Description Terrance Osborne (American/New Orleans, b. 1976), "Post Katrina Blues", 2005, acrylic and mixed media bas relief on shaped panel, signed lower right, signed and dated en verso, 28 1/2 in. x 100 1/2 in. Note: Born and raised in the Crescent City, Terrance Osborne attended the prestigious New Orleans Center for Creative Arts high school and graduated with a BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana. His unique artistic style has garnered him widespread admiration and success, and he has collaborated with Nike, the New Orleans Hornets and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for which he created several posters. The monumental painting offered here, ?Post-Katrina Blues,? is an iconic work by the beloved local artist and served as the inspiration for his best-selling lithograph of the same title. Osborne employs a vivid color palette to render the city at its lowest point ? still with standing water and houses in disarray. In the background, a search party in a boat is on watch for anyone in need of rescue. Despite the sober scene, the houses are resplendent with color and vivacity. They glow from within as if to indicate that a rebirth, a new dawn, is attainable on the horizon. Osborne's method of overlaying shaped wood elements adds a strong sense of dimensionality and movement, as the scene poignantly encapsulates the spirit of New Orleans.
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