A Brooklyn Artist Adjusts to Making Art in Solitude
Lesley Dill usually works with six to eight assistants, but now she is alone with the hundreds of yards of fabric she uses for her mixed-media art. By Julie Lasky…
Gallery News
George Dureau Selected for Prospect.5 Triennial
First in a series of artist profiles George Dureau was born and raised in New Orleans. He kept a home and studio in the French Quarter. This bon vivant was…
Arthur Roger Gallery Update
The gallery has made plans for moving forward during the COVID-19 crisis. For the time being, we are available to answer your calls at 504-522-1999 or by email at info@arthurrogergallery.com. Our…
Gibbes Museum of Art Announces Finalists for the 2019 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
By The Charleston Chronicle | November 5, 2019 The Gibbes Museum of Art announced this week the finalists for the annual 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art. The 2019 finalists are Damian Stamer, Donte’…
Confederate statue, plantation, prison: Artists reclaim sites with ‘Battlegrounds’
Hannah Chalew’s augmented reality artwork, “Toxic Ecology,” in “Battlegrounds” By DEBORAH VANKIN for Los Angeles Times OCT. 29, 2019 There’s an 800-year-old oak tree in New Orleans City Park, a great big,…
Unusual exhibition by three portraitists and ex-LSU footballer Brandon Surtain united by flair for local color
By: D. Eric Bookhardt for Gambit Arthur Roger Gallery has assembled an unusual exhibition. Three of its artists — Leonard Galmon, Amer Kobaslija and Demond Melancon — are portraitists,…
Intricate Beadwork Adorns Handmade Mardi Gras Suits by Demond Melancon
By ANDREW LASANE for Colossal For the past three decades, Louisiana-based artist Demond Melancon has created highly detailed Mardi Gras Indian suits using millions of hand-sewn small glass beads. Each suit takes…
A Painter’s Path from Bosnia to Florida’s Backwaters
Amer Kobaslija captures Florida’s lush, strange atmosphere while examining the expressive potential of oil paint’s luminous, elastic, viscous goo. by Edward M. Gómez for Hyperallergic April 26, 2019 Real artists…
Intricate, surprising glass works by Dale Chihuly at Arthur Roger are among the most gorgeous of a long career
BY JOHN D’ADDARIO | Special to The Advocate APR 2, 2019 – 10:30 AM A new exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery shows how one of the most familiar American artists…
2019 Southern Prize and State Fellows
Please join us in congratulating the 2019 South Arts State Fellowship recipients, including the Southern Prize winner Rory Doyle and finalist Amy Gross. Each of these artists were selected by…