Obsessive Worlds is based on the obsessive nature revealed in the work of 15 contemporary artists using various media.  Their chosen aesthetic is one characterized by acute repetition, excess and tedium.  The body of work attests to the development of a post-modern "obsessive" aesthetic as a reaction to contemporary society's immersion in a fast-paced, technologically crazed, and anxiety plagued environment.  You will be obsessed with this exhibit from the Art Museum of Southeast Texas!

 

Asheville, NC artist, Géza Brunow uses a kind of soul-powered "Rorschach" distillation of the pause in time and space between two events in his latest exhibition of visual essays, Event Horizon. Utilizing a dramatic technique of painting from emotional memory instead of sight, Brunow chronicles the past decade of his life in the South, weaving a rich and compelling tapestry into his own “strange little worlds of magic and mayhem.”

In the Studio Art Quilt Associates’ international invitational exhibition, Sightlines, fourteen fiber artists create a running installation along the theme of the interaction of time, personal history, and memory.  Curator, Virginia Spiengel used as her guiding inspiration a quote from author, Barbara Kingsolver’s description of a good short story: “It will tell something remarkable, it will be beautifully executed, and it will be nested in truth.”   AMoA invites you to bear witness to the thread of their stories.

Massachusetts-born painter and printmaker, James Abbott McNeill Whistler 

(1834-1903) is best known for his painting Arrangement in Grey and Black—

a.k.a. Whistler’s Mother.  He was also widely renowned for his prints and 

etchings, which reflect the influence of the French Realist movement on his work. 

Created during the late 1850s to 1880s, these works depict scenes of 

everyday life and include pieces from some of Whistler’s most famous series of 

etchings, the “French Set” and “Thames Set.” The exhibition Realism in Print, a 

collection of 23 etchings from the Dr. Richard L. Shorkey Collection, comes to 

AMoA by way of ...

Cenla native and longtime New Orleans resident, Steve Martin observes, 

“We respond to line and form instinctively, without conscious thought.”  In a 

retrospective exhibition, “Figurative Expressionism…” Martin works in a variety

of media as he explores the quality of these elements in a prolific sampling of 

paintings, sculptures, and prints. Martin has become both artist and entrepreneur, 

as owner of Steve Martin Studios, based in both New Orleans and Miami.  

His own work is now represented in over one thousand corporate, civic, private, 

and museum collections throughout the world. Steve will be teaching a “Master 

Class” in wire sculpture ...