AKG Newsworthy NOLA February 2025

AKG Newsworthy NOLA

February 2025

Saturday, February 1st, 2025

Twenty twenty-five began with a horrific attack on Bourbon Street that left the city and the world stunned..fires engulfed Los Angeles and surrounding areas...tragedy struck again when a passenger airplane collided with a Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac. 2025 is off to an intense start.

There has been some good news... extreme weather change (which is not good news) brought snow to the south and New Orleans got 10" of powder! January 21st was an amazing day here in New Orleans and everyone, adults and children alike, were playing in it. A quiet and snow-blanketed city made for a unique, beautiful experience. Whether it’s politics, crime, terrible accidents or historic weather, this January has been one for the books.

On a more personal note, January 29th, the Lunar New Year brought Christina's new baby girl into the world. Anubis Linda Bell,

9lbs 12oz, 20 inches!

Welcome to the world.

February celebrates Black History Month and

there is much to celebrate.

This month we are honoring Woodrow Nash with an exhibition

of over 20 of his unique, powerful and moving sculptures.

He will be here in the gallery along with Michelle Gagliano on February 7th, 6-9pm. If you can't see it in person, enjoy it virtually.

Peace, Angela

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Chief Shaka Zulu, Clifton Webb, Tajah Olson, Woodrow Nash

UPCOMING

Woodrow Nash & Michelle Gagliano Exhibition

Friday, Feb 7, 2025

6 - 9 PM CST

music performance by

Kelly Love Jones

WOODROW NASH

Woodrow Nash's recent sculptural works present the lure and mystery of our past and present reflections. The cut out eyes of his majestic clay figures gaze deep within the historical context of art history as well as carving out new path ways with Nash's sculptural techniques. The range of colors and textures bring Nash's life-like beings down to earth to be observed and reflected upon. His stylized African portraits evoke the 15th century Benin concepts of graceful slender proportions and undulating lines of 18th century Art Nouveau. In his works Nash achieves his goal of integrating expression, complex symbolism and sophisticated aesthetics to yield striking embodiments of the human soul and sensuality.

Nizara -Blessed by God 27.5" x 19" x 10"

Ehozimantu - Spirit of Humanity 28" x 21.5" x 10"

Ajewale - Blessings Have Come 27.5" x 20" x 10"

MICHELLE GAGLIANO

“I am perpetually fascinated by art history; bowing to all those who have come before. Currently, my obsession is Raphael and his working palette and thus, creating work based on the master’s palette. I circle around pigments that he used from ultramarine, lead tin yellow, carmine, vermillion, madder lake, verdi gris, ochres, Brazilian lake, metallic gold, metallic bismuth to more colors from the earth. Exploring Renaissance colors in a way that a musician transposes music, I am choosing to rewrite with the same few notes. A collision of the past and present, directly on the surface, my role as artist becomes director of the actors. Exploring the light reflecting quality of the pigments, they speak of the past transcending time to be re-created on surfaces that echo the Renaissance madonnas, the bright colors on the cathedral ceilings to the transposition of Mother Nature and the awareness of the environment.”

-Michelle Gagliano