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Item Ships From: Louisiana
Ode to van Dyck
s Grimaldi
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 13.25 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the his...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Abstract with Blue on Red by Frank Sinatra
By Frank Sinatra
Located in New Orleans, LA
Frank Sinatra
1915-1998 American
Abstract with Blue on Red
Signed and dated "Sinatra '89"(lower right)
Oil on canvas
Easily one of the greatest American pop musicians of the 20th...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
Marschlandschaft (mit drei Hausern) by Emil Nolde
By Emil Nolde
Located in New Orleans, LA
Emil Nolde
1867-1956 German
Marschlandschaft (mit drei Häusern)
Marshland (With Three Houses)
Signed “Nolde” (lower right)
Watercolor on Japan paper
A work of engaging richness and emotion, Marschlandschaft (mit drei Häusern) invites the viewer directly into the heart of the intuitive, poetic world of Emil Nolde. An essential figure in the German avant-garde, Nolde’s highly modern oeuvre stands as an important precursor to the Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century. With its vivid colors and emotional intensity, the present work is exemplary of his output, containing all of the best characteristics of his mature style.
Brilliant, amorphous fields of color suggest the vast, marshy landscape of Nolde’s native Schleswig-Holstein region near the German-Danish border. The artist’s application of paint is powerful and dramatic, conveying with a few brushstrokes the impression of passing storm clouds, allowing light and sky to peek through and illuminate the colors of his landscape. A sense of fluidity and immediacy were of great importance to Nolde. He once said, “I try to avoid all thinking. A vague concept of color and luminosity suffices, and the picture evolves during the act of painting.” The flow and spontaneity of watercolor lent themselves well to Nolde’s creative approach, and he achieved a vibrancy in the medium that is unsurpassed.
Nolde is considered one of the most important exponents of German Expressionism and was one of the most prominent representatives of the avant-garde in Germany. His participation in the seminal group Die Brücke (The Bridge) links him to one of the earliest artists' associations which had a crucial impact on the development of modern art. His interplay of color and form set him apart from his contemporaries, and his work is recognized as a monumental step toward modernism.
However, Nolde’s work was derided in his day by the Nazi regime in Germany, and he was forbidden from painting. Deemed too “decadent,” 33 of his works were displayed in the infamous Entartete Kunst, Degenerate Art Exhibition in Munich in 1937, labeling the artist's works as a “threat” to Germany. The Nazi Party destroyed hundreds of Nolde's works and confiscated over one thousand more — the greatest number of any artist — highlighting the rarity of the present composition.
Throughout his career, Nolde received numerous awards, including the Print Prize of the XXVL Venice Biennale and the Order “Pour le mérite...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Nu allongé avec bracelet by Tamara de Lempicka
By Tamara de Lempicka
Located in New Orleans, LA
Tamara De Lempicka
1898-1980 Polish
Nu allongé avec bracelet
(Nude lying down with bracelet)
Signed “Lempicka”(bottom right)
Pencil on paper
This exquisite pencil on paper by Tam...
Category
20th Century Modern Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
At The Farm
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
Beloved 8
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
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Together
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Ode to Millais
Ophelia
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
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). Their current ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Underwater
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
$1,800
Nostalgia
By Anastasia Pelias
Located in New Orleans, LA
full title: "'Nostalgia is, so to speak, an epidemic in New Orleans' - Harry Pelias, December 1971 (lemon yellow, translucent golden green, natural bohemian earth, manganese cerulean...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Plywood, Oil
Ode to Goya
s Maya
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
10.5 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Inundation
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,500
Abandoned Palazzo
By Pierre Bergian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pierre Bergian expresses his fascination for architecture through his paintings by exploring space and structure, making use of the presence of architectural components. His current ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
End
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: acrylic, flashe, collage, pencil, paint pen, crayon and glitter on canvas
Our gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Tucson-based artist Jenny Day, enti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Crayon, Glitter, Acrylic, Pencil
$4,375
House in Seattle
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Oil
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Wire
In the Evening, 2023
By Douglas Hofmann
Located in Greenwich, CT
In the Evening is an oil on panel painting, 23.5 x 25.5" canvas size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower right, and framed in a custom, black and gold-leaf, closed-corner frame.
Douglas Hofmann...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Les deux soeurs by Federico Zandomeneghi
By Federico Zandomeneghi
Located in New Orleans, LA
Federico Zandomeneghi
1841-1917 Italian
Les deux soeurs
(The two sisters)
Signed and dated "Zandomeneghi 95" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Two sisters enjoy a quiet moment in a rich green landscape in this intimate oil on canvas from Federico Zandomeneghi. An Italian painter by birth who became a fixture in the Parisian Impressionist scene, Zandomeneghi is best remembered for his sentimental and affectionate scenes of women in both domestic and public spheres.
Zandomeneghi’s creative and technical prowess in composition is highlighted in this painting. The artist deftly frames the young pair in the lower register of the canvas, imbuing the work with a remarkably observational feel. The girls pensively gaze off to the right, lost in thought; Zandomeneghi allows the viewer to witness a natural moment of discussion and contemplation shared among the sisters. The soft palette employed by the artist gives the whole scene an atmospheric glow, with dappled rays of sunshine breaking through the lush foliage. Though the girls remain in the shaded areas of the landscape, Zandomeneghi’s skillful application of paint allows a brightness to remain nevertheless.
Federico Zandomeneghi was born in Venice to a long line of neoclassical sculptors. As if created to be an artist, Zandomeneghi began his artistic education early, enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice at just 15 years old before transferring to the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. By 1862, the artist had arrived in Florence, where he became fast acquaintances with several Italian artists dedicated to executing landscape paintings en plein air. Zandomeneghi embraced the spontaneity, seeking to bring unparalleled luminosity to his works.
