Art Poster Camp on the Bayou by Matt Williams Oct 2005 Signed
After Lynda Benglis, 2020
By Heather Ryan Kelley
Medium: gold and argent leafage, encaustic, glitter, oil and glow-in-the-dark pigment on canvas
Dimensions: 20 x 20 inches
When because how to create a work in response to the career of Lynda Benglis, I knew I wanted to use the range of materials she explored, spanning from traditional media of golden leaf, silver leafage, and encaustic to craft materials similar glitter and glow-in-the-dark paint. Of the many famous photographs of Benglis, I was thinking of the pic of her wearing a Greek costume taken when she was ten or eleven years old while visiting Greece. For the image in my painting titled Later Lynda Benglis I used the contours of the Greek mainland and islands as a way of relating her heritage with the forms in her poured sculptures and her inventive use of media.
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Lynda Benglis
American sculptor and visual artist Lynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles on October 25th, 1941 and was the eldest of five children. She attended McNeese Country University and later earned a BFA from Newcomb College in New Orleans. In 1964, she moved to New York where she studied painting at the Brooklyn Museum Fine art School. She became acquainted with many influential artists, such as Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, and Barnett Newman. Her work has been included in over 40 exhibitions, in locations such equally: Norway, Brussels, New Zealand, and Italy.
The Swamp Fob—Alvin Dark, 2020
By Erik Jessen
Medium: mixed media on artist board
Dimensions: 11 x xiv inches
To represent an All-Star talent that achieved and so much in i piece tin be a claiming. I learned much about Mr. Dark'due south journeying and enjoyed creating a piece to represent such a great American that had roots in Lake Charles, LA. Alvin Dark achieved and then much in baseball and shared his talents with so many teams, I wanted to create a piece that communicated his journey through baseball - as a role player, and so a manager. I chose to represent Mr. Dark at age 32, when he played for the New York Giants. His career every bit a player generally shined in this era every bit a 3x All-Star, and winning the World Series in 1954. I represented all the teams he played for and managed, every bit the letters constitute on the hats of the players. Using the bat equally a dividing line - the teams below is who Alvin played for; the teams above the bat are the teams he managed. The banner hanging in the stadium represents his iii All-Star's and the pennants bear witness his World Serial wins, once equally a player, and then every bit a managing director. At that place was ane very important laurels left, his Rookie of the Year in 1948 while playing for the Boston Braves, which is marked on the bat he holds. This is a mixed media slice of pencil colors and acrylic on artist board.
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Alvin Dark
Alvin Dark is considered to be the greatest athlete ever to come out of Lake Charles. Dark was the 1948 Major League Rookie of the Year and was a 3-time All-Star during his xiii-year playing career. He served as captain of the 1954 World Serial champion New York Giants and afterwards managed both the San Francisco Giants and Oakland's A's to Earth Series titles. He relocated to Easley in the 1980s and began the Alvin Dark Foundation, which supports ministries. He was a member of the New York Giants Baseball Hall of Fame, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame, the LSU Sports Hall of Fame and the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame.
Eddie, 2020
By Devin Morgan
Medium: monotype w/ mixed media
Dimensions: xx inches
Upon the invitation to participate in this exhibit with the subject non beingness a traditional portrait I began to research nontraditional approaches to portraiture and the different mediums some artists were using to create them. I wanted to create something that not simply portrayed Eddie, but also honored his passion for music, efforts to document regional musical styles of southwest Louisiana, and the promotion of the many different recording artists that worked with him. My immediate thought was to incorporate a source of music that most people are familiar with: a vinyl record. At first I toyed around with the idea of painting and collage and began taking notes on how I would starting time the process by making preparatory sketches. At i point I changed gears to enable myself to employ a more fluid trial and mistake process utilizing the actual vinyl tape to pull monotype prints from. I so transferred the illustrations from album artwork and drew Eddie at his mixing panel. To award the many talented bands and musicians that recorded with Eddie, I inscribed their names with music annotations post-obit the record groves around the vinyl.
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Eddie Schuler
Eddie Schuler was born in Wrightsboro, Texas, in 1913 and moved to Lake Charles in 1942 to work in an oil refinery. Schuler played the guitar with the Hackberry Ramblers earlier forming his own band, The All-Star Revelies. He formed Goldband Records in 1945, originally to tape his own group. Shortly after he established the Goldband complex and recording studio in Lake Charles. Hitting recordings included Boozoo Chavis's "Paper in My Shoe," Phil Phillips's "Sea of Beloved" and Dolly Parton's first tape, "Puppy Beloved."
