“Visions From a World Gone Wrong”, Red Dot
I first interviewed Jacqueline Bishop in October 1999. Nearly eleven years had passed since the murder of Chico Mendes, but the Brazilian rubber tapper and ecologist was still very much on her mind.
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“1822”, Contemporary Arts Center
In the fall of 2001, New Orleans artists Stephen Paul Day and Sibylle Peretti were approached about creating a site-specific installation for the fall of 2002, to be exhibited in the Contemporary Arts Center’s First Floor Galleries.
“Radcliffe Bailey: Tides”, by Terri Sultan
Radcliffe Bailey’s exhibition “The Magic City” opened and closed at Blaffer Gallery on the same evening in June 2001, a victim of flooding brought about by Tropical Storm Allison. As torrents of rain closed roads and highways, causing bayous throughout the city to overflow, Bailey—unfamiliar with Houston—became stranded, and spent the night in his car before retuning to safety. All of Bailey’s paintings and installations are an intricate blend of personal experiences and historical references, and for “Tides” he has created a cycle of highly expressionistic visual tableaux that survey watery metaphors from a variety of perspectives.
“New Paintings”, Anne Wilkes Tucker
For about a decade from the mid-seventies, Al Souza called his art “photoworks.” An image comes to mind of a yellow roadside warning sign with a pictograph of a photographer working, warning the viewer to beware. Souza himself is wary of photographs and, since the mid 1970s, he has rejected—in his own wry way—the notion that photographs offer a seamless representation of reality.
“A Louisiana Life: Elemore Morgan Jr”, Louisiana Life
A Louisiana Life: Elemore Morgan Jr. An artist out-standing in the field by R. Reese Fuller, LOUISIANA LIFE When the sun is shining, Elemore Morgan Jr. stands in the rice…
“Prairie View”, Southern Accents
As a child, artist Elemore Morgan, Jr., passed a lot of time in the colorful precincts of Cajun Louisiana. Though he lived on the outskirts of Baton Rouge, his mother’s roots were in the small town of Abbeville.
“The Godfather of Glass: Gene Koss”, Where Y’at Magazine
I could almost see the artwork from the highway through the open door of his Belle Chase warehouse. Gene Koss is known for taking sculpture to the max, but there are some things that just have to be seen to be believed.
“Nicole Charbonnet Landscapes and Heroes”, by Michael Plante
The paintings shown in this exhibition mark a new direction for Nicole Charbonnet. They provoke a different set of feelings — of sensibility even — than what we have come to associate with her work. The close-hued pastel yellows and pinks have yielded to a darker palette of greyed-blues, umbers and greens; the peeled and hollowed flower shapes that characterized an earlier, more abstract vocabulary have transmigrated to a heightened level of complexity.
“Close Up”, New Orleans Art Review
Always engaged with ecological issues, particularly the destruction of the Brazilian rain forest, little did Jacqueline Bishop think she would ever witness the destruction of New Orleans.
“Secret Messages”, Gambit Weekly
With a title like Landscapes and Heroes, Nicole Charbonnet’s show at Simonne Stern might seem to suggest famous myths and legends, or at least, famous movies. Yet, while these semi-abstract works bear a passing similarity to landscapes, any actual figures, heroic or otherwise, are in scant supply. Adding to the ambiguity, most evoke old walls with faded signs or images instead of paintings in the usual sense.