“Learning from Black Male”, Art in America
“The ‘Black Male’ show at the Whitney Museum is one of the liveliest and most visually engaging exhibitions to have appeared in New York this season…
Press & Media
“The Colors of Carnival: Kohlmeyer in top form”, New Orleans Times-Picayune
Ida Kohlmeyer was a fine golfer and a 37-year-old mother of two with a businessman for a husband when she began studying art at Newcomb College in the 1950s.
“The paper trail: Artist adds a new dynamic,” The Times-Picayune
If the term “works on paper” conjures images of intimately scaled art objects — from postage stamps to origami sculptures—then it’s time for you to visit Edward Whiteman’s splendid new installation of wall-sized mixed media drawings at Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Julia St.
“Art after Stonewall,” Art in America
My first big art experience was the Gertrude Stein portrait by Picasso at the Metropolitan when I was about eight. It was also my first big sex experience.
“James Barsness: Mill Valley”, ARTnews
In the last ten years Jim Barsness has moved from the West Coast to the East Coast and back again. Nothing in his work seems to correspond obviously with these changes.
“Douglas Bourgeois at Arthur Roger Gallery”, Catalogue essay
Douglas Bourgeois grew up Catholic in a rural hamlet in southeast Louisiana. Born in 1951, he attended a parochial elementary school where he served as an altar boy, and in his teens enrolled in a training facility for future priests. Today, Bourgeois is not a churchgoer and eschews organized religion.
“George Dureau Makes a Riveting Return to the Palette”, by Roger Green
George Dureau: paintings; Clyde Connell; paintings and sculptures; and Wellington Reiter: environmental installation; all at the Arthur Roger Gallery, 432 Magazine St., through April 22.
“Gene Koss”, Arthur Roger Gallery
Two large sculptures and one small one were shown in the New Orleans artist’s first solo show in New York. Timber, Plow and Ridge Road Climb unveiled an artist of skill, intervention, and unexpected beauty.
“James Barsness”, The San Francisco Examiner
At the Susan Cummins Gallery, L.A. based artist Jim Barsness deals with the collapse of empires ancient and modern and the vanity of human wishes.
“Art Pick of the Week”, La Weekly
Art Pick of the Week BY PETER FRANK “New Orleans based-artist Dawn DeDeaux suggest that the expected source of the ‘trouble’ is itself troubled, yet manifests its own tragic nobility….