Review: Brian Guidry and Michelle Levine

Brian Guidry & Michelle Levine are currently exhibiting their work at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans for the exhibition curated by Dan Cameron, "Hot up Here".

Read Doug MacCash's Review:

"Hot Up Here: New Work by New Orleans Artists" at the Contemporary Arts Center is a sample platter heaped with works by 16 cream-of-the-crop mid-career Crescent City conceptualists, with a traditional painter or two tossed in for good measure. It's the latest of the CAC's long-running series of survey exhibits (previously known as the Louisiana Biennial, and the Louisiana Open before that), which periodically check the temperature of the New Orleans art scene.

And "Hot Up Here" is pretty hot. It's the aesthetically steamy must-see show of the late summer.

Unless you feel you've seen it all before, that is.

CAC curator Dan Cameron, who selected the "Hot Up Here" artists, is the reigning king of Crescent City art. His Prospect.1 New Orleans exhibit, which took place between October 2008 and January, did more to ratchet up New Orleans' contemporary art scene than any other single event -- ever.

Prospect.1 spoiled us. We now have a taste for the most mind-bending contemporary art. Luckily, there are lots of New Orleans artists able to provide it. "Hot Up Here" proves that.

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