Mackenzie Thorpe Exhibition
Apr
20
to May 20

Mackenzie Thorpe Exhibition

Mackenzie thorpe


Artist talk & exhibition

Saturday, april 20th 7PM - 9pm

Internationally renowned artist Mackenzie Thorpe was raised in the industrial town of Middlesbrough in the 1950s, where his father worked as a laborer and his mother as an auxiliary nurse. Life for the Thorpe family was no different to that of most of their community – at times a struggle. Mackenzie acknowledges mixed emotions about this period in his life. He remembers the strong feeling of community spirit, the warmth and humor that flourished in the face of adversity, as well as the loneliness and isolation.


Stronger Together

21.5” x 9.25” x 6.25”

Resin


Original Pastels


Prints on Paper

In My Dreams, Giclee, 19.5” x 35.5”

Love for the World, Giclee, 24” x 14.5”


Bronze / stainless steel


detail shots

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Tajah Olson Exhibition       Meet the Artist
Jul
6
2:00 PM14:00

Tajah Olson Exhibition Meet the Artist

Tajah Olson


meet and greet

essence festival weekend

july, saturday 6th

Tajah Olson was born in Lilongwe, the capital of the African country of Malawi. “My artwork is inspired by my memories of home and my maternal grandmother Aswesi: strong, tough, yet kind-hearted,” says Olson. “Most of all, my art celebrates the strength and beauty of tribal African women.”


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Eddy Stevens Exhibition  Art For Art's Sake
Oct
5
7:00 PM19:00

Eddy Stevens Exhibition Art For Art's Sake

Eddy Stevens


art for arts sake

october, saturday 5th

Appreciating the high tradition of corporality and light exemplified by Rembrandt, Titian, Odd Nerdrum, Andrew Wyeth and Lucian Freud, he employs a style that is both modern and timeless. His earlier exhibitions in Holland, Belgium, France and the United States (yes, New Orleans), were rich with color. His new work has evolved toward the monochromatic, using occasional colored details to capture attention, and his painting has reached new levels of clarity and power. Less, in this case, is more.


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Anne Bachelier Exhibition
Nov
23
7:00 PM19:00

Anne Bachelier Exhibition

Anne bachelier


exhibition

november,friday 22nd / saturday 23rd

Bacheliers mastery of art history, captivates her audience with compelling highly imaginative images that are distinct, unique, inventive and immediately recognizable. Her metaphysical, dream-like fantasies evoke feelings simultaneously powerful, peaceful, and protective. This unique “other” world, untouched by time or place, reminds the viewer of the eternal dance of transformation and regeneration.


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Marcin Owczarek New Works
Mar
23
to Apr 21

Marcin Owczarek New Works

Marcin Owczarek


New Work

Marcin Owczarek is sending us 10 limited edition signed works on paper.



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Tony Savoie New Works 2024
Mar
22
to Apr 22

Tony Savoie New Works 2024

Tony Savoie


New Work


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Aaron Reichert Salon
Mar
14
6:30 PM18:30

Aaron Reichert Salon

aaron reichert


Creatives Evolve

Artist Salon

march 14th Thursday 6:30 - 8:30pm

Reichert’s faces and figures are hewn with pallet knife out of passages of black and white. Working without a detailed plan, he paints intuitively, shaping an environment of energy seemingly below the skin of the subject. From a distance, we see a dramatic figure; from close up, we confront a spontaneous orchestration of particles bursting from the canvas. Like many other notable portraitists — Van Gogh, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Richard Avedon — Reichert has created a technique that gets beneath the surface of his subjects and revitalizes the art form.


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Big Chief Shaka Zulu Salon
Feb
15
6:30 PM18:30

Big Chief Shaka Zulu Salon

BIG Chief Shaka Zulu


Creatives Evolve

Artist Salon

Feb 15th Thursday 6:30 - 9:00pm

Shaka Zulu is a master of Black Masking suit design, an art form specific to New Orleans, Louisiana, which originated as part of the Indigenous and African culture in the city. The intricate suit-building of the New Orleans Black Masking carnival tradition usually involves sewing and designing for one full year, and are colorfully displayed during Mardi Gras, St. Joseph’s Night, and Super Sunday in New Orleans. In addition to upholding the Black Masking tradition, Zulu is revered as a drummer and stilt dancer, both part of the city’s West African traditions.


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Raymond Douillet
Dec
1
to Dec 31

Raymond Douillet

Raymond Douillet


graphite drawings 2023

December 1-31, 2023


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Michelle Gagliano
Nov
18
to Dec 11

Michelle Gagliano

Michelle Gagliano


Raphael paintings 2023

November 10 - DECEMBER 11, 2023

Creatives Evolve

NOVEMBER 18

6.00pm

ARTIST SALON


“I am perpetually fascinated by art history; bowing to all those who have come before. Currently, my obsession is Raphael and his working palette and thus, creating work based on the master’s palette. I circle around pigments that he used from ultramarine, lead tin yellow, carmine, vermillion, madder lake, verdi gris, ochres, Brazilian lake, metallic gold, metallic bismuth to more colors from the earth. Exploring Renaissance colors in a way that a musician transposes music, I am choosing to rewrite with the same few notes. A collision of the past and present, directly on the surface, my role as artist becomes director of the actors. Exploring the light reflecting quality of the pigments, they speak of the past transcending time to be re-created on surfaces that echo the Renaissance madonnas, the bright colors on the cathedral ceilings to the transposition of Mother Nature and the awareness of the environment.”

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JACOBO  ROA
Oct
28
to Nov 16

JACOBO ROA

JACOBO  ROA


New Work Releasing

Creatives Evolve

OCTOBER 28

6 pm

ARTIST SALON





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Andy Baird
Oct
5
to Oct 26

Andy Baird

Andy Baird


New Work 2023

October 14 - November 14 , 2023

Creatives Evolve

October 14

6.00 pm

ARTIST SALON


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Tajah Olson                                                                                                                                                   Essence
Jun
30
to Jul 1

Tajah Olson Essence

TAJAH OLSON


ESSENCE

New WORKS 2023

Artist in attendance

July 1 - 2-4 pm


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Clifton Webb - New Work
Jun
1
to Jun 30

Clifton Webb - New Work

Clifton Webb


New WORKS 2023

June 1 - 30, 2023


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Peter Max  Newly Curated Exhibition
May
13
to Jun 17

Peter Max Newly Curated Exhibition

Peter MAX


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RICHARD CURRIER
Apr
1
to May 1

RICHARD CURRIER


RICHARD CURRIER

“I want to go to work every day not really sure how things will start or finish. Although the subjects may be similar, the method changes often and that leads to new results.” The ocean, says Currier, “allows me to be realistic and abstract at the same time. Nothing is more fundamental to life on earth.”


THE OCEAN,

ONE PAINTING AT A TIME


PAINTINGS



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TONY SAVOIE
Feb
15
to Mar 15

TONY SAVOIE

TONY SAVOIE

So far, the ability to dominate and exploit each other

and our planet may be the signature achievement of our species.

I prefer to daydream. A luxury indeed.

T. Savoie


CARTOGRAPHIC MEDITATIONS


ARTIST STATEMENT

Sometimes things seem to make more sense from above. A collection of aerial photos was the starting point for these new pieces.

Some are my own camera phone pictures taken from airplanes.  Some are Google Earth screenshots or historical photos available on-line. Others are ancient ruins, mining operations, housing developments, battle plans, Roman outposts, utopian city plans, bomb debris, shanty towns, oil spills, and weather radar imagery.  What has been disturbed can be transformed. There’s freedom to make notes, change perspectives, or become completely abstract.

It's a hard time for dreamers.  Embracing the chaos of the world and in myself, I'm looking for beauty, and for the light that connects us all.

