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Wide World
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: Reader's Digest Wide World Atlas 1960
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TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator.
For over three decades h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Paper
Skyline D
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: New Masters Pictorial Encyclopedia 1957 volumes 1-8 (complete set)
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TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educato...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Paper
Diffusion
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: hardcover book, acrylic varnish; New Masters Pictorial Encyclopedia 1962 volumes 1-8 (complete set)
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TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Paper, Varnish, Acrylic
Batman
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
materials: Greatest Batman Stories 1938-83 (excerpts)
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TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator.
For over three deca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wood, Paper, Mixed Media
Home by Christmas
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In the fall of 1914 soldiers marched off to War singing the popular song, “We'll Be Home by Christmas.” The four years of incredible carnage that ensued should have stood for all tim...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
In Memory of Sally Hemmings
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: Victorian blouse, antique mirror, photo, necklace, old frame
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KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Flashback
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: vintage wood "creeper", framed with deconstructed 1970s frame, vintage flag bell bottoms, vintage Peter Max sneakers, photo transfer of manipulated photo on canvas, old top hat with Zig Zag man and anti-war button, Conscientious Objector book, Volkswagen Repair for Idiots book, old photos, political pins, 1960s pins, metal flower pins...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Magic
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 Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
At Delphi
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 Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Lil' mama
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 Sculptures
Materials
Concrete, Limestone, Metal
Poseidon's Throne
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: tree trunk, horseshoe, oil paint, square nails
ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
New Century Dictionary a-pocket veto
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials: Hardcover book, acrylic varnish
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author and educator.
For over three decades he has made ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic
Branded Hosta (RL Chaps)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials:
Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood
Artist Statement:
Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict between our behavior in our most intimate moments and our desire to appear as ambassadors of a white-picket-fence America. Using materials sourced from the suburban landscape, such as paint chip samples from Home Depot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wire
Branded Bird of Paradise (RL Chaps)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials:
Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood
Artist Statement:
Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict betw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wire
Daffodils
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials:
Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood
Artist Statement:
Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict betw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wire
Branded Daffodils
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials:
Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood
Artist Statement:
Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict betw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wire
Branded Bird of Paradise (Polo)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials:
Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood
Artist Statement:
Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict betw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wire
Branded Hosta (Polo)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Materials:
Ralph Lauren button down shirts, aluminum wire, floral tape, wood
Artist Statement:
Inspired by the bedroom communities of Mid-America, my work examines the conflict between our behavior in our most intimate moments and our desire to appear as ambassadors of a white-picket-fence America. Using materials sourced from the suburban landscape, such as paint chip samples from Home Depot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Wire
Birds of America
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish
[New Orleans, LA ::: b. 1952 - Queens, NY]
TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Trump Memorial
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
A model of the Lincoln Memorial is defaced, suggesting that metaphorically Trump has debased our public discourse with his lies and incessant tweeting. A contrast is drawn between Li...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Child Bride
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Ghost Girl
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
King Cotton
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
King Cotton was a slogan of the Deep South. The stereotyped wood figures on top are jubilant. The photos represent the two opposing sides of the slave economy.
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Kat Flyn is a se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Jubilee
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Birthmark
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
The life simulated here is of a young mixed race woman facing life in a Jim Crow era - an era where one drop of African American blood consigned a person to a second- class existence...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Oath (The)
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Repressed Memories
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: Hand carved wood woman tied to hand carved staff of woman with snake used as handle of old wood toolbox, old rolls of string, twine & rope, hand made wood & gesso articulated man...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Hymnal (The)
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this series, titled Ghost Portraits, an individual, long deceased, is represented through a collection of “saved” items – old photographs, a lock of hai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Butch
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Here's to all the girls who risked disapproval and ridicule from their peers and parents as they shunned dolls and dresses for the toys and lives their brothers had.
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Kat Flyn i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Hail Mary
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
I am paying homage to all those Black single parent moms who work menial jobs, often more than one, so their children can have a better life…Saints.