DeBakey, 2020
By Lisa Reinauer
Medium: acrylic on canvass
Dimensions: 20 x twenty inches
This portrayal of Dr. Michael Ellis DeBakey was influenced by interviews conducted with the world-renown cardiovascular surgeon, educator, and inventor. When asked about innovation he said," To be an innovator one must exist discontent with what exists. Ane who is satisfied with life as it is, is not probable to introduce."
Dr. Michael DeBakey was never satisfied. His innate love for learning, for mastering any discipline he studied, and for teaching others, seemed to be office of the fabric of his being. It was his custom as a child to read one book a calendar week from the library. His female parent's instruction in sewing was not lost on a young surgeon, as he went to cloth stores in search of materials. He invented the Dacron graft using his wife'southward sewing car.
When asked to name the near important courses in his education, he listed philosophy, literature, and math, every bit he believed these to be fundamental to the knowledge of an educated person. He loved to write and he loved poetry. He loved educational activity considering it put him in the midst of others with whom he could explore and commutation ideas.
Dr. DeBakey felt life was becoming increasingly passive, and like the heart or whatsoever musculus, i must utilise it or lose it to cloudburst. This portrait represents the stages of innovation – thought leads to concept and so invention and finally achievement. The image of the man himself is left fluid, as Dr. DeBakey was never content to cease learning.
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Dr. Michael East. DeBakey
Physician Michael East. DeBakey was a cardiac and vascular surgeon whose career spanned 75 years. DeBakey was built-in in Lake Charles on September 7thursday, 1908 to Lebanese immigrants. He attended Tulane University and Tulane University School of Medicine. He besides served in the U.S. Army during WWII. He received a number of awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, and the Congressional Aureate Medal. Multiple institutions carry his name. He performed over 70,000 surgeries and operated on some of the most famous people in the world, including the Duke of Windsor and the Shah of Persia.
Compassion, 2020
By Meagan Light-green
Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 12 ten 12 inches
Where we come from and who we are, the constraints of being and becoming mold united states. When deciding how I wanted to stand for Lucinda Williams, I kept returning to her human relationship with her begetter - poet, Miller Williams. His words and personal exchange of critiques were the ties in which Lucinda relied on up until his decease in 2015. This piece is a delineation of Pity, his verse form turned song, from her 2014 album Down Where The Spirit Meets the Bone. I was fatigued to the truth in phrases and rawness in her voice. The lyrics are a abiding reminder to have compassion for all we encounter.
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Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams was built-in in Lake Charles on Jan 26thursday, 1953. She is the girl of literature professor Miller Williams and amateur pianist, Lucille Day. Williams started writing music at the historic period of 6 and was playing guitar by the age of 12. She recorded her commencement album in 1978 and in 1988 she released her self-titled anthology featuring the song "Passionate Kisses," that garnered her start Grammy Award for Best Country Vocal in 1994.
Lake Charles Famous, 2020
By Eddie Mormon
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: thirty x xl inches
Painting Nellie Lutcher meant a lot to me personally, and finishing this piece of work is similar bringing her back to life. I promise her legacy is known for a long fourth dimension. She was a saint, and she played the piano like ane besides. That'southward on the real side, you know?
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Nellie Lutcher
Nellie Lutcher was an R&B and jazz vocaliser and pianist, who shot to stardom in the belatedly 1940s and early 1950s. Lutcher was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the eldest daughter of Isaac and Suzie Lutcher. Both of her parents were active in the local church. At age 15, Lutcher joined Clarence Hart's Majestic Jazz band. In 1935, she moved to Los Angeles, where she married Leonel Lewis and had a son. In 1948 she had a cord of chart toping hits and in 1950, Lutcher dueted with Nat "Male monarch" Cole on "For You My Beloved" and "Can I Come in for a 2nd." She died in Los Angeles in 2007, at the age of 94.
