Team Chihuly
World renowned artist, Dale Chihuly has developed many techniques during three decades as one of the most successful glassworkers in the world – primary among them is the role of teamwork in artistic creation.
John Hartman: Cities
Cities, the driving forces behind the economic and cultural engines of a country, are very much on the minds of Canadians in the first decade of the 21st century. The new paintings of John Hartman, one of Canada’s major contemporary painters, offer an artistic vision of cities as living organisms, deeply intertwined with the natural terrain of a geographic site.
“No Bones About It”, The Times-Picayune
When New Orleans’ post-Katrina Latin-American population eventually revs up its celebration of the Day of the Dead, I guarantee the rest of us will be dressing up as skeletons, sucking on sugar skulls and picnicking in the cemeteries right beside them.
Michael Willmon 2007
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Michael Willmon. The exhibition opens June 2nd and continues through July 14th, 2007 at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street. The gallery will host an opening reception to meet the artist on Saturday, June 2nd, from 6 to 8 pm.
“Grace, Form and Motion — The Sculptures of Lin Emery”, Louisiana Cultural Vistas
Lin Emery’s graceful kinetic work is to sculpture what ballet is to dance, a spiritual song to music or a warm breeze to a summer day. Her delicately balanced monumental polished aluminum creations sway and dance silently in currents of wind much like a sweet fragrance moving silently through a memory.
Mixed (Media) Messages
By Benjamin Genocchio for The New York Times “Tremendous World” is the apt title of Lesley Dill’s exhibition now at the Neuberger Museum of Art, where extremely large, dramatic works…
Al Souza 2007
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent assemblages and art paper works by Texas artist Al Souza. The exhibition opens June 2nd and continues through July 14th, 2007 at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street. The gallery will host an opening reception to meet the artist on Saturday, June 2nd, from 6 to 8 pm.
“This land is our land,” National Post
Eighty percent of Canadians live in cities, but you wouldn’t know it from our art collections. From the Group of Seven in the east to Emily Carr in the west, the canon depicts our land as one of wilderness and farms, not freeways. It’s this absence of the pictured urban, in part, that makes John Hartman’s Cities series so affecting: It shows we can have beautiful paintings of Calgary, Vancouver and Toronto, rather than just the parks adjacent to them. Yet Hartman doesn’t rehash clichéd, neon-flashed, bass thumping visions of urban life. Rather, he portrays cities as organic entities. Leah Sandals spoke to Hartman at his Lafontaine, Ont., abode.
“Robert Polidori,” BOMB
I met Robert Polidori through a photograph he had taken of the Versailles restoration. It captivated me. Seeing so many layers of history in one image was astonishing. So was being spurred to imagine Versailles as a real dwelling defined by the remnants of its inhabitants, and all the changes in history they and it had undergone.
This was the ’90s, when many photographers making art were constructing their own subjects or creating intellectual images that involved visual sleight of hand. The straightforward voluptuousness of Robert’s photo stood in stark contrast to all this. It was this originality and this lushness that enchanted me.
Douglas Bourgeois New Orleans, Art Papers
Douglas Bourgeois may be the most successful obscure artist in America. His smallish paintings command respectable prices—for their size, by New York standards—and his most recent show of over one hundred paintings, drawings, and collages sold quickly Arthur Roger Gallery; November 4—December 12. 2006].