Press & Media

“Epiphany of the Mundane: An Invterview with Douglas Bourgeois”, Louisiana Cultural Vistas

July 21, 2006

MS: Look at the blessing civilization hath brought us. Speaking of which, let me transition over to another painting from the same year –1993– called The Traveler. Here again we have the tensions between the two value systems.
DB: The same themes more or less, but maybe a little more despairing and maybe a little more allegorical in that she’s obviously a salesman or a business person, because she’s got the briefcase and fast food and her accounting work.

“The Examined Life,” Village Voice

July 18, 2006

There is a sense of violence in these realistic paintings of studio interiors.

“Art Review”, Gambit Weekly

July 11, 2006

One thing about the Ogden — it’s not like other museums, at least not entirely. Sure, the art world is arranged according to a star system made up of big names and local and regional favorites, and while the Ogden necessarily focuses on some of the most prominent luminaries associated with the South, it also tries to put more emphasis on the context, the connective tissues that tie together the art of this region.

“Art in Review; Amer Kobaslija,” The New York Times

June 30, 2006

It’s not what you paint, but how you paint. That might be the motto of Amer Kobaslija.

“Texas Artist Captures the Realism of Katrina’s Despair”, the Times-Picayune

June 9, 2006

What kind of art turns you on? Do you have a hot-blooded passion for the primitive? An enthusiasm for expressionism in extremes. Do you ardently admire Audubon wildlife prints? Well here’s the thing. If you’re into any or all of the above, then David Bates, whose paintings are on display at Arthur Roger Gallery, is sure to satisfy.

“Chihuly, Dale (b.1941), By David F. Martin

May 21, 2006

Dale Chihuly is unquestionably the most famous living visual artist in the Northwest. His influence is international in scope and his reputation extends into several important areas, those of artist, teacher, designer, and co-founder of one of the world’s most eminent glass schools, Pilchuck, located 50 miles north of Seattle in Stanwood (Snohomish County).

“John Waters: Unwatchable ‘The art world needs satirists like John Waters’ “, Green Cine

May 17, 2006

Given the prices that art brings these days, and the reverence paid to art (sometimes exceeded by the reverence paid to the pursuit and purchase of art), the art world needs satirists like John Waters.

“Gunning’s Balancing Act”, The New Orleans Art Review

April 21, 2006

In a manner of speaking, Simon Gunning has become our John Constable — two hundred years later, celebrating the singularity of the place where he chooses to live. Of course, in lieu of the Englishman’s idyllic sparkling fields and famously studied skies, Gunning, an Australian transplant, focuses on our local waterways.

“Top Gunning”, The Times-Picayune

March 17, 2006

Simon Gunning’s oil paintings at Arthur Roger Gallery are the best depictions of Louisiana’s watery coastal landscape ever made — ever. Better than Meeker, Clague, Buck, Heldner, Coulon, Millet or anyone else who ever tried to capture that impenetrable muddy water and endless vista on canvas.

“David Bates”, by Jacqueline Days Serwer

January 16, 2006

In a tour de force of portraits, wildlife and landscape studies, flower paintings and swamp scenes, David Bates shows us images of despair and reaffirmation that flow from nature’s unsentimental cycles of pain and joy, life and death.