When Zandomeneghi arrived in Paris in 1874, he found kindred spirits...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Puño Azul/ Blue Fist
By Esperanza Cortes
Located in New Orleans, LA
ESPERANZA CORTÉS is a Colombian born contemporary multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortés has exhibited in the United States in solo and group exhibitions in venues ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Clay, Glass
Solitude
By Guillaume Seignac
Located in New Orleans, LA
French Academic painter Guillaume Seignac was renowned for his masterful treatment of the idealized nude. His languishing female subjects based on Greco-Roman prototypes were and rem...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Science is Not Settled
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Of course, the Science is settled with regards to the connection between tobacco and lung cancer. In response to the impact this had on the tobacco industry, big corporations began v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Castle Complex Government Services Center
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 g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Acrylic
Washed (purple, violet)
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
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Noah
s Slaughterhouse
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: painted wood building refashioned out of an old seed box, constructed old wood toy boat to resemble the Ark, vintage carved & painted an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
Vase with Roses, Honeysuckle, and Pheasant
s Eye
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down, wire, floral tape, metal vase
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
The Potter
Located in New Orleans, LA
Léon Olivié-Bon
1863-1901 French
The Potter
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated "Olivie-Bon 1888" (lower right)
This monumental masterpiece by French artist Léon Olivié-Bon is one of ...
Category
19th Century Academic Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$124,500
Arrangement in Sunflowers, Anemones, and Cornflowers
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down shirts on birch plywood panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
Divided We Stand
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Wood, Mixed Media
Arrangement in Poppies
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down shirts on birch plywood panel
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
#wildbouquet
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
Vase with Roses and Parrot Tulips
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: reclaimed button-down, wire, floral tape, brass vase
Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
#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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
Sugar Rupture
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Enamel
In Memory of Sally Hemmings
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: Victorian blouse, antique mirror, photo, necklace, old frame
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KAT FLYN is a self-taught assemblage artist working presently...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Bride
By Kat Flyn
Located in New Orleans, LA
assemblage sculpture: old wood mantle clock box refashioned to resemble a Morocco Riad mansion, 6 antique painted skittles pins, antique photo with ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media
$2,000
Bronze Reliefs of Minerva and Mars by Émile Pinedo
By Émile Pinedo
Located in New Orleans, LA
Émile Pinedo
1840-1916 French
Bronze Reliefs of Minerva and Mars
Bronze
These exceptional bronze reliefs depicting the Roman deities Minerva and Mars represent the pinnacle of 19...
Category
Late 19th Century Louisiana - Art
Materials
Bronze
Magic (these two figures seated on a beach beneath an active sky evoke emotion)
By Anne Dykmans
Located in New Orleans, LA
An older couple sits on a beach facing the sea as a shooting object streaks through the sky. There is a feeling of connection and contentment conveyed through the imagery. Does the...
Category
1990s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
146
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
[Tucson, AZ / Santa Fe, NM ::: b. 1981]
JENNY DAY (b.1981) is a painter who divides her time between Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned an MFA in Painting and Draw...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
$1,000
Nearly Somewhere 001
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil
A Fool
By Adam Mysock
Located in New Orleans, LA
From Jan Matejko’s Stańczyk, 1862
I’ve heard that in centuries past, the jester – or fool – was often one of the only people able to speak truth to power. Because of their inherent ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$3,500
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$13,125
Untitled by George Terzian
By Georges Terzian
Located in New Orleans, LA
Georges Terzian
1939-2021 French
Untitled
Signed “G.TERZIAN” (upper right); signed, titled and dated “GEORGES TERZIAN MARS 2005” (en verso)
Oil on c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Across the River by Sir David Murray
By Sir David Murray
Located in New Orleans, LA
Sir David Murray, R.A., H.R.S.A., R.S.W., R.I.
1849-1933 • Scottish
Across the River
Signed and dated D. Murray 1907 (lower left)
Signed and inscribed “Across the River/by David M...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ode to Millais
Ophelia
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
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). Their current ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Wading in the Velvet Sea
Located in New Orleans, LA
Melissa Ellis’s work investigates the expressive and sensory possibilities of color through abstract sculptural oil painting. Built through layers of pigment and texture, her paintin...
Category
2010s Abstract Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Here Again
By Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
BONNIE MAYGARDEN is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orleans to fu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Tuxedo Clematis (Clematis tuxedis)
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: secondhand tuxedos, tuxedo shirts, and Ralph Lauren shirts, faux pearls, wood, wire, PVC tubing, Duck Tape, floral tape
CARLTON SCOTT STURGILL received his Masters of Arts (...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Branded Daffodils
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Wire
#mybouquet
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mosaic, House Paint, Wood Panel
La Fonda (magenta, brown pink)
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
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Everything Sinks Eventually
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - 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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media
Automatics (milk
honey)
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
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Wind Brought the Night
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Enamel
Lumen
By Paul Villinski
Located in New Orleans, LA
*Butterfly installations are site specific and are available by commission. Installations are priced per butterfly element, and the price includ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
$25,300
Draining the Swamp
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 Louisiana - Art
Materials
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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Varnish, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Globe de Mariée - Nosegay Bouquet
By Carlton Scott Sturgill
Located in New Orleans, LA
Medium: vintage glass dome and wedding dresses, Antique French wedding vase, Ralph Lauren shirts, ribbon, floral tape
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Message 3a
By Skylar Fein
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: screenprint and encaustic on paper and wood
Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
$11,250
Ultra Light I
By Bonnie Maygarden
Located in New Orleans, LA
Bonnie Maygarden is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University in 2014. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina caused her to take leave of New Orlea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
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