Object Lesson: Way Over There Inside Me (Ocean as a super throughway #4) by Torkwase Dyson

July 27, 2021Object Lessons

Way Over There Inside Me (Ocean as a super throughway #4) layers dense, minimal shapes, diagrammatic lines, and thick textures of graphite, acrylic, charcoal, and ink over washes of deep blue paint. Within her practice, Dyson has developed a unique vocabulary of abstract lines, forms, shapes, and edges inspired by the design systems of architecture, water infrastructure, the oil and gas industry, and the physical impact of global warming. Read More

A sculpture by Ida Kohlmeyer in the Besthoff Sculpture Garden is made of abstract painted aluminum shapes.

Object Lesson: Rebus 3D-89-3 by Ida Kohlmeyer

July 6, 2021Object Lessons

This month, Ida Kohlmeyer’s painted aluminum sculpture Rebus 3D-89-3 returns to the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, newly refreshed from structural repairs and brandishing a brand new coat of paint. The expert restoration—undertaken by Kohlmeyer’s longtime fabricator G. Paul Lucas of Lucas Limited in Louisburg, Kansas—brings the work back to its intended brilliancy and allows us to appreciate the work of one of Louisiana’s most influential and enigmatic abstract artists anew. Read More

Object Lesson: Symbols of Communication by Enrique Alférez

April 27, 2021Object Lessons

Symbols of Communication is a large-scale, bas-relief mural by Enrique Alférez, a Mexican artist who lived and worked in New Orleans. The mural celebrates the diversity of human culture, and showcases our desire to share our stories and connect with one another through language. Read More

Object Lesson: Mother and Child by Elizabeth Catlett

January 12, 2021News, Object Lessons

[Update, February 2023: Following the installation of Elizabeth Catlett’s Woman and Child in NOMA’s Great Hall, the sculpture is on view in the George l. Viavant Gallery on the museum’s second floor.] When artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett lived in New Orleans in the early 1940s, much of the city was racially segregated, including City… Read More

Object Lesson: The Mete of the Muse by Fred Wilson

June 22, 2020News, Object Lessons, 2020

In a new body of large-scale sculptures, painting, installations, and performances, which includes The Mete of the Muse, Fred Wilson focuses on histories of the African diaspora, and the lingering legacy of colonialism and slavery in the United States and around the world. Read More

Object Lesson: Guardian Angels by Dorothea Tanning

May 26, 2020News, Object Lessons, 2020

Dorothea Tanning painted Guardian Angels the same year she left Manhattan to live in solitude with her partner Max Ernst in a small desert town in the American Southwest. Fleeing the chaos of big cities like New York and Paris, Tanning found incredible creative freedom in her self-imposed isolation. Often focusing on the confines of… Read More

Object Lesson: Wing by Lynda Benglis

May 11, 2020News, Object Lessons, 2020

Lynda Benglis’s art is simultaneously subtle and imposing, subdued and sensual, earthy and surreal. In the 1960s, the Louisiana native shocked the New York art world with her electric-hued sculptures and provocative video and performance work, whose vibrant colors and free-form compositions ran counter to the more austere aesthetic of much art of the time…. Read More

Object Lesson: Dogwood Display II by Alma W. Thomas

May 8, 2020News, Object Lessons, 2020

“I say everyone on earth should take note of the spring, coming back every year, blooming and gorgeous.” —Alma W. Thomas In Alma Thomas’s painting Dogwood Display II, a rainbow of color ripples beneath streaks of white paint, recalling the bursting blossoms of a dogwood tree, or white clouds shimmering in the sky on a… Read More

Object Lesson: The Garden Party by Toyin Ojih Odutola

May 5, 2020News, Object Lessons, 2020

“I am my own person, a land that I now wish to take back. Here, I will show you. Do not omit me or render me invisible…I am here, I will not be erased or smudged out. I am as vast and wondrous as the night sky.” –Toyin Ojih Odutola Toyin Ojih Odultola created The… Read More

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Q&A: Dawn DeDeaux discusses her forthcoming retrospective

May 26, 2020News, Interviews

Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds is the first comprehensive museum exhibition for pioneering multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux. Since the 1970s, DeDeaux has spanned video, performance, photography and installation to create art that exists at the edge of the Anthropocene, anticipating a future imperiled by runaway population growth, breakneck industrial development, disease, and the looming… Read More

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