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Item Ships From: New Orleans
Havana Pantone, Rosa Mercaderes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Havana Pantone, Verde Cálido Malecón
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Havana Pantone, Amarillo Zulueta
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Havana Pantone, Rosa Mercaderes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Havana Pantone, Amarillo Zulueta
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pair Antique French Ormolu Bronze & Baccarat Crystal 5 Light Sconces, Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique French Ormolu bronze and baccarat crystal five light sconces, Circa 1890.
Category
19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Crystal, Bronze, Ormolu
Antique French "P. H. Remon, Paris" Gold Bronze, Marble & Mahogany Bombe Commode
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French finest quality mahogany and gold bronze marble-top Bombe commode, signed "P. H. Remon, Paris."
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Dew Made Jewels
By Scott Andresen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Pair Antique French Crystal and Gold Bronze Five-Light Sconces, Circa 1890-1910
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique French cut crystal and gold bronze five-light sconces, Circa 1890-1910.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Must Have Been the Roses
By Scott Andresen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Unearthly Sweetness
By Scott Andresen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Antique French Carved Walnut "Prie Dieu" or Prayer Chair, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique French Carved Walnut "Prie Dieu" or Prayer Chair, Circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Walnut
Antique 19th Century Dutch Queen Anne Bombay Display Cabinet, Circa 1890's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th Century Dutch Queen Anne Bombay display cabinet, Circa 1890's.
Category
19th Century Dutch Queen Anne Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Walnut, Glass
Antique English 19th Century Solid Golden Oak Trestle Table
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English 19th century solid golden oak trestle table.
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Oak
A Wild Flicker
By Scott Andresen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Silent Things
By Scott Andresen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Antique English Inlaid Walnut and Gold Bronze Mounted Writing Desk, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English inlaid walnut and gold bronze mounted writing desk with black leather top, Circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Bronze
Pair Antique 19th Century English Mahogany Cutlery Urns / Knife Boxes Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique 19th century English mahogany cutlery urns / knife boxes, Circa 1890.
Category
19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Mahogany
Antique English Adams Style Carved Mahogany 3 Piece Sideboard, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Adams Style Carved Mahogany 3 Piece Sideboard, Circa 1880.
Includes Center Table with 2 Flanking Storage Pedestals.
Table: 36" High x...
Category
Late 19th Century English Adam Style Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Mahogany
Antique English Sheffield Silver-Plate Footed Tea Pot with Etching, Circa 1860.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Sheffield Silver-Plate Footed Tea Pot with Etching, Circa 1860.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Sheffield Plate
Pair Antique English Edwardian Silver Plated Candlesticks, Circa 1900's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique English Edwardian silver plated candlesticks, Circa 1900's.
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Romantic Gifts
Materials
Silver Plate
Modern Marlowe
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
My conservative, Church of Christ grandmother lived in a pristine little mid-century modern house in the middle-of-no-where, Texas. Its trim, Protestant exterior belied a decadent mishmash of sculpted chocolate carpeting, and gold gilt Rococo furnishings inside. Strewn about the living room walls were frothy little reproductions of pearly, 18th century goddesses frolicking amid forests and streams--mocking the clean modern lines of the room. These prints of Bouchers and Fragonards were so pretty, so decorative, so innocuous in their style that it didn’t occur to me until years later when I studied them in college that they were lesbian love scenes. In these anodyne fetes, young women roiled, breasts and bottoms abounding, gazed into one another's doe eyes, and caressed fulsome cheeks. Though overtly erotic, their style was so decorative and soft that even my religiously conservative grandmother experienced no cognitive dissonance between the racy content and her religious beliefs. I find this tension between style and content, fascinating. The trio of paintings: The Summit of the Gods, Sea Gods, and Modern Marlowe are an exploration of it. I am unaware of any equivalent all male scenes from the Rococo period. This appears to be an inherent bias within the tradition. With this work, I am trying to pry open the tradition and make a space the male figure as decorative--pretty. I say "pretty" instead of "beautiful" because the "beautiful" can be threatening or challenging. "Pretty" is a term we generally apply to unambiguously attractive, comforting, and accepted things: flowers, puppies, babies, etc. I want to know if men can be pretty in the same way those 18th century goddesses are. I think I’ve made a pretty good visual argument for that perception. I'll know I've succeeded if the next generation of grandmas can host their women's bible study group in a living room hung with these paintings.
