Deja Vu All Over Again January 19, 2011

Since 2000 New Orleans-based artists Tony Campbell and Matt Vis have collaborated as the artistic team Generic Art Solutions. As G.A.S. their work has a strong conceptual bent, often with political and social undertones. They are also known as the "International Art Police" or "Art Cops." One of their enduring passions is the incorporation of ideas and imagery from old Master painters, including Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, and Leonardo da Vinci. For their exhibition at NOMA, they have chosen the British Petroleum Oil Spill as their artistic focus. The exhibition title 'Deja Vu All Over Again' (a quote from Yogi Berra) captures the typical sense of surreality and levity in G.A.S.'s work, and the frustrating sentiment in Louisiana that its history of corruption and man-made disasters has a tendency to repeat itself.