KATHRYN MARKEL GALLERY - Allison Stewart
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is very pleased to present Natural Wonders III, an
exhibition of new paintings by Allison Stewart.
Equal parts biologist and painter, Allison Stewart is a painter of biological forms.
Her primary inspiration is derived from the bayou surrounding her Louisiana home
and studio; a landscape, which has experienced a great deal in recent history,
from hurricanes to catastrophic oil spills. Stewart is deeply connected to her
surroundings, sensitive to both its flourishes and its vulnerabilities, and all the
states that lay between the two extremes. Her color palette reflects that constant
state of flux, here it is dark, opaque and intimidating, there it is softly layered,
wash-like—one gets the impression of looking at an object on a river's bottom.
Imagery is abstracted and while it is organic it is also nonspecific, reminiscent and
familiar, it resists classification. Stewart works on several canvases in tandem,
creating a comprehensive body of work, each expressing a particular aspect of a
narrative. This process also facilitates her practice of painting intuitively. She paints
freely, with no preconceived notions of how the end product will appear. Stewart
uses numerous mediums—clays, glazes, tar, gesso, ink, and many others, to
capture the sentiment of the Louisiana wetlands.
Allison Stewart has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and abroad.
This is Stewart's fourth solo exhibition with Kathryn Markel Fine Arts. She received
her MFA from the University of New Orleans and her BS in biology from the Spring
Hill College. Her work is included in numerous public and private collections, and
she has been the recipient of several awards including 2009's Artist Honoree
award from the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Light painting the Louisiana swamps
Prairieville, Louisiana, photographer Andy Crawford hits the Lake Maurepas swamps for a nighttime photo session to experiment with light painting cypress trees. Finished images can be seen on his website ( and online fine-art photo gallery (
The sensual photography of the American artist loved by Cuba | News Today
The sensual photography of the American artist loved by Cuba.
(CNN)Next month photographer Peter Turnley will become the first American to be given a major exhibition at Havana's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes since the Cuban Revolution, when his exhibition opens in the museum on November 13.
The exhibition, Momentos de la Condición Humana, will include 130 photographs from Indiana-born Turnley's four decades of work in over 90 countries. The honor of exhibiting in Cuba's most important art museum is the culmination of a 40-year love affair between the photographer and the Caribbean nation, which Turnley has visited more than 20 times in the last four years alone.
This is certainly one of my life's most important honors, for which I feel very proud and grateful, says 60-year-old Turnley, who first traveled to the country in 1989, accompanying Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbatchev during a meeting with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
I have a deep love for the people of Cuba, says Turnley. Throughout a lifetime of world travel, rarely have I been to a place where I've witnessed so much grace, spirit, dignity and wonderful humanity.
Photography has taken Turnley to the sites of conflicts and disasters including the first Gulf War, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ground zero of the 9/11 terror attacks, and New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
But Cuba keeps Turnley coming back -- with the promise of joy rather than strife. To commemorate his enduring affection, Peter Turnley has published a new book, Cuba: A Grace of Spirit, which gives an intimate view of everyday Cuban life.
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Jessica Lange bibliography
Jessica Lange's first venture into the world of photography came with winning a scholarship to study fine arts at the University of Minnesota in 1967. During her first semester however, she left school in favor of traveling to Paris with then soon-to-be husband Francisco Grande. She would not pick up photographing again until the early 1990s when she began to make black-and-white pictures, all of places she visited on her travels since then.
Prior to the release of her debut monograph, 50 Photographs, the Aperture magazine devoted to fine art photography introduced selections from the photo-book in their spring issue of 2007. The work itself with an introduction written by Patti Smith went on public the following year, on November 18 through powerHouse Books and a distribution by Random House. Simultaneously, Lange promoted some of her pictures at Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York City. Her subsequent presentations included shows in three art venues, such as Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, California and A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans, Louisiana; both in 2009. The George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography & Film in Rochester, New York hosted the artist from July to September that year. Except for her photo show, the museum arranged a retrospective series of her films and a tribute evening at Dryden Theater. Besides, Lange received the first George Eastman House Honors Award for her lifetime contribution. At the turn of the years 2010 and 2011, artist showcased in New Orleans for the second time. For this occasion though, she contributed with a thematic collection of her own pictures taken by Walker Evans during the 1930s in Louisiana; all presented for the local Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
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23rd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents the 23rd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. For the 2019 installment of the exhibition, the gallery will host works by sixteen artists hailing from across the United States, as well as, Germany and Norway.