My grandmother likely bought these prints at about the time John Berger coined the truism: “Men act and women appear.” In one sense, this painting is asking if it is possible for men simply to appear, without a narrative justification. The mythological titles of this trio are intentionally vague enough to let the images reside mostly in a non-narrative context, placing emphasis on its aesthetics, not its story.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Dissidents: Discourse on the Golden Mean
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sea Gods
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
My conservative, Church of Christ grandmother lived in a pristine little mid-century modern house in the middle-of-no-where, Texas. Its trim, Protestant exterior belied a decadent mishmash of sculpted chocolate carpeting, and gold gilt Rococo furnishings inside. Strewn about the living room walls were frothy little reproductions of pearly, 18th century goddesses frolicking amid forests and streams--mocking the clean modern lines of the room. These prints of Bouchers and Fragonards were so pretty, so decorative, so innocuous in their style that it didn’t occur to me until years later when I studied them in college that they were lesbian love scenes. In these anodyne fetes, young women roiled, breasts and bottoms abounding, gazed into one another's doe eyes, and caressed fulsome cheeks. Though overtly erotic, their style was so decorative and soft that even my religiously conservative grandmother experienced no cognitive dissonance between the racy content and her religious beliefs. I find this tension between style and content, fascinating. The trio of paintings: The Summit of the Gods, Sea Gods, and Modern Marlowe are an exploration of it. I am unaware of any equivalent all male scenes from the Rococo period. This appears to be an inherent bias within the tradition. With this work, I am trying to pry open the tradition and make a space the male figure as decorative--pretty. I say "pretty" instead of "beautiful" because the "beautiful" can be threatening or challenging. "Pretty" is a term we generally apply to unambiguously attractive, comforting, and accepted things: flowers, puppies, babies, etc. I want to know if men can be pretty in the same way those 18th century goddesses are. I think I’ve made a pretty good visual argument for that perception. I'll know I've succeeded if the next generation of grandmas can host their women's bible study group in a living room hung with these paintings.
My grandmother likely bought these prints at about the time John Berger coined the truism: “Men act and women appear.” In one sense, this painting is asking if it is possible for men simply to appear, without a narrative justification. The mythological titles of this trio are intentionally vague enough to let the images reside mostly in a non-narrative context, placing emphasis on its aesthetics, not its story.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Oil, Panel
Light as a Leaf
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pair Antique English Queen Anne Mahogany Armchairs with New Leather, Circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique English Queen Anne Mahogany armchairs with new leather, Circa 1890.
Category
19th Century English Queen Anne Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Leather, Mahogany
Cleopatra, Having Reconsidered Suicide, Passes the Basket to Octavian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
This painting reimagines the moment when Cleopatra contemplates suicide after her battlefield loss to Octavian. In this revisionist history, Cleopatra thinks better of suicide, and at the last minute redirects her servants to pass the basket of fruit with the asp on to the triumphant Octavian who sweeps in with his entourage. In this scene, Octavian reaches for an apple, triggering the asp to strike. This, like most of my recent work, reimagines historical, mythological, and literary motifs to destabilize the inherent power structures within those narratives. The style adopted is Rococo, which coincided with the rise of Colonialism. The style therefore relates to the historical narrative of this piece which shows the conquest and colonization of a colonial ruler.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Also Picking Flowers
By Scott Andresen
Located in New Orleans, LA
Andresen’s work focuses on the art of repair; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of materially driven processes the wo...
