“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.
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.
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.
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 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 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…
Gallery Walk James Surls at Arthur Roger by Karl F. Volkmar, New Orleans Art Review The organic, monumental wood and steel sculptures of James Surls dominate the main gallery at…
James Surls, the sculptor who had seven of his art pieces installed at Rice University last month, enlightened a crowd there recently about his art philosophy and the ideas behind his plant-like sculptures.
Gregory Scott’s Outside the Frame mixed media work is more fun than walking through one of the old fun houses at the state fair or a mystery spot along the highway leading to a popular vacation site.
Gregory Scott’s ingenious painting-photo-video amalgams use humor to help blur the lines between mediums.
What would surrealist René Magritte be doing if he were alive today? I bet he would be doing pretty much what Chicago-based artist Gregory Scott is doing.