Levee Gallery

LEVEE GALLERY welcomed Rhea Gary and her vivid landscapes on April 17, for the reception for her show Louisiana Love Affair was held on April 17. Rhea’s “ interest in painting landscapes is not in the nuances of land and sky but in using color to bring about an emotional, joyful statement of place.” Rhea was greeted by many friends and collectors who were happy to add to their collections. Rhea also brought and signed copies of her most recent publication, Marsh Mission: Capturing the Vanishing Wetlands, which she co-authored with C.C. Lockwood.

On May 4, LEVEE GALLERY hosted Megan Singleton, an artist and educator from St. Louis, Missouri. Megan created works that resonate with the materiality and rhythms of the natural world for her exhibit, Verdure: Ornamentation of Plants and Pattern. Verdure is a series of ecology-based works that cross the boundaries of contemporary craft, by combining sculpture, handmade paper, found objects, printmaking, photography and installation. Megan gathers invasive plant fibers, like water hyacinth, and transforms it into graceful works of art, by beating the fibers into paper pulp and stretching the paper over steel sculptural forms. Megan’s show were on display until June 12.