Each year the gallery invites a panel of renowned arts professionals and collectors to select the newest creative talents for around the world.
::: The 2019 NO DEAD ARTISTS Jury :::
ROBYN DUNN SCHWARZ
Before joining Matthew Clayton Brown in 2006, Robyn was an Assistant Vice President in Impressionist and Modern Art at Sotheby’s for nine years. Prior to Sotheby’s, she worked with George Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, a leading art dealer specializing in California paintings, and Nedra Matteucci’s Fenn Galleries, Santa Fe. Robyn has been a member of the Appraisers Association of America since 2007 and is certified in the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). She is also a board member and past president of the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, trustee of the Metairie Park Country Day School and a member of Art Table and the Director’s Council of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
CARMON COLANGELO
Carmon Colangelo is the inaugural dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, bringing together Washington University’s historic Colleges of Art and Architecture and the distinguished Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum into a vibrant creative community. Colangelo is a widely exhibited artist who combines digital and traditional processes to create colorful, mixed-media prints and paintings that explore ideas about the human experience and contemporary condition. He earned a BFA in printmaking and painting from the University of Windsor in Ontario and an MFA in printmaking from Louisiana State University. Colangelo has been featured in more than 40 solo and 150 group exhibitions and his work has been collected by such museums as the National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Saint Louis Art Museum.
NICK KORNILOFF
As Executive Vice President, Partner and Show Director of Art Miami LLC, Korniloff oversees the management and creative direction for Art Miami, CONTEXT, Aqua Art Miami, Art New York, Palm Beach Modern & Contemporary, Art Wynwood, Art Southampton and Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco. He is also one of the founders of LUXE Show Ventures. In 2008, Korniloff took the helm at Art Miami LLC and swiftly revitalized Art Miami, now in its 28th year. By expanding the high-quality and diverse group of international exhibitors, galleries, and institutions, Korniloff reorganized the fair to attract an impressive audience of collectors, dealers, curators and artists. This expansion and move to the Wynwood Arts District successfully repositioned the show as the city’s most important and anchor fair during Art Week, which takes place in early December when thousands descend upon Miami for a flurry of cultural events and fairs. Art Miami is now the number one attended fair in America and second globally it now attracts around 85,000 attendees annually.
Of the approximate 3,000 artworks submitted to this jury by over 600 artists worldwide, only sixteen artists were selected to have their work exhibited at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
::: The 23rd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS Finalists :::
ABE ABRAHAM - New York, NY
CHRIS BARNARD - New Haven, CT
HALE EKINCI - Chicago, IL
MAGGIE EVANS - Savannah, GA
FELICIA FORTE - Hamtramck, MI
LESLIE FRY - Winooski, VT
JAMMIE HOLMES - Dallas, TX
MOMMA TRIED - New Orleans, LA
KRISTIN MOORE - Austin, TX
MAIDY MORHOUS - Del Mar, CA
ELENA SOTERAKIS - Brooklyn, NY
SUSANNA STORCH - Mainz, Germany
CARLIE TROSCLAIR - New Orleans, LA
HALFDAN WARDEMAN - Oslo, Norway
DEBORAH WASSERMAN - Jackson Heights, NY
TOM WEGRZYNOWSKI - Tuscaloosa, AL
Comprised of painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed-media, installation, ceramics, video and new media, NO DEAD ARTISTS continues to exhibit a great diversity in media with a cohesive cross-section of the pulse of Contemporary Art. Presenting just over 30 artworks ranging in media, style and purpose from the augmented reality installation by local artistic duo “Momma Tried” to the voyeuristic canvases of German painter Susannah Storch. Other exhibition highlights include the return of Tom Wegrzynowski’s socio-political paintings which were previously included in the 2014 exhibition, Chris Barnard’s monumental-sized, architectural paintings and Abe Abraham’s figurative video work. For the 23rd year in a row, No Dead Artists showcases the latest trends and talent in Contemporary Art adhering to its mission of giving emerging artists a platform to have their creative voices heard.
