2019

Tripping Over Cypress is an examination of how the artist Cliff Tresner places himself within the literal and cultural landscape of Louisiana. Originally a Hoosier, he is an adoptive Louisianan since 1997. At any given moment a change in weather…

William Moreland was an educator who touched the lives of thousands of artists during his tenure at the University of Southwestern Louisiana from 1955 to 1986. He is best known for his elaborately framed non-objective paintings that enunciate a sense…

Henry Botkin (1896–1983) was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art before moving to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. While in New York, he worked as…

Through the media of visual art and poetry, artist Melissa Bonin explores ancient and universal themes. She uses nature as metaphor to create a personal symbolic language. Her work examines life, death, rebirth, transformation and the intersection between Heaven and…

Curated by Susan H. Edwards, PhD, Director & Katie Delmez, Curator Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex reveals how a New Orleans husband-and-wife team uses their cameras as tools for social engagement and reminds their audiences of persistent racial inequities, especially…

Sharon Kopriva’s art is larger than life. This is not a result of her tendency towards large-scale work, rather it is connected to how she depicts and selects her subject matter. Her points of reference run the gamut from Nazca…

Richard Landry’s 1973 video Quad Suite explores the performative nature of both video and music. As a musician and composer, Landry pushes the boundaries of music, exploring new ways to use the acoustics of physical spaces and electronic delays. In…

John F. Simon, Jr., a native of Louisiana, is a noted software art pioneer. Paths and Loops acknowledges this status, and explores the nature of his creative process with a breadth and depth that has not been matched before. Simon…

Past the Frame: Abstraction and Its Environs in the Work of Allan Jones, 1968-2018, honors five decades of ambitious painting, from groundbreaking works of the late 1960s and 1970s defined by the use of a spray gun (rather than a…

Kota Ezawa is one of the world’s preeminent appropriation artists. His source materials, video footage in the case of Kota Ezawa: Two Views, are pulled from films that have achieved iconic cultural status, but he alters them to generate new…

An interactive public art project by Emily Stergar Part of being from a place, or living in a community is knowing the landscape. Oftentimes, the earth under your feet feels more authentic than a person ever could. Emily Stergar’s work…

This exhibition features the work of Gisela Colon, and American contemporary artist who has developed a unique vocabulary of organic minimalism, breathing life into reductive forms. Upon entering the gallery, one is surrounded by wall-hung biomorphic forms in multiple glowing…

The Hilliard University Art Museum is excited to present Faculty Miniatures: Toward the Condensed and Not-Yet-Known. Curated by Chris Bennett, Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts, the exhibition sets out to examine the conceptual and…

The fluid and fragile nature of memory is extremely important to Daniel Canogar. Within his studio practice Canogar frequently posits technology as reflective of society’s shared consciousness in that technology is constantly changing; the new replacing the old at such…

The George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts grants monetary scholarships to high school juniors and seniors through an annual visual arts competition in order to encourage individual participation in the arts. Over 650 high school students from across Louisiana entered…

Denise Gallagher is passionate about creating. An internationally published author and illustrator, Denise is deeply inspired by rare animals, ancient folklore and her Louisiana home. Always ready for an idea to strike, Denise carries a sketchbook wherever she goes to…