Arthur Roger Gallery is a street art installation in Arts- Warehouse District in New Orleans. This place has 51 reviews and an average rating of 4.9 of 5. This is an outstanding rating!
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Amazing gallery. Almost felt like a contemporary art museum. The quality of the art work is top notch. Hope I'll have enough funds in the future to afford a piece from this gallery.
An excellent gallery showcasing some of the most unique art from super talented artists. The gallery is large enough to display the artists work properly, but not so huge that you can't take it all in. I especially loved Leslie Dill's work and could have played with Lin Emery's moving sculptures for hours. Arthur Roger Gallery is a beautiful representation of the New Orleans Arts District.
This is a great gallery to visit in the New Orleans Art district. The staff are friendly and very low key. You can stroll around the gallery and take your time. There are usually several artists presented so you have some variety to view. If you like to go to galleries you will like this one.
February 15, 2020 @ 7:52 AM
Starbucks, Standard NOLA, Corner of Girod and O’Keefe
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday made for a good day. I went for a walk along the galleries on Julia Street, one of my favorite walks in New Orleans. A good street that has a landing where cruise ships make port on the Mississippi River and also has two stadiums on the north end, the Superdome and the Smoothie King Center. I popped into the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery and wandered about, which is what one does in art galleries. My hearing must be good lately because I heard two men talking to the gallerist, “We’re exhibiting over at Arthur Roger Gallery”.
Dale Chihuly himself exhibits at Arthur Roger. Arthur Roger exhibits a few Chihuly chandeliers, which you might remember seeing in our visits to Habitat Gallery in Pontiac, Michigan. You even saw one assembled one visit and then disassembled into its glass blown shapes, scattered on the floor, awaiting packing.
Chihuly doesn’t actually blow his shapes anymore; he gives the designs to gaffers to execute. Yet, Roger Gallery was exhibiting the paintings on glass that Chihuly does execute himself. I loved the big blotches of blue on clearer glass and wondered how well those panels would catch the light in a lake house? But neither of these men were Chihuly, who would be very conspicuous, wearing an eye patch.
I wouldn’t have approached Dave Chihuly, such a superstar. I wandered up casually and said, “I love Arthur Roger Gallery. I’ve admired all the artists exhibited at Roger”. Without asking, “Who are you”, the men introduced themselves, two men about the same age. “I’m Jim Richard. And this is John Ahern”. Richard had just picked up Ahern at the airport, probably hosting the Bronx artist for the duration of Mardi Gras.
In fact, a parade from one side of the city to the other was about to take over St Charles Street for the evening. Businesses had gone to the extent of boarding up windows with plywood, wrapping plants with protective enclosures and setting barriers of woven, steel fence around their buildings. What was this monster coming, not a hurricane but a drove of people drinking hurricanes?
I loved Richard’s paintings, and I told him so in a few words. “Jim, every time I look at your gallery of work, I think it is an entirely new exhibition. And I’ve made a visit almost every day for the last few weeks”. Ahern makes sculptures of people he meets on the sidewalk in the Bronx. Richard curated a show for Ahern, but it hardly was necessary to raise Ahern to a new level. I took individual shots of Ahern’s casts of people and two of my followers strongly responded.
Katherine Tholl of Troy New York exhibited sculptures, not drawn from life but drawn from her imaginations. Her collection looked like Ahern’s work, although more cartoonish. She spotted my TikTok of Ahern right away and she described how his work inspired hers. A woman who surreptitiously posts pastes of African American women in Washington DC loved Ahern’s work because he represented African faces so lovingly. “He exalts the African face”, she wrote. I do not know who she is other than the person who posts as Absurdly Well. In fact, I have inferred that she identifies as a female. I really have no idea. I filled Ahern in on the fan club I had discovered for his work.
Ahern said, “Well, sir, you cross the line. Please reach out to me at the earliest opportunity”. He gave me a business card, hand lettered, with his contact information. I asked if I could share the information with his fan club. “That’s all right. I’ll take their likeness on the sidewalk if that’s okay”. I promised to share his contact information so the two could make an appointment. Ahern makes two copies of his castings, one for himself and one for the subject to keep. No wonder people “cross the line” and hit him up outside Fashion Moda in the South Bronx.
Many thanks for hosting an event for The Buttigieg campaign. Beautiful gallery.
Address: 432 Julia St, New Orleans, LA 70130 Opening Hours: Monday: ClosedTuesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMWednesday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMThursday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMFriday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMSaturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PMSunday: Closed Visit the website
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