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Automatic (yellow, crimson, olive)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media
Automatic (white, green, blue, yellow)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Automatic (blue, orange, white)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (pthalo green and beige)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (magenta and orange)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Automatic (red, gold, white)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (hanging)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media
Untitled (Umbers)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Oil Crayon
Untitled (mama study) II
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Gesso, Paper, Oil Crayon, Ink, Mixed Media
Untitled (Georgia V)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
Untitled (Georgia IV)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Ink
Untitled (mama study) III
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her native and ancestral roots in New Orleans, LA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor
Dead End Nostalgia
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Maybe a Little Threat
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Foundational Void
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Trees Press Play
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Toppling Pile of Hope
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Gold Leaf
Trailer Park
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
The election of Donald Trump placed a spotlight on lower-class white families. This work lampoons the stereotypes we often have of those families. The piece is intentionally whimsical. The point is that until we see beyond superficial (and misleading) stereotypes, we have little hope of making any progress toward solving issues related to this, or any, class of individuals.
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Kat Flyn is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently out of San Diego. She began her career as a costume designer in Southern California. Over the years she amassed a trove of artifacts and collectables, which she began using to create assemblage art in the 1990's. In 2000 she sold her business and moved to Cuyamaca, a remote community in the mountains outside of San Diego to devote herself exclusively to her artwork. In 2003 her work was interrupted when the Cedar Fire swept through San Diego county and destroyed the forest, her home & studio along with almost all of her collections and works of art. Following the fire she relocated to San Francisco, where she spent a decade concentrating on her art in her studio in SOMA and exhibiting at galleries in the Bay Area. In 2015 she returned to San Diego and now works out of her studio in La Jolla, exhibiting there and in Los Angeles.
Kat Flyn refers to herself as an Assemblage Sculptor and her works as Political Art or Protest Art. She separates herself from other assemblage artists in that she only employs “saved” as opposed to “found” objects in her work; and her pieces always have a political or cultural narrative to them rather than being surreal or abstract. She also constructs or refashions many of the pieces which she uses in her art – a soft drink box into a tenement building (Affordable Housing 2017), a jewelry box into a wheelchair (Last Lily Foot 2016), an old shoe shine box into a hearse (Katrina 2018). The result is her work is closer in appearance to Folk Art than Assemblage Art.
STATEMENT:
Strictly speaking I am an assemblage artist, but in fact I construct more than assemble my works. I search out collectables, artifacts and woodcarvings and then build scenes to make statements regarding American society. Even when using artifacts from earlier centuries, my theme is almost always about contemporary America. Social injustice, racism, sexism, and violence - aspects of our national psyche – exist in the present but have their seeds planted in our past. Additionally, the artifacts I use often are meant to amplify the meaning of the work. For instance, the Black stereotype wood figures I use in many of my pieces were almost certainly crafted by a White person. By using such artifacts I ask: what kind of society produces such items in the first place?
In my art I make a strict distinction between found objects and saved objects.. A found object - which most assemblage artists use in their works - is devoid of intrinsic or emotional value, having been discarded by its owner as worthless or broken. A saved object on the other hand has retained value, either because it was intrinsically valuable or because emotional value had been added to it (such as a photograph, an old shoe, a vintage toy) and consequently it was saved rather than discarded. The fact that I only use “saved objects” often results in viewers being attracted to the individual pieces within my works rather than seeing the narrative I am attempting to portray.
The pieces on display in this exhibit are from my American Home Series. I have assembled an array of old artifacts, carved figures, and iconic symbols, each spotlighting an aspect of living conditions within our borders; and as is consistent with my art, focus is placed on failings in our social contract – overcrowded tenements, trailer parks...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Oxalyl
By John Adelman
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Adelman was born in a small town in northwest Ohio in 1969. In 1992, he earned a BFA in painting, drawing and printmaking from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Upon graduating, he worked first for CM/SNP Printing, a local newspaper print shop, and then for Airwaves Inc. a t-shirt design silk screen-printing manufacturer for ten years, in which, it is estimated he produced over 12 million images during his tenure. In 2006, John earned his MFA from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. After moving to Houston, he worked with galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marfa Texas and Bradbury Gallery at Arkansas State University. John currently has representation by two galleries in Houston and Los Angeles. Adelman has been a finalist for the Hunting Art Prize, awarded by Hunting PLC, 3 times (in 2009, 2012, and 2014).
STATEMENT:
My work of drawing on canvas is an exploration of process, rules-based art. This procedure is comprised of a formula of specific actions based upon a variable circumstance and can be rooted in computer based algorithmic if, then statements. These procedural mandates are instituted from the beginning of a work and continue through its completion. The formula can dictate, structure, color, composition, scale and interior or exterior values. The formula not only controls my actions as the artist but likes organizes either the component parts of a (dismantled) object or the component parts of a single used dictionary. When the dictionary is put into play, I transcribe definitions from the 1979 Unabridged Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary. I create dense, layered images of handwriting or convert letters of the definition into their numeric counterpart and proceed through the formula with the use of that number as a means a moving through the whole of the image. Primarily, the most used component is nails, an extension of the dismantled object, traced and sometimes labeled. Other works have included individual stitches from an entire embroidery, every part of a motorcycle, electric organ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
America Fuck Yeah
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Ala...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Glitter, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic
House in the Ravine and
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, crayon, collage, glitter on canvas
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic, Pencil
End
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, crayon and glitter on canvas
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day, enti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic, Pencil
100
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, crayon and glitter on canvas.
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day, ent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic, Pencil
1:50 / 3:05
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, glitter and crayon on canvas.
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day, ent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic
The Pedicure
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
BIO:
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Number Please...
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
BIO:
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Radius
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: found aluminum cans, wire, Flashe paint
Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery).
Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterflies v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Empathy
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: found aluminum cans, copper leaf, wire
Ships with installation template and loaner tool kit.
Installation can be arranged with JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
PAUL VILLINSKI has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Metal, Wire
my wife needs a girlfriend - mw4w - 24 (philly)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design in 2005, and his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Although he now lives outside of the Queen City, his work continues to be shaped by his Midwestern roots. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America and Europe, including the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Florida, Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as, PULSE Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair and Art on Paper NYC. Sturgill currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The artist discusses the new body of work . . .
My grandmother was a quilt maker. Born in 1915 in Appalachia, her quilts weren’t made from anything that you would find at a Joann Fabric store. She took objects that had an existing function and gave them a new life. I grew up sleeping under a patchwork of her faded housedresses and my grandfather’s work-worn button-down shirts. Where others saw scraps of tattered fabric that had reached the end of their lifespan, my grandmother saw Ohio stars, Maltese crosses and other quilting patterns.
Tradition dictates an assumption of purpose, a prescribed path for everything that must be followed. Everything from work shirts to paint chip samples to wedding dresses have an agreed upon life arch. But an intervention, such as my grandmother’s, can give something a new purpose. A work shirt becomes a quilt, a paint chip sample becomes a mosaic, and a wedding dress becomes a bouquet of roses. The essence of the former purpose remains even as new characteristics are created, giving the objects a dual citizenship between what they were and what they have become.
Until recently the tradition of marriage had a prescribed path as well. One man and one woman joined together in a life-long monogamous union resulting in children, and until astonishingly recently, they needed to be of the same race and religion and from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Many people believe that wedding traditions have been static for millennia, but like everything else it’s in a state of glacial evolution, punctuated by dramatic interventions that create revolutionary change. In our time of titanic shifts in the definition of marriage, many elements are being added, blending ancient and contemporary traditions to create something new.
My latest series of work, titled Something Old/Something New, examines the shifting notions of marriage by repurposing longstanding traditions into something more fitting for our current time. Secondhand wedding clothes are given a fresh start as roses, dahlias, and clematises. Paint chip samples are cut apart and spliced back together to spell out a couple’s longing for a non-conventional household. The French traditional of globe de mariée...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Panel
Polly-romantic for long term/permanent - mw4w (denver)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design in 2005, and his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Although he now lives outside of the Queen City, his work continues to be shaped by his Midwestern roots. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America and Europe, including the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Florida, Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as, PULSE Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair and Art on Paper NYC. Sturgill currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The artist discusses the new body of work . . .
My grandmother was a quilt maker. Born in 1915 in Appalachia, her quilts weren’t made from anything that you would find at a Joann Fabric store. She took objects that had an existing function and gave them a new life. I grew up sleeping under a patchwork of her faded housedresses and my grandfather’s work-worn button-down shirts. Where others saw scraps of tattered fabric that had reached the end of their lifespan, my grandmother saw Ohio stars, Maltese crosses and other quilting patterns.
Tradition dictates an assumption of purpose, a prescribed path for everything that must be followed. Everything from work shirts to paint chip samples to wedding dresses have an agreed upon life arch. But an intervention, such as my grandmother’s, can give something a new purpose. A work shirt becomes a quilt, a paint chip sample becomes a mosaic, and a wedding dress becomes a bouquet of roses. The essence of the former purpose remains even as new characteristics are created, giving the objects a dual citizenship between what they were and what they have become.
Until recently the tradition of marriage had a prescribed path as well. One man and one woman joined together in a life-long monogamous union resulting in children, and until astonishingly recently, they needed to be of the same race and religion and from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Many people believe that wedding traditions have been static for millennia, but like everything else it’s in a state of glacial evolution, punctuated by dramatic interventions that create revolutionary change. In our time of titanic shifts in the definition of marriage, many elements are being added, blending ancient and contemporary traditions to create something new.
My latest series of work, titled Something Old/Something New, examines the shifting notions of marriage by repurposing longstanding traditions into something more fitting for our current time. Secondhand wedding clothes are given a fresh start as roses, dahlias, and clematises. Paint chip samples are cut apart and spliced back together to spell out a couple’s longing for a non-conventional household. The French traditional of globe de mariée...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Globe de Mariée - Nosegay Bouquet
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: vintage glass dome and wedding dresses, Antique French wedding vase, Ralph Lauren shirts, ribbon, floral tape
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design in 2005, and his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Although he now lives outside of the Queen City, his work continues to be shaped by his Midwestern roots. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America and Europe, including the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Florida, Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as, PULSE Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair and Art on Paper NYC. Sturgill currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The artist discusses the new body of work . . .
My grandmother was a quilt maker. Born in 1915 in Appalachia, her quilts weren’t made from anything that you would find at a Joann Fabric store. She took objects that had an existing function and gave them a new life. I grew up sleeping under a patchwork of her faded housedresses and my grandfather’s work-worn button-down shirts. Where others saw scraps of tattered fabric that had reached the end of their lifespan, my grandmother saw Ohio stars, Maltese crosses and other quilting patterns.
Tradition dictates an assumption of purpose, a prescribed path for everything that must be followed. Everything from work shirts to paint chip samples to wedding dresses have an agreed upon life arch. But an intervention, such as my grandmother’s, can give something a new purpose. A work shirt becomes a quilt, a paint chip sample becomes a mosaic, and a wedding dress becomes a bouquet of roses. The essence of the former purpose remains even as new characteristics are created, giving the objects a dual citizenship between what they were and what they have become.
Until recently the tradition of marriage had a prescribed path as well. One man and one woman joined together in a life-long monogamous union resulting in children, and until astonishingly recently, they needed to be of the same race and religion and from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Many people believe that wedding traditions have been static for millennia, but like everything else it’s in a state of glacial evolution, punctuated by dramatic interventions that create revolutionary change. In our time of titanic shifts in the definition of marriage, many elements are being added, blending ancient and contemporary traditions to create something new.
My latest series of work, titled Something Old/Something New, examines the shifting notions of marriage by repurposing longstanding traditions into something more fitting for our current time. Secondhand wedding clothes are given a fresh start as roses, dahlias, and clematises. Paint chip samples are cut apart and spliced back together to spell out a couple’s longing for a non-conventional household. The French traditional of globe de mariée...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Globe de Mariée - Mixed Set
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: vintage glass dome, wedding dresses and fabric, Ralph Lauren shirts, barge wood, silver wire, ribbon, floral tape, crystals and faux pearls
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design in 2005, and his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Although he now lives outside of the Queen City, his work continues to be shaped by his Midwestern roots. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America and Europe, including the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Florida, Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as, PULSE Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair and Art on Paper NYC. Sturgill currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The artist discusses the new body of work . . .
My grandmother was a quilt maker. Born in 1915 in Appalachia, her quilts weren’t made from anything that you would find at a Joann Fabric store. She took objects that had an existing function and gave them a new life. I grew up sleeping under a patchwork of her faded housedresses and my grandfather’s work-worn button-down shirts. Where others saw scraps of tattered fabric that had reached the end of their lifespan, my grandmother saw Ohio stars, Maltese crosses and other quilting patterns.
Tradition dictates an assumption of purpose, a prescribed path for everything that must be followed. Everything from work shirts to paint chip samples to wedding dresses have an agreed upon life arch. But an intervention, such as my grandmother’s, can give something a new purpose. A work shirt becomes a quilt, a paint chip sample becomes a mosaic, and a wedding dress becomes a bouquet of roses. The essence of the former purpose remains even as new characteristics are created, giving the objects a dual citizenship between what they were and what they have become.
Until recently the tradition of marriage had a prescribed path as well. One man and one woman joined together in a life-long monogamous union resulting in children, and until astonishingly recently, they needed to be of the same race and religion and from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Many people believe that wedding traditions have been static for millennia, but like everything else it’s in a state of glacial evolution, punctuated by dramatic interventions that create revolutionary change. In our time of titanic shifts in the definition of marriage, many elements are being added, blending ancient and contemporary traditions to create something new.