Here Comes the Judge, 2020
By Patsy Zwahlen
Medium: mixed media
Dimensions: twenty ten 20 inches
As a Federal Approximate and a woman of color, I feel that Judge Norma Holloway Johnson deserves to be honored in a way fitting for someone who non simply accomplished so much in her career, simply likewise did and so with force and nobility. The news media titles in her portrait represent the trial she oversaw in 1998 regarding President Pecker Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. To me, the teal colour chosen in the portraiture represents force and serves every bit a representation of non-color. Afterwards condign the first African American woman to serve as Chief Judge, she paved the fashion for women everywhere.
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Judge Norma Holloway Johnson
Guess Norma Holloway Johnson was born in Lake Charles on July 28thursday, 1932 and received a Bachelor of Science caste from District of Columbia Teachers College in 1955, followed past a Juris Doctor from Georgetown Law in 1962. Kickoff inbound private practise in Washington D.C., she afterward became a trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice Civil Division from 1963 to 1967. Johnson was appointed by President Nixon in 1970 to be a judge of the District of Columbia Superior Court, subsequently condign the get-go African American adult female to serve every bit Chief Judge. Estimate Johnson was known to objectively apply the law to all parties irrespective of politics. She oversaw the grand jury investigation into President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky. Among a series of pivotal decisions, Approximate Johnson delivered a setback to the president'south efforts to limit the scope of the investigation, ruling that he could not invoke executive privilege or lawyer-client privilege in trying to cake prosecutors from questioning his aides. Just, she likewise held prosecutors, which investigated President Clinton accountable for illegally leaking secret grand jury testimony to twenty-iv media outlets.
Perception, 2020
Past Melinda Antoon Cormier
Medium: mixed media acrylic on sail
Dimensions: 16 x 16 inches
Tony Kushner is a thoughtful, visionary human. Much has been declared virtually his brilliant talents, and the proofs of such are the landmark productions that accept changed the way we consider our history, our future, and ourselves.
I came away from this beginning study of Kushner with an admiration for his power to translate words into passions. In looking at pictures of him, I noticed he kept choosing the glasses of a scholar. Round eyed. Clear visioned. It's the telling icon in this little work, equally a proffer of the person himself. Pivotal themes are visually mentioned, but what mattered was finding a residual, of peace and agitation, of blood shed and calm regained. And through feeling his works, there comes a knowledge that despair cannot prevent the spirit from rising.
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Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner moved with this family from Manhattan to Lake Charles shortly after his nativity. During his childhood Kushner was agile in policy debate. He returned to New York in 1974 to attend Columbia University, where he received a Available of Arts degree. Kushner received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America, which was later adapted for an HBO series. He also co-authored the screenplay for the 2005 film Munich and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln.
Ball's Pink Elephant, 2020
By Rex Alexander
Medium: porcelain with red copper glaze
On considering how to illustrate the life of Reginald Ball Sr. through ceramics, Alexander considered Ball's unwavering service to his community in ways that changed every bit the needs of the customs changed. From trade school to music halls to restaurants to seasoning—and everything in between, Brawl'south attention to the advocacy of his community is apparent in all he did. In this piece, Alexander high-fired 15 pounds of porcelain with copper red glaze, creating something that called into his mind Ball'southward Pink Elephant.
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Reginald Ball Sr.
Reginald Brawl Sr. was a native of Winnfield and lived in Lake Charles most of his life. He was a member of Mount Calvary Baptist Church and a life-member of the Lake Charles Chamber of Commerce. He was agile in a number of committees, boards, and organizations. He founded the get-go African American trade school in the area and served on the Mayor'south informational council. His business ventures included Brawl'southward Auditorium, Brawl's Apartments, Ball's Tropicana, and Ball's Bulldoze-Inn. In 1977, Ball formally launched his Creole Seasoning Company. His trademark all-purpose seasoning is now found in almost major supermarkets and remains a staple in many Southwest Louisiana households.
A Tapestry of Words, 2020
By Meghan Fleming
Medium: handmade paper and paper strips
Dimensions: 18 10 18 inches
A friend gave me a copy of Andre Dubus's Selected Stories in 1998. I read the work quickly, absorbing every word, and promptly followed it with a volume of essays. The poignancy of his work—at times gut-wrenching, then tender—capturing the messiness and beauty of life had me hooked. He immediately joined the ranks every bit one of my favorite writers. A twelvemonth later, I institute out I was moving to Lake Charles, and considered it a proficient omen because Dubus was from Lake Charles.
