Nicole Charbonnet 2010 Exhibition Walkthrough
Nicole Charbonnet talks about her November 2010 exhibition on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery.
Okay Mountain Collective
Seventeen minutes into the Okay Mountain Collective’s (OKMT) new work at AMOA, Water, Water Everywhere So Let’s All Have a Drink (2010), a woman appears. So far the interlaced segments of the 28-minute looped video have been filled with images one would find while channel surfing late on a six-pack-filled Saturday night.
Stephanie Patton: Diffuse
The Arthur Roger Gallery is presenting Stephanie Patton’s video, “Diffuse,” in the gallery’s new exhibition space which now has state of the art equipment for the display of video art. The video will be on view November 6th – 30th at the Arthur Roger Gallery located at 432 Julia Street.
Nicole Charbonnet: Flowers
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present “Flowers,” an exhibition of recent mixed media paintings by Nicole Charbonnet rendered in acrylic and mixed media. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia Street from November 6th – December 24th, 2010. The artist will be present at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, November 6th from 6 to 8 pm.
“Willie Birch and Paul Ninas,” Gambit Weekley
Featuring work made between 1978 and 2003, Willie Birch’s Looking Back expo provides a fairly comprehensive sense of what this 67-year-old African-American artist has been doing for the past few decades.
“After the Storm,” Modern Painters
As I’ve meditated on this sad anniversary and the art Katrina inspired, I’ve found myself thinking mostly about three artists whose work is ambitious and very much about Katrina but also transcends that single event in addressing the broader themes of suffering and disaster. I’ve been thinking about David Bates, Mark Bradford, and Robert Polidori.
“Artist’s Bold Katrina Portraits Capture Survivors’ Strength,” Knoxville News Sentinel
Dallas artist David Bates was about to show some paintings depicting the beauty of the Gulf Coast he loves when he instead became a reporter with a brush and canvas.
“Deborah Kass: Back to Broadway,” Art in America
The New York painter Deborah Kass became well known in the 1990s for a series called the “Warhol Project” where she expertly reproduced paintings of Barbra in a style very reminiscent of Warhol’s mid-1960s screen-prints and in a manner that seemed to correct the omission.
“Lesley Dill: Hell Hell Hell/ Heaven Heaven Heaven,” Gambit Weekly
Lesley Dill: Hell Hell Hell/ Heaven Heaven Heaven by Eric Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY This was unexpected. Since the 1970s, Lesley Dill has been known for her gossamer sculptural works based…
“Keeping it Real – The Art of Willie Birch,” Black Art in America
I first interviewed Willie Birch in December 1996 for an article that appeared in the January/February 1997 issue of theGulf Coast Arts & Entertainment Review for the opening of an exhibit at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans.