August 2016 Exhibition Openings / White Linen Night
August 2016 Openings / White Linen Night at Arthur Roger Gallery
“Art scene converges at Louisiana Contemporary reception; announcement of Best in Show,” The Times-Picayune
Seventy-eight original works, 48 artists: the 2016 Louisiana Contemporary presented by the Helis Foundation debuted at a VIP reception at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art on Friday (Aug. 5). The exhibition officially opens tonight during Whitney White Linen Night.
“george dureau’s tender and powerful portraits of new orleans’ disenfranchised communities,” i-D
Dureau was born in New Orleans’ Irish Channel neighborhood in 1930, about four miles from the city’s French Quarter, where he spent the majority of his life making paintings, sculptures, and photographs — both in the studio and on the street. Forty years of Dureau’s portraits have recently been published in a new Aperture book, The Photographs, a volume that arrives over 30 years after Dureau’s only other book was published in 1985.
“A New Orleans Photographer’s Eye for Male Beauty and Imperfection,” The New Yorker
[George] Dureau began taking pictures in the nineteen-sixties, with a Hasselblad. He did not think of photography as a “total” artistic medium, the way drawing and painting were, but his photographs are his best work, maybe because it’s the work he cared less about. His drawings and paintings are romantic in a different way; they are too suffused with his sensibility, or self-regard. The camera gave him a certain distance, and the pictures a moral ambiguity or weight that’s missing in his other work…
Jenny LeBlanc and Kyle Bravo: New Wave
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present New Wave, an exhibition by Jenny LeBlanc and Kyle Bravo. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from August 6 – September 17, 2016. The gallery will host an opening reception, with the artists in attendance, on Saturday, August 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with White Linen Night.
Bunny Matthews: Before and After
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Before and After, an exhibition of drawings by Bunny Matthews. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from August 6 – September 17, 2016. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, August 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with White Linen Night.
George Dureau: From the Estate
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of work from the estate of George Dureau. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from August 6 – September 17, 2016. The gallery will host an opening reception on Saturday, August 6 from 6-9 pm in conjunction with White Linen Night.
“Most Beautiful Opera Houses in the World,” Jetsetter
Traveling to more than 40 opera houses spanning four centuries and four continents, photographer David Leventi uncovers the beauty of some of the world’s greatest opera houses.
“PHOTOS: The Unexpected Beauty of George Dureau,” The Advocate
In 2012, Higher Pictures in New York exhibited a selection of George Dureau’s photographs of New Orleans locals shot between 1973 and 1986. Dureau traveled in the high art world but also allowed his work to be displayed in the legendary leather-S/M magazine Drummer. That exhibit, thankfully, sparked renewed interest in Dureau’s work, which led to a new monograph, George Dureau: The Photographs, published by Aperture in June of this year.
“Spotlight: Jim Richard,” New American Paintings
Since the late 1970s, New Orleans artist Jim Richard has been making paintings, drawings, and collages in which art-stuffed modernist interiors melt into multihued graphic fields. Devoid of inhabitants, his signature claustrophobic spaces are visual essays on taste and influence, composed as if with maximum disorientation in mind.