The Art of Chanel Christoff Davis

New Orleans Folk Art

K10 – Hurricane Katrina 10 Year Anniversary

Aug 24 2015

To commemorate ‪K10‬, the 10th Anniversary of ‪‎HurricaneKatrina‬, we are releasing giclée stretched canvas prints of my painting “Faubroug Tremé: Kerlerec Street”. Giclée Canvas prints start at just $60.

Visit the shop to get all the details:

http://christoffdavis.com/…/kerlerec-street-stretched-canv…/

I love the poem “Litany of Our Lady” by Brenda Marie Osbey. Here is an except:

our lady
our lady of tired buildings listing to one side
and brick-between-cypress posts that simply will stand
as houses themselves give way around falling-down stairs
leaving only a something
a memory of a structure
of spanish-tiled roofs and batten shutters
in a swamp
of a city
of ironworks and of plaster
o, lady lady
our lady of anything
at all

Out & About: David Bates Exhibition

Jul 03 2014

During spring break my family visited the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas’ Arts District for the David Bates Exhibition. David Bates is a Dallas based artist who has a great series of Hurricane Katrina paintings. I had hoped to catch a glimpse of one of the Katrina pieces but they were not a part of this exhibition. Most of the pieces were on loan from private collections. My daughter is mimicking David Bates’ signature style of only showing one hand with four fingers and one ear in his self-portraits. I will be visiting more museums this year and posting the pics here, so check back often.