Anthony Carriere will be represented by Sibley Gallery at the Pool Art Fair at Art Basel Miami.
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THE MAGNIFICENT 7
PRESS RELEASE
WHO: Group exhibition featuring 7 local artists
WHAT: “The Magnificent 7” art exhibition
WHEN: September 5th - October 1st, Opening Reception Sept. 5th at 6PM
WHERE: Galerie Gigi, 627 St. Peter (In the Quarter between Royal and Chartres)
We are thrilled to announce the unveiling of “The Magnificent 7” at
Galerie Gigi. The much anticipated group show, curated by Terrence
Sanders, features work by artists Blaine Capone, Colin Meneghini,
Anthony Carriere, Tony Nozero, Bruce Davenport, Steve Soltis, and Chad
Moore.
The Magnificent 7 is an important exhibition featuring our top seven
local rising stars of the contemporary art world. This show features a
group of artists with styles and backgrounds as diverse, unique, and
eccentric as the populous of this city.
The 9th ward, homegrown, self-taught talent, Bruce Davenport is best
known for his ink drawings portraying the marching bands from his
youth. Detroit native and proud New orleans transplant, Tony Novero
has switched gears from professional musician to visual artist,
creating an astonishingly deep and prolific body of work in his last
few years in the city. Anthony Carriere, who’s upbringing was seeped
in Southwest Louisiana’s cajun french culture, made his own toys from
found and created objects as a child; this sense of playfulness
coupled with a compulsive need to discover and create informs his
current collage work. The list goes on and on.
“The Magnificent 7 features New Orleans Artists who articulate
figurative relations in their work”, explains curater Terrence
Sanders. “New Orleans has a strong tradition of draftsman who are
rooted inb the practice of drawing and painting. These young draftsman
featured in this exhibition are the not so distant cousins of Dali,
Van Gohh, Basquiat, and even Alex Katz.” While the figure is a
powerful tool for the artists, each piece articulates its message
through a diverse range of techniques and processes, from
impressionistic brush strokes, to collage work remeniscent of the
surrealists, to the direct and concise message of graffiti art. “New
Orleans is fast growing into a Contemporary Art hub” explains Sanders,
“but will never in my opinion lose it’s influence on new painters that
explore the representational aspects of the human figure.”
Join us on September 5th, 6 pm at Galerie Gigi for an opening
reception with the artists. The exhibition runs at Galerie Gigi from
Sept.5th to Oct. 1st, Thursday through Sat 11am to 5pm. For more
information visit www.galeriegigineworleans.com or contact Galerie
Gigi director, Lindsay Viner at (713) 385-7890 or
lindsay.viner@gmail.com.
“The Magnificent Seven”
Opening Reception: Saturday September 5th @ 6-8pm
September 5th through October 1st.
Galerie Gigi is located at 627 St. Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Gallery hours are Thursday - Saturday, 11 AM - 5 PM or by appointment.
Featuring:
Blaine Capone
Anthony Carriere
Bruce Davenport
Chris Dennis
Tony Nozero
Colin Menghini
Chad Moore
I just updated my website with lots of new work. Most of these drawings and paintings were completed in the French Quarter. Much more to come. Enjoy the art and let me know what you think.
September 11, 2008
7 years later: a poem by search
Americans are high.
Americans are violent.
Americans are peaceful.
Americans are quiet.
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Americans are fearless.
Americans are queer.
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Americans are crazy.
Americans are living.
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Americans are feeling.
Americans are cynical.
Americans are underinsured.
Americans are beloved.
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Americans are suffering.
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Americans are destroying.
Americans are poor.
Americans are skeptical.
Americans are stupid.
Americans are generous.
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Americans are driving.
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Americans are elderly.
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Americans are religious.
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Americans are drinking.
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Americans are schizophrenic.
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Americans are losing.
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Americans are sleeping.
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Americans are compassionate.
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Americans are breathing.
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Americans are ignorant.
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Americans are burdened.
Americans are happiest.
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Americans are non-believers.
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Americans are poor.
Americans are children.
Americans are heavier.
Americans are rising.
Americans are realistic.
Americans are concerned.
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Americans are married.
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Americans are bored.
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Americans are optimistic.
Americans are rude.
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Americans are needy.
Americans are underdogs.
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Americans are lambasted.
Americans are bowling.
Americans are tolerant.
Americans are practical.
Americans are slaves.
Americans are accused.
Americans are unaware.
Americans are interested.
Americans are favored.
Americans are bound.
Americans are looking.
Americans are sweeping.
Americans are addicted.
Americans are taxing.
Americans are bold.
Americans are free.
Americans are bitter.
Americans are down.
Americans are protesting.
Americans are arresting.
Americans are uncertain.
Americans are simple.
Americans are racists.
Americans are kicking.
Americans are searching.
Americans are Englishmen.
Americans are disproportionate.
Americans are waiting.
Americans are decent.
Americans are whiners.
Americans are immigrants.
Americans are amused.