Category
2010s Abstract Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Silk, Thread, Mixed Media, Acrylic
La loge by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jean-Gabriel Domergue
1889-1962 French
La loge
Signed (bottom right)
Oil on panel
Jean-Gabriel Domergue presents an elegantly seductive woman seated in a l...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Romantic Gifts
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Most Dangerous Game -- Nymphs and Satyrs Edition
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole says of his work…
The Most Dangerous Game: Nymphs and Satyrs Edition, is a conflation of the short story by Richard Connell and the mythological trope of nymphs and satyrs. In, The Most Dangerous Game, two men hunt each other for sport on a tropical island, creating the most epic, most toxically masculine sport hunt possible. In the classical nymph and satyr trope, lusty satyrs chase nubile nymphs through the woods in a game that varies from playful to predatory depending on the artist. In this revision, it is the nymphs that do the chasing, and they have made common cause with the hunters' quarry to fully turn the tables on the hunter/satyrs.
Formally speaking, the painting is an experiment in creating emphasis using color intensity rather than value. The central focal point is distinguished from its surroundings by setting off hot, high intensity colors from a halo of cool pastels.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner. Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen. A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Havana Pantone, Azul Infanta
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Havana Pantone, Azul Infanta
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1/5 with 2 APs
Havana, a city of colors, contrasts, untold stories, oversaturation of spaces and realities, becomes the muse for the creation of a project that insists on be...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pair Antique English Edwardian 5-Light Silver-Plated Candelabra, Circa 1900-1910
By Mappin & Webb
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique English Edwardian Era 5-light silver plated candelabra hallmarked "Mappin & Webb's Prince's Plate London & Sheffield", circa 1900-1910.
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Romantic Gifts
Materials
Silver Plate
Pair Antique French Empire Bronze D' Ore and Crystal Wall Sconces, Circa 1890.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique French Empire bronze d' ore and crystal wall sconces, circa 1890.
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Antique English Mahogany Partner's Desk with Leather Top, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English mahogany partner's desk with leather top, circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Mahogany
Bon Fire Night Circle (13 totally nude men arrayed in a circle in the desert)
Located in New Orleans, LA
13 nude guys form a circle in the desert. This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. The work is signed on the back. A book of the artists work will be published in early Spring
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist Romantic Gifts
Materials
C Print
Roots I (the nude male body becomes part of the terrain - nude texture)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is number 1 from a limited edition of 12. It is signed on the back of the image. A new book on the artist's work will be released this Spring
London-based Photographer and Graphic designer Omer Ga...
Category
2010s Surrealist Romantic Gifts
Materials
C Print
Antique German Black Forest Wall Clock, Circa 1880.
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique German Black Forest Wall Clock with Carved Bird and Florals, Circa 1880.
Category
Late 19th Century German Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Wood
#402
By Tiffany Calvert
Located in New Orleans, LA
As an artist, TIFFANY CALVERT applies contemporary painting techniques to historical imagery. Her recent work uses the seventeenth-century Dutch floral still life as a springboard fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Inkjet
Welcome
Located in New Orleans, LA
AP2 of 3 Editions with 2 AP's.
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Cope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Paper, Ink, Color Pencil
A person drifts by the home
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2/2
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Ink, Color Pencil
Another person walks into an adjacent room to get some peace
Located in New Orleans, LA
Monotype
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Paper, Ink
On Edge
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3/3
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Sh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Paper, Ink
An anticipatory audience
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3/3
Framed dimensions: 30h x 21.50w in
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Ink, Paper
Still water
Located in New Orleans, LA
AP2 of 6 Editions with 2 AP's.
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Cope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper, Ink
High expectations
Located in New Orleans, LA
AP2 of 5 editions with 2 AP's.
Malou da Cunha Bang (b. 1982) graduated with a BFA in 2014 and a MFA in 2016 from The Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She lives and works in Cope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Paper, Ink
Antique English Regency Rosewood Cabinet with Mirror & Galleried Top, circa 1830
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English Regency rosewood cabinet with mirror & galleried top, circa 1830.
Category
Mid-19th Century English Regency Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Rosewood, Mirror
Antique Ruby Glass Decanter with Silver Overlay
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a lovely decanter, rich in color and the silver decoration is also nice. The glass was "pinched" on two sides, so the photographs reflect that. A very handsome piece overall.
