PRESS: EXHIBITIONS
pelicanbomb.com, July 14, 2017
For her latest show, on view now at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Villere has built on her previous explorations using pared-down abstraction evocative of life’s basic emotions and paradoxes, such as vulnerability and the dichotomy of protection versus autonomy. “Interruption” is dedicated to those challenging everyday moments that disrupt an action or train of thought, often causing frustration and anger but also bringing about change and the opportunity for discovery.
Clarion Ledger, September 29, 2014
The wall of a downtown New Orleans art gallery has been riddled with bullet holes. It’s not another act of brazen gun violence but rather a thought-provoking work of art.
New Orleans artist Sidonie Villere said she feels a mix of fear and anger for her hometown. She soaked five gun cylinders in hydrogen peroxide, salt and vinegar, to make them corrode — a representation of what she calls an “emotional corrosion” surrounding guns. “I’m hoping when people see the piece, they see that there’s some kind of breakdown,” she said.
Untitled Magazine, January 14, 2011
On January 13 the buzz of openings around Chelsea was all about the January White Sale at the Loretta Howard Gallery, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody. The group show featured 50 different works of contemporary art, from emerging and established international artists. The exhibition blends both important post-war American works, the focus of the gallery, with DeWoody’s playful and sometimes highly provocative aesthetic.
Gambit, March 15, 2009
As much as abstract art can be said to be "about" anything, Sidonie Villere's new Camouflage series suggests something of life's tensions and contradictions. Made of canvas, paint, gauze, porcelain, string and wax, these ethereal white-on-white mixed-media concoctions are mostly minimal but with occasional baroque flourishes. Building on Villere's past references to the contours of soft skin and hard earth, they evoke a social dimension — an interplay of blending in and standing out, even as they seem to reiterate associations of geology and biology, deserts and beaches, fabric and bandages — that resonates in the depths of our collective memories.