by Dillon Mullan for Santa Fe New Mexican Erin Cone, a Santa Fe artist, received a suspicious message through her website sometime in 2019. “I was lucky enough to find one of your paintings by the name of stasis,” the message read. “It’s truly a wonderful piece but I was told it was a piece…
“Art in the Time of Empathy” will be on display until December 19th. It can be viewed at the Arthur Roger Gallery at 432 Julia Street in New Orleans by Thanh Truong for WWL NEW ORLEANS — Early in the pandemic, the Arthur Roger Gallery sent out a mass invitation to artists in New Orleans…
For more than three decades, Richard Baker has been painting and reimagining the still-life form, lately focusing on books as objects-turned-portraits. Most recently, during the time of the pandemic and in preparation for a group exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, Baker has painted a series of book covers in gouache as a means to embrace the comfort and pleasure of being at home. Like the poets I’m attuned to, Baker disrupts the familiar and its meaning through juxtaposition, surprising our expectations of image and form. His work evidences the fact that painting begins and ends in imagination.
by Sylvie Contiguglia for Arte-Walk Following a quiet summer, Arthur Roger Gallery is awakening with a bang. Its latest show Art in the Time of Empathy features seventy artists represented by more than one hundred works of art including paintings, sculptures, photographs and site specific installations. A playful series of shoe-mask from Maxx Sizeler leads to a spacious space lined…
by Doug MacCash for The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate The year 2020 has been a tangle of medical, political, social, economic and ecological trouble. There’s no getting around it. But down on Julia Street, the group exhibit “Art in the Time of Empathy” at Arthur Roger Gallery brings a touch of solace to the situation…
by Martin Irvine, Ph.D.Director, Irvine Contemporary & Professor, Georgetown University Shawne Major grew up in Louisiana and began her career as a painter. She studied for her MFA in sculpture at Rutgers, and lived in New York in the ’90s. She has been making found object assemblage “tapestries” for over 10 years. Equally conversant in…
Gallery artist Stephanie Patton has work featured in two exhibitions. Going Through a Phrase Galveston Art Center, October 10 – January 3, 2021 Galveston Arts Center (GAC) presents Going Through a Phrase, a group exhibition of text-based works by Alicia Eggert, Candace Hicks, Stephanie Patton, Andrea Tosten, and Rachelle Vasquez on view in the main gallery from October…
Doug McCash reviews the Art in the Time of Empathy exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery for Steppin’ Out on WYES.
by Diane Mack for WWNO | NPR New Orleans Art in the Time of Empathy, is an exhibition of gallery and invited artists examining the year 2020 as an historical moment and a transformative time. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia Street, until December 19, 2020. More info is…
A few places and things that have caught our eye… Look back on 2020 through the eyes of over 70 artists in the Arthur Roger Gallery’s latest exhibition “Art in the Time of Empathy.” Artists address the many aspects of quarantine, politics, and science in a time where physical distance has redefined these dialogues. The…