How to install 1100 Photographs in 7 hours? (2 minute summary)
The team of installers and art handlers, led by Sergei Bunin, at The Multimedia Museum Moscow House of Photography work together to install New Orleans in Photographs The exhibit, curated by New Orleans photographers Frank Relle and Catie Sampson, comprises 1100 photographs depicting the culture of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana. The show includes 100 large, framed images from fine art photographers, cultural documentarians, and photojournalists, surrounded by 1,000 images culled from social media.
Stacy Rockwood featured in One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds
This was the last neighborhood to be let back into the city, explains Stacy Rockwood work started as soon as we got in. She shares the challenges of rebuilding her home over a long period of time which also gives her great satisfaction. Talking on the relief effort all over New Orleans, Rockwood says, Our recovery came from people from all over the United States. That just gives me great hope.
Stacy Rockwood is one of the residents of the single New Orleans block documented in the wake of Hurricane Katrina by photographer Dave Anderson from 2006 to 2010. Using portraiture, still lifes, and abstract images, Dave Anderson reveals the evolution of both the street and its houses as residents rebuilt. His images are gathered in One Block, a monograph published by Aperture, and remind us how determination, resilience, and the bonds of community help us to endure.
Dave Anderson's work has been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Vince Aletti of the New Yorker has called his work as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic.
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22nd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition
30 August – 28 September 2018
Exhibition opening during Arts District New Orleans' (ADNO)
First Saturday Gallery Openings [6-9PM] - 1 September 2018
JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents the 22nd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. For the 2018 installment of the exhibition, the gallery will host works by fourteen artists hailing from the United States and one from Nigeria. The exhibition will be on view from 30 August through 28 September 2018, with an opening reception on 1 September, 6-9 pm in conjunction with the Arts District New Orleans’ (ADNO) First Saturday Gallery Openings.
The NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition was founded by Jonathan Ferrara in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. The exhibition's name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve success until they are dead. NO DEAD ARTISTSturns that notion on its head and often gives emerging artists their first break in the art world. In the 90's, the exhibition was open to New Orleans-based artists and subsequently grew to include artists of Louisiana, then becoming a national juried exhibition in 2010. And in 2014, the exhibition went international. Now in its 22nd iteration, the exhibition has been a springboard for numerous artists; leading to national press coverage, recognition, gallery representation and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections.
Of the approximate 2,500 artworks submitted to this jury by over 500 artists worldwide, only fourteen artists were selected to have their work exhibited at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY.
::: The 22nd Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS finalists :::
JOHN ADELMAN – Norwalk, OH / Houston, TX
JOSEPH BARRON – St. Louis, MO / Osprey, FL
MASH BUHTAYDUSSS – New Orleans, LA
EMMA CHILDS – Baltimore, MD
NANCEE CLARK – Jacksonville, FL / Bradenton, FL
KAT FLYN – Washington, D.C. / La Jolla, CA
SHERRY KARVER – Chicago, IL / Oakland, CA
SELINA MCKANE – Tuscaloosa, AL / New Orleans, LA
REID NICHOLLS – Bryan, OH / New Orleans, LA
REWA – Onitsha, Nigeria / Lagos, Nigeria
KIM RICE – Lexington, KY / Baltimore, MD
AMY SCHISSEL - Ontario, Canada / Pittsburgh, PA
KERRA TAYLOR – Overland, KS / Springfield, MO
SOPHIE TREPPENDAHL – St. Francisvile, LA / Richmond, VA
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NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art
NO DEAD ARTISTS is an INTERNATIONAL OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS, open to living artists of all ages, emerging and established, working throughout the world. All mediums are accepted including, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, design, glass, metalwork, photography, video, performance, mixed media and installation art.
The exhibition was created in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. NO DEAD ARTISTS has become an exhibition that has time and again discovered new and emerging talent and is one of the most celebrated art exhibitions in the South.
The exhibition's name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve success until they are dead. NO DEAD ARTISTS turns that notion on its head and gives emerging artists their first break in the art world. In the 90's, the exhibition was open only to New Orleans artists and subsequently grew to include artists of Louisiana. In 2010, the exhibition expanded to become a national juried exhibition open to artists from the entire United States and the call went international in 2014.
