Tag: New Orleans
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Messy Love: Bob Snead at Isaac Delgado Fine Art Gallery
Published on Daily Serving August 5, 2013 Bedfellows, Bob Snead’s exhibition at Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, is a study of the intimate and quotidian moments in the life of a family. Staring at the computer, folding laundry, sleeping in a chair—these paintings and digital drawings depict friends and family members in poses of recess. All together,Bedfellows is […]
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Last Call: Chad Harris and John Harlan Norris at Du Mois Gallery
Published on Pelican Bomb June 14, 2013 Not only is it the last weekend to catch “Intorsion: Chad Harris and John Norris” at Du Mois Gallery, it is the gallery’s last exhibition at their current address. Before it’s gone, Tori Bush reviews. Intorsion describes the inward rotation of a limb or organ, especially the eye […]
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The Road To: An Interview with Franklin Sirmans
Published Daily Serving June 6, 2012 Issues of under-financing, administrative inadequacy and lack of community support are some of the problems that can be found currently in multiple organizations in New Orleans. Prospect New Orleans, a nascent biennial founded in 2008 has had its share of these issues. However, new leadership and the selection of […]
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Catalogue
CATALOGUE is a bi-monthly living listing of galleries and institutions that host monthly visual art shows in New Orleans. It is distributed in art spaces as well as shops, events and other places of local interest. Catalogue is on vacation for the summer and will be back in Fall, 2012. — Download PDF: January / […]
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Review: “The Glass Menagerie”
Pelicanbomb. April 6, 2012 For years I would pass by museum exhibits of blown or cast glass in silent judgment. I regarded the medium as tacky; from millefiori paperweights to the art of Dale Chihuly, it all seemed frilly at best and ridiculously bourgeois at worst. While I have great respect for the processes of […]
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From Street Wall to Great Hall: A Perceptual Shift
Pelicanbomb. August 24, 2011 Down on Poland Avenue there’s an empty building with a secret. Standing guard of that old corner store is a man made of parchment. Driving by, you would most likely miss him, but to the evening stroller his presence can spark a magical moment. Callie Curry, more commonly known as Swoon, […]
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Review: Hypothetical Development Organization
Pelicanbomb. May 3, 2011 Hypothetical Development Organization, or H.D.O., has wildlyimagined the future of twelve buildings throughout New Orleans. H.D.O.’s concepts enter into two distinctcontextual realms: urban redevelopment and architectural fiction. At the same time, they open the next conversation held by street artists on those same derelict buildings. While many of the city’sprolific street […]
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NOLA NOW Part II: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape (1986 & 2012)
Pelicanbomb. March 7, 2012 NOLA NOW, Part II: Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape (1986 & 2012)” had the potential to be merely a romantic reminiscence of live oak trees and water-filled expanses. Curator Don Marshall, however, balanced the classical images of Louisiana environments with edgier installations to achieve an egalitarian look at the city’s contemporary visual arts […]
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Unnatural Communities
Daily Serving. March 22, 2012 One of the most informative moments in SPACES, the latest exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, is a timeline of the birth of the St. Claude art scene handwritten in black charcoal pencil on the wall. Born out of the reinvigoration of community action in post-Katrina New Orleans, […]
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