Richard Sexton interviewed by Sonu Sangameswaran for fotoflock.com
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Richard Sexton's book Terra incognita is featured on the Phase One website for the month of August 2008
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BREAKING NEWS
New Terra Incognita Exhibit Opens July 3, in Water-Color, FloridaThe Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans has opened a satellite facility in the Florida resort community of Water-Color, in Walton County between Grayton Beach and Seaside. The opening exhibit features photographs from Richard Sexton's book Terra Incognita and paintings by Hunt Slonem. The exhibits will be open July 3 and will continue until mid- September 2008. Books, including limited edition books, and original prints from Terra Incognita will be available for sale in the Ogden's Water-Color museum shop, which will be operated by the Center for Southern Craft and Design, a division of the Ogden. Click here to see the installation. A reception for the artitsts was held on July 26, 2008. Click here to see images of the reception.
Terra Incognita Exhibit at the Okaloosa Regional Airport
A major body of work from Terra Incognita, a photographic exhibit organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and presented in the fall of 2007 concurrently with the publication of Richard Sexton's book, Terra Incognita, has now been installed in Florida at the Okaloosa Regional Airport Terminal. The exhibit, featuring 36 landscapes from the Florida panhandle, will be on display through mid-June 2008. The Okaloosa Regional Airport is located in Eglin Air Force base, just north of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, near the communities of Niceville and Valparaiso.
This installation is the first public exhibit of work from Terra Incognita since the Ogden exhibit closed on January 2, 2008. Click here to see the installation.
Richard Sexton's photographs from TERRA INCOGNITA featured in the Jan/Feb 2008 issue of Southern Accents magazine
Richard Sexton is a featured artist @ art-support.com for the month of Feb. 2008
Terra Incognita Premeire Exhibition Opening October 2007
click on cover to view Terra Incognita exhibit at the
Ogden Museum of Southern ArtRichard Sexton is pleased to announce a major exhibition of his work at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. This exhibit will feature work from Terra Incognita: Photographs of America's Third Coast, a fine art photography book to be published in September 2007 by Chronicle Books, San Francisco. The exhibit will include approximately 60 prints from Terra Incognita and will hang in the main gallery on the 4th floor of the Ogden. The opening reception will be Saturday, October 6, 2007, the evening of Art for Art's Sake in New Orleans. The exhibit will close on January 2, 2008, after which the exhibit will travel. Look for updates on this site and on the Ogden's site: www.ogdenmuseum.org, for additional information as it becomes available.
LOUISIANA CULTURAL VISTAS
Fall 2007 Issue
A photo essay focusing on the Louisiana landscape from Terra Incognita is featured in the fall 2007 issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas. In addition, other TI images complement new fiction by Elise Blackwell. Click images above to view article.
click above to view the exhibit at Richter Gallery of Photography, Nashville
November 10 - December 31, 2007
MEMORY CHAMBERS
whitespace gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
October 13 - November 30, 2007
click here for a review of the exhibit by Jerry Cullum for accessAtlanta
click on image above to view Memory Chambers exhibit
at whitespace gallery in Atlanta, Georgia
TERRA INCOGNITA Signing Events
click on image above to view various signing events for TERRA INCOGNITA
50 STATES, 50 PHOTOGRAPHERS
Richard Sexton was featured in the February 2006 issue of Photo District News in "50 States, 50 Photographers." One photographer's work is showcased from each state. Richard Sexton was the choice to represent Louisiana. Click on the photo above to visit the gallery page for this feature on the Photo District News website.
KATRINA UPDATE
From Richard Sexton:
I received an outpouring of concerned emails, particularly in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, and I tried to respond to all of them. But, those were confused and frantic days and I'm not certain that I replied to everyone. Even if I managed to be absolutely efficient in the face of a great deal of adversity and distraction, a definitive update is probably in order.
I'm happy to report that everything has been back to normal at the studio since January 2006. In the fall of 2005, a temporary studio was set up at my Florida residence so that work could continue, more or less as normal, through the end of the year. Except for large format digital printing, all other services were provided at the temporary location in a corner of the living room and the entirety of the dining table of a small Florida cottage.
Back in New Orleans I was extremely fortunate in that there was no flooding, nor was there roof damage significant enough to cause interior damage. The flood waters came to within about three blocks and the deeper flood water, that actually made it into buildings, was several blocks away. There was no power for about six weeks and no phone for six months. Partial operations were restored in New Orleans in October and by December all services were transferred back to the New Orleans location. Since then I've actually expanded operations.
That's a photo of me nailing felt on the roof of the studio two weeks after Katrina. New Orleans was still under mandatory evacuation, but we used press credentials (courtesy of Chronicle Books) to get back in the city. My studio manager, Jonathan Traviesa, is on the ladder. The neon spray paint markings were left by the Louisiana State Police who had come by searching for corpses a couple of days earlier on 9/11/05. (Photo above courtesy Mike Smith ©2005; below, courtesy of Jonathan Traviesa)
I look forward to many more years of operation in New Orleans.
The Highway of Temptation & Redemption was featured in the summer 2005 issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine. Click the image above to see a sample spread of the article.
The Highway of Temptation and Redemption featured in exhibit at
the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New OrleansFrom April 11th until July 17, 2005, author/photographer Richard exhibited photographs from his recently published project, The Highway of Temptation and Redemption: A Gothic Travelogue in Two Dimensions, in the Florida Gallery of The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The opening reception was held Thursday, April 21, from 6 to 8pm. Richard Sexton gave a presentation about the work in the exhibit on Sunday, May 22, from 2 to 4pm.
MEMORY CHAMBERS
Photographs by Richard Sexton: 1991-2003
For the month of October, 2003, the Academy Gallery featured, in both its galleries, the work of photographer and Academy instructor, Richard Sexton. This exhibit was a major retrospective of Richard Sexton's work over the past twelve years. In 1991, Sexton moved to New Orleans, which would prove to be a professional milestone. In 1993, New Orleans: Elegance And Decadence was published, a best-selling photographic book that has become a contemporary classic. It has been followed by five highly acclaimed book titles and numerous editorial commissions. "I feel the timeframe that began with my move to New Orleans in 1991 has been my most productive and rewarding as a photographer. This exhibit is devoted entirely to local and regional subjects I've photographed since moving here?commissions and book projects combined with a lot of personal, or self-assigned, work."
The photographs were divided into two bodies of work. Gallery A was devoted to color images and Gallery B to black and white. Thematically, the work were similar, but the inherent differences in medium provided a logical division. Even though the exhibit was a retrospective, a substantial number of the images had not been exhibited previously. The exhibit consisted of 24 quadtone pigment prints and 26 Iris and color pigment prints.
