Press & Media

“2017 Jazz Fest posters honor The Meters, Jon Batiste,” WWL

February 1, 2017

The main poster, “Funk Foundation” is by artist Francis X. Pavy. He also created the poster depicting The Neville Brothers in 1997 and Jerry Lee Lewis in 2007. Art Neville is also a founding member of The Meters, the legendary band formed a decade before The Neville Brothers. In addition to Art Neville, Pavy’s work depicts the original 1966 Meters: George Porter, Jr. (bass), Joseph “Zigaboo” Modeliste (drums) and Leo Nocentelli (guitar). The legendary band will reunite again to close out the 2017 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 7.

“Francis Pavy: Variations of the Common Historical Seed,” New Orleans Art Review

November 15, 2014

As the first impressions of standing amid a chaotic sea of colors and shapes was slowly beginning to resolve itself into individual entities and images, I began to sense an empathy between a vaguely discerned memory rising from within me and the artist’s work: that this was like an experience that had happened before, when first arriving and feeling overwhelmed by the oxymoronic diversity of this polysemous aggregation of cultures that is southwest Louisiana.

“CAC, Ogden, galleries host art openings for White Linen Night Saturday,” The Advocate

July 31, 2014

Not to be outdone, Arthur Roger Gallery will mark the occasion with three shows opening in its adjacent gallery spaces on Julia Street. Painter Francis X. Pavy explores issues concerning the Louisiana wetlands in a series of new works on view in the gallery’s main space at 432 Julia, while a suite of never-before-seen photographs from a 1956 Life magazine photo essay assignment by Gordon Parks (who was also the subject of a major exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art last year) will be shown next door at 434 Julia. An interactive digital video piece by New Orleans artist Robert Hannant in the gallery’s video room will round out the offerings.

“Francis X. Pavy’s psychedelic swampscapes are White Linen Night worthy,” The Times Picayune

July 30, 2014

Artist Francis X. Pavy’s psychedelic swampscapes at Arthur Roger gallery are cosmic pleas for the unspoiled wetlands of the distant past.

“Art: Francis X. Pavy – At last, a tribute to the statehood bicentennial,” Louisiana Life Magazine

July 21, 2012

Francis Xavier Pavy, long known for his vibrant and whimsical paintings of Louisiana’s Cajun and zydeco music, is telling the story of the state’s history the best way he knows how – through his art. In his new work, 200: Art Inspired by 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood, he has created an ambitious series of paintings that explores the history of Louisiana from colonial times to the present. This tribute to Louisiana, however, is not a chronological narrative of the state’s 200-year history but paintings filled with symbols representing events, people and aspects of Louisiana’s past and present.

“Pavy & Perelli: Louisiana Essences,” New Orleans Art Review – Winter/Spring 2012

June 8, 2012

Review of March 2012 exhibits “Francis X. Pavy: 200 – Art Inspired by 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood” and “Keith Perelli: Mosquito Muerto”.

“Francis X. Pavy: A Louisiana bicentennial exhibition,” Gambit

March 2, 2012

Birds of North America, 2012. Block print and oil on canvas. 30 x 48 inches

Firmly rooted in the culture of south Louisiana, Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy (b. 1954) arranges archetypal images into patterns within his paintings, block prints and sculptures. His colors and shapes walk the line between complementary and discordant, resulting in a variety of iconic yet contemporary Cajun imagery, all battling on his canvas for attention, in the same way daily aspects of Cajun culture – food, music, and art — resist hierarchical alignment.

“Francis X. Pavy: Remixed,” New Orleans Times-Picayune

April 17, 2009

Popular Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy took a couple of years off from painting to concentrate on fixing up his house. With the renovation behind him, Pavy has returned to art with abundant energy and a few new tricks.

“Visions of Louisiana, Artful ‘swamp pop’ in Lafayette,” Louisiana Homes & Gardens

December 26, 2008

Francis X. Pavy, who studied under the late Elmore Morgan, Jr. (the dean of Louisiana landscapes) as a child, is a prolific Lafayette artist and an aspiring musician. A graduate of the University of Southwestern Louisiana with a fine arts degree in sculpture, he tells stories of Cajun life and myth with his vibrant art.

“Cajunology: Francis Pavy’s pictograms reflect his Louisiana heritage and love of roots music”, New Orleans Times-Picayune

April 1, 2005

The current collection of super-scale hyper-hued works by renowned Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy delivers the visual drama demanded by the wide-open sun-soaked interior of Arthur Roger Gallery Project in the Renaissance Arts Hotel.