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Guessing Icons on Memory Lane

Cheryl Cabrera’s sixth exhibit at D.o.c.s. gallery is an amazing collection that will keep you guessing and maybe take you on a stroll down memory lane. Her inspiration was taking famous Icons from her childhood and brilliantly dissecting them on canvas. The symmetry of the lines and the distortion of the faces takes the art to a childhood place. The viewer somewhat feels like they are playing pictionary with an …more…

The Art of Cooking

There is nothing more satisfying  than when art bleeds with culinary brilliance. It is an indulgence for the senses that shouldn’t be skipped. In Gustave Blanche III’s exhibit of paintings showcasing long-time chef Leah Chase, a slice of Louisiana’s food history is preserved. Wearing her signature pink hat and seen slicing and dicing various colorful vegetables, the onlooker can’t help but be swept up in the long standing history of …more…

Music: Big Easy Style

Music is the soundtrack of life and the inspiration of Dario Robleto’s new exhibit at NOMA. In The Prelives of the Blues Robleto explores music through the eye of a conceptual artist. Dario in internationally known for his talent of sculpting with unique items and giving them powerful meaning. The new exhibit at NOMA is no different. This new work focuses on music and specifically the heart of music in New …more…

Taboo Tattoos?

Jessica Goldfinch’s new exhibit is a smartly crafted art exploration of the world of tattoos with a backdrop of religious relics. Tattoos are art in their own right, hence the name tattoo artists. Honing in on the underground world of symbolic prison skin art Jessica explores the deep religious and political meanings this type of art carries with it. Not only is there an unspoken language in this art form …more…

Warrior Paint: Tony Fitzpatrick at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery

In Tony Fitzpatrick’s new exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (400a Julia St.), “Nickel History: In the Service of Ghosts” his fighter spirit is alive. In his latest exhibit, colors, sketching, and lines become blurred into an awesome spectacle of pictures. His work is detailed and precise. Taking historical figures, situations, people, and various odds and ends of life he places them in detailed sketches of intricate portrays of bravery, malice, and …more…

Shay Kun’s Thousand Word Paintings at NOLA’s Martine Chaisson Gallery

In Shay Kun’s painted world the onlooker is forced to see pure, delicate environments invaded by their human counterparts. ...more...

Louisiana in its Purest Form

Assemblage art can be a hit or miss, but  in Jimmy Descant’s new exhibit at the Ogden it’s a huge hit. Honoring the infamous shape of Louisiana, “The Rocketman”, as Descant is affectionately called, has weaved together pieces that touch on Louisiana’s rich roots. Called “The Rocketman” for his talent of making art rockets, his visionary brilliance is one of a kind. With the state’s shape as a backdrop, Descant …more…

Beautiful Elements

In Regina Scully’s new exhibit, Elemental, mystical environments are portrayed through different avenues of her paintbrush. Colorful, and mesmerizing these paintings will ignite your senses and take you on a journey through an ariel view of fantasy picturesque landscapes. At first glance it appears to be chaos on a canvas, but looking closer, intricate details of land, sea, and objects begin to form. If nothing else Regina’s work will make you see a landscape in a different way. ...more...

Raw Talent at NOLA’s Homespace Gallery

In the new exhibit, Raw, at Homespace Gallery, emerging and accomplished artists are one in the same sharing a platform amazing art in its rawest form. Organized by art veterans Luis Cruz Azaceta and Sharon Jacques, it seems every visual sense is put to the test. From sculptures from the less well-known but superbly talented Monica Zeringue, to photo portraits and installations, to imagery by art veteran Peter Saul, the …more…

Floating Femininity

Moving in Colors, Korean artist’s Key Sook Geum latest exhibition, we get a dose of a matriarchial dress society with absent bodies. Beautifully created dresses floating seamlessly to conture the female form in all its glory. The absence  of a real body makes the sculptures even more interensting and somewhat delicate. The wirey adaptations of beautiful gowns have an energy flowing through them that, I think, Geum inteneded on showing …more…

An Artful Year in Review

When it comes to an emerging art scene look no further than your own back yard, or city shall I say. This past year New Orleans has been booming with new art endeavors some experimental and some traditional. Back in October Prospect 2 was launched and put New Orleans back on the art scene. Prospect 2 was bombing with young, fresh new visual art and it also had is share …more…

“Stamina in the Dream House”

Painter Elizabeth Fox draws inspiration from her past in corporate America. A former New Orleans native, she captures the edginess and contemporary style of a new America in her non- literal paintings of beautiful beings in somewhat mundane everyday situations. Most of her paintings showcase the dominance of males, and the objectification of females in the corporate work world. A modern Picasso in her own right, Elizabeth has a flare …more…

Art is Woman

Francesco Vezzoli’s sculpture of Sophia Loren is part of the amazing visual art project in New Orleans, Prospect.2.
It’s displayed in the Piazza d’italia, a prime example of postmodern architecture nestled in the Warehouse District, honoring the New Orleans’ Italian community and the cinematic bombshell of the 60′s and 70′s. ...more...

Expose at NOLA’s Contemporary Arts Center

The Contemporary Arts Center project Expose is a must see for any aspiring artist who stomps the ground in The Big Easy. Curated by a group of interns in the Visual Arts Department and overseen by the director of Visual Arts, Expose is a work of art that is the result of many conversations about the limitations and possibilities of curatorial practice. The role of the curator often isn’t seen, …more…

Prospect.2 New Orleans

Founded by curator Dan Cameron, Prospect New Orleans is one of the leading contemporary biennials featuring local and international art and artists. Prospect New Orleans showcases new visual contemporary art that contributes to bustling tourism and culture of the Louisiana Gulf. The first installment attracted 42,000 individual visitors and generated over 23 million in economic activity. The relaunch of this must see art experience begins October 21st and will last …more…