Francis X. Pavy Receives 2025 Lineage Award from Basin Arts
On Wednesday, October 1st, Francis X. Pavy will be awarded a Lineage Award from Basin Arts, a Lafayette Arts organization, to commemorate his work and dedication to the embodiment of…
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FRANCIS X. PAVY
IMAGE AND WORDS BY LEAH GRAEFF for THE CURRENT Magazine Downtown Lafayette was under a flash flood warning, the morning of my shoot with Francis Pavy. We kept our…
Lafayette artist featured on new Clifton Chenier zydeco tribute record by Rolling Stones
BY JOANNA BROWN | Staff writer Jun 11, 2025 Updated Jun 11, 2025 | For The Advocate An iconic Louisiana zydeco musician is being honored by the Smithsonian with…
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Over the course of forty years, Francis Pavy mediates a visual language for Acadiana BY JORDAN LAHAYE FONTENOT | JANUARY 22, 2025 | for COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE When Francis…
“2017 Jazz Fest posters honor The Meters, Jon Batiste,” WWL
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
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
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
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
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
Review of March 2012 exhibits “Francis X. Pavy: 200 – Art Inspired by 200 Years of Louisiana Statehood” and “Keith Perelli: Mosquito Muerto”.