top of page
Roz LeCompte portrait by Zack Smith Jazz Museum New Orleans Louisiana
Roz LeCompte Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Roz LeCompte Secondline Jewels Owner
ROZ LECOMPTE
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte Reve Coffee Lab Downtown Lafayette Louisiana
Roz LeCompte Acadiana Center For The Arts Lafayette Louisiana
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte solo show 2004 Lafayette Louisiana
Roz LeCompte Portrait by Zack Smith featured in the New Orleans Jazz Museum
Roz LeCompte Secondline Jewels
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte
ROZ LECOMPTE
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte Secondline Jewels
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte
Roz LeCompte Secondline Jewels
Roz LeCompte Ogden Museum of Southern Art
DSC_5972.JPG

ROZ
LeCOMPTE

If art allows you to see through the eyes of the artist,

Rozalyn LeCompte’s eyes are kaleidoscopes.

The world looks back at you in

bright shades of pink and turquoise

there is no fear of color here 

and in shapes both abstract and universally recognizable.

What may appear as an orderless mosaic turns out to be a stylized family of symbols moored

in LeCompte’s personal mythology.

The end game isn’t chaos or choose-your-own-adventure art;

in fact, LeCompte’s work is bringing sharp focus

to the world at-large,

distilling human experience into symbols and stories

that are sometimes ancient and always familiar. 

 

The art of South Louisiana has its own vocabulary of

moss-draped oaks, alligators, blue dogs, and stilted houses.

Roz LeCompte adds confidently to this

Southern lexicon with symbols no less familiar

– handheld fans, teacups, candles, snakes, the swamp lotus.

She is clearly inspired by her mysterious swampy homeland

and the stories its nature and people carry,

and her work deftly explores the

Southerner’s infatuation with adornments and rituals.

 

LeCompte is self-taught,

tapping her intuition and fostering

a natural sense of play felt throughout her work.

It’s easy to imagine the artist as a young girl

painting teacups and flowers and snakes on her studio floor.

But the femininity and fragility in her art

impart serious whimsy,

the kind of play that

breaks you open and makes you free again.

LeCompte’s lack of formal training

makes room for bona fide naïveté;

she is simply (and stunningly)

seeing the world and eating it alive

and synthesizing the experience into every medium

she can get her hands on.

BIO WRITTEN BY BROOKE BROUSSARD

SOUTHERN DRAMATURG

 

EXHIBITIONS / PUBLICATIONS

 

2024     COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE OCTOBER MYTHS & LEGENDS FEATURE INTERVIEW / MISSISSIPPI + LOUISIANA

2024     BOLD JOURNEY ONLINE MAGAZINE INTERVIEW SEPTEMBER ISSUE 

2024    "RÊVERIE"  SOLO EXHIBITION  ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS / LAFAYETTE, LA

2024    BARE WALLS GROUP EXHIBITION AT BASIN ARTS / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

2024    VOYAGER STL ONLINE MAGAZINE  HIDDEN GEMS SERIES  JUNE ISSUE / ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

2024    PRODUCER OF DEGE LEGG MEMORIAL TRIBUTE  VAULT / ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

2024    COUNTRY ROADS MAGAZINE FIVE ACADIANA ARTISTS TO KNOW MAY ISSUE /  MISSISSIPPI + LOUISIANA 

2024    BASIN ARTS PROJECT SPACE RESIDENCY "FEMME UNMUTED" / LAFAYETTE, LA.

2023    ACADIANA OPEN TOUR GROUP EXHIBITION AT ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

2023    BRITISH VOGUE MAGAZINE   JULY / AUG / SEPT ISSUES

2023    CUR NON BICENTENNIAL EXHIBITION CURATED BY CAMILLE FARRAH LENAIN AT ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS / LAFAYETTE,  LA

2023    BARE WALLS GROUP EXHIBITION AT BASIN ARTS / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA 

2023    ARTSIN SQUARE MAGAZINE ONLINE FEATURE

2023    ABSOLUTELY ABSTRACT NATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION AT MODERN VISUAL ARTS GALLERY/ BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA

2023    SOLO FEATURE AT BASIN ARTS / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

2023    60TH ANNUAL NATIONAL COMPETITION AT MASUR MUSEUM OF ART CURATED BY JOVANNA VENEGAS / MONROE, LOUISIANA            

2023    FEATURED DESIGNER IN NEW ORLEANS INDEPENDENT FASHION SHOW AT HOTEL PETER AND PAUL / NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

2022    LOUISIANA LIFE MAGAZINE  NOVEMBER ISSUE / METAIRIE, LOUISIANA    

2022    PAPER CITY MAGAZINE  SEPTEMBER ISSUE / HOUSTON, TEXAS

2022    LA CONTEMPORARY GROUP EXHIBITION CURATED BY VALERIE CASSEL OLIVER AT THE OGDEN MUSEUM OF  SOUTHERN ART /                              NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

2022    BEST IN SHOW FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

2022    FLETCHER HALL ULL GROUP EXHIBITION / LAFAYETTE, LA

2022    SOLO EXHIBITION AT REVE COFFEE ROASTERS / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA 

2017    BEST IN SHOW FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

2000    DAUGHTERS OF LIGHT SOLO SHOW AT CLEMENTINES / NEW IBERIA, LOUISIANA

1999    SOLO EXHIBIT AT CAFFÉ COTTAGE / LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA

 

 

 

​

3A7E0FDC-32B5-4235-AE4C-18D3C35D9ECA.PNG
bottom of page