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Item Ships From: New Orleans
Ode to Titian's Venus of Urbino
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 36 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Laura (Woman's head as seen thru water droplets which in turn are body parts)
By Rollin Leonard
Located in New Orleans, LA
"Laura" first looks like a color abstract. Then very slowly you realize it is an extreme close up of a young woman's face. Only slowly do the water droplets appear with each drople...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
The Monkey, 1942 (Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon, B.339)
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Monkey is an aquatint and drypoint print on chine from one of the deluxe copies of Picasso's 1942 Histoire Naturelle - Textes de Buffon series. The image size is 10.5 x 7.9 inche...
Category
20th Century Modern New Orleans - Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Night 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Wool
Wreath for Antoni Tapies (Framed Mixed Media Abstract Contemporary Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist's Statement: "An elegiac tribute to Antoni Tapies, a profound influence on my work to this day. The darker grey paint over the lighter is actually iron metallic paint, in hon...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Embodied VIII
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
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 New Orleans - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Umbrellascape
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Salvation" -- Assemblage by Kat Flyn
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 New Orleans - Art
Materials
Wood, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Doctor or Patient
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
[ New Orleans, LA :: b.1959, Augsburg, Germany ]
In 1959, Ruth Owens was born to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Oil
Ode to Faith Ringgold's Café des Artistes
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $790.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Tapestry, Archival Pigment
"Moves like Jagger" -- Painting on Canvas by Wencke Uhl
By Wencke Uhl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Wencke Uhl is a contemporary figurative paintress living and working in Germany.
She draws inspiration from human beauty and the female form. As a teenage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Father Dear" -- Oil Painting by Alexander Stolin
Located in New Orleans, LA
ALEXANDER STOLIN, born and raised in Kiev, Ukraine (under the former Soviet Socialist Republic), where he received intensive training and a master of fine arts degree in his homeland’s traditional art academies. He immigrated to San Francisco in 1992, met his future wife in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, then married and settled in New Orleans. He maintains a home and studio in Madisonville, Louisiana, and is a significant but understated figure in the New Orleans art community. As art critic D. Eric Bookhardt suggested in 2002, “Stolin is more accomplished than he is famous.” His art, often exhibited in thematic series that incorporate a variety of media, ranges from intimate portraits to large-scale murals (one measuring twelve feet by seventy-two feet). He has worked on a progressively larger scale, most recently designing and painting projects for the Louisiana film industry. Stolin’s technically proficient and complexly layered art reflects a unique fusion of the academic training he received in Kiev and his evolving response to the very different culture, lifestyle, and subject matter he has discovered in New Orleans, Madisonville, and the Gulf South.
Stolin’s Face to Face series of portraits, completed from 2000 to 2002, featured New Orleans artists including Douglas Bourgeois...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Bullseye Camellia #1
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Taurus: Europa
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Vigorous
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Man with Outstretched Arms
By Maurice Pasternak
Located in New Orleans, LA
Maurice Pasternak has created a portrait of his signature figure with outstretched arms. He moves images around on the paper to create a sense of mystery and drama. This impression ...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist New Orleans - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
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 New Orleans - Art
Materials
Wire
Statue of Young Boy in Fountain on the Plaza
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
This very early original red conte drawing is signed "Jack L. Nesbitt, 4/21/34". On the back of the drawing, Nesbitt has written "Quick sketch from fountain on Plaza". Jack was a student of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute during this period. The figure on the drawing is of a nude young boy with both arms in the air. A very rare early work by this fine artist.
Jackson Lee Nesbitt, a noted printmaker and painter of the American Scene, dedicated his artistic career to the portrayal of ordinary people going about the business of their lives. A native of Oklahoma, Nesbitt created scenes from the Midwest during the 1930s and 1940s, but in the 1950s, when interest in his work diminished, he moved to Atlanta and established a second career in advertising. Thirty years later, Nesbitt sold his business and resumed his artistic career from Atlanta.
