The current collection of super-scale hyper-hued works by renowned Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy delivers the visual drama demanded by the wide-open sun-soaked interior of Arthur Roger Gallery Project in the Renaissance Arts Hotel.
In his efforts to recount the picturesque scenes and bodily sensations of Congo Square — an open space for slaves in antebellum New Orleans — author Henry Edward Durell (under the nom de plume Henry Didimus) invoked a flood of images in the preceding epigraph. Geometrical shapes meet human bodies in this descriptive whirl of music-making and dancing. The interminable, incessant sounds of drumming, singing, crying, shouting, and rhythmic pounding are conceived as a form of music that, on the face of it, has no end.
BEAUTIES AND BEASTS by D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly So you thought you knew Little Red Riding Hood? So did I, at least until I started thinking about it. Then…
ALLISON STEWART This New Orleans artist takes inspiration from the Louisiana wetlands for her graceful ecological works by Elizabeth Dewberry, SOUTHERN ACCENTS Allison Stewart’s transition from a biology major who…
So you thought you knew Little Red Riding Hood? So did I, at least until I started thinking about it. Then I realized that all the old fairy tales had blended in my mind over time into a gumbo of little girls, wolves, princesses, frogs and dwarves, trailing off into a weird frontier populated by Frankenstein, Godzilla, Dracula, Dick Nixon and SpongeBob.
So you thought you knew Little Red Riding Hood? So did I, at least until I started thinking about it. Then I realized that all the old fairy tales had blended in my mind over time into a gumbo of little girls, wolves, princesses, frogs and dwarves, trailing off into a weird frontier populated by Frankenstein, Godzilla, Dracula, Dick Nixon and SpongeBob.
“Innocent Act,” Stephen Paul Day’s new collection of strangely beautiful, small-scale sculpture at Arthur Roger Gallery was inspired by the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale. But not the softened, sanitized cartoon versions that most of us know best.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present “Specimens,” an exhibition of recent mixed media work by Mary Jane Parker. The exhibition will be on view from March 5 – 26, 2005 in the rear gallery of the Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia Street. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception for the exhibition on Saturday, March 6th from 6 to 8pm.
