| Click the artists
below to view their bios and access their image galleries. |
|
|
Blaine
Capone
Blaine is a native New Orleanian whose work originates from a primal
urge to process his world through visual artistry. His medium includes
oil, watercolor, charcoal, graphite, discarded material, and earth's
natural resources. His inaugural Prospect .1 exhibit in 2008 evoked
all but apathetic response. He currently lives on a mountain top
in North Carolina where his existence with animal and earth propels
his creativity.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Bruce
Davenport, Jr.
I am a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. I grew up in the Lafitte
Projects in the 6th ward. I started drawing stick men at the age of
5 to entertain myself inside the apartment. My loving grandparents,
James and Maritha Abrams, raised me and without their love and discipline
I wouldn't be here today.
The art I create is unique, it's different…it's like Egyptian
hieroglyphics. I call my creations Bruce Art because no one else
does what I do with a pen and paper. I enjoy that people like Bruce
Art. This is why I always put on the bottom of my work: "I
see you looking."
The marching bands are a passion to me. I love the history and
culture. Without the band, a lot of kids wouldn't have a reason
or make the effort to graduate from high school and go on in life
to achieve goodness and stay focused.
I keep the FAITH. God is good all the TIME.
|
| |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
|
| |
|
Rachel
David
Rachel is a blacksmith artist whose work combines ancient tools
and techniques with contemporary ideas, functions and aesthetics.
Practicing
environmental sustainability and low impact craftsmanship, she stretches
the boundaries of the metal to fulfill the less mundane, but essential
human need for objects of beauty. |
| |
Back to top ^ |
|
| |
Chris
Dennis
Chris was born and grew up in Bournemouth, England. At age 16
he was admitted to Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design
to study natural history illustration. This early classical training
effected an indelible impression which is evident in his current therianthropic
work.
After completing his BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Illustration at the
University of Wolverhampton he relocated to the United States, and
in 2000 earned his MFA from the University of Art in San Francisco.
His paintings, perhaps best described as "narrative expressionism"
or "internalized portraiture" have been exhibited and collected
across the United States and Europe. In the fall of 2008 he was featured
in Studio Visit Volume 3 by the publishers of New American
Paintings and will be included in a soon to be published art
textbook by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Chris currently lives in Louisiana.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
|
| |
Rex
Dingler
Rex Dingler is a New Orleans native who believes that the will of
the people is the force of life & that philosophy follows into
the exhibit, The Dinglerization of America. Heralded as a street artist
who founded NoLA Rising, a project that delivered messages of hope
across New Orleans in post-Katrina months, Rex quickly spread his
message of renewal, rebirth and faith to over 30 countries.
Rex has exhibited in New York and New Orleans and has been working
to promote a mural arts program for the Southeastern region of Louisiana.
On occasion, he lectures at Tulane University on the premise that
street art can be a cultural basis for urban rejuvination. He also
works to develop art education and therapy programs for those who
have suffered under various post traumatic stress disorder issues.
