“David Halliday”, Southern Accents
When David Halliday wanders through a grocery store or farmer’s market, he’s just like any other gourmet shopper on the lookout for a crisp bunch of arugula or a pristine fillet of salmon.
Press & Media
“Sitting In”, New Orleans Art Review
In a similar way Willie Birch has helped introduce the world to the style and culture of the inner city streets. Birch transformed its often anonymous messages into a visual language of individual commentary and expression acceptable to the art gallery world.
“High Five,” New Orleans Art Review
All right, so this is not the title of either of the solo October exhibits at Arthur Roger’s two, separate exhibition spaces. Rather, Jesus Moroles” is entitled “Broken Earth” at the Arthur Roger Gallery Project location, and James Drake’s is “City of Tells” at Arthur Roger Gallery on Julia.
“The Art Showman”, Artnet
John Waters loves the art world. His delinquent, satirical vision has inspired generations of artists and outsiders. Next month, the New Museum of Contemporary Art presents “John Waters: Change of Life,” Feb. 7-April. 15, 2004, an exhibition of 80 photographs and other works.
“Telling Tales in Clay”, The Times-Picayune
From the start, Steve Rucker pushed the limits of ceramics. His first show featured unglazed clay and willow sticks; later he torched large-scale wood and clay sculptures – “site specific burns” – on levees around New Orleans.
“Have Mercy – African-American Artists Comment on Local Violence”, New Orleans, Times-Picayune
Nationally known artist Willie Birch is a busy guy. He’s helping to put the finishing touches on the catalog for his retrospective exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in January.
“Glass and Gravitas”, Gambit Weekly
Precious they are not. Unlike so many other glass artists, Gene Koss could never be accused of producing works that were in any way frail, overly ornamental or unnecessarily delicate, and that may be a mixed blessing in a medium long associated with the Venetian predilection for frou-frou.
“Wordsmith”, The Times-Picayune
New York-based artist Lesley Dill, whose work is on display at Arthur Roger Gallery through Saturday, is largely responsible for one of the most popular trends in sculpture. Whenever you see ghostly objects made from ephemeral materials such as sheer cloth, papier-mache and dangling ribbons and threads, think of Dill.
“Art in Review: Jim Richard – Decor”, The New York Times
With deadpan irony, Jim Richard meditates on one of the modern artist’s main moral challenges: how to reconcile spiritual aspirations and material desires.
“Full-Blown Blooms Fantastic floral fantasies meet the real things at the Atlanta Botanical Garden”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Atlanta Botanical Garden is a lovely place under normal circumstances. For the next five months, it will be a fairyland.