The Dallas-based digital artist has for 20 years been recognizable for his uplifting, vibrantly colorful digital cloudscapes (one of his “thunderhead” clouds was shown earlier this year at the Dallas Museum of Art). But his latest exhibition, on display through July 17 at the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, resonates with a profound sense of loss and melancholy.
Botanical art has been with us since the earliest days of civilization, turning up on ancient Egyptian tombs and Greek and Roman monuments. Plants and animals are always in a state of evolutionary flux, so the artists of the past have been a major source of information about species no longer with us today. But art too evolves, and Courtney Egan’s Field Recordings expo reflects a turning point, not only for botanical art but also for video, liberated at last from monitors and projection screens. All that Egan’s work requires is a room with twilight lighting, a cool aesthetic gloom of the sort closed curtains or blinds can easily provide.
If a distinction exists between art and social and political commentary, it vanishes in the current exhibit at the Kemper Museum, David Bates: The Katrina Paintings.
Remembering Katrina by Forgetting the Politics A Review of David Bates: The Katrina Paintings By Sarah Jesse, REVIEW It has been almost five years since Hurricane Katrina, and the tragedy…
In response to the monumentally tragic and ongoing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Arthur Roger@434 Gallery is presenting “The Gulf: Works Completed Before the BP Spill,” a group exhibition of gallery artists in various media. The exhibition will be on view at the Arthur Roger Gallery @434 from June 12th – July 17th, 2010.
Dale Chihuly is arguably the best known glass artist in the world. Each title in the ‘Chihuly Mini Book’ series takes readers on a visual tour of Chihuly’s work, exploring what makes each of his genres unique.
Rugged, blue jean clad and with a speaking style somewhere between Joseph Campbell and Johnny Cash, James Surls may be the most famous Texas artist.
As the death of the Gulf Coast ecosystem comes gushing blackly from the Macondo Prospect oil field 5,000 feet underwater, Dallas painter David Bates is in Kansas City for the opening of The Katrina Paintings, his exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
In the dimly lit studio, where Egan was preparing for an exhibit of her works titled “Field Studies” at Heriard-Cimino Gallery, the spinning flower seemed almost real, as if you could reach out and touch it. But it was actually an example of what Egan, one of New Orleans’ premier video artists, described as her “pretty trickery.” The trumpet flower, bee and yellow droplets were all the product of sly video projection.
