“Installation art and towering text combine in the Appleton’s new exhibit ‘Faith & the Devil,'” Ocala
In the eons since written language was developed, its art typically was words: poetry, essays, plays and so forth.
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“Farber Foundation Announces Finalists for Cuban Art Awards,” ARTnews
Luis Cruz Azaceta is one of the most prolific, consistent artists. His works range from intimate drawings and monumental paintings, sculptures to intricate installations that convey the individual drama in contemporary global society. He has visualized with a critical eye a wide range of personal and social themes in his paintings.
“Between Apocalypses,” The New York Times
Dawn DeDeaux has been thinking a lot about the apocalypse, and she’d like to get you in the mood, too. “MotherShip,” her installation for Prospect.3, this town’s international biennial (which, in typical New Orleans fashion, has rolled around not quite on schedule), proposes an exit strategy from planet Earth. Ms. DeDeaux, a mixed-media artist, said she has taken to heart Stephen Hawking’s prediction that earthlings have 100 years left before the planet gives out. Opening Oct. 25, and set in an abandoned, roofless warehouse with trees growing through it, the installation will have recorded music by George Clinton and Sun Ra, giant steel rings that suggest those made for the zeppelins of yore, ladders and stacked chairs as a galactic assist, and places to store your mementos and Ms. DeDeaux’s.
“Review: Prospect.3 at the Contemporary Arts Center,” Gambit
Welcome to the world! There is a National Geographic quality about much of Prospect.3, which offers many windows on the far corners of the planet.
“2 Years, 1,242 Drawings. Step Inside This Obsessive Artist’s Brain.” GOOD Magazine
In 2012, virtuosic sculpture and video artist James Drake decided to do something totally new for him: Draw every single day for two years.
“New Orleans music website weighs in on Prospect.3 artist Douglas Bourgeois,” The Times-Picayune
Douglas Bourgeois, who is among Louisiana’s finest artists by anyone’s standards, draws much of the inspiration for his magic realist paintings, from pop music sources.
“‘A Long Hungry Look’: Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation,” The New York Times
In 1950, Gordon Parks was the only African-American photographer working for Life magazine, a rising star who was gaining the power to call his own shots, and he proposed a cover story both highly political and deeply personal: to return to Fort Scott, Kan., the prairie town where he had grown up, to find his 11 classmates in a segregated middle school.
“Douglas Bourgeois’ Illuminated Pop,” My Spilt Milk
Painter Douglas Bourgeois is talking specifically about works that are on display in the Contemporary Arts Center as a part of Prospect.3, but also his paintings in general.
“Douglas Bourgeois on His Trippy, Musician-Filled Paintings,” VICE Magazine
With 18 different venues spread throughout New Orleans from small arts spaces in Treme and Central City to major museums such as the New Orleans Museum of Art, the contemporary art biennial Prospect.3 certainly doesn’t make it easy for an individual to stand out from the over 50 participating artists in the show. But Southern Louisiana artist Douglas Bourgeois does that with his bizarrely beautiful paintings…
“Ordinary and “Lifelike” Objects: A Debut Review from the City of New Orleans,” Adobe Airstream
In the city of New Orleans, two exhibitions that ran concurrently, as cogeneration extends from one source, appeared as if an intrinsic grandfather birthed the concepts presented.