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A native of Monroe, Louisiana, Vitus Shell works with complex and intense ideas surrounding the black experience in America. His mixed media compositions often juxtapose contemporary figures in modern dress with collaged vintage ads and repeated, printed elements including text. He uses these varying elements to bridge a gap between generations and highlight the nuance…
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A resident of Northwestern Louisiana, Joshua Chambers constructs quiet narrative scenes that reflect real and relatable experiences and decisions. Chambers’ compositions are influenced by absurdist theater, with their deconstructed sets, soft washes of moody colored lighting, implied vastness of space, and visible incorporation of props. Pairings of unusual characters and costumes construct a mythological universe…
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Don Cincone was born Don Wills in a sharecropper’s home in Alto, LA. When he was seven, his family moved to Monroe. As a young man, Cincone spent three years traveling throughout Europe studying the work of master painters in Europe’s great museums and cathedrals. After returning to the U.S., Cincone studied fashion design and…
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Peter Jones is a second-generation Woodstock, New York, artist. His father, Wendell Jones, painted murals for the U.S. Treasury’s Section of Fine Arts program during the Depression, and went on to teach at Vassar College, while his mother, Jane Jones, specialized in portraits. He earned a degree in fine arts from Amherst College and studied…
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Edwin Pinkston lives in Ruston, Louisiana, where he taught painting and drawing at Louisiana Tech University from 1968 to 2004. He is an abstract painter. Pinkston intentionally limits his compositions to a square format because the shape pleases him and it gives him a consistent foundation on which to build his work. He contrasts a…
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John Geldersma works primarily in wood and has produced a wide array of pieces in archetypal forms, from his hanging Shamans to mandala-like totemic sculpture termed Spirit Poles. These are inspired by primitive fetishes, various trans-historic ritualistic geometric designs, and the vibrant cultural milieu of his native southwestern Louisiana. The artist has cited his early…
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John Geldersma works primarily in wood and has produced a wide array of pieces in archetypal forms, from his hanging Shamans to mandala-like totemic sculpture termed Spirit Poles. These are inspired by primitive fetishes, various trans-historic ritualistic geometric designs, and the vibrant cultural milieu of his native southwestern Louisiana. The artist has cited his early…
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Jenny Ellerbe is a self-taught photographer whose black and white images are landscape driven and often deal with the historical or ecological importance of a site. Ellerbe’s images are meant to give a sense of the places she photographs. Her work has an enduring quality that manages to make subtle references to the passage of…
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Jenny Ellerbe, a Monroe, Louisiana native, is a self-taught photographer that creates black and white digital archival images with a conceptual strategy to illustrate the historical importance of her surroundings. She makes work within about sixty miles of her home, often traveling on the water by kayak. Ellerbe focuses on the environments as they are…
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Born in 1953, Samuel Corso is a Louisiana native. He attended Louisiana State University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in 1977. In the same year he became business partners with his mentor, Paul Dufour, a long time professor at LSU. Corso is skilled in the use of charcoal, ink, paint, and glass….