Past jurors have included Prospect.1 Founder and Curator Dan Cameron, Museum Director Billie Milam Weisman, Collector and Philanthropist Beth Rudin DeWoody, MacArthur Fellow John Scott, Whitney Trustee and Ballroom Marfa Co-founder Fairfax Dorn, NOMA Director Susan Taylor, artist Tony Fitzpatrick, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum Eric Shiner, Director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Founder and Artistic Director of the VOLTA Fair Amanda Coulson, Dishman Art Museum Director Megan Koza Young, ArtBridge Curator Jordana Zeldin, MoMA Board Member Lawrence Benenson, Brooklyn Museum of Art Board Member Stephanie Ingrassia, Collector Nick Mayor, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston Bill Arning, Associate Curator at the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco) Anastasia James, Perez Art Museum (Miami) Director Franklin Sirmans, prestigious collector Lester Marks (Houston), Joan Mitchell Center Director Gia Hamilton, actress and art collector, CCH Pounder and Head Curator of the McNay Art Museum, René Barilleaux.
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360° Exhibition Tour | Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe | Led by Founding Director Tracy L. Adler
360° Exhibition Tour | Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe | Led by Founding Director Tracy L. Adler
Video created by: Ben Salzman
Organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe is the Beijing-born artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States, featuring a selection of work from 2006 to the present, including new scrolls, sculptures, and drawings never before exhibited. Taking on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, Yun-Fei Ji employs ink on paper as his primary medium and landscape as his central subject. However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji’s work presents the gritty reality of life in China today. Ji emphasizes the critical relationship between the land and its people and how that balance is being challenged by current social, political, ecological, and economic shifts. His compositions are inspired by his own fieldwork in rural areas throughout China’s countryside, where entire villages face forced relocation to make way for ambitious infrastructural projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, and where climate change has compromised the natural environment. The resulting artworks are populated by individualized, present-day figures inhabiting land in various stages of transition. Poised between modernity and tradition, the village becomes a metaphor for community, and the dislocation and environmental deterioration become specters of geographic disenfranchisement. Embedded within the compositions alongside the villagers, ghosts of ancestors and animal-like folkloric figures act as powerful reminders of the longstanding cultural traditions at risk. With their impressionistic brushwork and original subject matter, Ji’s paintings possess an immediacy and urgency that suggest a fragmented, at times surreal, contemporary landscape.
Born in Beijing (1963), Yun-Fei Ji received a BFA from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1989. His work has been shown extensively, most recently at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan; the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, Massachusetts; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and in the 2014 New Orleans biennial Prospect.3: Notes for Now. In 2012, Ji presented his first Beijing solo exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. He received the Rome Prize in 2006 from the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
This survey of the artist’s work will be followed by a major monographic publication that includes essays by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art; Steven J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History at Hamilton College; and Robert Morgan, noted critic and curator; co-published with DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York.
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe will travel to the Honolulu Museum of Art, where it will be on view from September 29, 2016 – February 5, 2017.
James Michalopoulos, RedLine Gallery, William Fields, Phantasmagoria | Episode 421 | Art Rocks
Meet James Michalopoulos, a New Orleans artist who has a way of making the historic homes in his city dance to the beat of its music. His expressionistic oils distort perception and memory in ways that seem to have a direct conduit to the essential rhythm of the city. RedLine Gallery by Cortney Lane Stell in Colorado brings the playground into the museum. Photographer William Fields brings a timeless feel to his landscaping photos. Central Florida theatre troupe, Phantasmagoria brings the fanatical world of horror back to the stage.
Holocaust Museum Houston - Never Forget May 2015
Holocaust Museum Houston - Never Forget May 2015
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Charged with educating students and the public about the dangers of prejudice and hatred in society, Holocaust Museum Houston opened its doors in March of 1996. Since that time, impassioned notes, poems, artwork and other gifts, from school children and adults alike, attest to the life-changing thoughts generated by just one visit to this unique facility.
