New Iberia
New Iberia (french: La Nouvelle-Ibérie; es, Nueva Iberia) is the largest city in and parish seat of Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The city of New Iberia is located approximately southeast of Lafayette, and forms part of the Laf ...
,
Louisiana
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) is a
contemporary
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painter
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, and
installation artist
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.
Art
While Guidry considers himself primarily a painter, he also works in multiple media such as
sculpture
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video
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. Guidry creates installations that in some sense are a recording of the natural environment. The colors he uses in his work have been sampled from the
landscape
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. In the New Orleans installation "Surge", dried
Johnson grass
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(''
Sorghum halepense
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'') is the source for color. As an artist concerned with the dynamics of the environment,
technology
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, power and the manipulation of nature are recurring themes in his work.
Life
Brian Guidry received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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in 1994 and his Master of Fine Arts from the
Pratt Institute
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in
Brooklyn, New York
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in 1997. After living in New York City, he returned to Louisiana in 2001 and currently lives and works in
Loreauville, Louisiana
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. Brian Guidry is currently the Curator of the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana. He has curated many exhibits with
Stephanie Patton
Stephanie Patton (born August 13, 1969) is a contemporary multimedia artist whose work crosses the realms of photography, sculpture, painting, installation, performance, video, audio and text.
Life
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Patton received ...
as co-curator.
In 2007, he traveled with the late painter Elemore Morgan, Jr. to New York to help facilitate Morgan’s America project. In 2008 Guidry participated with KK Projects, one of the satellite venues of
Prospect New Orleans
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"Prospect.1 New Orleans" ran from November 2008 to January 2009. Conceived in the tradition of the international biennials, such as the Venice Biennale, São Paulo Bienni ...
biennial
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organized by
Dan Cameron
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, curator of the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center. Guidry has since continued to exhibit at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center.Nick Stillman, Review of "Spaces: Antenna, the Front, Good Children Gallery" in the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, Artforum, May 2012, pp. 314-315
Museum Collections
Brian Guidry’s work is found in numerous private and museum collections around the world, including the
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in the Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003.
The building
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in New Orleans, Louisiana; the
New York Public Library
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in New York; the Pratt Institute Library in Brooklyn, New York; the
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum
The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum is a museum located in Lafayette, Louisiana. It is the art museum for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and is named after Paul and Lulu Hilliard, who donated $5 million for the building's ...
in Lafayette, Louisiana; and the
National College of Arts
The National College of Arts (colloquially known as NCA) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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National College of Arts - A Federal Chartered Institute is the oldest art school in Pakistan and the second oldest i ...
in
Lahore, Pakistan
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