“Talking Art and Music”, Art New Orleans
Inspired by the Southern landscape, the work of visionary “outsiders,” agriculture, social and environmental ironies, New Orleans artist W. Steve Rucker specializes in creating imaginative installations.
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“Luis Cruz Azaceta: CAC”, Artforum
What does it mean to isolate one year of an artist’s production? For this exhibition, Dan Cameron has organized a unique retrospective of the prolific local artist Luis Cruz Azaceta. The year selected, 1999, was laden with ethnic and territorial disputes—atrocities in Kosovo, East Timor, Russia, Kashmir, and eastern Congo riddled the globe.
“All Over the Map”, Art & Antiques
JOHN ALEXANDER grew up in Beaumont, in east Texas, birthplace of Big Oil. So his retrospective now on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featuring nearly 100 works from the past 30 years, represents something of a homecoming for the 62-year-old artist. Although he left Texas for New York City in 1979, Alexander’s work has always been informed by the years he spent exploring the swamps, bayous and industrial ghettos in and around Beaumont.
“Elemore Morgan, plein air painter”, The Times-Picayune
Elemore Morgan, plein air painter by Doug MacCash, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Artist Elemore Morgan Jr., renowned for his fiery depictions of the prairie landscape around his Acadiana home, died Sunday at…
“Elemore Morgan, plein air painter”, The Times-Picayune
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.
“Atlanta Artist Radcliffe Bailey Exhibits at the High Museum of Art”, Atlanta Examiner.com
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.
“Celebrated painter Elemore Morgan Jr. dies”, The Daily Advertiser
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.
“Elemore Morgan”
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.
“Past Present,” Art News
“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.