Art and Photography Blog

Painting Show at Louisiana Pizza Kitchen Extended

My painting show at the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen Uptown in New Orleans has been extended at least until the end of May and possibly longer. It is located at 615 Carrolton Ave. (504) 866-5900. The hours are Sunday - Thursday 11am - 9:30pm and an extra half hour later on Friday and Saturday.  Here is the post announcing the show with pictures of many of the paintings. Several have sold and I have hung new ones to replace them.

There are now 33 paintings and two themes for the show, my third in a restaurant in New Orleans. On one side are the food, music, celebrations, and architecture of New Orleans. On the other side the food and landscape of Samos Island, Greece is covered. I have gone there several times as I have a friend whose family home is located in Mytilini, a mountain village on the island. I always paint while I am there.

Here are some of the new paintings I just put up. 

  

  

New Paintings Up at Buffa's New Orleans

My painting show at Buffa’s has been held over for several weeks. I recently added five new paintings to the show. They include portraits of Irma Thomas, Al Johnson, and John Boutte, as well as a half dozen oysters from Felix’s before and after they were eaten.

  

I added the new paintings while attending the Sunday jazz brunch with the excellent band, Some Like It Hot. Here is a video of the band and my work.

  

Not only is the music great at Buffa’s, but they have excellent food at reasonable prices. While I was there we had a breakfast with two eggs over easy, biscuit and there honey praline ham. We also had a redfish with rice and vegetables as shown below. 

  

The best way to easily see most of my paintings for sales is to go to my Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/bill.ives2 - and look at Photos and albums within Photos. I have three photo albums covering my art. One is for discounted pairings under $100.  The other is for most of the rest (over $100). The third is for paintings that I have either sold or ones that are not for sale. However, if anyone is interested in them I will paint another version for them on commission. I will ship anywhere and have shipped art works as far as Australia.

In New Orleans there are currently paintings hanging at another of my favorite New Orleans restaurants. The other is  Riccobono's Panola Street Cafe. Here is a post describing the showing. It is located at 7801 Panola Street (504 314-1810). You can also contact me to see more of them. 

 

Showing of My New Orleans Paintings at Buffa's Back Room

Buffa’s Back Room is one of my favorite music venues in New Orleans. Now I am honored to have a selection of my recent New Orleans painting hanging in the Back Room.  There are a total of 19 works covering New Orleans architecture, food, musicians, Mardi Gras float riders, and two Buffa’s beer signs. Buffa’s is open 24/7 and is located at 1001 Esplanade Ave. (504) 949-0038. Below are the front entrance on the left and the back room entrance on the right.

    

The painting are up now as shown below. There will be an opening for the show on Wednesday, January 29 at 7PM. I hope to see you there.

  

One of my favorite acts at Buffa’s is the regular Thursday night duo of Tom McDermott & Aurora Nealand. I am also a big fan of Antoine Diel who has joined them at times at Buffa's.

    

I always eat while there as the food is wonderful. My top choices are the Boudin Balls and Crawfish Etouffée seen below.

    

Riccobono's Panola Street Cafe is Showing My Art

I am very pleased that twelve of my paintings are now hangng for sale at one of my favorite New Orleans restaurants, Riccobono's Panola Street Cafe. It is located at 7801 Panola Street (504 314-1810) very near to where I grew up in the 1950s and not far from my current home. I have enjoyed many breakfasts and lunches there. It is open from 7AM to 2 PM every day. You see the outside and interior below, along with one of my favorite dishes, their Eggs Ponchartrain, a variation on Eggs Benedict with crawfish. I am starting a painting of it.

You can also purchase my paintings directly from me through the Web. I have shipped paintings as far as Australia. Contact me at [email protected] to discuss prices and logistics. 

  
   

Below you can see the paintings that we hung there. First, there is large scale shrimp poboy. Then in the next photo are five paintings: eggplants, tomatoes, and a pot of gumbo in the left within the photo. Across the top of the photo is a painting of Jon Cleary performing at Chi Wah Wah and an acoustic bass player from this year's Bayou Bogaloo. The next photo shows four paintings across the top above the cats. They depict details from New Orleans streets and architecture. There is a storm drain, the street tiles on my street - Leonidas (I will paint the tiles on your street on commisson), a roof top ventilator cap shown during the day and another at night. In the bottom right is a white pitcher with onions, garlic and potatoes and a blue pitcher with butternut squash soup. I hope you get a chance to enjoy some of their great food and see my paintings soon. 

      

I also an artist with the Arts Council of New Orleans and participate in their monthy art market. These markets occur generally on the last Saturday at Palmer Park in New Orleans, at the corner of S. Carrolton and S. Claiborne. Saturday October 26 is the next market and I will have a booth and offer other paintings for sale.

