It is a joy to be showing again with Gryder and to be joining Babette Beaullieu and Elizabeth Shannon in this exciting endeavor! This exhibition will be up through Saturday, April 27. We would be delighted if you can visit the show in person if you are here and virtually if not. I will be posting regularly both via Fb and Instagram in an effort to revisit and update spinoffs of projects. (further extended on Instagram, whose little-known ancestor is perhaps the scrapbook). If the films are a form of the present, the scrapbook is both their past (where they were drafted) and their future ..read more

Pleased to see The Vestiges Project’s Flood Lines triptych including images by Debra Howell, Krista Jurisich, and me with text by Michele White on view in time for yet another Katrina anniversary (the 17th!) and another hurricane season. It is featured in Metamorphoses: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of Newcomb Art Museum.  This Fall 2022 exhibition (8/16-12/10/22) curated by Maurita N. Poole and Laura Blereau with support of NAM Staff includes a reception on 9/17 Noon-5 with food, music, and a tour with artists 2-3 pm. Also happy to be invited by British scholars Stuart Andrew ..read more

As promised, here’s the update to the Gryder Gallery AMEN upcoming events and extension of the show: This Saturday 7/10 at 2pm Babette Beaullieu and I hope you will join us in conversation at the gallery, 615 Julia Street (it’s also the Art Walk Saturday delayed due to last week’s holiday weekend). Closing Reception Thursday 7/15 5-7 and final day of the show is Saturday, July 17. The website is full of great installation shots and lots more on my work and other gallery artists. We also have more exciting news coming soon. Watch for another exhibition opening in early October and running throu ..read more

I’m excited to have several artworks on view May 22 – July 10, 2021 at Gryder Gallery (615 Julia Street) in its AMEN Exhibition. It will be open during New Orleans Arts District first Saturday openings on June 5th and there will be scheduled events (Babette Beaullieu and I will be doing a gallery walk through) on dates TBD. My best intention is to write again soon to give details on these dates along with JOHN CLEMMER’S CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION: HIS ART CIRCLE: His Teachers, His Students and Colleagues, Curated by Judith Bonner, at The Historic New Orleans Collection. I am so touched to be ..read more

I’m delighted to announce The Historic New Orleans Collection’s (THNOC) ART OF THE CITY: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, presented by The Helis Foundation, premieres on April 6 and runs through October 6th, 2019 christening the exciting redo of the Seignoret-Brulatour Building, 520 Royal Street. Invited as guest curator and working with the assistance of its Executive Director Priscilla Lawrence and in collaboration with her superb staff, it is my pleasure to invite you to visit the show and to participate in its multidisciplinary programs. Check hnoc.org for details that will be updated regularly ..read more

As summertime approaches, some serious catching up is in order. A couple of my public art pieces are currently out on the streets if you’re strolling The Quarter or CBD: A collaboration with Debra Howell and 48 other artists, VESTIGES/Trinitas, is on view at US.IS (Urban Sidewalk Installation Space) 441 Gravier at Magazine Street and will be up at least through January, 2015. Assemblagist Jimmy Descant currently has work up there as well. Imprint: A Call to Disarm, an elegy in the form of gunshot victims’ obits, continues to hang in the vestibule windows of my studio building, Borenstein Gall ..read more

Greetings All! It is with great pleasure that I announce the exhibition I curated in my former role as Interim Director of Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center.  Please see details below: Tank Drama: Deliberations from The Wet Grave July 6, 2013 – September 22, 2013Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans Artists working in a multiplicity of art forms—theater, writing, visual art, film, music, dance, and more—are brought together under the umbrella of The VESTIGES Project to present their work in the Lupin Foundation Gallery, along with scheduled events in the Freeport-McMoRan Theater ..read more

How exciting. Along with Saints’ games and pumpkin spice, art is in the air. Trinitas installation at Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University The summer heat didn’t keep art away though. We simply headed to the cooler climes of Coastal Carolina University’s Rebecca Bryan Gallery to present VESTIGES/trinitas marking the sixth anniversary of the levee breaches in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Detail Trinitas Installation Image/Text was on view at The Carroll Gallery of Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Department gathering those of us long fascinated by ways that we may wed image and text ..read more

My Mom Says My Artwork Has Really Improved at Antenna Gallery is a group exhibition, curated by Natalie McLaurin, that explores the connection between artworks made at different times in an artist’s life. By using childhood work shown next to recent works of art, this exhibition shows how some themes, forms, and content stay with the artist over the course of a lifetime. It includes my bookwork Lots of Love, Helen which is a portrait of my mother, Helen Basilo Gilbert  (February 29, 1920-April 27-2011), along with several scrapbooks I made as a kid.   My mother was a strong cre ..read more