CLIFTON WEBB
Artist Clifton Webb is a New Orleans based artist, with decades of local and national recognition. Using a “visual alphabet” developed over the course of his career, Webb creates works imbued with reverence and dignity. Though the symbols he has developed may not be immediately familiar, they are unmistakably noble—and that is the intent. Webb is a co-founder of the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, and his work is included in the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Artist Clifton Webb, is a New Orleans based artist, that has thirty five plus years of exhibitions and recognition, both locally and nationally.
His focus in creating art lies in the exploration of ideas and media, to exploit technology with the intent to contribute lastingly to aesthetic perceptions and the betterment of the human condition.
Using a “visual alphabet” developed over the course of his career, Webb creates works imbued with reverence and dignity. Though the symbols he has developed may not be immediately familiar, they are unmistakably noble—and that is the intent.
Webb is a co-founder of the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center and his work is included in the permanent collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Clifton has taught in the New Orleans Public School’s Talented in Visual Arts program from 1980 until 2005, presently he is a full time practicing artist.
Webb received his MFA and BFA in Sculpture from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
“This is me and all the people around me who don’t get to see themselves, who don’t get to see the royalty and sacredness of who the African American is.”
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EXHIBITIONS
2020 - What Music Is Within, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, La.
2020 - Renegade Artist Collective, New Orleans, La.
2019 - A Tribute To Leah Chase “On The Shoulders Of Ancestors”, the Church at Hotel Peter and Paul, New Orleans, La.
2019 - National Conference of Artists, group show, Xavier University, New Orleans, La.
2018 - “Icons: The Sacred Muse”, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, Ms.
2016 - INspired: 20 Years of African American Art
Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, La.
2015 - "Specimens From The Garden of Delight", Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, La.
2015 - “Bayou Sculptor, Call and Response", African American Museum, Dallas, Tx.
2014 - "P-3" Myrtle Banks- "Above Canal: Rights And Revival" , New Orleans, La.
2013 - Homage to John Scott, Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, La.
2012 - "Vaginas", Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, La.
2011 – Contemporary Arts Center, “Then And Now”, New Orleans, La.
2011 – 24th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, Honorable mention, Lake Charles, La.
2010 – Glassell Gallery LSU School of Art, 9th Annual Summer Invitational Art Exhibition, Best in Show, Baton Rouge, La.
2009 – Louisiana State Museum, “Old South Baton Rouge”, Baton Rouge, La.
2007 – New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, Sculpture Visiting Artist, New Orleans, La.
2007 –Dillard University, Solo exhibit, “Curves”, New Orleans, La.
2006 – Delgado Community College Solo exhibit, “ Post Katrina Drawings”, New Orleans, La.
2006 – “Water Mark”, group show, Baton Rouge, La.
2004 - New Orleans Museum of Art. “ The Power Of Paper”, New Orleans, La.
2002 - Contemporary Arts Center, “Digital Louisiana”, New Orleans
2002 - The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, “Art In The South: Recent Acquisitions and Projects”, New Orleans, LA