“Luis Cruz Azaceta”, ARTnews
Luis Cruz Azaceta’s show of mixed-media paintings, collages, and sculptures, titled “Local Anesthesia,” continued a line of remarkable art created in response to Hurricane Katrina.
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“Azaceta: Unkillable Desperation”, The New Orleans Art Review
For many New Orleans artists, an aesthetic response to Hurricane Katrina was a spiritual necessity, even it then-customary styles were oddly fitted to the project. And, in most instances, the work born of this situation fully registered with us. Such is the force oftrue emotional engagement.