In a tour de force of portraits, wildlife and landscape studies, flower paintings and swamp scenes, David Bates shows us images of despair and reaffirmation that flow from nature’s unsentimental cycles of pain and joy, life and death.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by New York-based Texas artist John Alexander. The exhibition will be on view from January 7th to February 25h at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street. Alexander will conduct a guided tour of the exhibition on Saturday, January 7th at 1:30 pm. He will be in attendance at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, January 7th from 5 to 8 pm. The reception will be held in conjunction with “ARTS ALIVE,” a special weekend of exhibitions and events focused on the museums and galleries of the Warehouse Arts District. The public is invited to attend both events.
One month after my rapid exodus from New Orleans, I return to a city dead. Yet there are familiar sights in the maze of debris: I see the work of Leonardo Drew in the matted rolls of wet housing insulation, Cy Twombly scratches in the enamel of wind-tossed cars, Keith Sonnier configurations in the twisted neon signs knotted with plastic bags, a Richard Serra monument in the mammoth, rusted, severed barge at an intersection . . . and on and on the story goes.
Jesús Moroles is internationally renowned as one of the greatest sculptors working with granite today. Through a process called ‘tearing’ Moroles transforms each block of hard stone into a delicately refined expression of the interaction between man and nature.
New Orleans artist Jacqueline Bishop and her husband came through the ordeal of Hurricane Katrina sadder and wiser, uncertain about the future of the city they love.
This beautifully illustrated book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, captures an extraordinarily creative period in Surls’s career-the two decades he lived and worked in Splendora, Texas.
A retrospective of lively work from the New Orleans artist. Ida Rittenberg Kohlmeyer became one of the most prominent abstract artists in the South and started her career late, turning to art in her late thirties in search of a deeper meaning and purpose in life. She was primarily known as a New Orleans artist. She moved from an early figurative style in paintings of children to Abstract-Expressionism, influenced by a summer’s study in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Hans Hofmann. In her lifetime she had major exhibitions at the National Museum of Women, the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), New Orleans Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art.
James Drake at SITE Santa Fe BY ARDEN REED Charcoal is James Drake’s instrument the way the piano was Glenn Gould’s or the clarinet Benny Goodman’s: they’re made for each…
