Ceaux, the Artist: Everything is a Canvas

Interviewing Courtney “Ceaux” Buckley was a challenge. We had already done a panel together at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) this summer and he’s been an inspiration throughout my art life, but when I say, “it’s been a busy season”, I mean: the week we met up at his gallery, he was setting up for a new solo show, there were artists in the space tattooing, his kids had just gotten out of school, so they were joyfully running around the space, pausing with curiosity, to see what we were doing; I had just finished one large scale mural and I was prepping for the next, all while splitting my time between projects in New Orleans and Atlanta… It’s a miracle that we were able to meet and I’m so glad we were. 

Ceaux is the ultimate multidisciplinary artist: he builds canvases from recycled wood, paints on walls, basketball backboards, court floors, shirts; he is a renowned tattoo artist, and details cars in his free time. He has been featured at The McKenna Museum of African American Art, at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and he is the proprietor of his own space, Axiom Gallery. If you live anywhere in New Orleans, you’ve seen his work…

Read the whole article, by Jade Meyers, in The New Orleans Arts Rag Volume 2