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Kat Flyn is a self-taught a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Traveling Show
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
The Doll House
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Had Wilson
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a portrait of a Zydeco rub-board (frottoir) player and his homemade instrument with a beer can tambourine, metal shaker, and old used accessories hanging from the rub-board.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Mule Twins
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
The word “Mule” was commonly used to refer to African Male Slaves. This work has many of the components and references that show up in my other works - references to how African Amer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Another Mourning
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
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 ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Street Walker
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Much has been written about women who walk the streets looking for men to pay them for sex. Is this anyone's first career choice? A Victorian corset a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Buckaroo
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This piece, along with its accompanying graphic book, is about the limitations society puts on girls. Just when a girl thinks she has the hang of it, she is introduced to high heels ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Washerwoman's Daughter
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work pays homage to the sacrifices that were made – especially by African-American women working menial labor jobs – so that the next generation could have a chance for a better...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Hard Time
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Mass Incarceration has become a civil rights issue in our country. People of color are dramatically overrepresented in our prison system, mainly due to nonviolent crimes stemming fro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Black Jack
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very simple and straight forward presentation consists of three weapons, a billy club, a truncheon, and a sap, all employed historically by the police, and a statue of an Africa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Dream On
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Love,” to quote the Beatles, “was all you need.” Looking back, the Hippie subculture, included a high dosage of naiveté.
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Kat Flyn is a self-taught assemblage artist working pr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Ladies Room
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
The question of gender assignment has recently received media attention after North Carolina repealed an anti-discrimination law aimed at allowing access to public bathrooms based...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Ammo Box
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: WWI ammo box remade into an ambulance, metal blimp, hand painted Red Cross, inside - Red Cross armband & old photo of soldier and nurse,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
The Wall
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work references “The Wall” that Trump made a central part of his campaign for president and which, at the date of this piece's completion, still looms large in his demands for i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Go Ask Alice
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work references the anti-abortion movement in Texas, as well as many other states, where they have attempted to curtail a woman's Choice to the point that the only realistic cho...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Being Harveyed
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This work is a crude – but of course that is the point – depiction of Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial acts of sexual harassment, assault, and even rape; acts long and shamefully ig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Shooting Gallery
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
This takes dead aim at how being Black in our culture is a very dangerous game. The imagery is of an old arcade shooting gallery. Throughout the 1800s, right up until the 1960s, carnival games...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Last Lily Foot
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Foot binding was a practice that crippled Chinese women for a thousand years and vestiges of it linger in the spiked heel and high heeled fashion popular in the present day. The idea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Lines, lines, lines
By Reid Nicholls
Located in New Orleans, LA
REID NICHOLLS
Lines, lines, lines, 2018
ceramic, glaze, clay pigment, paint, acrylic glass
60h x 32w x 28d in
Reid Nicholls is an American ceramic artist from Ohio, where he st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Paint, Glaze
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
looking for 18-20 yr old now - m4m - 40 (greater cincinnati)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ralph Lauren brand shirts; paint chip sample mosaic on shirt hang tag; vintage jar, wooden box and hardware; leather; wire; floral tape
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Sco...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
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
The Heritage Pointe Spray
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Ralph Lauren shirts, reclaimed bard wood, wire, floral tape
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Ch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
The Fruit Exchange
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: Ralph Lauren brand shirts; vintage pocket bibles, fruit crate, wall brackets and screws; leather belt; glass cloche; wooden base
Born in 1971 in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
The Buttondown
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: paint chip sample mosaics, Ralph Lauren shirt hang tags, wood
Dimensions: consists of twenty-five 2.5 x 2.5 inch mosaics. Installation dimensions variable.
Born in 1971 in C...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
looking for bi couple - mw4mw - 2428 (Houston)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic in gift box, leather, wood, glass, vintage metal display stand and hardware
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media
Self-Portrait
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: powder-coated steel with glass and birdseed
Paul Villinski has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun (Last Judgment)
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Hans Memling's "The Last Judgment" triptych (c. late 1460's), Bambi's mother from Disney's "Bambi" (1942)
acrylic on panel, mounted on a J.P. Sau...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Don't Fuck with the Baldies
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
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 g...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Pills
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: latex on wood
6 parts; 8.75 x 7.75 x 1 inches per unit
Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviole...
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