“The Faces of Loss and Betrayal,” The Kansas City Star
If a distinction exists between art and social and political commentary, it vanishes in the current exhibit at the Kemper Museum, David Bates: The Katrina Paintings.
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“Remembering Katrina by Forgetting the Politics, A Review of David Bates: The Katrina Paintings,” Review
Remembering Katrina by Forgetting the Politics A Review of David Bates: The Katrina Paintings By Sarah Jesse, REVIEW It has been almost five years since Hurricane Katrina, and the tragedy…
“James Surls: Recent Sculpture”
Rugged, blue jean clad and with a speaking style somewhere between Joseph Campbell and Johnny Cash, James Surls may be the most famous Texas artist.
“David Bates’ Landscape Of Grief,” Pitch
As the death of the Gulf Coast ecosystem comes gushing blackly from the Macondo Prospect oil field 5,000 feet underwater, Dallas painter David Bates is in Kansas City for the opening of The Katrina Paintings, his exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
“New Orleans artist Courtney Egan creates still lifes that move,” The Times-Picayune
In the dimly lit studio, where Egan was preparing for an exhibit of her works titled “Field Studies” at Heriard-Cimino Gallery, the spinning flower seemed almost real, as if you could reach out and touch it. But it was actually an example of what Egan, one of New Orleans’ premier video artists, described as her “pretty trickery.” The trumpet flower, bee and yellow droplets were all the product of sly video projection.
“Re-Seed,” Urban Glass
Walking into Gene Koss’s studio in Belle Chasse, Louisiana—a corrugated metal industrial building a half hour’s drive across the river from central New Orleans—the first thing you see is a sculpture model.
“Some Things Borrowed, Some Things New: Three Artists Offer a Respite From Minimalism,” D Magazine
At the McKinney Avenue Contemporary last night I was thinking about repetition. I had to: the three artists on display—Jacqueline Bishop, Ginger Geyer, and Kenneth Hale—either work in series of multiples, or else pay homage to earlier artists, repeating both themselves and their precursors with always interesting effect.
“Prestidigtations & Permutations,” New Orleans Art Review
Prestidigitations & Permutations By Karl F. Volkmar In one of the more curious moments in nineteenth century Europe’s fascination with spiritual phenomena and the occult, Alphonse Louis Constant, under the…
“Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde,” Nka
Whitfield Lovell: Autour Du Monde BY JULIE L. MCGEE, Nka I wonder where is all my relations / Friendship to all and every nation. David Drake The American artist Whitfield…
“Strange Alchemy,” Gambit Weekly
Strange Alchemy By Eric D. Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY The objects on view are all too familiar, though not necessarily reassuring. Wrecking balls, ladders and water, lots of water, offer no…