Gallery News

Jacqueline Bishop: Against the Tide – HuffPost Arts’ Haiku Reviews

Jacqueline Bishop practices a kind of unnatural naturalism, fantastical in its imagery even as it concentrates on the natural world. In fact, Bishop tends to be faithful to the rendition of actual animals – especially the fish and fowl that populate these meditations on aqua-ecology – while elaborating their surrounding conditions, including flora, weather, and water itself, in a surrealistic manner that effectively dramatizes their situation. Bishop comments pointedly on ecological conditions, but what she stresses is the sensation of nature itself and the delicate yet vital role and presence within it of its sentient creatures.

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“Richard’s Roost – Artist Jim Richard Talks About Making Himself at NOMA, and Starting Over,” Nola Defender

Jim Richard’s “Make Yourself at Home,” on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through February 24, 2013, remains one of the best shows of the year. A modernist journey through the colorful interiors of homes filled with a mix of high art, tchotchkes, and period furniture, Richard’s twelve-work exhibit showcases his deep knowledge of contemporary and historical art alongside refined technical skill, and pokes a little fun at modern art in the meantime.

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Holton Rower Live Pour 2012

On Thursday, December 6, during ART MIAMI 2012, ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY and THE HOLE presented A LIVE POUR BY HOLTON ROWER. Guests were taken to Villa Vecchia in Miami Beach in yachts for a stunningly psychedelic and completely hypnotic performance that is a Holton Rower “pour” in the historic grand ballroom. Armed with dozens of cups of vibrantly colored paint, the artist poured successive quantities resulting in concentric, amorphous pools of color, diverted upon contact with various obstacles including wood and glass. Midway into the performance the artist introduced a new medium to the mix, the nude female form for a provocative and engaging evening.

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“Review: Photos by Deborah Luster, Shelby Lee Adams and Tav Falco,” Gambit

More than any other medium, photography is about time and time’s relationship to light and circumstance. In the hands of three Southern photographers, the results are often poetic. Deborah Luster’s early works, on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, predate her more famous images of Louisiana prisoners and crime scenes, but the same insightful whimsy illuminates views that include rural children posed with captive eels or dressed in their Sunday best amid fields of billowy cotton.

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“Review: Jacqueline Bishop at Arthur Roger Gallery,” Gambit

Does anyone seriously doubt global warming anymore? Some people who used to ask why we live in such a vulnerable place had a rude awakening when Hurricane Sandy made it clear that vast storms are no longer confined to the tropics but now threaten even New York’s financial district. Perhaps climate change is a reminder that we have become alienated from our origins. Jacqueline Bishop has been addressing such questions in her paintings and mixed-media work for many years, and her new show at Arthur Roger Gallery is startling, not simply for its meticulous virtuosity, but also for its scope.

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Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights at NOMA

Ida Kohlmeyer continues to be an important part of NOMA’s history and art history in New Orleans; to honor her 100th anniversary, NOMA is presenting an exhibition of key pieces based on the permanent collection holdings. Ida Kohlmeyer: 100th Anniversary Highlights will be on view in the Weisman Galleries October 12, 2012 through February 10, 2013.

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The Re-enchantment of Art: Jacqueline Bishop’s Imaginary Landscapes

Jacqueline Bishop’s paintings, installations, and works on paper probe the complex relationship between ecologically fragile systems and humans. Similar in tenor to the poet and philosopher Ponge’s close examination of “things” her works are intimate observations of the world around us with strong political and social dimensions. Bishop’s depictions of nature and close analysis of flora and fauna recall 16th and 17th century Dutch and Flemish still life paintings with surrealistic and often exotic overtones.

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