspired and rooted in a deep appreciation of literature. A Memory from the River Ouse is an extension of Ridgway’s most recent exhibition entitled The Library–a tribute to the poetry and prose that has influenced... Read more -
Jim Richard
My Old Flame 5 Oct - 24 Nov 2024 My Old Flame, Jim Richard’s eleventh exhibition with the Arthur Roger Gallery, features recent paintings and collages that explore the perimeter of utopia and nostalgia, the manipulation and insertion of source imagery, and interior spaces. Richard has invited artists Steve DiBenedetto and Dike Blair to participate in this exhibition, a... Read more -
Amer Kobaslija
Paint Your Village 5 Oct - 24 Nov 2024 Paint Your Village, Amer Kobaslija’s third exhibition with the Arthur Roger Gallery, features the most recent fruits of the artist’s fascination with the strange beauty of Florida. These compositions culminate in scenes of billboards rising over southern flatlands and gas station parking lots after summer rain, birds and their prey... Read more -
Jon Rappleye
“To Be Continued…” 5 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Rappleye’s work is steeped in history, tradition, and nostalgia, reflecting a skepticism toward the swiftly evolving impact of robotics and technology on society. His work challenges perceptions of reality in an era dominated by AI, manipulated images, and fake news. “To Be Continued…”, Rappleye’s most recent body of work, is... Read more -
Brandon Surtain
STEPPERS Forever 3 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 Brandon Surtain’s vividly composed paintings evoke a profound reverence for the New Orleans of his childhood, the memory of which he seeks to maintain through his life and work as both artist and architect. In STEPPERS Forever, the artist’s second exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery, Surtain explores the tradition... Read more -
Edward Whiteman
Lasting Impressions 3 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 Lasting Impressions, Edward Whiteman’s fourteenth solo exhibition with the Arthur Roger Gallery, features his renowned large-scale paintings, executed on reconstructed paper. The wall pieces range up to 6 feet in size, and are richly embedded with emblems of an almost primal legibility. The artist’s preference to work in paper grew... Read more -
Robert Gordy
From the Estate 3 Aug - 7 Sep 2024 Robert Gordy is considered one of the most original and creative Southern artists of the 20th century. Upon his untimely death from AIDS in 1986, the artist bequeathed his estate to the New Orleans Museum of Art, to benefit the museum’s collection and its programs. This exhibition features works on... Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Dinosaurs, Dragons, and other Epiphanies 4 May - 6 Jul 2024 The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Dragons, Dinosaurs, Divinations and Other Epiphanies , an exhibition of paintings by Nicole Charbonnet. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery located at 432 Julia Street, from February 3 – April 20, 2024. The gallery will host opening... Read more -
John Alexander
Topsy Turvy World: New Paintings and Drawings 4 May - 6 Jul 2024 Read more -
Robert Currie
From Start to Finish (and Everything in Between) 4 May - 6 Jul 2024 Through his kinetic wall-based artworks, Robert Currie delves into the dynamic between order and chaos, employing a Constructivist approach that merges systematic techniques with poetic expression. His pieces, composed of meticulously arranged Nylon filaments, reflect a captivating exploration of perception and interconnectedness. Subtle shifts in the orientation of the medium... Read more -
Douglas Bourgeois
The Balm of Mystery 3 Feb - 20 Apr 2024 The Balm of Mystery marks Douglas Bourgeois’ tenth exhibition with the gallery, presenting never-before-shown oil paintings from the last fifteen years as well as 100 graphite portraits. Bourgeois, known for his meticulous attention to detail, employs both a restrained, almost monochromatic color scheme and a technicolor hyper-reality, creating dreamlike and... Read more -
Bunny Matthews
Dis and Dat 5 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Read more -
Jonathan Mayers
Nostalji ki fé rékòt 5 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 Nostalji ki fé rékòt marks Jonathan “radbwa faroush” Mayers’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. His latest collection showcases a series of small- to medium-scale, vibrant paintings, each depicting metaphorical creatures hidden in the depths of meticulously rendered Louisiana landscapes. These enigmatic beings, both alluring and eerie, draw inspiration from... Read more -
Dawn DeDeaux
Bitter Sweet Crust 1 Apr - 24 Jun 2023 Read more -
Fahamu Pecou
If Heaven Had Heights 1 Apr - 24 Jun 2023 The Arthur Roger Gallery is proud to present Fahamu Pecou’s latest exhibition, If Heaven Had Heights , showcasing the artist's collection of paintings, drawings, and fetish objects. The exhibition focuses on the intersection between the concept of heaven and rebellion through Black anti-conformity. Pecou's work centers on the question, 'How... Read more -
Deborah Luster
