Deep Time: Interview with Michel Varisco
Michel’s work has a keen ability to imprint you with something beyond an understanding of what’s at stake or has already been lost on our coast; she’s tapped into a deeper current.
Never out of ideas
I like for art to have a broad appeal-art for the people. I want it to be real. I want it on the down low.
Horror Vacui: Douglas Bourgeois
For Douglas Bourgeois, art is something everyone can know; it belongs to anyone with an eye for the spectacular. “Art is an open secret,” as he puts it, though it must be said that no one tells the secret quite like he does.
Artist In Exile: Michael Meads
He meticulously chronicled the New Orleans underworld for decades before Katrina hit and destroyed much of his studio and countless works of original art. Though he has relocated to higher ground in New Mexico for the time being, he remains a devoted reveler and supernumerary in the mad opera of New Orleans.