He was born in McAlester, Oklahoma, on June 16, 1913, the only child of LuCena Grant and Howard Nesbitt. The family resided in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where his father owned a commercial printing business. Jack, as Nesbitt was known, helped out in the family business until 1931, when he enrolled at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.
Two years later Nesbitt enrolled at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. As a first-year student, he learned etching from John deMartelly, attended Ross Braught's painting class, and met his future wife, Elaine Thompson, who was a costume design student. Thomas Hart Benton, who joined the faculty in the fall of 1935, quickly became a close friend and mentor to the younger artist.
In 1937 the management of the Sheffield Steel Corporation contacted deMartelly concerning an etching commission. Because Nesbitt was an outstanding student, his teacher suggested him for the job. When Nesbitt arrived at the plant one afternoon, he was taken to the open-hearth furnace area, where he diligently sketched anonymous workers in that dramatic setting until five o'clock the following morning. On the strength of his sketches, he was commissioned to create a series of etchings illustrating different phases of the steel industry. The commission launched Nesbitt's career as a professional artist.
The commission with Sheffield Steel Corporation provided the financial security that enabled Jack and Elaine Nesbitt to marry on June 1, 1938. He graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute about the same time. Working as a freelance artist, Nesbitt augmented his commissioned work with genre scenes of the Midwest, and he routinely went with Benton on sketching trips to rural Arkansas.
Beginning in 1939 Nesbitt's work gained widespread recognition. Open Hearth Door, a Sheffield Steel Corporation painting, was chosen to represent Missouri in the American Art Today exhibition at the New York World's Fair. Associated American Artists selected one of his etchings, Watering Place, for an edition of 250 prints that were sold through subscription. Having a print published by the association ensured national distribution, and four more of Nesbitt's works, all of rural southern genre scenes, were later selected by the print publisher.
Over the next decade Nesbitt's work was exhibited in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, New York, and Oklahoma. He was awarded the Eames Prize by the Society of American Etchers in 1946, and his work was included in the book American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century, by Albert Reese. Major corporations with operations in the Midwest, including Brown and Bigelow, Butler Manufacturing Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Omaha Steel Works, Pratt and Whitney...
Category
1930s American Modern New Orleans - Art
Materials
Conté
Gemini: Castor & Pollux
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
"Cake (King Cake)" -- Sculpture 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
Stoneware, Glaze
Embodied XIII
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
"Untitled (Nostalgia Series)" - Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract Painting
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"From a series of paintings I was doing a few years ago evoking age, weathering and nostalgia. I used all kinds of materials to get these effects, including collage, and lots of laye...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Latex, Oil, Acrylic
Los Tres Hermanos/ The Puppet Show
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
nni bu ndu
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA was born and raised between Nigeria and England and received a BSc. in Physiology and Pharmacology from University College London (UCL). She previously worked as the Head of Cor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
"Family Portrait II" (Large Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By Guy Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor
Ode to Rockwell's Freedom of Worship
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Religion, 1943
Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Swim
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Mini Minime" -- Painting on Canvas by Wencke Uhl
By Wencke Uhl
Located in New Orleans, LA
Wencke Uhl is a contemporary figurative paintress living and working in Germany.
She draws inspiration from human beauty and the female form. As a teenage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Gemini: Dioscuri
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Multiverse #13 (Framed Contemporary Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist’s Statement: “These paintings are technically challenging, as they combine wax (encaustic), tar, oil, acrylic, powdered graphite and other media. They are painted on fiber pan...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Lacquer, Charcoal, Wax, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
Sagittarius: Chiron & Achilles
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pastel
Scrawl
By Amanda Brown
Located in New Orleans, LA
Amanda Joy Brown is a visual artist and educator based in Nashville, TN. Brown earned her MFA in the painting program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. During her time there...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
it's freaky friday so... - mw4mw (Atlanta)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in Design ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media
Psyche
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sarah Jacobs is a contemporary maximalist artist. She is represented in NYC by Fremin Gallery, in Pittsburgh by Zynka Gallery, and in Erie by GlassGrowers Gallery. Her work has been ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rosetta #11 (Abstract Contemporary Painting, Framed)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Comes framed and ready to hang.
