by | Dec 9, 2017 | Below Sea Level, Contemporary Art, Digital, Environment, Events, Exhibitions, Gallery, Gulf of Mexico, LiveModelPhotography, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, Photography, PortraitPhotography, Solo Exhibitions, UnderwaterPhotography, Wetlands
Below Sea Level, new photographs and assemblages Dec 9 – Feb 25 A Gallery For Fine Photography; 241 Chartres, New Orleans, LA 504-568-1313 A collection of staged, magical realist photographs in which Varisco imagines Louisiana as a modern-day Atlantis with...
by | Nov 27, 2017 | Arts Council of New Orleans, City of New Orleans, Climate Change, Contemporary Art, Environment, Events, Exhibitions, Installation Views, Lafitte Greenway, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, On Site, Prospect4, Public Art, Site Specific Installation, Turning
The opening dedication of “Turning: prayer wheels for the Mississippi River” on Prospect.4 biennial opening weekend was a wonderful event. Photo: Julie Dermansky Commissioned by the Arts Council of New Orleans Percent for Art program, the City of...
by | Nov 27, 2017 | Arts Council of New Orleans, City of New Orleans, Louisiana, Media, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, Newspaper, Prospect4, Reviews
John D’Addario profiled “Turning: prayer wheels for the Mississippi River” for the Prospect.4 biennial in The Advocate, read here
by | Jul 10, 2017 | AerialPhotography, ClimateChangePhotography, Contemporary Art, Environment, EnvironmentalPhotography, Fluid States, Land Art, Louisiana, Louisiana Life, Magazine, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, News, Photography, Reviews, Shifting
Big thanks to John Kemp for this comprehensive interview and essay about my work in Louisiana Life Magazine.
by | Jan 31, 2017 | Magazine, Mississippi River, Photography
A dear friend Lara Naughton wrote this wonderful article on another dear friend and teacher of the River Captain Jared Austin. Please check it out! Modern Day Mark Twain
by | Jul 11, 2016 | Environment, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Michel Varisco, Michel Varisco Art, Michel Varisco Artist, Mississippi River, New Orleans, New Orleans Art, New Orleans Artist, Public Art, Site Specific Installation, Turning, Uncategorized
“Turning” has image/maps of the Mississippi river in three different phases which are being cut with a high velocity stream of water and garnet powder at a fabrication studio right beside the Mississippi River. Map by Kate Orff / SCAPE from Petrochemical America...
