Tag: Tori Bush
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Flight Maps
Published in The New Orleans Advocate Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Gray, white and red feathers fly out the back of a red pickup truck onto the following car’s windshield. As the sun rises, Larry Decareaux, a member of the Delta Pigeon Racing Club, drives crates of pigeons from New Orleans, Metairie, Slidell and the West…
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John Isiah Walton: Rodeo at The Front
Published February 26, 2016 dailyserving.com At first glance, John Isiah Walton’s exhibition Rodeo, now on view at The Front in New Orleans, seems innocuous, even playful, with paintings of bulls diving through Pepto-Bismol pink skies toward men, frozen in space. But after a closer look, a smiling cynicism arises from the works. We, the viewers, are implicated as voyeurs…
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An Interview with Nick Cave
Shreveport is a border town at the crossroads of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. The city is known for its musical history—the term “Elvis has left the building” was coined there. But Shreveport also suffers from crippling issues of injustice. Shreveport prosecutors use peremptory challenges to bar people of color from juries, and juries in Caddo Parish…
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Juan Logan: Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Published October, 2014 Art in America Since the 1960s, Juan Logan (b. 1946) has mined Southern histories to produce a powerful alloy, one joining abstraction to a narrative that yokes the social injustices of the pre-Civil Rights era to today. Logan’s exhibition, “I’ll Save You Tomorrow,” organized by curator Bradley Sumrall at the Ogden Museum…
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AnnieLaurie Erickson: Data Shadows at Carroll Gallery
Published September 30, 2014 Daily Serving Review Photographer AnnieLaurie Erickson has spent a lot of time lately being watched by law enforcement. In her recent trip this year to Oklahoma, she stood on public property, taking photographs while security guards, local officers, and state police looked on. One might ask, what has she been photographing that requires…
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Where to Look: On Arts Writing in Shreveport
Published September 4, 2014 on Pelicanbomb.com Image by Josh Chambers Last month, the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC) hosted a symposium titled “Conversations on Criticism: The Future of Intelligent Writing on the Arts.” This is not the first time that SRAC has invited outside arts writers to meet, write, and reflect on the city’s surprisingly…
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Loving and Loving; Mixed Messages.4 at Antenna Gallery
Published on Daily Serving July, 2014 Just over forty-seven years ago this month, it was illegal for interracial couples to marry in sixteen states throughout the United States. Richard and Mildred Loving, the serendipitously named couple, were married in 1958 and then promptly arrested under anti-miscegenation laws. The legacy of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark…
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Ernest Littles at Dillard University
The words “I think it shows how art is helping me find myself,” are written across Just a Thought, one of the works in Ernest Littles Senior show at Dillard University. Littles throughout this show explores themes of perceptions, and varying degrees of truth as a basis for the majority of his work to date.…
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Mel Chin: Rematch at The New Orleans Museum of Art
Published on Daily Serving on April 5, 2014 Mel Chin’s Rematch, now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is the artist’s first retrospective, long overdue and particularly prescient this week as a new U.N. report highlights the dire conditions of the Earthcreated by pollution, energy, and population, among other factors. Chin, while making visually stunning work,…
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30 Americans at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Published on Daily Serving on Feb. 25, 2014 In a nod to Linda Nochlin’s famous query, Michele Wallace asked, “Why are there no great black artists?”[1]30 Americans is the response to this question, a beautiful, rambunctious show that gathers the work of 31 African American artists. Unfortunately, 30 Americans, similar to Thelma Golden’s Freestyle in 2001, is not about a specific curatorial theory or…
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