It might seem like just another grim artistic stroll down Katrina memory lane. But, trust me; it’s not nearly that simple.
“Balcony”, 2003
The late John T. Scott’s woodblock carvings, now on display at Arthur Roger@434 gallery, depict mountains of debris avalanching into the New Orleans streetscape.
The painter Wayne Gonzales messes with our expectations. He cracks open images we think we already know and injects them with subversive sensuality and doubt.
It’s an intensely graphic month at the San Antonio Museum of Art, where antique suppurating martyrs are countered by modern meat, splayed, ground, stacked, and photographed for consumption.
A House Made of Food: Bread House is included in photographer David Halliday’s exhibition ”Culinary Delights” at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Robert Colescott—who was born in Oakland on August 26, 1925 and died June 4, 2009 in Tucson, AZ—was an energetic painter who pushed his presence into the history of American art completely on his own terms. His fifty-some-year oeuvre, featuring crude figuration, splashy, garish color, and blunt racial and sexual themes, was generated by a spirited mix of deep ties to past art, immersion in popular culture, committed social topics and uncompromising self-expression.
Simon Gunning and Mitchell Gaudet by D. Eric Bookhardt, GAMBIT WEEKLY “I paint and draw light,” says Simon Gunning, and if that sounds almost biblical, his new Avery Island landscapes…
James Surls is having a busy year. A giant of Texas art even since moving to Carbondale, Colo., in 1997, Surls has a solo exhibition of recent sculpture and drawings on view through Aug. 22 at the Grace Museum in Abilene. The museum also published a generously scaled catalog of the same title as the exhibit, James Surls: From the Heartland.
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Installations emerged from Pop Art means of removing art from the two dimensional space of illusion into the three dimensional space of the natural world. It had long existed in popular form as Saint Joseph altars, Mardi Gras floats, and church retablos. Traditional categories that considered two-dimensional art as painting and all else as some form of sculpture were defied in the process.
As an ardent film buff, one of my all-time favorite movies I have watched repeatedly since childhood is The Wizard of Oz. So it came as a refreshing surprise to discover New Orleans artist Nicole Charbonnet’s dreamy renditions of the film as mixed media on canvas.