Thursday, March 06, 2008
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Blanton WorkSpace: In Katrina’s Wake February 16 - May 25, 2008
Willie Birch: Going Home, 2005, Acrylic & charcoal on paper, 72 x 72 inches
Courtesy the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
„In Katrina’s Wake examines responses of thirteen artists or collectives to the devastation of the storm and subsequent levee breaks in New Orleans and explores the role that artists currently play in rebuilding the community. Many resident artists and a number of those observing from outside have been moved by the urgent need for individual and community relief and recuperation and have directed their work to address these immediate social and spiritual concerns. Whether through the commissioning of new cultural experiences that provide public forums for discussion and reflection, the inauguration of creativity workshops to provide encouragement for young people, or simply the creation of works that attempt to chronicle and interpret the experience of catastrophe, artists have been valiant forces in the nascent recovery of community-wide health and the forging of a future vision.”
Flash Art International No.259
(March - April 2008)
artkrush: New Art from India, March 5-18, 2008
Informed by Function Feb. 6 - May 15, 2008
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, N.Y. 10468
Marc Andre Robinson (right), Throne for the Songs That Will Come by Themselves and of Themselves, 2008
