“As Clear As White and Black”, The Times-Picayune
Barsness’ works look like antique Hindu scrolls, with elephant gods, celestial turtles, intricate mandalas and endless decorative patterns. But straight pseudo-religious iconography they’re not.
“James Barsness: Beastly Beatitudes”, Gambit Weekly
Before TV and computers, we had animals. Domestic beasts aside, animals represented the world beyond the village gate; horses and camels plied the trade routes connecting Europe to Asia, while migrating birds dotted the skies like omens from elsewhere.
“Biennale Babylon”, Art in America
George Dureau 2001 Exhibition Walkthrough
“Al Souza, Moody Gallery,” Artforum
Al Souza’s extravagant “paintings” are so visually disruptive they demand to be stared at long and hard—that is, if you can manage to fix your gaze on them at all. Stand before these works, composed of thousands of layered jigsaw-puzzle pieces, loose and in semi-completed chunks, and the whole immediate environment seems in flux; the paintings appear to slide back and forth, creating a vaguely feverish sensation.
“A World in One Room- Whitfield Lovell art exhibition”, Art in America
Recalling, in part, an African-American community razed by whites in the 1920s, a recent installation by Whitfield Lovell evokes in elegiac detail the rural South and the quiet, dignified lives of its inhabitants.
“Whitfield Lovell,” Frieze Magazine
The charcoal drawings on wooden planks in Whitfield Lovell’s show ‘Recent Tableaux’ evoke the ghost stories of African American history by playing with two types of found object. The drawings seem to coax out the figurative presence of anonymous turn-of-the-century subjects from the mundane household furnishings that once surrounded their lives.
Gene Koss
Exhibition Dates: April 7 – 28, 2001 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 7 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm…
“David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary”, Art in America
David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary by Charles Dee Mitchell, ART IN AMERICA Near the center of the painted wood relief Cannas (all works 2000), there is a break…
Jim Richard: New Work
Exhibition Dates: March 3 – March 31, 2001 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3 from 6–8 pm Artist Walk-through: Saturday, March 17 at 2 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New…