by | Aug 3, 2019 | AR artwork, Public Art, Site Specific Installation
Battlegrounds augmented reality (AR) public art project curated by Nancy Cahill Baker will be opening in October of 2019.
by | Aug 4, 2019 | Contemporary Art, Environment, Interview, News
Wonderful article by Hope Mills: Some Excerpts from the article: On a breezy Louisiana day, the spinning Tibetan prayer wheels at a corner of the Lafitte Greenway near St John’s Bayou will mesmerize you. The nine-foot-high stainless steel cylinders, etched with...
by | Aug 4, 2019 | Interview, News
Thanks to Erin McNutt and Pamela Reed for the detailed story on my artwork in Canvas Magazine. Excerpts from the article: Michel Varisco lives in a charming little cottage in Faubourg St. John along with her protective chihuahua, Rocket. Her home, as well as the...
by | Aug 4, 2019 | Climate Change, ClimateChangePhotography, Environment, Magazine, Photography
In “Between Worlds” (Spring 2019 issue), Anya Groner and Michel Varisco travel to the vanishing island of Isle De Jean Charles to learn more about the land and the people living there, and the challenges of resettlement....
by | Aug 3, 2019 | Below Sea Level, Contemporary Art
Michel Varisco photographed Shelbey Leco underwater with her grandfather’s homemade trawling net. Shelbey’s artwork and the oral histories of her grandfather are featured in “Roots in the Water,” a traveling exhibition. Up from May through...
by | Feb 1, 2019 | AerialPhotography, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Environment, EnvironmentalPhotography, Events, Exhibitions, Gallery, Installation Shots, Lectures, Louisiana, Media, Michel Varisco Artist, New Orleans Artist, Newspaper, PortraitPhotography, Reviews, Shifting, Solo Exhibitions, UnderwaterPhotography
Opening Saturday February 9, 2019. Saturday, February 9, 2019 through Saturday, March 30, 2019 St. Tammany Art Association Art House 320 N. Columbia St. Covington United States Reviews and articles about the show:...
by | Nov 12, 2018 | AerialPhotography, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Digital, Environment, Exhibitions, Shifting
No Man’s Land is a phrase used to indicate disputed or unoccupied territory. It was used to both justify territorial conquest and to refer to places that were dumping grounds for refuse. Three artists have come together to present work on the relationship...
by | Sep 18, 2018 | Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Environment, Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
“The Mississippi River makes meaning of the landscape as it careens through the United States, flowing South from Minnesota through the Midwest, caressing the edges and embankments of Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, and Arkansas, until finally...
by | Dec 9, 2017 | Below Sea Level, Contemporary Art, Digital, Environment, Events, Exhibitions, Gallery, Gulf of Mexico, LiveModelPhotography, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, Photography, PortraitPhotography, Solo Exhibitions, UnderwaterPhotography, Wetlands
Below Sea Level, new photographs and assemblages Dec 9 – Feb 25 A Gallery For Fine Photography; 241 Chartres, New Orleans, LA 504-568-1313 A collection of staged, magical realist photographs in which Varisco imagines Louisiana as a modern-day Atlantis with...
by | Nov 27, 2017 | Arts Council of New Orleans, City of New Orleans, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Environment, Events, Exhibitions, Installation Views, Lafitte Greenway, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, On Site, Prospect4, Public Art, Site Specific Installation, Turning
The opening dedication of “Turning: prayer wheels for the Mississippi River” on Prospect.4 biennial opening weekend was a wonderful event. Photo: Julie Dermansky Commissioned by the Arts Council of New Orleans Percent for Art program, the City of...
