“Dreams from the bristles of the artist’s brush… I probe be yond the confines of the finite to create an infinity…Living dreams.” Arshile Gorky’s words, in 1942, at the start of his late, most eloquent, phase. The quote occurred to me during my initial visit to Edward Whiteman’s new exhibition of abstract pictographs (recently at Arthur Roger); it returned during my second.
Jammin’ on Julia, the annual spring street party in the New Orleans Arts District takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday (April 5). Look for a dozen exhibitions of regional and national artworks augmented by live music in many galleries along Julia Street and nearby. As always, the wide selection of art will hold something to satisfy most taste.
Installation views from Bunny Matthews: The People of New Orleans From A to Z – March 2014 exhibition at Arthur Roger@434
Bunny Matthews new show “The People of New Orleans from A to Z” hangs at the Arthur Roger Gallery throughout March until April 19th, celebrating a closing reception on Saturday the 5th. The series reads like a children’s A to Z book of illustrations on uniformly 17×14 paper, ink, and colored pencil renderings. It is exciting to see cartoon caricatures on the walls at Arthur Roger. The surge of acceptance for comic-style drawing is a late 20th, early 21st century advent, owing nearly everything to New Orleanian George Herriman. Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” strip would be an inspiration to Robert Crumb and eventually Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston. Beginning with the lampooning caricature of Honore Daumier, Daumier’s caricatures have only entered into fine arts education post-feminism.
Installation views from Edward Whiteman: The Swinging Pendulum – March 2014 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present The People of New Orleans from A to Z, an exhibition of works on paper by Bunny Matthews. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from March 15 – April 19, 2014. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance on Saturday, April 5 from 6-8 pm.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present The Swinging Pendulum, an exhibition of mixed media on reconstructed paper by Edward Whiteman. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from March 15 – April 19, 2014. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance on Saturday, April 5 from 6-8 pm.
View Lin Emery’s work in motion from her exhibition Lin Emery: In Motion at the New Orleans Museum of Art
David Bates is without question Dallas’ most venerated artist and, at 61, definitely worthy of a serious museum reappraisal. Artists often have mixed feelings about such things, since so many significant retrospectives have the aura of museum funerals rather than progress reports. So, it was with a bit of trepidation that David Bates, whose work has found its way into important collections from New York to Hawaii, said OK to a two-museum retrospective of his career at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas.
For the past decade, Richard Baker has developed two distinct but related bodies of work, one in oil and the other in gouache: the oil paintings depict tabletops covered with all sorts of printed ephemera and bric-a-brac; the gouaches are of book covers and, more recently, record covers. In 2012, however, Baker began breaking down the neat division between the oil paintings and works on paper by making something silly — a Whoopee cushion — out of paper and painting it pink.