Permanent Exhibition:
The Permanent Exhibition at the Museum is called “Bearing Witness: A Community Remembers,” and it focuses on the stories of Holocaust survivors living in the Houston metropolitan area. A tour begins with a look at life before the Holocaust. Visitors then see the beginnings of Nazism and Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. The displays progress through the disruption of normal life, to segregation, to imprisonment in concentration camps and finally to extermination. The roles of collaborators, by-standers, rescuers and liberators are portrayed through artifacts, film reels, photographs, and text panels. The main exhibit ends with the moving short films “Voices” and “Voices II,” which alternate daily in the 100-seat theater. Voices is shown Wednesday through Saturday, with Voices II on Sunday through Tuesday. These films are compilations of verbal testimony from area survivors.
World War II Holocaust Railcar:
The Museum is proud to display a 1942 World War II railcar of the type used to carry millions of Jews to their deaths. The railcar was formally dedicated and opened to the public during 10th Anniversary ceremonies on Sunday, March 5, 2006.
Danish Rescue Boat:
The Museum's Permanent Exhibition also includes a 1942 Danish rescue boat of the type used to save more than 7,200 Jews from almost certain execution at the hands of Nazi Germany.
Morgan Family Center:
The Morgan Family Center comprises the administrative offices, two changing exhibits galleries, the HMH classrooms and the theater.
Two Galleries:
The Museum also includes two changing galleries for art and photography exhibits. The Central Gallery is naturally located in the center of the Museum building and leads guests to the library. The Josef and Edith Mincberg Gallery is a larger hall for more extensive displays. The changing exhibits are designed to complement and further explore the issues presented in the Permanent Exhibition.
Education Center:
Holocaust Museum Houston is also widely known as an education center and the facility includes two classroom areas and a research library. The Boniuk Library and Resource Center contains more than 4,000 titles relating to the Holocaust, World War II, religion and antisemitism. The video section contains more than 300 titles on related subjects and the tapes can be viewed in the Museum’s video room or checked out. A full-time librarian manages the center, and a full-time registrar is responsible for maintaining the Museum’s archives. Thousands of historic and original photographs, documents, letters, diaries and other artifacts from the 1930s and 1940s are cataloged in the archives. Researchers can examine these documents and artifacts by appointment.
Lack Family Memorial Room:
Two other areas of Holocaust Museum Houston allow for reflection and meditation. The Lack Family Memorial Room is a quiet place for contemplation. It contains the three-part work of art comprising the Wall of Remembrance, the Wall of Tears and the Wall of Hope. The Memorial Wall in the room is a place where local Holocaust survivors can commemorate their lost loved ones.
Eric Alexander Garden of Hope:
Outside the Memorial Room is a quiet garden known as the Eric Alexander Garden of Hope. It is dedicated to the eternal spirit of children and is in memory of the 1.5 million children who lost their lives in the Holocaust.
Houston Museum District:
Holocaust Museum Houston is a member of the Houston Museum District Association.
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Graffiti Art Atlanta Artist Corey Barksdale Art & Lawrence Andrade Photography Georgia Art
Graffiti Atlanta Artist Corey Barksdale Art & Lawrence Andrade Photography Fine Art
Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, is a blanket term for a subgenre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, including New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, Nashville, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia, Memphis, Tennessee, Charlotte, North Carolina, Hampton Roads/Richmond, Virginia and Miami, Florida. The music was a reaction to the 1980s flow of hip hop culture from New York City and California, and can be considered a third major American hip hop genre, after East Coast hip hop and West Coast hip hop. Many early Southern rap artists released their music independently or on mixtapes after encountering difficulty securing record-label contracts in the 1990s. Atlanta, Georgia, is a prominent city in the region's hip hop scene.
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), better known by his stage name Ludacris, is an American rapper and actor. Along with his manager, Chaka Zulu, Ludacris is the co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace, an imprint distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Ludacris has won a Screen Actors Guild, Critic's Choice, MTV, and three Grammy Awards during his career. Along with fellow Atlantans Big Boi and Andre 3000 of OutKast, Ludacris was one of the first and most influential Dirty South artists to achieve mainstream success.
Disturbing tha Peace (DTP) is a record label founded by Christopher Ludacris Bridges, his manager Chaka Zulu and Zulu's brother Jeff Dixon. Today it operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, and is distributed by The Island Def Jam Music Group.
Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludacris moved to Atlanta, Georgia at age nine, where he began rapping. After a brief stint as a disc jockey, he released his debut album Back for the First Time in 2000, which contained the singles Southern Hospitality and What's Your Fantasy. In 2001, he released Word of Mouf, followed by Chicken-n-Beer in 2003. He took a more serious approach with his next three albums, The Red Light District (2004), Release Therapy (2006), and Theater of the Mind (2008). His latest record, Battle of the Sexes, was released in 2010.
By the 1990s, Atlanta, Georgia had become a controlling city in southern hip hop music. Hip hop groups such as OutKast and Goodie Mob played a huge part in helping the South become a center for hip hop music.[8] OutKast's Big Boi and Andre 3000 became the first southerners to record album sales like the powerhouse rappers on the East and West coasts. The most successful Southern labels came out of New Orleans during the mid-to-late 90's. The city had rooted its particular style in its very own Bounce music. This style was first introduced by way of the Triggerman song by New York rap group Showboyz in the late 1980s. Cash Money Records, No Limit Records, the now-defunct Big Boy records revolutionized financial structures for successful Southern rap labels. Their artists went on to sell millions of albums and have gained much respect in the hip-hop community. By the early 2000s, artists from all over the South had begun to emerge. Artists like T.I., Lil Flip, Ludacris, Nappy Roots, Trick Daddy, Trina, and Trae all made their mainstream debuts during this time frame. In 2004, OutKast won six Grammies for their album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, including Best Album.[9] Big Boi, Andre 3000 and many other Atlanta rappers played an enormous part in bringing Southern hip hop to the popularity level it has reached today. In 2005, the Houston rap scene got wide audience, and many Houston rappers started to get nation-wide and world-wide audience such as Paul Wall, Mike Jones, Chamillionaire, UGK, Pimp C, Bun B, Lil' Flip, and Slim Thug. During this time, Baton Rouge made its mainstream entrance through rappers of Trill Entertainment, a label started by Pimp C. The most prominent artists from this label are Webbie, Lil Boosie, Foxx, and Mouse on the Track.
Galina Kurlat at Studio Bizio talking about her Safe Distance Series
Galina Kurlat at Studio Bizio talking about her Safe Distance Series
Galina Kurlat was born in Moscow, Russia in 1981 and emigrated to the United States in 1989. She received her Bachelor of Media Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in 2005 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
In Kurlat’s work, she explores the intimate relationship between photographer and sitter through large format photography using expired Polaroid film, and the wet collodion process. These photographs are as much about the collaboration with the sitter as they are the resulting images. The slow practice of creating large format photographs, using a medium which allows for almost immediate viewing, invites the sitter to participate in orchestrating the final image.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Photo Jinju in South Korea, Baxter Street/Camera Club Auction in New York, Self-Processing- Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Sputnik 2, Boyd Satellite Gallery in New Orleans, Analog, Mike Wright Gallery in Denver, Imaging Now: Collected Visions in Memphis, Unbound5! Candela Gallery in Richmond, Oceanside Museum of Art in San Jose, Inherent Traits, PEVETO Gallery in Houston, Safe Distance, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, 12th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant, West Gallery at Texas Woman’s University, #19, Emergency Room Gallery, Rice University, Onward Compé ’12 in Philadelphia, Urban Decay, Ravi Gallery in India, Artist Dialogue, Houston Center for Photography, The Big Show 2011 and The Big Show 2012 at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Annual Print Auction, Houston Center for Photography, Landscape, Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR; Reclamation/Inherent Traits, College of the Mainland Art Gallery in Texas City, Narratives, PG Contemporary in Houston.
Kurlat's work has been featured in the following selected publications: Photo Jinju Catalog, Photogrvphy, Diffusion IX, Oxford American, Blur Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Main Street Projects, Glasstire, Artist's Secret: Archaic Photo Process, Fraction of a Second from Radius Books, Houston Chronicle, Houston Press, Houston Center for Photography’s Spot Magazine from Houston Center for Photography, Unless You Will, Yellow Magazine, FotoFest 2010 Biennial Catalogue, Light Leaked; Exhibition Catalog, The Art of Photography Show 2008; Exhibition Catalog, Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2007, Traces and Avenues.
