Landscape architect and Downtown advocate Chris Flagg is exhibiting and selling his watercolors in the second-floor art gallery at Wells Fargo Center.
His office, Flagg Design Studios, is in a historic building along East Forsyth Street. Flagg is chairman of the board of directors of Downtown Vision Inc. and a past chair of the city Downtown Development Review Board.
He comes from a long line of artists, including James Montgomery Flagg, the artist who created the iconic "Uncle Sam Wants You" poster first published in 1917. Flagg's father was the principal violinist in the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra and his grandfather crafted stringed instruments.
Flagg said one of the reasons he became a landscape architect is he "appreciates the artistic side of it."
When he designs a landscape, instead of creating a computer-generated rendering of a project, Flagg gets out his paint brushes and watercolors.
The exhibition shows his work involving Downtown landmarks and non-architectural subjects, such as sailing ships, shrimp boats and the USS Charles F. Adams, the guided missile destroyer that's proposed to become a Downtown education and tourism center.
All of the watercolors are available for sale. Access to the exhibition is available by visiting the reception desk in the lobby.
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