Tag: Pelican Bomb
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Bad Apple: Katrina Andry at the Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery
Published on Pelican Bomb on Feb 21, 2014 According to the original exhibition poster, this should have been the last week to catch Katrina Andry’s “Together We Stare out from the Shadows; Hiding from Their Prejudiced Stares” at the Isaac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery. The show opened on January 23. Seven days later, it was down. […]
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Review: Paulina Sierra at the Consulate of Mexico
November 27, 2013. Pelican Bomb.com Baked, fried, rolled, diced, grilled, or eaten plain; the works in Paulina Sierra’s exhibition all examine the quintessential Mexican staple—tortillas. As a symbol, the tortilla might be an obvious choice, yet Sierra executes her work with a keen sense of appropriation. In her silkscreen Pila de Tortillas/Tortilla Piles, blue, yellow, and […]
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Short Review: Casey Ruble at the Foundation Gallery
Published on Pelican Bomb March 14, 2013 “The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked […]
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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 […]