Arts Council of New Orleans February 2013 Art Market

I was pleased to be recently accepted as artist for the Arts Council of New Orleans for their monthy art market. They occur generally on the last Saturday at Palmer Park in New Orleans, at the corner of S. Carrolton and S. Claiborne. This coming Saturday, February 23 will my first chance to have a booth and offer paintings for sale. Since I arrived back in my hometown, I have been painting a variety of themes related to the city. I will offer these and some older ones.

All are acrylic, most are 16” x 20” with a few in a square format at 20” x 20’. I am also doing a few small format at 8” x 8” and 12” x 12.” Below are a dozen of the new ones. You can click on any of them to see it enlarged. I will also show earlier paintings on a variety of topics and they can be seen at my Art and Photography Blog. 

This first is a street corner in my neighborhood. New Orleans initiated corner street markers in the 1920s. They are all with blue letters on white tiles and most survive today. The second is a painting of water lilies in the lagoon in City Park, New Orleans, in front of the NOMA.

  

The third and fourth are paintings of ventilator caps, from a New Orleans roof. In this case it is my roof. Many homes in New Orleans have tin roofs and ventilator caps such as these two.

  

The fifth is the Phorty Phunny Phollows riding the St. Charles street car and throwing beads, which is the first event of carnival. I am working on a some others from later carnival events and hope to have some ready for the art market. I went to the send off at the street car barn near my house. As you can see, there are male and female phellows. They are a spin off from the Rex krewe. The sixth is a portrait of a pot of gumbo served at the Mayor's Gala inOpelousas, LA. Opelousas describes itself as a town perfectly seasoned and so was the gumbo. It was a great evening with Keith Frank's Zydeco band. Photos of the event and the rest of our trip out west for Zydeco and cajun dancing appeared yesterday on this blog. The gumbo was delicious.

  

The seventh is another gumbo, a bowl from Patois, one of my favorite restaurants in the city. The eighth is corn bread and butter at the bar at Dick and Jenny’s, another favorite place. It is larger at 20" x 24."

  

The ninth shows the reflections in the street at the intersection of Chartres and Spain in the Marigny section of New Orleans. The tenth is a LA 31 beer sign at Mojitos, a good place for live music, also in the Marigny. LA 31 biere noire is one of my favorites and the biere pale version is wonderful also.

  

The eleventh is a portrait of Ed Wills, of Blues4Sale, playing blues at the BMC (aka Balcony Music Club) on Decatur Street. I have seen him a number of times at his regular Wednesday night BMC gig and have his CD. Here is YouTube video of Ed Wills at BMC. The painting is in a square format. This is the 20” x 20” version. I also did an 8” x 8” version. The last one is a portrait of our cat, Duc. It is the only one not for sale but I will do portraits of other people’s animals on commission.

  

Karen Ay’s October London Art Exhibits

My London friend, Karen Ay, is showing at two upcoming shows in London.  I have written about her on numerous occasions. See for example, TangentProjects is going to Venice with Invasive Alien Species, and Great Upcoming London Sculpture Show. She combines a sense of humor with art that makes you think but does not dictate the process. 

Karen also has a new blog, Worth a Look, which deserves just what the title suggests. 

Her new work, Terra Infirma  will be at The Multiple Store: Multiplied Contemporary Art in Editions Fair at Christie's South Kensington, 85 Old Brompton Road, 
London SW7 3LD
,  October 12 – 15. Admission is free. As Karen describes it, “The contents of a pocket world atlas, hand cut into tiny pieces, are contained in a glass sphere that rotates. The fragments overlap, intermingle and scatter, creating incongruous associations and connections as they circulate. Localities, once easily defined, become fluid; our understanding of territory is disrupted, reinterpreted, redistributed, repositioned.” Below is an image.

In addition, her neon installation neon installation, YesYesOhhYes, shown below, will be in the group show, ALTER
at VEGAS Gallery, 
Private View:  Thursday October 11^th.  The shows runs October 10 - 3 November 3.  The VEGAS Gallery is located at 274 Poyser Street, London E2 9RF.

Images within Paintings at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco.

Here is another in my series on images within paintings as I look up close to see images that are interesting to me within paintings. I am also looking at technique with these images. These images are from the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. 

                                 

Images within Paintings at the Harvard Art Museum

Here is another in my series on images within paintings as I look up close to see images that are interesting to me within paintings. I am also looking at technique with these images. These images are from the Harvard Art Museums. They are from the 20th Century European and American art collection. 

                 

Images within Paintings at the Clarke Institute

Here is another in my series on images within paintings as I look up close to see images that are interesting to me within paintings. I am also looking at technique with these images. These images are from the Clark Institute in Wiliamstown, MA. The first one is part of a sculpture.

      

                

 

Images within Paintings at Boston's MFA

In my last post I finsihed a three part series on paintings within paintings at the National Gallery. Here are some selections from Boston's MFA.