Artist Elemore Morgan Jr., renowned for his fiery depictions of the prairie landscape around his Acadiana home, died Sunday at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore of complications after heart surgery. He was 76.
The High Museum of Art is proud to organize and premiere the most comprehensive presentation of works by Atlanta-based artist Radcliffe Bailey beginning next summer June 28, 2011. The exhibition “Radcliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine” will highlight the artist’s experimentation with diverse media, showcasing sculptures, paintings, installations, works-on-paper, glass works and modified found objects. Comprising more than 25 works, “Memory as Medicine” will include new art created for the exhibition as well as works never before seen on public display.
Elemore Morgan Jr., 77, was often called the dean of Louisiana landscape artists. Whether in a classroom, the edge of a rice field or atop a skyscraper painting the New York skyline, Morgan was a gentle giant among artists.
Celebrated painter and beloved friend Elemore Morgan, Jr. died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at the age of 76, after complications following an April 8th heart surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. A private funeral service was held in rural Vermilion Parish on Sunday, May 25th.
“THE IMPORTANCE OF HOME, FAMILY, ANCESTRY feeds my work entirely,” says Whitfield Lovell, known for his large-scale images of African Americans, drawn in charcoal on weathered wood planks. “African Americans generally were not aware of who their ancestors were, since slaves were sold from plantation to plantation and families were split up.”
Record, 2008
Mary Jane Parker has long been fascinated by the similarities between microscopic images of blood cells and satellite photos of the cosmos, between intestines and the roots of plants in short, the links between the human and the infinite. Specimens a work that predates Hurricane Katrina, brings twenty individual cells together to create a complete work. Hung in a grid pattern, the individual panels – depicting body parts, stars and natural elements — merge into a new whole that fuses the microcosm with the macrocosm.
Luis Cruz Azaceta’s show of mixed-media paintings, collages, and sculptures, titled “Local Anesthesia,” continued a line of remarkable art created in response to Hurricane Katrina.
JOHN T. SCOTT was far more than an infinitely creative mind – he was educator, mentor and guiding spirit to New Orleans’s artistic community. Two-thousand-five was a pivotal year for Scott. Works from every stage of his career appeared in a major retrospective, Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott, which opened in May of that year at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Shimmering reflections of the sunlit street muddled with vaguely discernable, shadowy art forms in the amorphous space of the large plate glass windows of the gallery.
The new landscape paintings by Elemore Morgan, Jr., hung quietly on the brightly lit white walls of the gallery on opening night.