Artist’s Statement: “I have been working on more formal and restrained paintings lately, and decided to loosen up by revisiting a series I did a few ...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Watercolor, Graphite
"French Quarter Scene" - 20th Century Framed New Orleans Watercolor Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
While his name is not as well-known as certain other classic New Orleans artists, Arnold Turtle is highly regarded and his work is prized by connoisseurs...
Category
1930s Impressionist New Orleans - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Ode to Grant Wood's American Gothic
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-ima...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 x 16 inches - Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by Manet’s Olympia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Still Life with Fruit (Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
(Sorry for the reflections from the varnish.) A beautiful Impressionist still life, channeling Cezanne more than a little, by Bika Tsaava (Republic of Georgia...
Category
2010s Impressionist New Orleans - Art
Materials
Oil
Prediction (Contemporary Multimedia Abstract Painting)
By G. Campbell Lyman
Located in New Orleans, LA
Painted on deep-profile gallery-wrapped canvas, comes ready to hang.
Artist's Statement:
"A new take on an earlier series of paintings I did called "Aggregate," this time with fewe...
Category
2010s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Wood, Paper, Tar, House Paint, Oil, Acrylic
Party Poopers
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/7
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Salvador Murillo "Solitary Figure on a Road" - Framed Antique Landscape Painting
By Salvador Murillo
Located in New Orleans, LA
I actually prefer this painting to the very slightly larger one by Murillo that sold for $11,600 at auction (Hargesheimer & Günther) in 2009. Another couple of paintings sold at auct...
Category
1870s Realist New Orleans - Art
Materials
Oil
Aquarius: Ganymede
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Taurus: Europa & Zeus
Located in New Orleans, LA
Ginger Williams Cook is a painter, published illustrator, and arts educator based in Jackson, MS. Her paintings have been featured in numerous exhibitions, publications, and media. G...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Acrylic
Snow Does (Doe, a deer - a female deer)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
An exclusive publication for Stone and Press Gallery, "Snow Does" was created in an edition of 100. It is FIROS #66 in the catalogue raisonne.
Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after she began engraving mezzotints she was asked by the renowned print dealer Sylvan Cole to exhibit at Associated American Artists Gallery, launching her career as a professional artist/printmaker. With the publication of her book, The Mezzotint: History and Technique, published by Abrams, 1990 and 1996, Carol added author and teacher to her credits. In the ensuing years she has expanded her repertoire of mediums beyond printmaking into other works on paper and painting.
In compositions reflecting an appreciation for antiquated machinery and vintage textiles, Wax creates imagery that, in her own words, “… speaks to an inner life perceived in inanimate objects.” She uses stylization and imagination to reinvent subjects, transforming an ordinary typewriter into a monumental icon...
Category
1990s American Modern New Orleans - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
One of Twelve XII (etchings of one of 12 heads based on monumental sculpture)
By Seyed M. S. Edalatpour
Located in New Orleans, LA
"One of Twelve XII" is an etching, 1995, 4 3/4 x 4 3/4, edition: 24, signed in pencil. The print has an embossed chop in the lower right corner, a capital P in a circle indicating t...
Category
1990s Post-Modern New Orleans - Art
Materials
Etching
Trunk Lines (Interweaved faces, ears and the trunks of elephants form design)
By Carol Wax
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carol Wax describes her circular images as "most often quasi abstract works that refer to ancient islamic designs using the shapes and attributes of animals, in this case the elephan...