RICARDO ASENSIO / Portraits B/W
Ricardo Asensio (born 27 February, 1949) is an Spanish painter.
Prestigious portraitist of the illustrious and the intellectuals, he is an artist who has a compromise with the renovation in paint. His artwork started as purely figurative, only centered in the face of person that he was painting as well as the landscape, in oil or pastel, his palette managing to make a turnaround from a realism almost photographic due to the perfection of his drawing to an expressionism very strong in sober hues and well defined compositions. He studied in Valencia, Barcelona and Rome.
Exhibitions: More than 30 years in many individual an group shows in art galleries, museums, biennials and international arts fairs in European countries and in the United States.
Awards: He has obtained numerous awards granted by important international competitions dedicated to figurative painting such as Honorary Mention in New York, even thought it is in Italy where the artist reaches the peak of his career in 1979 when he became a finalist for the scholarship in painting granted by the Spanish Academy in Rome where he lives and exhibits his portraits obtaining the Award Villa Alessandra in 1981. Prize Controvento, 1982. The fine Arts Merit Medal 1996. Villa Serravalle award Florence, 1997. The Gran Collare d´Argento Palinuro nel Mondo . The award Old Florence and The Oscar of Culture 2001. The Italy Grand Award 2003. La Dea Alata award Florence, 2003. The Gold Medal of the Trophy Medusa Aurea, 26th edition, Rome, 2003 granted by the Modern Art International Academy . Great Award Maremma in the Trophy Costa d´Argento , Toscana, Italy. The Great Award City of Florence 2003 from Il MarzzocoAcademy. The first prize Costa Toscana, IV Italy Biennial. The first prize Europe 2004, Turin. The first prize Sant Ambroggio d´Oro. Milan 2004. The Gran Collare Academico Rome 2004. The Gran Prize Europe Art Mediolanum Milan 2005. First Prize Hans Christian Andersen Festival, Copenhagen (Denmark). First Prize Rembrandt 2006, Netherlands. Career Award Prize Sever, Milan. Artist of the year 2007Academy Severiade, Milan. Prize for culture Artistic Centre La Conca Roma. Prize Leonardo Da Vinci 2009. Prize Universal 2009, Florence. Targa Biennale 2010, Città di Milano. 1st Prize - Centro Culturale Internazionale D'Arte Sever. Milan. Prize Oscar of Culture 2011, Florence.
NOBEL Prize for the Arts, Milan Italy... and many others.
Honors: He is an Honorary AcademicianMichelangelo Order from the International Santa Rita Academy of Turin; Academician from the Universal Academy Antonio Canova; Academician from the International Il Marzzoco Academy in Florence; Academician from the Greci-Marino Academy; Academician from theVerbano (Arts, Sciences and Literature), Italy.
Collections: As a portraistwe should mention as oustanding his magnificent portrait of NOBEL Prize Camilo José Cela, the writer Antonio Buero Vallejo, the Princess of Orleans, Isabel Preysler, Marisa Yordi de Borbon, Carmen Martinez Bordiu, actresses Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak, Faye Dunaway, Virna Lisi, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Vibeke Knudsen and Brooke Shields.
Artworks are in public and private collections in the United States, France, Italy, Germany and Spain.
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Galina Kurlat was born in Moscow, Russia in 1981 and emigrated to the United States in 1989. She received her Bachelor of Media Arts Degree from Pratt Institute in 2005 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
In Kurlat’s work, she explores the intimate relationship between photographer and sitter through large format photography using expired Polaroid film, and the wet collodion process. These photographs are as much about the collaboration with the sitter as they are the resulting images. The slow practice of creating large format photographs, using a medium which allows for almost immediate viewing, invites the sitter to participate in orchestrating the final image.
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Photo Jinju in South Korea, Baxter Street/Camera Club Auction in New York, Self-Processing- Instant Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Sputnik 2, Boyd Satellite Gallery in New Orleans, Analog, Mike Wright Gallery in Denver, Imaging Now: Collected Visions in Memphis, Unbound5! Candela Gallery in Richmond, Oceanside Museum of Art in San Jose, Inherent Traits, PEVETO Gallery in Houston, Safe Distance, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, 12th Annual Joyce Elaine Grant, West Gallery at Texas Woman’s University, #19, Emergency Room Gallery, Rice University, Onward Compé ’12 in Philadelphia, Urban Decay, Ravi Gallery in India, Artist Dialogue, Houston Center for Photography, The Big Show 2011 and The Big Show 2012 at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Annual Print Auction, Houston Center for Photography, Landscape, Black Box Gallery in Portland, OR; Reclamation/Inherent Traits, College of the Mainland Art Gallery in Texas City, Narratives, PG Contemporary in Houston.