- T. Savoie


PAINTINGS



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RAYMOND DOUILLET
Jan
18
to Feb 15

RAYMOND DOUILLET

RAYMOND DOUILLET


New Work

The Silent World - Le Mond du Silence , 1986, 77” x 38.5”, oil/canvas


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Marcin Owczarek - In Search of Arcadia
May
19
to Jun 23

Marcin Owczarek - In Search of Arcadia

Let’s Feed Them All 2022

Marcin Owczarek

In Search of Arcadia

The art of Owczarek is dedicated to the relationship between Man, Animals and Nature. He focuses on animal rights, wildlife conservation, climate change and the condition of our fragile Planet. ​

Owczarek is fascinated with the influence of new technologies on human life, particularly within urban space. Focusing on the issues of mechanization and standardization, he tackles them in an antiutopian style. This is reinforced by Owczarek's interest in shamanism, Gnosticism and alchemy. His work is rooted in his interpretation of the content of the ‘Tibetan Book of the Dead’ as well as his studies in cultural anthropology.


Marcin & Katarzyna Owczarek

Collaborative works

NEVER FORGET THE FOREST

Forest is one of the most important symbols present in myths and legends. Mysterious, whispering, full of twilight and shadows, symbolizing wisdom, reflection, meditation, memory, escapism as well as the source of magical power.

Wandering in the forest is a cognitive process, an attempt to reveal the secrets of the world represented by animals and nature. Confrontation with the dark and light forces of the other worlds that surround us and our senses, fears, excitement and joy. Forest is alive, when we go into the forest trying to embrace and tame its secrets with our eyes and senses, we come back with stories repeated by the fire, sometimes in a whisper, not to summon the creatures that inhabit it. -M. Owczarek

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Marlene Rose - New Works
Apr
30
to May 18

Marlene Rose - New Works

Marlene Rose


Marlene Rose


New Works 2022



ABOUT THE ARTIST

Marlene Rose's sculptures in glass are modern works of art that resonate with references and allusions to other cultures and civilizations. Rose is one of those rare artists who has discovered a profound way to connect the past and the present. Her work has an immediacy that transcends time and space. To be in the presence of her work is to feel connected to a continuum that started thousands of years ago on earth and millions of light years ago in the universe.


SCULPTURE



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Big Chief Shaka Zulu- New Orleans’s Black Masking Indians
Apr
13
to May 9

Big Chief Shaka Zulu- New Orleans’s Black Masking Indians

Big Chief Shaka Zulu

Shaka Zulu is Big Chief of the Golden Feather Hunters in New Orleans, Louisiana. Big Chief Shaka serves also as a lecturer on the rich history and culture of the New Orleans Black Masking Indian tradition and his suits are exhibited world wide. Big Chief Shaka’s Suits are a year long process of hand sewn craftsmanship, using the downtown three-dimensional techniques of masking Indian sewing. The mediums used are turkey quills, chalk beads, seed beads, sequin, stones and satin. Most of Big Chief Shaka’s works generally include an abstract theme, a nature theme, or an African theme sometimes all three combined.


AVAILABLE ARTWORK



A golden colored suit, Chief Shaka Zulu sewed for 2022, utilizing the Egyptian theme.


Red and white colored suit, volume II of the ram and axe theme


Seafoam suit utilizing the Egyptian theme


This coral colored suit features the endangered honey bee. A reminder to save this insect for the future of seed pollination


This white suit was crafted to honor the endangered Toucan Bird. Chief Shaka Zulu brings awareness to the extinction of this beautiful species. This suit was sewn with the assistance of the WaMeru and Maasai youth in Tanzania, Africa


DETAIL SHOTS


Videos


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Patterson & Barnes  - Musical Masters
Apr
2
to May 8

Patterson & Barnes - Musical Masters

Patterson & Barnes

Marion Barnes & Gary Patterson


MUSIC MASTERS


Professor Long Hair 19”” x 25.5”, construction on wood


ABOUT THE ARTIST

The paintings capture the powerful and expressive feelings conveyed in the making of jazz and blues.

What makes the paintings even more unique is that each painting is a collaborative effort between Patterson and Barnes. They feel that an individual work is enriched by the infusion of their personal creativity, interests and past experiences.

The two met in the late 80’s while studying in Alabama under Bill Yeager. During this time they painted separately and critiqued one another’s work. They first collaborated in 1990 and soon developed a series of paintings based on jazz and blues musicians. This series was born from their mutual interest in these original American art forms and the emotional power they expressed.


PAINTINGS



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