Americans are soft.
Americans are back.
Americans are unique.
Americans are rich.
Americans are Hispanic.
Americans are soldiers.
Migration / Part 01 / London / By Hellovon from Hellovon on Vimeo.
So if I have to evacuate New Orleans for Hurricane Gustav, you will see me walking North carrying this case.
Yokohama by Anders Weberg and Robert Willim
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ELSEWHERENESS:YOKOHAMA
http://www.elsewhereness.com
Video:Anders Weberg
Sound:Robert Willim
This
audio-visual work is intended to evoke imaginary geographies. The film
is made solely from Yokohama-related audio and video found on the web.
This material has been manipulated and composed into a suggestive
imaginary journey through an estranged landscape. The film can be
downloaded into a media player or mobile phone and enjoyed when walking
around the surroundings of Yokohama.
The work deals with
questions of media representations and site specificity. It calls forth
the sometimes whirling experiences of elsewhereness that may
characterize societies of today.
Founded in 2003 by artist and curator Todd Brooks, Pendu Org Arts & Actions is a curatorial project based in Brooklyn, NY. Pendu Org functions as an underground hub documenting cultural and artistic actions that share a commonality of expressive, frenetic, or ad hoc approaches to making art.
12 Questions by Pendu Gallery.
1.) Q: When did you first start making artwork? Is there a particular artist or group of artists that really sparked your interest in making art?
I have been making art since childhood. But, at eighteen art became an integral part of my daily life after my father‘s sudden death in an automobile accident. That event led me to study the effects of trauma on the lives of artists (especially Outsider artists). Understanding these origins and their relationship to my life continues to act as a catalyst for my art making.
2.) Q: Are you self-taught? Do you feel you had to ‘reinvent the wheel’ on your own to get where you are or are there certain people who have helped guide you along the way? Any important books that you found especially insightful for technique?
I have a Masters of Fine Arts in sculpture from Tulane University. Dada, Fluxus, Relational Aesthetics and L’Arte Povera artists have substantial influences on my work.
3.) Q: What keeps you inspired to continue making new work?
A flow of ideas that never stops. I am haunted by my creativity. This seems to be a large part of the reason my work is produced quickly and with readily available materials. The concepts need to be produced in one concrete form or another. Giving the idea a physical form is crucial for my continued exploration into my conscious and unconscious realities. My ability to create art that communicates the experience of being alive keeps me inspired.
4.) Q: What themes do you find yourself most attracted to and returning to in your work?
Religion, Politics, Sex, Utopian and Dystopian Realities, Childhood Memories, Production and Consumption of Energy.
5.) Q: How much of each piece of your artwork would you consider comes from an intuitive or spontaneous sense of creating and how much is analytical and planned out?
This depends on the medium, time, space and concept. Most of my work originates with automatic drawing or writing. Sometimes an idea will remain as concept for years before resurfacing in one way or another as visual art. I also collect wood, paper, fabric, and other debris for producing sculpture objects and installations. These remnants of everyday life are chosen for their visual and conceptual strength. They are often left to the elements for long periods of time, while I consider their use. Photography and video are often more spontaneous processes. Internet art, I consider my entire internet presence NetArt, requires a much more analytical approach.
6.) Q: How important is music to your art? Do you listen to certain music when working? Any particular musicians?
Music is important to a positive work environment. Progressive college radio is always fun. Listening to Radiohead is an almost daily occurrence.
7.) Q: Do you have a favorite cultural critic, philosopher, or psychoanalyst that you enjoy reading/learning from? Has their work directly or indirectly influenced you and if so, in what ways?
In my opinion, Nicolas Bourriaud is the most relevant theorist today. Relational Aesthetics is such a promising idea that it seems to have limitless sociological and cultural potential. As early as 1990, my writings show a clear consideration for the audience’s input into the production of art. I differ from Bourriaud’s model in one important sense. My work approaches art making as a way of life accessible to and alterable by anyone. By ritualizing daily life, we give meaning and significance to the most mundane events. This allows one to elevate profane actions to the level of extraordinary. Life becomes mythological.
8.) Q: What is your favorite young author right now?
Not sure about a favorite, I am enjoying “Snow Garden” by Christopher Rice.
9.) Q: Is there a young visual artist right now whose work particularly has your attention?
Mounir Fatmi would be one of many. Well he’s my age, but he’s young in the sense that his career is developing presently.
10.) Q: Do you make a living as an artist? If not, and you don’t mind sharing, what is your day/night job?
I have never depended on art to pay the bills. Teaching assignments and good old-fashioned labor usually keep the bill collectors at bay.
11.) Q: What are your future plans?
Thankfully, there is some momentum in the local art community. New Orleans is seeing a “rebirth” in cmany ways. My future will be affected by this more than any plan. I will just keep making art with or without an audience.
12.) Q: Any cryptic messages that you would like to send out to the readers?
Art is embedded in our experiences. Artists suggest new relationships between these experiences.
We are all artists.