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Gallery Owner Discovers Exciting New Metal Sculptor
 Owner Laurie Beasley has just returned from a short but very productive buying trip to Haiti. "I am particularly excited about a new metal sculptor named Jacques Eugène. We had just finished visiting our artist friends in Croix-des-Bouquets and I was feeling a little let down because although the quality was still good there wasn't anything really new. Even Jolimeau was a little low on inventory. One of the men from the village kept insisting that we visit Jacques Eugène's atelier. So just before getting back in the car to return to Port-au-Prince we walked into Eugène's. What a stunning display of work! A wide variety of masks, very African, many combining steel drum with copper and aluminum. I bought out most of the workshop." To see a sample of his work click on the above image and stop by the gallery to see more of this marvelous new work. |
Newly Published Book on Vodou Flags 
At long last there is a new book out on the Vodou flags. It's called Spirits in Sequins: Vodou Flags of Haiti by Nancy Josephson. It has a wealth of 4-color photographs and some interesting information about the technique of flagmaking. It's a hard-bound, 176-page volume. We are selling it on our site and in the gallery for $39.95. |
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Sidney Feuchtwagner 
We are extremely pleased to introduce the work of Sydney Feuchtwanger to our clients. Sydney is a retired mainframe (?!) computer programmer who never was cut out for that kind of work anyway, but she is definitely cut out for being an artist. She is mostly self-taught and started her artistic career by making "sculptured necklaces" out of river stone. The necklaces are on permanent display at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. She now produces wonderful small, free-standing jigsaw sculpture from hardwoods that she glues together and then embellishes with color markers. Most are abstract shapes but she also makes intriguing figurative drawings on some. There is a wonderful interpenetration of forms in her work. The figurative pieces are Sydney's narrative but they also allow the viewer to formulate her/his own narrative. The colors give them a deceivingly whimsical quality but beneath the whimsy is serious art.
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