Category
1980s American Modern New Orleans - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
#moan
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea College of Art in De...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
The Room
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA (b. 1979) is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational pain...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nude with Bowl" - Historic Signed Ellsworth Woodward Antique Portrait Etching
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this stunning signed etching with its fantastic Art Nouveau look are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Wo...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau New Orleans - Art
Materials
Etching
El Mundo Y Sus Vueltas
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
STARSKY BRINE’s paintings and drawings captivate audiences with their distinctive style and a recurring theme, the search for the nature of humanity. In his bold works, the artist fo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Spray Paint, Acrylic
"Date Night, RoCharlotte" -- Painting on canvas by Ruth Owens
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
RUTH OWENS was born in 1959 to a young German woman and a Black serviceman from Georgia. The nomadic military lifestyle of her childhood was complicated by restrictions to mixed fami...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Taiwan (Pan Am)
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 gay film festival in Seattle, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at University of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit.
In the wreckage of New Orleans, Fein found his new calling as an artist, experimenting with color and composition of the detritus of Katrina. His work soon became known for its pop sensibility as well as its hard-nosed politics. After a few starring roles in group shows, he had his first solo show in May 2008 at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.
In the fall of 2008, his Prospect.1: Biennial installation, "Remember the Upstairs Lounge," shined a spotlight on an overlooked piece of New Orleans history: a fire that swept through a French Quarter bar in 1973, killing everyone inside. The worst fire in New Orleans history has never been solved. His installation walked visitors right through the swinging bar doors, and offered visual riffs on politics and sexuality circa 1973. The piece was praised in Artforum, Art In America, The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, among others. In late 2009, Fein had his first solo museum show, "Youth Manifesto," at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The exhibition was an ode to punk rock as a force for social and cultural upheaval. True to form, the opening reception was shut down by police responding to the look of the unlikely art-going crowd.
In March 2010, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presented Fein's solo installation, “Skylar Fein: Rise of the Youth Front" at VOLTA Art Fair in New York during Armory Week. This installation drew thousands of people and delved into revolutionary politics past and present, a continuing theme in Fein's work. In May 2010,Fein was invited by the New York curatorial project No Longer Empty to recreate his "Remember the Upstairs Lounge" installation in a vacant Chelsea space. The exhibition, once again, drew thousands of visitors and sparked renewed interest in this piece of history. In September 2011, Fein exhibited over eighty new works in his solo exhibition Junk Shot at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans. This exhibition embodied this artist’s turn towards formalism and art historical reference while maintaining Fein’s iconic sensibilities and aesthetic. Fein's solo exhibition "Beckett at War" in September 2012 at C24 Gallery in Chelsea was praised as one of the top ten exhibitions of the year in New York, in The Village Voice. He followed that up with his November 2013 installation of "The Lincoln Bedroom" which received wide media attention. Fein unveiled his “Giant Metal Matchbook” series in his 2014 solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. Since then, the series has been exhibited nationally at art fairs including a solo presentation at VOLTA NY, as well as, Miami Project for Art Basel Miami Beach, Texas Contemporary, artMRKT San Francisco, and the Seattle Art Fair - and has continued to gain momentum in rave reviews and collector acquisitions.
Skylar Fein was the recipient of a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and his work is in several prominent collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Louisiana State Museum, The Birmingham Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, curators Dan Cameron and Bill Arning, and collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody, Lance Armstrong, Lawrence Benenson, Brooke Garber...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Metal
Abstract Orange, Yellow, Pink
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...
Category
1960s Abstract New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
looking closer is better/ besser hingeschaut
By Barbara Kuebel
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 2/5
BARBARA KUEBEL is a Daphne, AL-based artist who uses oil and pencil for her works on paper and on canvas. She was born and raised in Austria and earned two art degrees f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Luna
Located in New Orleans, LA
Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to present Marsh Keepers, a solo exhibition of environmental embroidery by Amélie Guthrie in celebration of the natural w...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Art
Materials
Canvas, Thread