My latest series of work, titled Something Old/Something New, examines the shifting notions of marriage by repurposing longstanding traditions into something more fitting for our current time. Secondhand wedding clothes are given a fresh start as roses, dahlias, and clematises. Paint chip samples are cut apart and spliced back together to spell out a couple’s longing for a non-conventional household. The French traditional of globe de mariée...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Globe de Mariée - Double Bouquet
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: vintage glass dome, wedding dresses and fabric, silver wire, mirrors, ribbon, floral tape, crystals and pearls
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design in 2005, and his BA from the University of Cincinnati in 2002. Although he now lives outside of the Queen City, his work continues to be shaped by his Midwestern roots. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in North America and Europe, including the Cornell Museum of Art in Delray Beach, Florida, Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York City, as well as, PULSE Miami Beach Contemporary Art Fair and Art on Paper NYC. Sturgill currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The artist discusses the new body of work . . .
My grandmother was a quilt maker. Born in 1915 in Appalachia, her quilts weren’t made from anything that you would find at a Joann Fabric store. She took objects that had an existing function and gave them a new life. I grew up sleeping under a patchwork of her faded housedresses and my grandfather’s work-worn button-down shirts. Where others saw scraps of tattered fabric that had reached the end of their lifespan, my grandmother saw Ohio stars, Maltese crosses and other quilting patterns.
Tradition dictates an assumption of purpose, a prescribed path for everything that must be followed. Everything from work shirts to paint chip samples to wedding dresses have an agreed upon life arch. But an intervention, such as my grandmother’s, can give something a new purpose. A work shirt becomes a quilt, a paint chip sample becomes a mosaic, and a wedding dress becomes a bouquet of roses. The essence of the former purpose remains even as new characteristics are created, giving the objects a dual citizenship between what they were and what they have become.
Until recently the tradition of marriage had a prescribed path as well. One man and one woman joined together in a life-long monogamous union resulting in children, and until astonishingly recently, they needed to be of the same race and religion and from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Many people believe that wedding traditions have been static for millennia, but like everything else it’s in a state of glacial evolution, punctuated by dramatic interventions that create revolutionary change. In our time of titanic shifts in the definition of marriage, many elements are being added, blending ancient and contemporary traditions to create something new.
My latest series of work, titled Something Old/Something New, examines the shifting notions of marriage by repurposing longstanding traditions into something more fitting for our current time. Secondhand wedding clothes are given a fresh start as roses, dahlias, and clematises. Paint chip samples are cut apart and spliced back together to spell out a couple’s longing for a non-conventional household. The French traditional of globe de mariée...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Tuxedo Clematis (Clematis tuxedis)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: secondhand tuxedos, tuxedo shirts, and Ralph Lauren shirts, faux pearls, wood, wire, PVC tubing, Duck Tape, floral tape
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981]
BIO
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil
Santa Rosa, aftermath
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981]
BIO
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil
Fin
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981]
BIO
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Spray Paint, Acrylic
7:15 es
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981]
BIO
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Pencil
Screening
By Nurhan Gokturk
Located in New Orleans, LA
NURHAN GOKTURK is an artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Gokturk immigrated to New York City at the age of three. Raised in Queens and Brooklyn and educated in the p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Resin, Acrylic, Polymer
Portraiture Salon
By Nurhan Gokturk
Located in New Orleans, LA
NURHAN GOKTURK is an artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Gokturk immigrated to New York City at the age of three. Raised in Queens and Brooklyn and educated in the p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Recreation Salon
By Nurhan Gokturk
Located in New Orleans, LA
NURHAN GOKTURK is an artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Gokturk immigrated to New York City at the age of three. Raised in Queens and Brooklyn and educated in the p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Overview Salon
By Nurhan Gokturk
Located in New Orleans, LA
NURHAN GOKTURK is an artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Gokturk immigrated to New York City at the age of three. Raised in Queens and Brooklyn and educated in the p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Drawings and Waterco...
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
The Jazz Age
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Watchmen
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Three Sisters
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
The Kitchen Book
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Steamin'
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Sinbad
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
New Century Dictionary pockmark - zymurgy
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Little Red
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
National Air and Space Museum
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
2010s Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Islands
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Heads and Tales
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
BIO :
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator. For over three decades he has...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Aristotle
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
materials: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and edu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Varnish
Untitled (Object) VIII
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: hand-cut road map
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary More Art
Decorative Borders
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink drawing and thread on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing sim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Info-Red Infra-Structure
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Lithotomy
By Laura Tanner Graham
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: ink on hand-cut mylar
Laura Tanner Graham's drawings and installations are often discussed as part of the Southern Gothic literary tradition, sharing similar themes with aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mylar, Ink
Untitled (Object) IX
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: hand-cut road map
The artist says of the inspiration in her latest work . . .
Moving to Washington, DC in 2016 changed me. The unraveling of this country's leadership elic...
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