Ida Kohlmeyer, an abstract painter known for colorful pictographic canvases, died on Friday at the Touro Infirmary in New Orleans. She was 84 and lived in Metairie, La., a suburb of New Orleans.
Bound like an artist’s sketchbook this book documents the culmination of this amazing artistic odyssey that took the artist from his Seattle Boathouse hot shop to Nuutajarvi, Finland; Waterford, Ireland; Monterrey, Mexico; and finally Venice to blow glass. In the factories in those locations, Chihuly and his team of American glass blowers worked with native artisans more accustomed to making functional objects than art. Together they created the 14 chandeliers that graced the campos and canals of Venice for a remarkable time in September 1996.
Exhibition Dates: November 2 – 30, 1996 Opening Reception: Saturday, November 2 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 432 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm…
Exhibition Dates: October 5 – October 26, 1996 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm…
Exhibition Dates: October 5 – October 26, 1996 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm…
Dale Chihuly has transformed the perception of the glass medium from one used primarily for decorative vessels to a sculptured medium of almost unlimited possibilities. His undulating vases and sculptures, with their ruffled edges, biomorphic forms and varied colorings are reminiscent of tropical shells and flowers. He excels in producing work that tests the technical limits of his medium and shows off the interaction of glass and light.
Dawn Dedeaux employs various media, including photography, print, film, and video in her efforts to make political art that goes beyond mere documentary reportage. Like Sister Helen Prejean, the subject of Tim Robbins’s Dead Man Walking, a very conventional film, she is from New Orleans and very concerned with the underclass, specifically black youths abandoned to lives of violence and incarceration.
In the spring of 1980, sculptor Jesús Bautista Moroles was trekking up a mountainside in Italy when he found his artistic way. Under his feet lay a footpath, a carpet of grass dotted with marble steps. The steps bore a worn patina, polished by centuries of feet padding over the stone, often by men bound for work in the quarries.
Dawn Dedeaux has been a student of political economy. Departments of political economy have not as yet been established in the traditional university and as a result she has had to pursue these studies in the public housing facilities and prisons of New Orleans that offer the most up to date variants of the curriculum and where admission requirements and rankings are commensurate with the local murder rate.
