Press & Media

“Life and Art, Side by Side in the French Quarter. At Home With Ersy Schwartz and Josephine Sacabo,” The New York Times

October 4, 2011

Ersy Schwartz, a sculptor, and Josephine Sacabo, a photographer, are old friends, neighbors and artistic collaborators who live in the crumbling village known as the French Quarter, in houses that are exemplars of a certain local aesthetic composed of equal parts grandeur and mystery, funk and rot. They are also fomenters of the sort of time-traveling artwork that comes with a distinctly New Orleans point of view.

“Willie Birch,” Satellite

September 26, 2011

Artist Willie Birch was born in New Orleans in 1942. After earning his MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art, he moved to New York and established a successful career as an artist, exhibiting throughout the U.S. and internationally. He now lives in New Orleans, where he depicts the unique culture of his native city in large-scale black-and-white drawings.

“Jacqueline Bishop returns with exhibit at Eichold,” by Thomas B. Harrison

August 22, 2011

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, artist Jacqueline Bishop found shelter and work in Mobile.

“Review: Common Ground expo at Arthur Roger Gallery,” Gambit

August 17, 2011

Art Review: Common Ground expo at Arthur Roger Gallery Posted by D. Eric Bookhardton Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:27 AM When it comes to energy and influence, the University of New Orleans Fine Arts department is in a class by itself. Besides having its own satellite gallery on St. Claude Avenue, UNO is distinguished…

“Party of 36 (plus 1 Serpent),” The New York Times

July 26, 2011

One winter morning in 2001, the artist James Drake was sitting over coffee with the novelist Cormac McCarthy. They were at one of their regular haunts in Santa Fe, N.M., where they both live, chatting about work and family, the kinds of things said idly that lead to other thoughts.

“Did that Painting Just Move,” TheChiGuide.com

July 26, 2011

This spring at the international art fair, Art Chicago, one booth drew a particularly attentive crowd: Catherine Edelman Gallery was exhibiting three unusual works by artist Gregory Scott

“Troy Dugas’ Centered at Barbara Archer Gallery,” BURNAWAY.ORG

July 23, 2011

Assembling the leftovers of a hyper-consumerist world and reconstructing them into forms in no way reminiscent of their buy-and-sell origins rouses a fond serenity. In his solo exhibition Centered at Barbara Archer Gallery, Troy Dugas accomplishes this in perhaps the most fulfilling way possible. After all, what opposes consumerism, marketing, and labels more than mandalas and religiously tinged spreads that are all about rhythmic pattern and domestic tradition?

“Recycled Creations,” The Daily Advertiser

July 23, 2011

From a distance, they look like intricate, hand-woven lace or scrupulously handcrafted fabrics. The designs are at once dizzyingly complicated and reassuringly predictable.

Two Exhibitions, N.O.A.R.

July 23, 2011

CIGAR, BOURBON, BEER and various other consumer product labels are the primary medium for Troy Dugas” work. The artist recycles these often-discarded commercial signifiers, transforming them into elaborate tapestries comprised of intricate patterns, color and overall compositional play. Dugas says of his work, “At first glance my work is very serious, very organized. But when you investigate it, I think it”s kind of funny.

Lesley Dill at the Whatcom Museum, Washington

July 23, 2011

Lesley Dill’s “Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan” at the Whatcom Museum, Washington, October 23, 2011 – March 4, 2012.