“Beauties And Beasts”, Gambit Weekly
BEAUTIES AND BEASTS by D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly So you thought you knew Little Red Riding Hood? So did I, at least until I started thinking about it. Then…
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“Allison Stewart”, Southern Accents
ALLISON STEWART This New Orleans artist takes inspiration from the Louisiana wetlands for her graceful ecological works by Elizabeth Dewberry, SOUTHERN ACCENTS Allison Stewart’s transition from a biology major who…
“Beauties And Beasts”, Gambit Weekly
So you thought you knew Little Red Riding Hood? So did I, at least until I started thinking about it. Then I realized that all the old fairy tales had blended in my mind over time into a gumbo of little girls, wolves, princesses, frogs and dwarves, trailing off into a weird frontier populated by Frankenstein, Godzilla, Dracula, Dick Nixon and SpongeBob.
“Beauties and Beasts”, Gambit Weekly
So you thought you knew Little Red Riding Hood? So did I, at least until I started thinking about it. Then I realized that all the old fairy tales had blended in my mind over time into a gumbo of little girls, wolves, princesses, frogs and dwarves, trailing off into a weird frontier populated by Frankenstein, Godzilla, Dracula, Dick Nixon and SpongeBob.
“Fractured Fairy Tales: What big talent you have,” New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Innocent Act,” Stephen Paul Day’s new collection of strangely beautiful, small-scale sculpture at Arthur Roger Gallery was inspired by the “Little Red Riding Hood” fairy tale. But not the softened, sanitized cartoon versions that most of us know best.
“Party of 36 (Plus 1 Serpent), The New York Times
One winter morning in 2001, the artist James Drake was sitting over coffee with the novelist Cormac McCarthy. They were at one of their regular haunts in Santa Fe, N.M., where they both live, chatting about work and family, the kinds of things said idly that lead to other thoughts.
“Azaceta, Charbonnet & Chihuly”, The New Orleans Art Review
The December Show at Arthur Roger Gallery features the work of Luis Cruz Azaceta, Nicole Charbonnet and an installation by Dale Chihuly.
“Chihuly’s Delicate Garden of Blown Glass”, Los Angeles Times
Of all the reactions likely to be observed among visitors to an exhibition of contemporary art-quiet contemplation, hushed commentary, a smile or a chuckle-a genuine gasp is surely among the most rare. Good art can be beautiful, intelligent, humorous or moving, but it takes something pretty spectacular to cut through the refined atmosphere of your typical gallery and evoke a real, spontaneous expression of astonishment.
“Terror Takes a Holiday”, The Times Picayune
The thing I admire most about Luis Cruz Azaceta is that he lets his art change, and change and change again. When he moved to New Orleans 12 years ago from New York, he was already in mid-career, with a big-time national rep for his cartoonish expressionist paintings and junk sculpture installations.
“Ida Kohlmeyer: Abstraction & Life”, New Orleans Art Review
The remarkable exhibition now at the Newcomb Art Gallery — a retrospective of Ida Kohlmeyer’s painting and sculpture — does much to cement her position among our major artists. Curated by Professor Michael Plante, the show clarifies, especially, Kohlmeyer’s commerce with Abstract Expressionism — her debt to certain of the movement’s pioneers and, notably, her singular protraction of its imperatives.