I'm back. First just let me say that if you have the chance to spend Halloween in New Orleans, DO NOT MISS IT! I think it may have been the best trip we ever took. We wandered into many art galleries in the French Quarter where the exhibits were appropriately spooky. I was in awe. I'm going to finish up this week with a few of the artists I saw and remembered (there was a great deal of drinking going on.)
Chris Roberts-Antieau. We'll start here. Roberts-Antieau is a self-taught artist with her own gallery in the French Quarter. That says a lot. I loved everything I saw there. It was whimsical and southern to the core with just the right amount of skeletons to make me happy.
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| Mermaid with Skeleton Seaweed |
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| Untitled |
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| Untitled Detail |
Shee does do darker things though. At the back of the gallery was a dollhouse where she recreated the murder from Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood." While we were there kids came in to trick-or-treat and were saying "oh! a dollhouse!" Well, not exactly the kind you want your kids playing with. We laughed.
Roberts-Antieau has some past work on her website where she had created snow globes with a dark theme. I think I now have an idea for my own Christmas decorations this year......
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| Burying Body Parts |
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| Murder on Laundry Day |
The Antieau Gallery is located at 927 Royal Street in New Orleans.
(Edit: Thanks to a reader, I was alerted that I had mistakenly mis-gendered the artist! I've made the corrections. My apologies to Chris.)
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