In considering my arroyo to TWOFOLD, creating a weaving of his writings felt true to his work and the way he worked. I divided hundreds of small strips of newspaper from copies of his handwritten letters, his published works, and newspaper manufactures nigh him. Reduced into this abstracted grade, the strips revealed textural patterns, symbolic of a lifetime of experiences woven together.
Dubus placed much importance on the editing process. He described the ritual of writing five pages a twenty-four hours, but merely using a fraction of what he had written. It was the act of writing that mattered. There was a moment while working on this piece that I felt like a kindred spirit. I had cut hundreds of pieces of paper, but but used a portion of them in the weaving. The editing process created the piece, and this projection reminded me that returning to the studio day afterwards day—making piece of work—is what matters.
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Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus Ii was built-in on August xithursday, 1936 in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He attended Catholic school in Lafayette and graduated from McNeese State College in 1958 equally a journalism and English language major. He then spent six years in the Marine Corps, rise to the rank of captain. Many of his short stories were published in distinguished journals such as Ploughshares, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Several writing awards are named in honor of Dubus. He spent his later years in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he died in 1999, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
Senator Shero, 2020
By Lydia Powers
Medium: paper, watercolor, ink
Dimensions: 20 x twenty inches
When considering how to best illustrate Willie Mount'southward bear upon as mayor of Lake Charles and equally a state senator, I wanted to create something for the youth who need a role model. I chose a newspaper doll because they have a rich history of helping children to imagine the world from their perspectives and build empathy. Paper dolls are unique considering those who tin't afford manufactured ones can hands create their own. It's an attainable art class for everyone. I retrieve these qualities capture the spirit of Willie Mount.
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Senator Willie Mount
Louisiana politico Willie Mount has left an indelible marker on her hometown of Lake Charles, Louisiana. She obtained a Bachelor of Business organisation Administration degree from McNeese State University and was a small business owner. She was elected the 25th Mayor of Lake Charles in 1993 and served at that capacity until 1999. Mountain was the starting time woman to serve as the mayor of Lake Charles. Mount served as a Autonomous member of the Louisiana Country Senate from 2000 to 2012.
Lover's Heart, 2020
Past Matthew Duplichan
Medium: acrylic on sail
Dimensions: xi ten 14 inches
This painting explores the infamous story of an atmospherics that happened between Charles Anselm Sallier, his married woman Catherine LaBleu and Jean Lafitte. During the years 1815 to 1821, when Jean Lafitte was headquartered in Galveston, he spent many hours slipping up through the Calcasieu River and Contraband Bayou and docking in forepart of the crush mounds by the Sallier's cabin on the southeast shore of the lake to visit with his friends.
Legend has information technology that Lafitte was in honey with Catherine, and Charles would accuse her of existence too friendly with the buccaneer. One day, Charles was away for business longer than expected and upon returning to their cabin he discovered Lafitte's sister inviting Catherine to go and stay with them in Beaumont. Charles caught a glimpse of Catherine wearing a gold and amethyst brooch that was gifted to her by Jean Lafitte. He assumed the worst and in a rage, drew his pistol and shot his married woman.
Fortunately for Catherine, the bullet striking her manus so the amethyst brooch, which saved her life. Catherine'due south blood brother Arsene LeBleu and Lafitte chased later on Sallier for justice. He was never heard from once again. Catherine lived out her life raising her kids and never remarried and nigh believe that she was innocent of Charles' accusations. Nevertheless, the mysterious lover's eye miniature is an embellishment of the brooch, which represents Charles' fear and projection of the thing, hence Lafitte's center in the miniature.
After being referred to every bit "Charlie's lake" for a long time, information technology later became known as Charleston. In 1867, it was reincorporated as the city of Lake Charles. The frame is fabricated from a unmarried oak beam that cured for over 75 years and harkens to Lake Charles' lumber town era and the symbolism of our electric current dedication to Mr. Charles, the Sallier oak tree.
