Dead Lost or Displaced

The monograph Dead Lost or Displaced documents the lives of Louisiana natives mostly in and around New Orleans and Baton Rouge. This book is dedicated to the innocent, who either are Dead, Lost or Displaced due to the events that occurred after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Dead Lost or Displaced features excerpts from the New Orleans Times Picayune article titled: “Peace Among the Ruins" by Pulitzer prize winner Chris Rose author of 1 Dead in Attic, which is a collection of stories recounting the first four harrowing months of life in New Orleans after Katrina. The book went on to become a New York Times Bestseller.

Terrence Sanders has contributed to the landscape of contemporary art as an artist, gallerist, curator, publisher and editor-in-chief of Artvoices Magazine and Artvoices Art Books. As an artist: “I feel a strong responsibility to provide the viewer with stimulating visuals that speak in an equally distinct language.  These tableaux initiate a vibrant dialogue between subject and viewer." Sanders mission as Editor-In-Chief of Artvoices Magazine (Established 2008) was to create a platform for emerging, neglected and under recognized artists who create important and relevant works of art arguably. Sanders’ is the Father of noted artist Lucien Smith. Sanders has directed and curated art spaces: Terrence Sanders Gallery (New Orleans), Untitled Art Projects (Los Angeles), Sanders, Smith & Stokes (New Orleans), Artists 101 (Los Angeles), Makeshift Museum (Los Angeles). Sanders has curated over 50 exhibitions including: ’60 Americans’ ‘We Got Next’ and the ‘Saratoga Collection’. Sanders has exhibited more than 100 visual artists without representation at art fairs in Europe and the United States.