Robert Colescott, the gifted American artist whose often outlandish but always gorgeous paintings pondered racial stereotypes and other thorny aspects of race relations in America, passed away Thursday at his home in Tucson.
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.
Stephen Paul Day is the master of fake history exhibits. In past years, he has produced a selection of spurious opera memorabilia, nontraditional interpretations of fairy tales, unreal Tennessee Williams ephemera and a traveling exhibit of factually inaccurate New Orleans souvenirs (with his wife, artist Sibylle Peretti).
Following Stephen Paul Day’s progress as a sculptor is at times like following the history of the medium itself. He doesn’t just work in metal, wood, glass, ceramics and found objects; he gets right down to the basics. He built his own bronze foundry, although it became one of the more unusual casualties of Hurricane Katrina.
CARBONDALE — Finding James Surls’ Missouri Heights studio isn’t all that difficult. The directions aren’t tricky, and even if they were, there are not many shiny-new, 7,000-square foot metal structures in the area. Still, when I drove up recently to meet the artist at his studio, I had a small worry that Surls had not given me a street number.
At the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York’s Chelsea art district, the open-plan office zone is separated from the exhibition space by a wall with an open end, so shoptalk can be overheard from the public area.
THERE COULD HAVE been no more beautiful sign of the ending of the solar cycle than the snow that fell in southern Louisiana that mid-December morning a few weeks ago.
Popular Lafayette artist Francis X. Pavy took a couple of years off from painting to concentrate on fixing up his house. With the renovation behind him, Pavy has returned to art with abundant energy and a few new tricks.
Former Bay Area resident James Barsness presents big paintings at Catharine Clark embodying a personal take on mythologies that at some level may have ruled the world.
This exhibition offers exceptional pieces by Stephen Sollins from the past six years. His recent works integrate found printed paper and acetate from the interiors of envelopes.