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Painting Katrina

Name: Painting Katrina
Author: Phil Sandusky
ISBN: 9781589804777

by Phil Sandusky

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Overview

A painterly vision of New Orleans' pre- and poststorm neighborhoods. Phil Sandusky is a nationally renowned plein air artist known for his cityscapes. In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sandusky returned home and began recording the devastation. The result is a collection that offers a vision of the beauty and fragility of New Orleans and displays the awesome power of nature. The book contains 76 color reproductions: 30 created a year before Katrina; 30 in the aftermath of the storm, focusing primarily on scenes at the lakefront and the Lower Ninth Ward; and the last 16 painted one year after Katrina, showing the city's painstaking recovery. Sandusky prefaces the paintings with background about his style and a journal chronicling his experience.

Synopsis

Painter Phil Sandusky evacuated his uptown New Orleans home before Hurricane Katrina. Soon afterward, he was able to return and began a flurry of activity, capturing images of devastated neighborhoods on canvas. This book includes a brief journal of his experiences during that remarkable time in history and scores of paintings of the city before and after the storm.

About the Author, Phil Sandusky

Phil Sandusky's first book with Pelican, New Orleans en Plein Air, was followed by Painting Katrina, an unprecedented artistic response to one of the worst natural disasters to impact the United States. He is currently represented by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans, Reinike Gallery in Atlanta, and Stellers Gallery in Jacksonville. Sandusky has published several articles in American Artist, and he serves as instructor of landscape and life painting at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. His work can be seen in many prominent collections at museums such as New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana State Museum, and Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, Massachusetts.