“Luis Cruz Azaceta”, ARTnews
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.
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“John T. Scott: A New Orleans Artist 1940-2007”, Style Century Magazine
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.
“Mechanical Biota, Chromatic Scales,” The New Orleans Art Review
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.
“An Uneasy Truce,” The New Orleans Art Review
The new landscape paintings by Elemore Morgan, Jr., hung quietly on the brightly lit white walls of the gallery on opening night.
“Patterns and Paintings”, The New Orleans Art Review
THE LARGE MIXED media works of Radcliffe Bailey and the constructions, carvings, and castings of James Surls would seem at first viewing to be distinctly different. Bailey’s works command the attention of the viewer and allow no respite except to move on to the next one. Surls’ conceits invite close attention without being overwhelming. Yet, despite the many differences that one could list, the works of these two artists are both more and less than what may seem to be at first glance.
“David Bates: Artist Captures Katrina Victims’ Anguish”, Dallas Morning News
Artist captures Katrina victims’ anguish By Michael Granberry, THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS When it comes to social activism, artist David Bates is the first to admit: “It’s not usually my…
“Radcliffe Bailey: A New Generation”, Style Century Magazine
Radcliffe Bailey, born in 1968, belongs to the next generation of Southern artists. Yet, like many working today, he readily acknowledges John Scott’s influence and encouragement. Like Scott, Bailey’s work draws inspiration from music.
“Art critic calls 2008 Jazzfest post ‘the best ever'”, New Orleans Times-Picayune
It’s like a weird dream. Soul siren Irma Thomas, dressed in a golden Jackie Kennedy pantsuit, beckons us into a lush landscape of blue irises, python-like oak limbs, and red-winged black birds that sing along to old-fashioned phonograph records
“PHOTOS OF LOUISIANA PRISONERS RENEWED DEBORAH LUSTER’S PEACE OF MIND”, The Times-Picayune
Photographer Deborah Luster doesn’t try to connect the dots. In conversation, she lays out the autobiographical steppingstones that led to the creation of “One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana,” her 2002 masterpiece now on display at the Newcomb Art Gallery. But she leaves us to fill in the psychological blanks.
“Painted cities layered in meaning,” Toronto Star
John Hartman’s painted cities are the ones parents tell their wide-eyed children about, the astounding metropolises formed by almighty rivers and buildings that ignore gravity as they make their way to the moon. They’re Oz or Xanadu’s pleasure dome.