James Drake

An internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been honored with inclusion in both the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, James Drake has explored political, social, and universal themes through the media of sculpture, video, installation, photography, and drawing. James Drake, the first monograph devoted to the artist, surveys thirty-five years of Drake’s work up to 2007.

Many of the works reproduced in James Drake reflect the artist’s preoccupation with borders. Some have to do with the political border between the United States and Mexico and the inherent social and psychological tensions of people living in its extreme and unique environment. Other works explore the internal boundaries that people experience as a result of attitudes, prejudices, power, control, and arrogance. Jimmy Santiago Baca’s narrative poem Huitzilopochtli, a personal response to Drake’s work, provides a verbal counterpart to the artist’s theme of border-crossing.

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Srdjan Loncar 2008

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent sculpture installations by Srdjan Loncar. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street from November 1st – 29th, 2008. Mr. Loncar will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, November 1st, from 6 to 8 pm in conjunction with the opening night of Prospect.1.

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David Bates: The Storm

ARTHUR ROGER @434 is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition “The Storm,” a series of new paintings based on the Hurricane Katrina disaster by Texas-based artist David Bates. The exhibition will be on view November 1st – 29th, 2008 at the Arthur Roger 434, located at 434 Julia Street. David Bates will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, November 1st, from 6 to 8 pm.

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“On the Nature of Glass,” New Orleans Art Review

DALE CHIHULY MUST have been a bad student! He was obviously not paying attention when his general science teacher was explaining to the class that glass was an inorganic amorphous solid. “Amorphous? Inorganic? How can that be?”

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“In His Element,” Oxford American

Four paintings in a series: A house lies skewed in the middle of an empty Street, its clapboards turned into undulating waves by the chaos of wind and water. A burly guy dressed in pleasure-club regalia offers a raised hand and a big smile, a second-line shout-out seeming to hang over his velvet fedora.

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Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis

Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis, originally curated by Arthur Roger in the fall of 2006, was the first group exhibition dedicated to works by artists responding to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In early 2007, the exhibition traveled to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center where it was favorably received. The 2008 exhibition of Katrina: Catastrophe and Catharsis at the Arthur Roger Gallery Project will feature additional storm-related works by artists that were not included in the original exhibition and also many artists not affiliated with the Arthur Roger Gallery.

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Dale Chihuly: Black Work

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to announce the continuation of an exhibition of new glass sculpture, installations and drawings by internationally acclaimed artist Dale Chihuly from his latest series, “Black Work.” The exhibition will be on view August 2nd through October 18th at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street. The gallery will host an opening reception Saturday, October 4th from 6-9 pm, in conjunction with “Art for Art’s Sake.”

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