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Item Ships From: New Orleans
Still Life
By Frederick Conway
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frederick Conway (1900-1973) was a painter, educator, and lecturer. From 1929 to 1970, Conway was a member of the faculty of the Washington University Art School. When Max Beckmann was in residence at Washington University, he and Conway became close associates. Conway was one of the first to realize the importance and seriousness of Beckmann's teaching. In 1949, Beckmann painted Conway's portrait. Conway was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts and in Paris at the Academie Julian, the Academy Moderne, and the Academy Grande Chaumiere. He painted murals for the WPA (Works Progress Administration...
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1960s Abstract New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Clio by Studio of Romanelli
Located in New Orleans, LA
Studio of Raffaello Romanelli Early 20th Century Italian Clio Inscribed "Executé sous la Direction du Prof. Romanelli" (on base) Marble Clio, the muse of history from Greek mytho...
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Early 20th Century New Orleans - Art

Materials

Marble

Nearly Somewhere 015
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Le Fondeur De Bronze By Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
By Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
Located in New Orleans, LA
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer 1865-1953 French Le fondeur de bronze Signed "Levy Dhurmer" (lower right) Pastel on paper French painter Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer was one of the leading artists of...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Gutter Homes
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: silkscreen and acrylic on canvas Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art New Orleans - Art

LA Pink Cityscape [Hand Embellished]
By Kristin Moore
Located in New Orleans, LA
Giclee print on archival cold press cotton rag. Every print is uniquely hand embellished by the artist with gold acrylic paint. Edition 4 of 5. In this new series of paintings, Moor...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Giclée

Haunter of Lanes
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Abandoned Vision
By Maggie Evans
Located in New Orleans, LA
[b. 1980 – Denton, TX ::: lives & works – Savannah, GA] MAGGIE EVANS is an artist based in Savannah, Georgia. She currently uses painting, drawing and installation to examine huma...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Greening World #9
By Margaret Evangeline
Located in New Orleans, LA
MARGARET EVANGELINE received her MFA from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in 1978, where she was the first woman to graduate from the program. Margaret studied with Calvin Harlan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rocky Seashore (Landscape Oil Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A dynamic oil-on-panel by New Jersey landscape painter George Holloway. A very convincing depiction of big waves smashing against a rocky shore, with l...
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Mid-20th Century New Orleans - Art

Materials

Oil

Space Station
By Tom Nussbaum
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tom Nussbaum is known for a variety of work including drawings, paper cuts, prints, sculpture, children’s books, animations, functional design objects, and site-specific commissions....
Category

2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art

Materials

Steel

Embodied II
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .   In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink

Ode to Metsys' Moneylenders
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 16 - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs framing is an additional $265. Shot in 2013 in Amsterdam Inspired by Metsys’ Moneylenders, 1514 Photography and acting are kindred spirits in t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Free fall into tiny stars" -- Painting on Canvas, by Jenny Day
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Arizona, a BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a BA in Environmental Studies from the U...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Fleur-de-lis
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: trumpet, aluminum (found cans), stainless steel wire, soot, enamel Paul Villinski has created studio and large-scale artworks for more than three decades. Villinski was born in York, Maine, USA, in 1960, son of an Air Force navigator. He has lived and worked in New York City since 1982. A scenic route through the educational system included stops at Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1984. He lives with his partner, the painter Amy Park, and their son, Lark, in their studios in Long Island City, NY. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions nationally, recently including the solo exhibitions “Paul Villinski: Burst” at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX and “Passage: A Special Installation,” at the Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin. Recent group shows include “Material Transformations” at the Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL; “Re: Collection,” at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; “Making Mends,” at the Bellevue Museum of Arts, Bellevue, WA; and “Prospect .1,” an international Biennial in New Orleans, LA. “Emergency Response Studio,” a FEMA trailer transformed into an off-the-grid mobile artist’s studio, was the subject of a solo exhibition at Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX; the exhibition also travelled to Ballroom Marfa, in Marfa, TX; Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT; and ERS was featured in the New Museum’s “Festival of Ideas for the New City”, in New York, NY. Villinski’s work is widely collected, including major commissioned public works including “SkyCycles,” three full-scale “flying bicycles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon

Taken Aback By My Own Beauty #2
By Adrienne Brown-David
Located in New Orleans, LA
These paintings are images taken directly from life with my daughters. They each represent a fragment of their childhood that is rapidly disappearing. I have chosen to create visual ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Memo (Palladium)
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: aluminum (found cans), wire, white gold leaf Available in multiple color/finish options (inquire with gallery). Installations are made to order, sizes and shapes of butterfl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

Chilli, T-Boz, Left-Eye (TLC)
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on arches paper 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 a...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon

Pair of Royal Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Burgundy
By Pierre Gobert
Located in New Orleans, LA
Follower of Pierre Gobert 18th century French The Duke and Duchess of Burgundy Oil on canvas Refinement and intricacy characterize these royal portra...
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18th Century New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cherry Pom-Pom
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY is proud to announce, Shape-Memory, a solo exhibition of new textile and sculptural artworks by New Orleans-based artist Gina Phillips. Initially born from h...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Wool

"Dark Waters, Glimmer Moon" -- Abstract Painting by Ann Marie Auricchio
Located in New Orleans, LA
ANN MARIE AURICCHIO is a painter and installation artist living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. After receiving her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art where she do...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A Tentative Probe
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Rembrandt van Rijn’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq (The Night Watch), 1642 The search for limits is an ongoing endeavor. Circu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Adieu Gauguin
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
RUTH OWENS graduated in 2018 with an MFA from the University of New Orleans after leaving her medical practice of 25 years. She is represented by the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, and belongs to the artist collective, “The Front,” both in New Orleans. Owens’ work is concerned with contributing to and preserving the black archive, and she uses personal super-8 film references in her painting and video art. Artist residencies include the Joan Mitchell Center, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Studios at MASS MoCA. She is slotted to attend the International Studio and Curatorial Program in NY in 2023. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Ackland Art Museum at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Dale Center for the Study of War and Society, and 21c Museum. The artist says of her work… In the sixties, my father was stationed at a military base in the deep South...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Accumulation
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Portland, OR b. 1971 - Hunstville, Alabama] Dirk Staschke is a full time studio artist who is best known for his exploration of Dutch Vanitas still life themes in the medium of ce...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Ceramic

Blue Moves
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 2/7 TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

1918
Located in New Orleans, LA
Framed Dimensions: 11.25h x 9.25w in Alexander Stolin, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he receiv...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Metal

Embodied III
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pelias expounds on her new works . . .   In this group of oil paintings on canvas, I am inspired and informed by my personal history and collective lived experience, as well as the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Sumi Ink

Playboys (2 American male refugees from the Gatsby era preen on Mexican beach)
By Caroline Durieux
Located in New Orleans, LA
In these beady-eyed playboys, Durieux pokes some fun at the pride and pretensions of the Great Gatsby class. Here are two Americans pretending to be macho on a Mexican beach. Caroline Durieux (American, 1896 – 1989) Printmaker, painter, satirist, innovator, social activist, Caroline Durieux was born in New Orleans and was already making sketches by the age of four. Her formal art training was at Newcomb College (1912-1917) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1918-1920). Carl Zigrosser of the Philadelphia Museum of Art encouraged Durieux to try lithography. While living in Mexico, she learned lithography from Emilio Amero...
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1930s American Modern New Orleans - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Easter rock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Brandon V. Lewis is the product of a single mothers love and dedication and the beneficiary of the hard work and strong convictions of his grandpa...
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21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Study for “L’Acropole”
By Paul Delvaux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Paul Delvaux 1897-1994 Belgian Study for “L’Acropole” Signed and dated "P.Delvaux 1965" (lower right) Watercolor, pen and ink on paper This preliminary drawing for Paul Delvaux’s greatest masterpiece L’Acropole, which resides today in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, features the artist’s most beloved subject — mystical scenes of nude women. A centrally-placed, stoic woman draped in a long green gown stands with her arms outstretched by her sides. She gazes at another idealized woman in the foreground, lying nude on a chaise lounge, while behind her, multitudes of other women in white dresses undertake a long procession towards a distant door. The captivating scene exudes the unique Surrealist style for which the artist has become known. With this skillful rendering of the surreal setting, Delvaux has mastered depicting nude women in a sensual yet non-erotic manner. The artist drew inspiration from a variety of sources, including the futuristic writings of Jules Verne and the mythos of Homer, and blended them with his subconscious themes, which frequently included the nude female form. In combination with the loose concepts of form and perspective found in the 16th-century Mannerist paintings that Delvaux studied in Italy before World War II, his distinctive style served to create memorable dreamscapes without veering into lewdness. Like the very best Surrealist images, the work is both innovative and engaging. Paul Delvaux's earliest and most lasting influences in his art were the futuristic writings of Jules Verne and the mythos of Homer. After completing his initial artistic training at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Delvaux exhibited with Surrealists Dalí...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen

Kirill / Boy with Crossed Legs (peekaboo) - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. A signed Certificate of Authority will be included with all photographs. A nude boy...
Category

2010s Photorealist New Orleans - Art

Materials

Digital, Photographic Paper

J
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on Arches paper 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 a...
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2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon

Vampires
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5 TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Amicable
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 in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture, and nightlife photography...
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21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Paper, Watercolor

