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April 2025

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Celebrating Mexico in 2025!

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is thrilled to showcase Mexico’s vibrant music and culture at the Expedia Cultural Exchange Pavilion in 2025.

This mural is inspired by the character “La Catrina,” created by the artist and engraver Guadalupe Posadas. The character “Catrin” in Jacobo Roa’s mural represents a synthesis of “La Catrina,” with Roa’s own vision of what a “dandy” gentleman of society looked like in Mérida, Yucatán during its peak at the beginning of the last century.

Every year the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage festival honors a different country in the Cultural Exchange Pavilion.

This year it is Mexico and Jacobo Roa will have a large mural reproduced and hanging in the pavilion.

Jazz Fest’s tribute to Mexico in 2025, joined by nineteen bands from Mexico and the United States presenting a rich musical landscape that transcends borders. You will have the opportunity to listen to fabulous music, dance or relax under shaded canopies with authentic Mexican cuisine and mezcal cocktails. The demonstration tent offers an immersive look into Mexican traditions through craft demonstrations of print-making, master weaving, muralists, guitar making, all providing insight into the cultural richness of Mexico. Artists will demonstrate the process of carpets made from dyed sand, seeds, and other natural materials. Other featured demonstrations will include basket weaving, giant paper-mache puppets, miniature papel picado (perforated paper) and unique embroidery. It will be a cultural feast.

Jacobo will have an exhibit up in the gallery and be in New Orleans for the second weekend of Jazz Fest, May 1-4. He will be in and out of the gallery during that time so let us know when you would like to meet him and he will be here to share.

¡Deja que los buenos tiempos sigan corriendo!

Love, Angela

(Let the good times roll...)

UPCOMING

ROA POP UP 2025

We will be featuring works of the artist Jacobo Roa; his works range in medium from acrylic on canvas to collage on board.

Roa establishes euphoric connections between the visual and poetic elements of Mexican art, from pre-Hispanic into the present. The work references the currents in modern art and the surrealistic world of the jungle and the Caribbean Sea in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Mr. Bones 55" x 62" acrylic, mixed media, canvas

Mambo Rococo 35" x 59" acrylic, mixed media, canvas

Lobito Feroz 47" x 24" x 3" collage, resin, wood

ONGOING

NASH / GAGLIANO

WOODROW NASH

Ehozimantu, Spirit of Humanity 28"x21.5"x20" ceramic mixed media

Phoebe, 26" x 20" x 20" ceramic mixed media

Amma, Mother, 26" x 20" x 16" ceramic mixed media

Incorporating various styles and techniques Nash utilizes stoneware, earthenware, terracotta and porcelain. The sculptures are then fired electronically using a pit firing technique giving the sculptures a "raku" effect, creating an "African Nouveau" trademark that is solely his own. Each sculptural figure is unique and strikes an individual pose of poetic grace and refined detail — each telling their own story.

Nash's work has traveled both nationally and internationally with collectors that range from working professionals to high-profile celebrities. Angela King Gallery is honored to present the sculptural art works of Woodrow Nash.

MICHELLE GAGLIANO

Dreaming Under NOLA Skies 44"x48" oil/mixed media/panel

Pink Madonna 40"x60" oil/panel

School of Athens Triptych 60" x 90" oil/panel

Gagliano’s art uses strong expressive movements to capture the essential forces of nature. She explores classical art techniques through a contemporary lens to create her singular artistic voice.

The philosophical expansion of her work embraces the act of nature and sustainability in a way that is elastic beyond boundaries. Renaissance recipes and unbridled experimentation in her artistic practice focus energy into the artwork that creates an unexpected dialogue with the viewer; colors embracing the earth elements imbue her studio. Several years of creation driven by the forces of nature have led to the artist's innate desire to be in harmony with her universe. Inspired by the Arte Povera movement of the

1960s which embraced the sensibility of creating with what is available; a resourceful ethos permeates Gagliano’s work and lends itself to a sustainable process within the studio.

NEW WORKS

BAIRD/REICHERT/OWCZAREK

Ariel, 45"x36" acrylic/canvas

Dream Girl, 33"x36" acrylic/canvas

ANDY BAIRD

Andy has worked as an artist and as an art educator on the secondary and graduate level for thirty years. Andy Baird earned his B.A. in Fine Arts and his M.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Northern Colorado, and his paintings and ceramics have been displayed in galleries and exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally.

"Each time I visit the painting, I drip paint either to lose the image or strengthen it. I build layers of color until I see in the painting that perfect quality that I'm looking for."

AARON REICHERT

From childhood, he had been fascinated by hazy, black-and-white Civil War photographs, particularly those of Abraham Lincoln, a figure of considerable loneness. Reichert’s faces and figures are hewn with a palette knife out of passages of black and white. Working without a detailed plan, he paints intuitively, shaping an environment of energy seemingly below the skin of the subject. From a distance, we see a dramatic figure; from close up, we confront a spontaneous orchestration of particles bursting from the canvas.

Political Lincoln, 48"x48" acrylic/canvas

Alfred Hitchcock 48"x48" acrylic/canvas

Leonard Cohen - Alone Together, 36"x36" acrylic/canvas

Andre the giant 70s, 48"x60" acrylic/canvas

Wanderers in the Wasteland, 26"x39",40"x60" mixed media/photography

Painter of the Burning World, 26"x39",40"x60" mixed media/photography

Atlantas, 26"x39",40"x60" mixed media/photography

MARCIN OWCZAREK

"We are all connected: people, animals, nature...as a one living organism. In every human being there is a piece of animal instincts and in every animal there is a piece of human being: soul, feelings, emotions, fragility.

By using various symbols and depth of meaning intentionally, I want my art to be interpreted on many levels. Therefore you can also notice that there are many smaller images in one image I finish. This subtle meaning tells you – you can open as many doors as you want and interpret my collages day after day in different was. Possibilities are endless."

—Marcin Owczarek