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Banquet Years: Richard Baker Interviewed by Paul Maziar

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.

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Together

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… 

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Introducing Shawne Major

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… 

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Stephanie Patton in Two Exhibitions

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… 

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Things We Adore: October 2020

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… 

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