One Big Self 1 Apr - 24 Jun 2023 One Big Self , the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, will feature photographs of “people who happened to be in prison” in Louisiana, including the maximum-security penitentiary at Angola. Luster began the One Big Self series in 1998 in the aftermath of her mother's unsolved murder. She became... Read more -
Gene Koss
Uncertainty 7 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 Read more -
Rob Wynne
Masquerade 7 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 Read more -
George Dureau
Up Close 7 Jan - 18 Mar 2023 Read more -
Holton Rower
New York Memory Center 5 Nov - 31 Dec 2022 New York Memory Palace is Holton Rower’s third exhibition with the gallery and the first time the gallery has shown Holton’s wife Mario Robledo and his daughter Isabel Robledo Rower. This is truly a family affair and is the first time the family has shown together and Robledo’s first gallery... Read more -
Simon Gunning
Meet Me by the River 1 - 29 Oct 2022 Read more -
Courtney Egan
Extinct in the Wild 1 Oct - 17 Dec 2022 Extinct in the Wild is Courtney Egan’s fourth exhibition with the gallery. The installation features multiple distinct projection-based works that meld technology with nature. Egan creates time-lapse botanical still-life work by taking a series of photographs that are compiled into films and composited with physical elements. With this process, she... Read more -
Stephanie Patton
Shift 6 - 27 Aug 2022 Read more -
Troy Dugas
Rugged 6 - 27 Aug 2022 Read more -
Pard Morrison
Something to Become 6 - 27 Aug 2022 Read more -
Whitfield Lovell
Marks in Time 7 May - 30 Jul 2022 Whitfield Lovell: Marks in Time is the artist’s fourth exhibition with the gallery. Included are a selection of bold assemblages of charcoal drawings on vintage wood paired with multivalent objects collectively illuminating the African American experience. Also exhibited are a group of Lovell’s Hand series and large-scale drawings featuring portraits... Read more -
Joseph Havel
Birdsongs 7 May - 30 Jul 2022 The bronze sculptures and wall assemblages exhibited in Birdsongs is a collaboration between renowned sculptor Joseph Havel and his African grey parrot Hannah. Like most Americans during lockdown, Joseph Havel turned to online shopping to fulfill basic needs. With the abundance of cardboard boxes Hannah reverted to her natural instincts... Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Late Echo 5 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Read more -
Luis Cruz Azaceta
LOCKDOWN 5 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Read more -
James Drake
Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness 8 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 At the center of James Drake’s seventeenth exhibition with the gallery, Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness is a monumental drawing on canvas crafted in the artist’s renowned, virtuosic style. The twelve by twenty-four-foot charcoal drawing and the exhibition share a title and both explore the themes and the... Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Pictures of Nothing 1 - 29 May 2021 Read more -
David Halliday
Quotidian Life 1 - 29 May 2021 Read more -
David Bates
The Coast 2 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 The Coast is David Bates’ ninth exhibition with the gallery and consists of small- to large-scale oil paintings on canvas and panel that the artist painted over the last 25 years. Employing his distinctive bold style, Bates continues to document the people and landscapes of the Gulf Coast. His portraits... Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Key to All Mythologies 5 Jan - 23 Feb 2019 Read more -
Francis X. Pavy
36 Views of the Gulf South 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2018 Read more -
Simon Gunning
Shipwrecks and the Atchafalaya 6 - 27 Oct 2018 Read more -
John Alexander
Recent Paintings and Drawings 5 May - 23 Jun 2018 Read more -
Bunny Matthews
Before and After 6 Aug - 17 Sep 2016 Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
All You Need Know 7 Nov - 26 Dec 2015 Read more -
Simon Gunning
The River and the City 3 - 31 Oct 2015 Read more -
David Bates
Coastal Paintings 2 May - 25 Jul 2015 Read more -
John Alexander
Unique Observations of the Natural World 1 Nov - 27 Dec 2014 Read more -
Francis X. Pavy
Third Coast Suite 2 Aug - 20 Sep 2014 Read more -
Bunny Matthews
The People of New Orleans From A to Z 15 Mar - 19 Apr 2014 Read more -
David Halliday
Threadbare 7 - 28 Dec 2013 Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Build Your Cities 5 Jan - 16 Feb 2013 Read more -
John Alexander
Recent Observations 6 - 27 Oct 2012 Read more -
David Bates
Down Highway 23 7 Apr - 19 May 2012 Read more -
Francis X. Pavy
200: Artwork Inspired By 200 Years of Statehood 3 - 31 Mar 2012 Read more -
Simon Gunning
Postcards from Plaquemines 7 May - 25 Jun 2011 Read more -
David Halliday
4 Dec 2010 - 29 Jan 2011 Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Flowers 6 Nov - 24 Dec 2010 Read more -
Bunny Matthews
Black and White 7 Aug - 11 Sep 2010 Read more -
Simon Gunning
Avery Island 1 Aug - 19 Sep 2009 Read more -
John Alexander
2 May - 18 Jul 2009 Read more -
Francis X. Pavy
4 - 25 Apr 2009 Read more -
Nicole Charbonnet
Dots, Loops, Stripes and Finches 6 - 27 Dec 2008 Read more
