Gibbes announces finalists for 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art
Winner will be chosen at the end of this month by Connor Simonson for Charleston City Paper The Gibbes Museum of Art has announced the finalists for the annual 1858 Prize…
Gene Koss: Sculpture
Gene Koss: Sculpture by: Tina Oldknow, James Yood, Erik Neil, Andrew Page, Mary Koss Published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2019 Hardcover, 112 pages Gene Koss is an artist in glass, but he is not content…
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,…
Curator’s Choice
Regional museum curators weigh in on up-and-coming Louisiana artists BY JORDAN LAHAYE for Country Roads Magazine OCTOBER 24, 2019 It’s no secret that Louisiana—with its wild cultural mélange; its history of suffering,…
Beer with a Painter: Richard Baker
“No matter what I tried, what fit best was work that involved my love of something small-scale and intimate.” by: Jennifer Samet for Hyperallergic At the end of a rainy August day…
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…
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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…