Category
Early 20th Century English Romantic Gifts
Materials
Silver
Love me, love me not II
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 3
Our lives are filled with a lot of stories and experiences which we rarely talk about. Life is ultimately about self and each person has a different story to tell. Two people can be in the same place but they have different experiences. My works tell stories from everyday occurrences, dreams and premonitions from past times to recent times and sometimes possible future events. I am inspired by the unuttered thoughts, feelings and expressions of people. My works are usually one colour but I sometimes use other mediums like gouache, ballpoint pens and the likes to further express my thoughts in my works.
I first came across linocut printmaking at my Alma Mata AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA and I loved the monochrome effect despite the detailing it takes to produce each artwork. At the end of the day, if a viewer can reflect on each piece not only for its beauty but feeling a sense of nostalgia I have succeeded in my work .
Nneka Chima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Gifts
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache, Color Pencil
Cephalophore
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mitchell Gaudet is a glass artist who uses the hot cast process to create multiples often assembled in conjunction with vintage found objects and relic...
Category
2010s Romantic Gifts
Materials
Gold, Steel
Antique English Porcelain Tobacco Jar
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English porcelain tobacco jar.
Category
19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Porcelain
Antique French Wall Mirror & Jewel Box with Beveling and Gold-Leaf, circa 1890
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rare antique French carved wall mirror and jewel box with beveling and gold-leaf, circa 1890.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Do You Know a Space Cadet?
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: painted aluminum, homasote, rubber
Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a gay film festival in Seattle, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at University of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit.
Fein is best known for his large-scale installations, including Remember the Upstairs Lounge, an exhibit during Prospect.1 Biennial that threw a spotlight on a little-known chapter of history. The 1973 arson fire at a gay bar in the French Quarter is still the deadliest attack against gay people on record. But here, the artist turns to something on a more intimate level.
Fein says of the “Giant Metal Matchbooks” series…
Why matchbooks? It reflects the artist’s love of pop culture, its vibrancy and also its accidental depth and poignancy. “A common object is a perfect meeting place.” That’s a Claes Oldenburg quote, and it’s still true — the most banal objects, aren’t.
Obviously Oldenburg’s giant sculptures are forerunners, along with a dash of Warhol’s Brillo boxes and a side of “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” The aluminum matchbooks open up, revealing — yes, giant wooden matches, with realistic (rubber) match heads.
Do they light? Not exactly. But they burn.
Skylar Fein was the recipient of a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and his work is in several prominent collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Louisiana State Museum, The Birming-ham Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, curators Dan Cameron and Bill Arning, and collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody, Lance Armstrong...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Romantic Gifts
Materials
Metal
Pair Antique French Belle Époque Gold Bronze & Cut Crystal Sconces, Circa 1870's
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique French Belle Époque Gold Bronze & Patinated Bronze Cut Crystal Sconces, Circa 1870-1880.
Category
Late 19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Pair Estate English Hallmarked Silver Plated Champagne / Wine Coolers Circa 1950
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Estate English Hallmarked Silver Plated Champagne / Wine Coolers, Circa 1950's.
Category
Mid-20th Century English Romantic Gifts
Materials
Silver Plate
Antique English Mahogany with Inlay Serpentine Shaped Credenza, Circa 1865-1875
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique English mahogany with inlay serpentine shaped credenza, circa 1865-1875.
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Glass, Satinwood, Mahogany
Antique 19th Century French Celadon "Pate Sur Pate" Porcelain & Gold Bronze Lamp
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th Century French Celadon "Pate Sur Pate" Porcelain and Gold Bronze table lamp.
Category
Late 19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Bronze
Pair Antique Japanese Bronze Vases, circa 1875-1895
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique Japanese bronze vases, circa 1875-1895.
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Bronze
Antique 19th Century French Green and Gold Painted Porcelain Lamp, Circa 1860
Located in New Orleans, LA
Antique 19th century French Porcelain, Circa 1850-1870.
Hand-painted green and gold with flowers.
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Antique English Victorian Brass Andirons, Circa 1880
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair Antique English Victorian brass Andirons, Circa 1880.
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique Romantic Gifts
Materials
Brass
