by | Oct 8, 2019 | AR artwork, Public Art, Site Specific Installation
The site, is the Hibernia National Bank where, according to John Barry’s book Rising Tide, a handful of powerful business men made the fateful decision in 1927 to blow up the levee downriver in St. Bernard Parish at the expense of the residents there, with...
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 | 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...
