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CANO End of Exhibition Announcement for Landscapes and Monsters at Crevasse 22 | River House
The current annual exhibition on view at Crevasse 22 | River House will be open through Sunday, October 13th, 2019. Viewing is available by appointment weekends through then. “Landscapes and Monsters” explores the beauty of southeastern Louisiana’s natural landscape as well as the ecological threats facing St. Bernard Parish due to coastal erosion and rising sea levels. Artists on view include Jonathan Mayers, Gina Phillips, Rudolf Radlinger, and Pippin Frisbie-Calder. This exhibition also features a special, first-time ever exhibition of Walter Anderson’s working drawings made while camping on the offshore islands near Biloxi. Other works featured include multi-media pieces by regional contemporary artists, wildfowl decoys by regional carvers, as well as architectural renderings by Robert Tannen and Frank Gehry. A new fountain like sculpture with spigots, “Source” by Jennifer Odem, is sited in the sculpture garden.
“This eclectic and beautiful exhibition of work by intriguing artists highlights the beauty and fragility of our natural surroundings, reminding us of the importance of our role in protecting them,” said Sidney Torres, owner and sponsor of Crevasse 22 | River House.
Creative Alliance of New Orleans Executive Director and curator of the exhibitions at Crevasse 22 | River House is “appreciative of working in a region where artists are aware and intentional about addressing the importance of the environment”.
Also in the sculpture garden, still standing despite numerous storms is a “monster” made from branches in the woods adjacent to River House by artist Jeff Becker and visitors to our Summer Sundays family days. The monster reflects Jonathan Mayers’ paintings depicting imaginary monsters as metaphors for environmental threats. Crevasse 22 I River House, sculpture garden and art center is located at 8122 Saro Lane, adjacent to the Mississippi River levee about 25 minutes from the French Quarter, at the very location where a natural “crevasse”, or breach in the levee flooded all of St. Bernard during high water on the Mississippi River in 1922. The garden and center present exhibitions and art works themed in relation to the “beauty and risks of nature”. On non-event days, the site is open to the public by appointment.
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