“Update: Garaicoa in Beijing, Azaceta x 4, and a Casting Call from MoMA,” Cuban Art News
Azaceta in Louisiana. Large-scale works by Luis Cruz Azaceta are included in four group shows in Louisiana arts institutions.
“LIN EMERY: A MOVEMENT, 1957-2017” at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum
This exhibition focuses on the longstanding innovative practice of New Orleans based artist Lin Emery. It features more than a dozen examples of her work and includes eight wind-powered kinetic sculptures.
“Pensacola State College exhibit honors New Orleans artist Jacqueline Bishop,” Pensacola News Journal
On the heels of the opening of Pensacola State College’s new art wing is “A Drop of Water, a Grain of Sand,” an exhibit of paintings by New Orleans artist Jacqueline Bishop. Her lauded works are inspired by the environmental destruction she’s witnessed during her 30 years of global travel.
“The Art of Food,” Country Roads Magazine
For the upcoming “Art of Food” dinner, presented by Country Roads and Louisiana Public Broadcasting, we tasked the wildly creative Chef Lopez with interpreting the works of Jacqueline Bishop to create dishes for a four-course menu, to be served on October 22 at the LPB studios.
“On Being an Artist” Art E-Walk
At the occasion of his latest exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery, “R.I.P. Bruce A. Davenport, Jr./Artwork by Dapper Bruce Lafitte”, the artist Dapper Bruce Lafitte gave an interview and offered his latest thoughts about his art, art in general and how he became an artist.
Troy Dugas: Balancing Act
Troy Dugas is renowned for his meticulously created mandala-like compositions from shredded labels, as well as more recent works incorporating additional media to form portraits and compelling still life compositions. Balancing Act, the artist’s fifth exhibition with the gallery, refers to an attempt to balance representation and abstraction.
Brian Guidry: Entangled
“Entangled” is Brian Guidry’s first exhibition with the gallery and features three large-scale paintings with reoccurring themes of technology and the manipulation of nature. Guidry synthesizes color, sound and texture to create “digitized” or “dissolved landscapes,” which range visually from compressed lines of color to abstract eruptions.
Ralph Bourque: Crossing
Crossing is Ralph Bourque’s first exhibition with the gallery and includes four large-scale ink drawings on paper. The meticulous landscape chronicles represent the passing of a day – loosely referencing dawn, noon, dusk and midnight, which the artist likens to the cycle of artistic creation.
Stephanie Patton: Sensitivity Training
Sensitivity Training is Stephanie Patton’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Themes of mental and physical health, healing, comfort, and self-preservation are maintained in the new works, which include medium- to large-scale sculptural text constructions, padded vinyl wall pieces, and video.
“Old Masters: You’re not getting older; you’re getting better,” The Advocate
Joan Tanner and Lin Emery prove you only get better with age. After all, Japanese master artist Hokusai was 70 when he began his series of landscape paintings, “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.” “At 80, I shall have made some progress; at 90, I shall have penetrated even further. At 100, I will have become truly marvelous,” the artist said. The truth of those words is evident in the work of sculptors Tanner and Emery.