Ode to van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 16 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs framing is an additional $420. Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
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2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Joni
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: oil stick on Arches paper 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 a...
Category

2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil Crayon

Untitled (11.M1)
By Leslie Wilkes
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leslie Wilkes’ pieces are an explosion of shape and color. With near perfect symmetry, these works exhibit opaque and smooth surfaces. “Wilkes’ geometric patterns are unique in that ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric New Orleans - Art

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled (Petra #2)
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Green Lamp
By Andrew Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
In highly developed nations today there is a widespread alienation and loneliness that engenders fear and distrust, a restrictive self-righteousness of thought, and a dread of what-c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Brianna
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...
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2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pensive Nude (Oil on Canvas, Celebrated Texas Artist)
By William Anzalone
Located in New Orleans, LA
The first serious painting I bought as a collector, when I was around 30, was by William Anzalone of Texas. I saw it at the venerable Meredith Long Galle...
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Late 20th Century New Orleans - Art

Materials

Oil

Waking
By Nancee Clark
Located in New Orleans, LA
Nancee Clark grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, with its then lush forests, raw beaches, the St. Johns River and the perfumes of the paper mill and the Maxwell House Coffee plant. Following a colorful high school experience, she attended the University of Florida where, studying with her mentor, Hiram Williams, she earned a B.A.A. Degree with Honors and a Master of Fine Arts degree. Her work has been supported by two State of Florida Artist Fellowships; a visiting artist residency at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy; a residency at the Vermont Studio Center; the Blumenthal Foundation residency at Wildacres in Little Switzerland...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Collection of Antique Hand-Carved Japanese Noh Masks
Located in New Orleans, LA
A collection of five hand-made Japanese Noh drama masks, four of them hand-carved wood, and one (the largest, the one that's black and red on one half and w...
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20th Century New Orleans - Art

Materials

Wood, Papier Mâché

Arrival (Urban Landscape Oil Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
This wonderful urban landscape painting showed up in our inventory, but we have lost the name of the artist who created it. At any rate, it depicts a train arriving in the station of...
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2010s American Realist New Orleans - Art

Materials

Oil

L'atelier
By Pierre Bergian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Unframed, original work on paper Belgium based artist, Pierre Bergian, expresses his fascination with architecture through his paintings by exploring space and structure. Old abando...
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2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Oil

Bon Fire Night Circle - In Celebration of Pride Month
Located in New Orleans, LA
1 Stone and Press Gallery is excited to offer several works in celebration of the LGBTQ community. 3 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...
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2010s Surrealist New Orleans - Art

Materials

C Print

A Repetition
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A red-and-green parrot. For a lie to gain real power, it must continue its existence separate from its creator. If it can be repeated by others, retold in a variety of contexts, it ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

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Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel

In the Line of Fire
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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

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Metal

Q5
By Aimée Farnet Siegel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Non-objective artist Aimée Farnet Siegel works with color and line through the medium of hand-painted and manipulated paper. Her works inhabit space outside the two-dimensional plan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Wood Panel

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: "So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran" After: “Basket of Clams” by Winslow Homer (1873) and “Moses Striking the Rock” by Abraham Bloemaert (1596) Framed: 12h x 10.50w in This piece began with two stories about striking a rock to get water – that of Moses from Exodus and that of the S.S. Minnow of Gilligan’s Island...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

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Acrylic, Panel

Harlequin
By Margaret Evangeline
Located in New Orleans, LA
MARGARET EVANGELINE received her MFA from the University of New Orleans (UNO) in 1978, where she was the first woman to graduate from the program. Margaret studied with Calvin Harlan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Astro
By Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. She attended Pratt Institute in New York, where she received her Bachelor's of Fin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Galina's Gull (Jazz Suite)
By Kurt Herrmann
Located in New Orleans, LA
Kurt Herrmann creates both figurative and abstract work, but above all he is a colorist at heart. He intends for his paintings to radiate across the room but to also whisper quietly...
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2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

6
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954] Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film

"Abstract"
By Alexander Liberman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alexander Liberman (Ukrainian/American 1912-19990 Colored lithograph, signed in the lower right and dated '75 in pencil, numbered in the lower left, and presented in a chrome frame. ...
Category

1970s New Orleans - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Historia #3 - Madame Roland
By Tony Dagradi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: hardcover book, acrylic varnish TONY DAGRADI is an internationally recognized jazz performer, artist, composer, author, and educator. For over three decades he has made his ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Paper

Treed
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: fabric, thread, ink, paint, synthetic hair Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Paint, Ink

It's Beastly
By Gina Phillips
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gina Phillips is a mixed media, narrative artist who grew up in Kentucky and has lived in New Orleans since 1995. The imagery, stories and characters of both regions influence her wo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Fabric, Paint, Thread

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...
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2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

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