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Charles Sallier
Lake Charles, Louisiana was named for Charles Sallier, a pioneer settler of the surface area. Sallier came to this surface area sometime after 1781 and married Catherine LeBleu. Catherine was the daughter of the first settlers near Lake Charles, Martin, and Dela LeBleu. Charles and Catherine settled well-nigh the lake and had half dozen children. Every bit legend tells it, Charles thought that Catherine was having an affair with Pirate Jean Lafitte. In a rage, he shot at his married woman, causeless she was dead and left boondocks never to exist seen again. Catherine survived the attempted murder thanks to her brooch, which deflected the bullet. She lived out her life in Lake Charles raising the half dozen children. She was interred in Sallier Cemetery.
Homage to Clarence John Laughlin, 2020
By Lynn Reynolds
Medium: digital photo, archival inkjet impress
Dimensions: 19 ten 20 inches
Tracing a straight path dorsum to the distinctive content selections as well as the unconventional stylistic approaches indicative to Clarence John Laughlin's unique visual aesthetic provided me with ample creative inspiration for my Homage to Clarence John Laughlin, 2020.
Widely recognized for his black and white photographic masterpiece Ghosts Along the Mississippi, 1948 Clarence John Laughlin's personal creative sensibilities distinguished his photographic works from those of his contemporaries by embracing an overtly symbolic, visually poetic dialogue of realist photographic expression.
While the master image in Homage to Clarence John Laughlin, 2020 was conspicuously inspired by his boldly unique photographic aesthetic the secondary vignettes ( below ) directly reference era-specific photographic equipment (four x 5-inch film holder) and innovative technical approaches (zone organization exposure method) utilized by Clarence John Laughlin throughout his career.
*note: repeated in each secondary vignette is (self) Portrait of the Photographer equally a Metaphysician, 1941.
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Clarence John Laughlin
Photographer Clarence John Laughlin was all-time known for his surrealist work of the American S. He was born in Lake Charles and grew upwardly in New Orleans. His photography career spanned over 50 years, and he is often thought of every bit the first truthful surrealist photographer in the United States. Laughlin died in 1985 in New Orleans and was cached in Paris's Père Lachaise Cemetery in grave 18223.
Ida, 2020
By Sajeela Siddiq
Medium: digital analogy
Dimensions: sixteen x twenty inches
Music and visual fine art both have the power to evoke potent emotional response in their respective audience. At Queen Ida'south performances around the earth, concertgoers would get to their anxiety and dance to the music. My goal for Ida is to visually portray the rhythm that inspired movement in her listeners. Equally a medium, illustration lends itself well to the cadenced repetition of shapes and lines, which in plough mimic the repetition of notes in music. This detail color scheme and the assuming employ of colour-blocking aims to convey Queen Ida's independent spirit and the sureness of her melodies. Anchoring the composition, the ever-nowadays straps of the piano accordion appear as iconic as the instrument itself, embracing the performer'southward trunk for the better one-half of a century. It felt quite natural to capture her profile, in a moment of performance, equally ingrained in the minds of her fans throughout the world.
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Queen Ida Guillory
Queen Ida Guillory was the first female piano accordion player to pb a zydeco ring. Ida was born to a musical family of rice farmers in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Her first language was French. At the age of eighteen she moved to San Francisco. Queen Ida learned to play the accordion from her brother Al Lewis, afterward known every bit Al Rapone. At that time, women were not encouraged to play in public, even though her mother was too an accomplished piano accordion actor. She was dubbed "Queen Ida" after being called queen of a Mardi Gras celebration. A year after her first performance on stage she and the Bon Temp Band signed with the record label GNP.
A Chemist's Palette, 2020
By Lindsey Thousand. Johnson
Medium: acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 12 ten 12 inches
In my enquiry as an creative person, the true difficultly was encapsulating a human and then groovy on to sheet. In creating this work, I wanted to stand for his accomplishments in the pharmaceutical customs with a technique known equally Tromp-l ò eil. In this style of painting, the piece of work is given the appearance of the pills stuck to the panel. I wanted to requite a possible view of what Dr. Pryce may have looked at every day, as I exercise my paint palette.
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George Pryce
George Pryce, a physician and pharmacist, founded Pryce'south Pharmacy in 1908. He was a Jamaican immigrant who received a college education prior to moving effectually the South providing medical services for people of color. After arriving in Lake Charles he opened the city's first minority-endemic pharmacy. His son, Dr. Ulric Pryce and grandson, Dr. Frank Pryce, continued the business. Dr. Pryce moved his family to Los Angeles where he operated two drugstores until his death in 1979 at age 96.
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