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Item Ships From: New Orleans
An Allowance to Try Again
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
A portrait of the Wizard from The Wizard of Oz, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939
Whenever I’ve watched The Wizard of Oz, I’ve always been struck by the same thing – that the actor who play...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Whisper
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Two Torsos
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Constituency
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Parents Devouring Their Children
By Nora See
Located in New Orleans, LA
“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.” A quote oft attributed to various sources that was never actually uttered by any of them. Though Mark Twain elaborated on the sentiment...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diana Contemplating the Sublimity of the Paleo Diet
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a meditation on the curious relationship that has developed between contemporary body goals, the current perception of our “natural diet,” and the impact that diet may have on our environment.
In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to redress past wrongs, re-draw archetypes, and reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century. As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.
Oddly enough, this work is inspired in part by my pre-teen daughters’ growing musical interests which exposed me for the first time to the world of music videos (I had a sheltered childhood as my parents couldn’t afford cable TV). My daughters are primarily interested in pop divas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Light as a Leaf
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Embrace
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic, Spray Paint
Flamingo and Cowboy
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 includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cowboy Looks Left
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Want You Around
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 includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Death of Seneca by Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (1871) and Eaton's Neck, Long Island by John Frederick Kensett (1872)
Painted as a response to the ongoing conversations about race and policing in the United States in 2020, Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief focuses on the problem of the “But what about…” conversations that too often accompany discussions about systemic racism and discrimination. From the nonsensical All Lives Matter crowd to the virtue-signaling of more well-meaning, empathetic groups, people outside of BIPOC communities too frequently seem ready to misdirect valuable attention away from meaningful change toward their own unthreatened subcultures.
Having Missed the Mark with Our Grief presents a mourning white male pulled from The Death of Seneca hovering above the shore of Eaton’s Neck, far from an “X” drawn in the sand. The setting is simple and uncomplicated beyond the target on its shore. However, the forlorn figure draws the spotlight away from the marked terrain toward his dramatic presentation of suffering.
ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007.
After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center.
Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Loyalty
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 includin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Illusion
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
kambili - Let Me Live
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist says of her artwork...
Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Mission Band
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 she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Game (diptych)
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a self-taught Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Did she love him and take her hair down at night
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 New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Crayon, Oil
Two
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Throwing Rocks
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Honey
By Monica Zeringue
Located in New Orleans, LA
MONICA ZERINGUE received her Masters of Fine Arts from the University of New Orleans in 2006 and her BA in 1993. In 1999 she was awarded the Prix de l'Acadamie de Paris, Societe Inte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
#unmadebed
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
A Brush With Justice
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Nicholas Poussin’s The Death of Sapphira, circa 1652
Sooner or later, we get caught lying. For most of us, it’s incredibly early in life, and the falsehood detected is innocuou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Dancing
By Starsky Brines
Located in New Orleans, LA
Starsky Brines’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 f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knockout
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
David and Sweet Ann, study
By Ruth Owens
Located in New Orleans, LA
RUTH OWENS is a figurative painter and video artist whose work mines the intersection of honoring the Black archive and expanding the narrative around personal identity. She was born...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
#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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
A Surmountable Problem Writ Large
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
After: The Young Beggar by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (c. 1645-50) and Approaching Thunder Storm by Martin Johnson Heade (1859)
The main character of this painting finds himself mired in a pond as a sizeable storm approaches, and yet – instead of standing up and removing himself from the trouble – he chooses to focus on the discomfort of his wet clothing.
This child, attending to a minor nuisance rather than enacting a permanent solution, stands in as an icon of our current sociopolitical leadership – leadership which has defined our modern reality by its preference for constantly kicking the can on major issues (climate change, income inequality, various forms of discrimination, and so much more) as the rest of us are left to watch from the shore.
ADAM MYSOCK was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1983 - the son of an elementary school English teacher and a lab technician who specialized in the manufacturing of pigments. On account of a steady stream of folk tales from his mother and his father’s vividly dyed work clothes, he developed an interest in narrative and representative painting from an early age. Mysock earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Art History in 2004 from Tulane University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 2007.
After his studies, Mysock taught at the university level for nearly a decade, including as a Professor of Practice at Tulane University. In 2016, he and his family moved back to Cincinnati, where he currently serves as coordinator for Manifest Drawing Center.
