Geri deGruy's blog of art, musings, and inspiration

Color! Whimsey! Light!

Original paintings in oils and acrylics.

Wire sculptures.

Monotypes. 

The studio of artist Steve Martin in New Orleans, LA.

The space is wonderfully open and light. The art is delightful. 

Martin's series called "Faces in a Crowd" is displayed in the New Orleans gallery. These pieces are brightly colored, abstract portraits with exaggerated facial features. Each one is a Rorschach test for the viewer to discover an emotional content of the face. The portraits are reminiscent of tribal masks and perhaps even more, of masked faces at Mardi Gras. Primitive, expressive, stylized.

Martin also creates wire sculptures called Palhaco which means clown. Using one continuous length of industrial wire for a piece, he fashions faces and bodies which, mounted on the wall, also throw interesting shadows.

Check out Steve Martin, at his studios in New Orleans and Miami, and online.