David Sullivan

There is a brief interview with Dan Cameron on ArtNet where Dan talks about the affects of Katrina and the oil disaster on NOLA and how artists have responded. He mentions Dan Tague, Brian Borello, and my animations. Thanks to Dan for continuing to put these issues out in front of a national art audience.

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/davis/dan-cameron-new-orleans9-1-10.asp

For those that missed it many years ago, Courtney Egan’s  program, Below Sea Level, of film and video relating to Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent Failure of the federal levees that flooded NOLA will be showing at the Og den Museum all day  on Aug 26th, the fifth anniversary of Katrina. A theatrical version (non-dynamic) of my software, Floating will be shown as part of the program. Below is the info:

Film at the O presents Below Sea Level: The Land Inhabited, a daylong screening of films and videos related directly or obliquely to the tragic events of the 2005 hurricane season on the Gulf Coast. The screening is Thurs. Aug. 26, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. in the Museum’s Patrick F. Taylor Library. It is free to Louisiana residents.

Curated by video artist and NOCCA instructor Courtney Egan in collaboration with Ogden Museum Curator of Film Madeleine Molyneaux, the program will be projected continuously throughout the day, allowing visitors to experience the work in various order and combination. The program will include short films by Luisa Dantas, Courtney Egan, Gert Town Hounds-New Orleans Kid Camera Project, Sallie Ann Glassman, Paul Grass, Helen Hill and Paul Gailiunas, Liza Johnson, Brent Joseph, William Sabourin O’Reilly, Royce Osborn, Ivor Shearer, David Sullivan, Phoebe Tooke, José Torres-Tama, 2-Cent Media Collective, Walter Williams and The Yes Men.

What: Below Sea Level: The Land Inhabited film screenings

Day/Time: Thurs. Aug. 26, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Where: Patrick F. Taylor Library. Entrance through Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, La. Admission: Free to Museum members, Louisiana residents with valid id, University of New Orleans students, staff and faculty, and children under 5; $10 general admission; $8 Seniors (65 and over) and Students (with current i.d.); $5 Children 5 to 17.

A show of my prints on die-cut aluminum and one of my animated paintings will be at Maryland Hall in Annapolis, MD for the next month. If you have a chance, please stop by and take a look.

Power Up

Jonathan has put together a charity fundraiser to support the recovery from the tragic BP oil leak, through Gulf Aid. A great group of artists have each created a limited edition print that will be available for purchase online at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery’s website and at a special 3 day show in the gallery, June 17 – 19.

For the fundraiser, I created an image of a pelican, perhaps rising phoenix like from the oil.

13"x19" archival inkjet print in an edition of 10

thurs through sunday (June 13th) are the last days for the la artworks studio residents show. la artworks is open 11 am – 5 pm. if you come by saturday, i’ll be there to give you a personal tour.

http://www.louisianaartworks.org/

Field Recordings: New Video Work by Courtney Egan opens at Heriard Cimino Gallery on julia st in nola this sat from 6-8pm. the show will be up for the month of june. I think the show is fabulous. Come out and see what you think.

a studio in the woods is having their forestival celebration of art and nature out in the woods on sat, june 5th from 11 am until 5pm. If you have never been out there, this would be the perfect time to visit. If you have, you know that it is a hidden treasure, so go out and support them. there will be music by panorama jazz band, artist presentations, botany tours, kid art activities and an auction chock full of goodies including work by ron bechet, theresa cole, jan gilbert, shawn hall, and myself.

A couple of  my pieces were selected to be in a show called Resilience at the Williams Tower Gallery in downtown houston. The show opens thurs, june 3, 6-8 pm and is up until july 16th. Other artists in the show include Pat Cronin and Mitchell Gaudet.

So busy, i forgot to put up a post about the La Artworks Fundraiser, where i debuted my self-portrait piece “Identity Theft”. Folks appeared to have a lot of fun with it, and i hope to show it elsewhere soon. In the meantime, all of the La Artworks studio residents have their work installed throughout the first 2 floors of the LAW building on howard st near lee circle. it is open  thurs -sun until june 13th. I have a couple of aluminum prints up, and the rest of the folks have put up some great work too.

The 2010 juror Bill Arning has selected seventy-five pieces of art created by twenty- six artists to be part of the Southern Open exhibition opening on May 8. Three of these are prints of mine. The Southern Open is n the Main Gallery of the AcA in downtown Lafayette beginning on May 8 and running through July 24, 2010. The opening reception will be May 8th during the lafayette artwalk. Come on out and see the show.

link to the Acadiana Center for the Arts