Mysock’s work has been exhibited throughout the country and is in private collections across the US, including the 21c Museum, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ruslan Yusupov, Thomas Coleman and Michael...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Puesta en Escena
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Crayon, Acrylic
Munchian Man
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Darkened Meetings
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Larry Rivers Painting
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Color Pencil, Graphite
Influencer
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Intermission
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
If I paint us (in platinum) II
By Nikki Rosato
Located in New Orleans, LA
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 elicited a strong, visceral rea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Old School
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 she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Elipse 2
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
BW Static 4
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 she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spectator (color) 1
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 she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Spectator (color) 2
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 she studied at the Lacoste Residency in Provence, France, after which she completed a month-long residency at the Vermont Studio Center. After moving to Nashville, Brown was part of the Ground Floor Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
OF-Head19
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head8
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Elipse 1
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent in Dallas. After relocating to Tempe, his work experienced a significant shift from photo-based paintings of retail interiors to fantastical figurative inventions based on pop culture imagery he has encountered via his two daughters’ taste in music videos, and his proximity to Southern California and it’s particular brand of Disney-esque hedonism. Mr. Tole’s career includes shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Miami. His work has been reviewed in Art Forum International...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
OF-Head10
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Foot2
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
OF-Head17
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Happy Cows, Equine Ghosts
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
JENNY DAY is a painter who lives 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 Alaska Fa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Our Legacy of Engagement
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: “La Lutte” by Émile Friant, 1889
Framed: 10h x 8.50w in
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been particularly struck by the staggering number of unintende...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
OF-Head21
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
LOOKING AT STRANGERS TO FIND MYSELF
Over the past year—while searching for my next project—I’ve spent at least one day a week painting observationally from a live model as a way to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Study of Lions
Located in New Orleans, LA
Michael Tole is a figurative painter currently living in Tempe, AZ with his wife and daughters. A Texas native, most of his 20 year long career was spent in Dallas. After relocating to Tempe, his work experienced a significant shift from photo-based paintings of retail interiors to fantastical figurative inventions based on pop culture imagery he has encountered via his two daughters’ taste in music videos, and his proximity to Southern California and it’s particular brand of Disney-esque hedonism. Mr. Tole’s career includes shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Miami. His work has been reviewed in Art Forum International...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Kicking and Screaming
By Chris Barnard
Located in New Orleans, LA
Based on one of the painting galleries at the Met, but with a fictionalized sculpture, the form of which is based on an iconic photo by Will Counts, capturing a white segregationist kicking Alex Wilson, a black journalist, in the head on Sep. 23, 1957. Alex Wilson was in Little Rock, AR, as the 'Little Rock Nine' attempted to enter the segregated public schools.
[b. 1977 – New York, NY ::: lives & works – New Haven, CT]
CHRIS BARNARD received his BA from Yale and his MFA from The University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. Having previously held faculty positions at Denison University, Indiana University, and USC, Barnard is currently associate professor of art at Connecticut College in New London.
Barnard’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and New Haven, among other locations, and can be found in public and private collections nationally and internationally. His work is represented by Fred Giampietro Gallery in New Haven, where he and his partner live.
artist statement
In my work I focus on white supremacy’s relationship to the privileged spaces of my experiences, such as private art and educational institutions. Amidst widening gaps in wealth and opportunity, discussions about race, power, justice and representation—across visual culture broadly—seem more relevant than ever.
In many of my compositions, which reference real sites, I have inserted fictional elements to raise questions about the allegiances and priorities of these institutions, as well as people—including myself—who have benefitted from, or continue to support them. The resulting works are representational, but through gestural passages and color and surface manipulation, I aim to suggest instability, corrosion and decay. In the end, I strive to make engaging paintings that suggest dissonance and ambivalence, that entice and challenge viewers, just as painting them does for me.
These paintings are rooted in my contemplating Whiteness and emerge from wrestling with the politics of painting—the connections and gaps between painting and lived experience. They also reflect: a love of paint, the act of painting, and the power of the painted image; a regard for practitioners past and present, as well as those for whom practice has not been possible; and an admission of painting’s complicity with hegemonic power. As always, my process remains driven by questions. In this case, questions like: What role does painting play in the face of concrete social crises? How can my paintings respectfully incorporate¬—rather than exploit—relevant and thought-provoking content and imagery? What does it mean to think about racism, dehumanization, injustice, etc., and then to paint such pictures, and in particular as a straight, White man?
These questions and this body of work owe much to the work of others, and most acutely to four scholars’ books in particular: The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter; Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder; The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander; and White Rage, by Carol Anderson...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Nasty Woman
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
No Title
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Unfortunate Series of Distractions
By Joseph Barron
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Barron graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago with a BFA and MFA. Shortly after graduating, Barron was awarded a Pollock-Krasner foundation Grant that allowed him to crea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Night
By Akihiko Sugiura
Located in New Orleans, LA
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Real and Imagined
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
after: Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), Akseli Gallen-Kallela’s Building (1903), and #17 Beast and the Beauty from Wally Wood’s, Bob Powell’s, and Norm Saunders’ Mars Attacks trading cards...
Category
2010s Contemporary New Orleans - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
#bouquetofflowers
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 - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