Kurlat's work has been featured in the following selected publications: Photo Jinju Catalog, Photogrvphy, Diffusion IX, Oxford American, Blur Magazine, Fraction Magazine, Main Street Projects, Glasstire, Artist's Secret: Archaic Photo Process, Fraction of a Second from Radius Books, Houston Chronicle, Houston Press, Houston Center for Photography’s Spot Magazine from Houston Center for Photography, Unless You Will, Yellow Magazine, FotoFest 2010 Biennial Catalogue, Light Leaked; Exhibition Catalog, The Art of Photography Show 2008; Exhibition Catalog, Resurrection: A New Look at Old Photographic Processes, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2007, Traces and Avenues.
Original Painted Portrait of Rita de Acosta Lydig by Giovanni Boldini from M.S. Rau Antiques
Among the most sought after portraitists of his day with a distinctive, instantly recognizable style, Giovanni Boldini captures here the likeness of the socialite popularly regarded as the most picturesque woman in America, Rita de Acosta Lydig. Boldini, the artist of choice among American high society, perfectly expresses the energy and high fashion of his sitter through his flamboyant style. One of the few finished, full-length portraits from this extraordinary artist’s oeuvre, this portrait, known as the Rothschild Boldini, is counted among his greatest masterpieces.
A woman renowned for her fiery personality, sensational style and unmatched beauty, Lydig served as muse for some of the most celebrated artists of her era. Having been captured in alabaster by sculptor Malvina Hoffmann, on film by the photographers Adolf de Meyer, Edward Steichen, and Gertrude Käsebier, and on canvas by John Singer Sargent and Boldini, Lydig’s vivacious visage permeates throughout art history. The present work is unarguably the best among these portraits.
In 1910 Lydig, along with her husband Captain Philips, commissioned two portraits from Boldini, one of the couple and one of Lydig herself. The first is currently in the collection of the Museo Boldini in Ferrara, and is executed in the more formal style of Sir Thomas Gainsborough. The second, which is the present work, offers a far more modern treatment of the sitter – one which perfectly reflects her own voguish character.
Born in 1880 the eldest of eight children, Lydig’s father was a Spanish exile, and her mother a member of the Ducal family in Alba. At the age of eighteen, the young beauty married the reclusive multi-millionaire, William Earl Dodge Stokes, divorcing him just four years later and earning the largest divorce settlement to date. Soon after, she married for the second time, becoming Mrs. Lydig and truly cementing her place as a leader of high society. A passionate collector, her enthusiasms ranged from rare lace to furniture of the 15th and 16th centuries, along with bibelots, jewelry, and the fashionable fine arts of the period. Performers such as Sarah Bernhardt, Enrico Caruso, and Arturo Toscanini would often base themselves in her house when visiting the United States.
Along with John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler, Boldini was counted among the most highly sought after modern portraitists in Europe and America. His exuberant, bold style was particularly desirable among his increasingly fashion-conscious clientele, who admired Boldini’s simultaneously traditional and modern compositions. Indeed, Boldini’s oeuvre displays both his knowledge the more traditional British portrait genre painters such as Sir Anthony van Dyck and Sir Thomas Gainsborough, along with the more modern Impressionists and Italian painters known as the Macchiaioli. Once dubbed the Master of Swish by Time magazine for his flowing style, Boldini is regarded among the best of his genre, and today his works can be seen in important museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Musée D’Orsay, Art Institute of Chicago, National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
Giovanni Boldini
1842-1931 | Italian
Ritratto di Rita de Acosta Lydig
The Rothschild Boldini
Signed and dated “Boldini 1911” (lower right)
Oil on canvas
Frame: 84 high x 57 wide
Canvas: 71 high x 43 1/2 wide
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