{"id":28294,"date":"2024-03-20T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/?p=28294"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:10:25","slug":"dapper-bruce-lafitte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/dapper-bruce-lafitte\/","title":{"rendered":"Dapper Bruce Lafitte"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Dapper Bruce Lafitte<\/a> (b. 1972 New Orleans) <\/i>is a self-trained artist who began making <\/i>and showing work in the aftermath of <\/i>Hurricane Katrina to commemorate the <\/i>then-decimated street culture of parades <\/i>and marching bands of New Orleans. <\/i><\/p>\n

He has exhibited locally, nationally and <\/i>internationally, notably at the Prospect <\/i>Biennial, New Orleans, and in solo shows at <\/i>the Ohr-O\u2019Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS; M+B <\/i>Gallery, Los Angeles; Fierman Gallery, New <\/i>York; Gryder Gallery, New Orleans; Atlanta <\/i>Contemporary, Atlanta, and Vacant Gallery, <\/i>Tokyo. Lafitte\u2019s work has been in group <\/i>shows and fairs at the Brodsky Center, New <\/i>York; Dieu Donn\u00e9, New York; Tatjana <\/i>Pieters, Belgium; and the Outsider Art Fair, <\/i>Paris. Lafitte\u2019s next solo exhibition, The <\/i>Game is Mine, will be at Alchemy Gallery starting March 7. <\/i>Lafitte\u2019s work is held in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, <\/i>and has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper\u2019s Magazine and Victory Journal. In 2009, <\/i>he was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation artist award and was a mentee by <\/i>renowned curator and tastemaker Diego Cortez prior to his passing in 2021.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Canal and Carrollton Ave on a Saturday, 62\u00d742 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Canal and Claiborne Ave Saturday Night, 62\u00d742 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fat Tuesday in the Lafitte Projects, 62\u00d742 inches archival ink on acid free paper, 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dapper Bruce Lafitte (b. 1972 New Orleans) is a self-trained artist who began making and showing work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to commemorate the then-decimated street culture of parades and marching bands of New Orleans. He has exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, notably at the Prospect Biennial, New Orleans, and in solo shows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interview","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28331,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28294\/revisions\/28331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/authorsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}