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 | 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 | Jul 10, 2017 | AerialPhotography, ClimateChangePhotography, Contemporary Art, Environment, EnvironmentalPhotography, Fluid States, Land Art, Louisiana, Louisiana Life, Magazine, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, Photography, Reviews, Shifting
Big thanks to John Kemp for this comprehensive interview and essay about my work in Louisiana Life Magazine.
by | Dec 10, 2016 | Awards, Festivals, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, On Site, Site Specific Installation, Turning
“Turning” (Prayer wheels in action) at Lafayette Square on temporary loan before it’s final destination!
by | Jul 10, 2016 | Biennials, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Environment, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, Public Art, Time Lapse, Turning, Video
Creating one of the 3 mosaics as a base for the “Turning sculpture (prayer wheels)” with Italian porcelain. The pattern is of the Mississippi River creating new land over thousands of years (from the Fisk Maps of 1944). Each mosaic weighs about 200 lbs as finished...
