Other Plans is pleased to present a selection of new and recent paintings by Dickie Landry August 9 - September 29, 2024.
Opening Reception: Friday, August 9, 5-8pm
In the music of Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Dickie Landry, the simplest musical phrases become incredibly emotional. These composers spin up a short, pleasing, easily digestible melodic line, then repeat it. Then repeat it again. Then repeat it again. They shift the context surrounding the phrase, or they state it a little differently, and all of a sudden, in the same way that a word said over and over again becomes unstuck from meaning and can then be experienced in a new way, the musical phrase’s meaning will morph, too. Landry brings these same ideas to bear as a painter.
- Sadie Sartini Garner, Music Critic + Writer
Born in Cecilia, Louisiana, Dickie Landry is a saxophonist, composer, and visual artist. The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 2024 Humanist of the Year, Landry’s paintings, videos, photographs, and drawings have been shown around the world at galleries and museums including Leo Castelli Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Brazil Biennale, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Arthur Roger Gallery. His most recent exhibition of photographs and paintings, “Dickie Landry’s NYC 1969-1979,” was shown at Solomon Contemporary in New York, Anka Schmidt Gallery in Cologne, and the Hilliard Art Museum in Lafayette, Louisiana. A retrospective of his works was organized by the University of Wyoming Art Museum in Laramie, Wyoming in 2015.
Landry has performed his solo saxophone works in major venues in the USA, Canada, Europe, Russia, Cuba, Haiti, South America, India, and Japan. He has performed and collaborated with composers, musicians, artists, theatre directors, and choreographers including Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Talking Heads, Robert Plant, Robert Wilson, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Rauschenberg, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Trisha Brown. His return to Lafayette, Louisiana had him performing with Lil Band o’ Gold and True Man Posse.
Other Plans is a contemporary art gallery located at the intersection of Dumaine and Galvez Streets in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 2023 by Emily Wilkerson, the gallery presents solo and two-person exhibitions by an inter-generational group of artists whose practices address the most pressing issues of our time.