January 2016 Exhibition Openings
January 2016 Exhibition Openings at Arthur Roger Gallery | Gene Koss: From a Distance and John Hartman: City Portraits – New Orleans
ERSY: A Remembrance
John Hartman: City Portraits – New Orleans
Installation views of John Hartman: City Portraits – New Orleans | January 2016 Exhibition at Arthur Roger@434
Gene Koss: From a Distance
Installation views from Gene Koss: From a Distance | January 2016 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
“Gene Koss Wrestles with Weighty Issues in New Body of Work,” The Urban Glass Art Quarterly
At his new exhibition “From a Distance,” which opened on Saturday, January 9, Gene Koss unveiled a wide range of mixed-media work. The new glass-and-metal works at Arthur Roger Gallery in downtown New Orleans reference two very different environments — the majestic rural landscape of Wisconsin farmland where Koss grew up, and the more vulnerable Mississippi River Delta ecosystem, where man-made engineering vies with the unruly river and gulf waters that are held at bay, imperfectly, through an elaborate system of levees and dams.
Gene Koss: From A Distance – 2016 Exhibition Preparation
“Eugenie Schwartz, Artist From New Orleans, Dies at 64,” The New York Times
Eugenie Schwartz, an artist who found popularity and renown in her native New Orleans for her surreal, darkly humorous pieces, died on Dec. 30 at her home in the Bywater neighborhood there. She was 64.
John Hartman: City Portraits – New Orleans
Furthering the theme of John Hartman’s 2013 solo exhibition with the gallery, City Portraits – New Orleans presents paintings of aerial views of the city and the surrounding parishes. The small- to large-scale works on panel and linen reflect the artist’s unique and vibrant color palette, and reveal his enduring esteem for the city and her contours.
Gene Koss: From a Distance
From a Distance features recent sculpture by renowned glass artist Gene Koss that reveal evolutions of earlier themes as well as new. Drawing inspiration from New Orleans and the rural Wisconsin landscapes of his youth, Koss masterfully constructs cast-glass forms paired with found or fabricated steel, creating works that examine balance, light and mass.
“Packaging the Space of Consciousness,” New Orleans Art Review
IT CAN’T BE stated enough, that in a world increasingly dependent upon the Internet for information and interaction, we grow increasingly distanced from physical time and place. And rather than being more connected, we are ever increasingly disconnected. Which is perhaps in part why we are so ineffectual at dealing with the strife at hand. Stagnantly we stand, caught in the quandary of Bud and Mary Sue’s “Pleasantville.”