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New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
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Bernard Mattox

Statement

"I left New Orleans about fourteen years ago to move to an ancient forest just north of Covington, Louisiana. What followed me here was a deep well of memories, associations, visual and mental images along with recollections of a French Catholic up bringing. All of these associations have evolved as a result of living some thirty years in a city so entrenched in mystery, decadence, spiritual archeology and architectural exotica.

The residue of those memories is in the sculpture and paintings. It is a hope and intention that some of these influences are easily discovered. It is my belief that other influences are ethereal and elusive. The line between the known and the hidden keeps pushing and pulling the work forward and backward."

Public Collections

Ogden Southern Collection, Ogden Museum, New Orleans Museum of Art
Department of Architecture and Design, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.
Treme Museum, New Orleans, LA
Center for Development and Learning, Covington, LA
Lazarus House AIDS Hospice, New Orleans, LA

Honors and Awards

2003, 2004 - Best of Show Award, Five State Mixed Media Juried Exhibition
2002 - Fellowship, Louisiana Division of the Arts
1999 - Commission, Contemporary Arts Center Silver Circle (60 sculptures)
1992 - Louisiana Artist Annual Jurors Award
1990, 1991 - AVA grant nominee
1988 - Art and Auction-Jurors Award, WYES-TV (New Orleans public television) and subject for WYES-TV program
1982 - Scholarship, Tulane University Graduate School

Selected Publications

2002 - Five-page article/interview, Red Dot Magazine
2002 - "Creative Force," Mattox at the Brunner Gallery
2001 - Interview, Studio Potter Magazine
2001 - "Mattox Shapes His Cityscapes," New Orleans Times-Picayune
1999 - "The Spirit of Diagilev - Multi-media Collaboration," CAC, New Orleans
1999 - "Art as Symbol," New Orleans Times-Picayune
1997 - "Report From New Orleans," Art in America (April)
1996 - "100 Years of Newcomb Ceramics," New Orleans Museum of Art
1995 - "Mythoscapiae - The Art of Bernard Mattox," The Times of Acadiana
1993 - "The Electronic Age and the Cyclops Kitchen," New Orleans Art Review
1993 - "Mattox: Modern Art, Ancient Twist," New Orleans Times-Picayune
1988, 1992 - Interiew, WWNO-FM, New Orleans
1997 - Louisiana Major Works Catalogue, CAC, New Orleans

Education

1984 - MFA, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1982 - BFA, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
1976 - Apprenticeship, Big Creek Pottery School, Davenport, CA
1972-1974 - Anthropology undergraduate, Tulane University, New Orleans