Rex's street art roots have most recently been prominently mentioned
in Untitled II: The Beautiful Renaissance; an international street
art book published in London. He has been the subject of debate on
numerous websites in New Orleans, New York and abroad, most notably
in the Village Voice and CultureBot where they deemed him the leader
of the largest contemporary arts movement in the American South. His
works have appeared in numerous publications and stories featuring
his story have appeared in every type of media; details of which can
be found in the following publications: The Times-Picayune, The Gambit,
City Business, Antigravity Culture Magazine, CultureBot, Preservation
in Print; The Trumpet, The Village Voice, MTV, and local television
stations WDSU and WWL. |
| |
Back to top ^ |
|
| |
Annie
Evelyn
Annie is a furniture artist, upholsterer, and teacher who holds a
masters degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Inspired by
the egg, she
creates traditional furniture forms with a process of setting cracked
concrete to seating with a delicate appearance and feel, yet sturdy
and outdoor safe. |
| |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
|
| |
Sarah
Ferguson
Sarah was born in New Orleans in 1965. She earned a B.A. in art
and mathematics from Rice University and a Ph.D. in mathematics from
the University of Houston. Upon receiving tenure in 2002 from Wayne
State University in Detroit, she moved to New York City to begin her
career as a visual artist. In 2008 she earned her M.F.A. from the
School of Visual Arts in New York. She lives and works in Manhattan.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Grissel
Giuliano
Grissel was born and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. She received
a B. S. in Animal Science from the University of Vermont. Her work
revolves around her interest in science, dental hygiene, food, and
her love of horror movies. Grissel's quest for love and life led her
to New Orleans where she currently lives.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Alex
Harvie
Alex is a part painter/part performer whose works have been exhibited
in innumerable shows throughout the southern United States. Walking
the
line between realism and abstraction, he thrives to evoke feelings
and imagination using a unique combination of texture, light, perspective,
depth,
and stroke which sets the work in his trademark style. |
| |
Back
to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Alisa
Holen
While obtaining her graduate degree at the University of Iowa, Alisa
began to explore new combinations of forms and surfaces which led
to her manipu- lation of clay as a "skin" that surrounds
air. The critical three dimensional relationships in her work become
a metaphor for the relationship between the vessel and the user who
must pause and consider its use. |
| |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Viorel
Hodre
Viorel was born in Romania where he trained as a sculptor. His designs
of sculptures of rice paper and wood which are lit from within declare
a boldness which calmly opposes the graceful forms of the materials.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Joel
Kelly
Joel began his occupation with art, in fact, after a flight accident
outside of Tangier, Morocco, where he was traveling to seek out the
writer Paul Bowles. Unfortunately in his old age Bowles stopped taking
visitors. With little money and a lethal hole in his balloon, Joel
resorted to drawing portraits of tourists in front of the Gran Teatro
de Cervantes. This turned out to be a fateful event for he soon discovered
Cervantes' novel Don Quixote and then a little known poetry
collection written by the famous Spaniard on his deathbed. This book,
The Living End, is the inspiration for Joel's present paintings.
|
Click
here to view image gallery
|
Back
to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Sophie
Kosofsky
After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, Sophie worked
with artists, designers, museums, and galleries in New York in custom
fabrication. By mixing and matching the three elements of materials,
function, and process, she plays with the user/viewer's expectations
and assumptions. Her copper tubing stools, wood sculpture, and wood
table offer the active experience of discovering new things about
the works with every encounter. |
| |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
William
Leslie
William began making lightsculptures from strips of wood and paper
in 1976 after apprenticing to Stephen White. Since, his work has been
collected by renowned restaurants and other commercial venues. He
currently lives in the San Diego area where he teaches philosophy
at Palomar College.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Tony
Nozero
Tony's journey as a visual artist was validated by a residency for
emerging artists at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico after
hurricane Katrina. Before that, he used his painting for a decompression
between world-wide tours of his eclectic band Drums & Tuba. His
work embraces the improvisation of punk street energy, fantasy, and
jargon which has fired his life.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Eric
Eugene Smith
Eric's work is influenced by traditional blacksmithing techniques
fused with modern ideas and aesthetics. After attending Georgia Southern
University to study building and construction, he stumbled upon blacksmithing
and earned a BFA in metals at the Appalachian Center for Craft. This
body of work represents his constant evolution as a blacksmith, achieving
grace through force. |
| |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
Wade
Welch
Wade was born in Montgomery, Alabama but has resided in New Orleans
for the past twenty-five years. After obtaining a business degree,
he traveled throughout Europe, returning to Alabama to acquire a communication
degree.
Having ventured as a vacuum cleaner salesman, riding instructor,
advertising agent, administrator, and fundraiser, Wade ultimately
decided to take refuge as a full time artist and patriot.
His brightly colored, whimsical watercolors were shown in New Orleans
for ten years until 2005. Since then he has been through thirty
states, lived out major family milestones, and created ten drawing
books and countless paintings and drawings.
|
| Click
here to view image gallery |
Back to top ^ |
| |
|
| |
