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.
Truth and Time: The Paintings of Ulrick Jean-Pierre
The scale and vitality of his paintings put us directly into the fray, and with a single glance Haiti can no longer be dismissed.
La Decadencia: Interview with Piki Mendizabal
The movement of the water and its mysterious sound is the natural force most represented in my work.
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.
Start Digging: Interview with Fred Sipp
That dream come directly from God. God knows what you need, and God helps those who try to help themselves. He sent me to New Orleans.
Defending the Collective: An Interview with Malik Rahim
From his days organizing with the Black Panther Party in the Desire Projects, to co-founding the Common Ground Collective, Malik’s brilliance as a community organizer lies in the simplicity of his model: gather any and all available resources, do the necessary work no matter how unglamorous it may be, and honor and protect one another like your life depends on it.
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.