Congrats to the CLUI for winning the 2005 Lucelia Artist Award.
CLUI is currently running a “greatest hits” package with mini exhibits of “Emergency State,” “Loop Feedback Loop,” and other recent shows along with the main “Vacation: Dauphin Island” exhibition. I’ve seen plenty of “dead vacation spots” collections, but the Dauphin Island set is incredibly striking – I’d shell out for a coffee-table sized book of them.
Dauphin Island (more of a sandbar than an actual island) itself is even sketchier shape than Grand Isle area of Louisiana. As you might have surmised, Katrina practically sank the island and it’s only barely reopen now – just in time for the next hurricane season.
I had no idea it was there… I wish I stopped in on the road trip east last year.