About

PAQUET
A visionary artist with uncommon endurance and a passion for innovation, George Dunbar is one of our most treasured cultural figures and, at age 96, a true living legend. For Paquet, his tenth solo exhibition at Callan Contemporary, he has created new works from several of his well-known stylistic periods—Rouville, Surge, Coin Du Lestin, and Bonfouca—and is debuting a brand-new series, after which the exhibition is titled. Paquet is the name of a bayou near his home and studio near Slidell; it is also the French word for “bundle.” In these mixed-media paintings, bundles of metallic …