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Address:
2033 magazine street, New Orleans

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com

DEW POINT a summer group show

curated by ken capone at coup doeil art consotium, new orleans.

participating: Joan Becker, James Taylor Bonds Judith Burks, Blaine Capone, Chris Dennis, Terry Deroche, Hayley Gaberlavage, Jessica Goldfinch, Ken Kenan, Meghan Methe, Erica Lambertson Philippe, Jessica Vogel

june 17th – july 24th 2010

opening reception sat, june 19th, 7-10pm

featuring music by mad dog johnson.

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

The Achilles Cycle, a solo exhibition of works by Virginia artist Clay Blancett, opens this month, along with collaborative team Zack Godshall and Emilie Taylor with their response to the film God�s Architects. Also, works by Wendy Babcox and April Childers exploring relationships between humans and animals, intuition, and desire. Opening reception Saturday June 12th, 6-10 pm.

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Worst Case Scenario 4×5 photo works by Lexi Linde

Also featuring Wonderly Designs
Handmade leather and metal crafted accessories by Lauren Morlock
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Metal Sculpture by Travis Linde

Print sale proceeds and 35% of sales of accessories will go to the Louisiana Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Rescue Program

Thai food for purchase upstairs
This month: Tofu Curry $6

June 12, 2010
6pm to 10pm
4031 St. Claude
504-218-5727

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

ART AND DRAMA CAMP at the OGDEN MUSEUM of SOUTHERN ART:
“SOUTHERN PLAY TIME” with actor/director Mikko and artist Gina Phillips
For children entering 2nd to 5th grades

Children will learn basic art and performance skills and create the
script, props, scenery and more for an original multi-act play. Each two-week session will produce a different play performed on the last day of camp.

Session 1: June 7 – 18
Session 2: June 21 � July 2

9 am-12 noon

About the Instructors:
Mikko Macchione has been involved in theater for more
than 40 years and theater education for close to 15.
He helped develop various summer theater programs –
SummerStages and camps at the Contemporary Arts
Center and Isidore Newman School. On-stage, he founded
the legendary �mikko presents� series of shows
built around themes that played in alternative venues
around New Orleans. He has produced shows in both the
United States and Mexico, and is a graduate of the
National Shakespeare Conservatory.

Gina Phillips, a Kentucky native, has lived in New
Orleans since the early �90s. Raised in Madison County,
Kentucky, she attended the University of Kentucky, and
graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1994.
One year later, she moved to New Orleans to pursue a
Master of Fine Arts at Tulane University, earning her degree
in 1997. Her art has moved from painting to mixed media
to works made solely of fabric and thread. She has been a
popular resident artist in several of the Ogden
Museum�s Artists and Sense of Place programs and has
taught one of the museum’s adult classes, Fiber Arts 101.

COST: $250 museum members per session; $275 non-members per session

LOCATION: Ogden Museum of Southern Art , 925 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA

FOR INFORMATION OR TO REGISTER: Contact Kate Barron
at 504.539.9608 or email kbarron@ogdenmuseum.org

Address:
518 Julia Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.gallerybienvenu.com

With their multiple layers of richly allusive, cross-cultural imagery, Teresa Cole�s prints uncover missing links between pattern and meaning, ornamentation and narrative. They occupy a rare common ground between visual seduction and conceptual engagement, employing innovative techniques and lush iconography to explore the commonalities of human experience. The installation, screen prints, and woodcut relief prints on paper and fabric that make up the artist�s Gallery Bienvenu exhibition draw inspiration from her trips to India to research the origins of pattern.

Within these lavish compositions, the viewer will find motifs adapted from the Adalaj step well near Ahmedabad, the ornate wall carvings of a mogul palace in Jaipur, and a baroque array of serpentine flourishes, scrolls, and motifs from the animal and vegetal worlds. These elements jostle and flow together in vignettes that evoke the frenetic, eye-opening wonder of traveling to foreign lands. �In art,� Cole observes, �we use pattern a lot, but very often its meaning is lost. It might allude to identity, but it�s rarely clear what a given pattern actually means. In Indian culture, there are narratives that are so well known that they have become pattern.�

A professor of printmaking at Tulane University, Cole has seen her works exhibited and collected in galleries and museums around the globe. The works are renowned for their virtuosic graphic sophistication, which, upon closer inspection, rewards the viewer with an intense texturality and translucence arising from the layering of inks, cut papers, and fabrics. Some of Cole�s prints resplend with silver leaf on tarlatan fabric, an unusual integration of media blending Indian traditions and Western printmaking techniques. In these works, as across her output, she acts as a transferrer of optical effects and the cultural coding embedded within them. This essentially syntactical enterprise, in Cole�s hands, is never less than visually ravishing, a testament to the crux of her thesis: that mark-making and meaning are one and the same.

Gallery Bienvenu hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please contact Borislava Kharalampiev, Gallery Director, or Britney Penouilh, for additional information or visit the gallery website at www.gallerybienvenu.com.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

The 3rd annual O-Mazing Race: It�s On! May 22, 2010!
The popular art and culture scavenger hunt presented by the Kohlmeyer Circle now includes the O-Mazing All-Star Jam Party

Rescheduled from March 6 to May 22, 2010, the Kohlmeyer Circle of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will hold its 3rd annual O-Mazing Race�an exhilarating, interactive scavenger adventure in New Orleans. Participants start at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, then travel in teams via mule-drawn carriages in pursuit of clues and the answers, testing their knowledge of Southern culture in New Orleans: music, art, literature and fashion are all potential topics in this ultimate quest to explore the Big Easy. Past years� clues have led participants through secret gardens, galleries, wedding chapels and more! The race ends at Republic New Orleans, where there will be an O-Mazing All-Star Jam at which the top three winners of the race will be announced, and there will be a best costume contest. This party is open to both race participants and others who want to be part of the festivities, featuring music from New Birth Brass Band and the All-Star Jam featuring James Andrews, Walter �Wolfman� Washington, members of The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and more, as well as Republic�s DJ Damion Yancy. There will also be cash bar featuring O-Mazing drink specials and complimentary food. The O-Mazing Race is a benefit for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans. The Kohlmeyer Circle is a group of young art and culture enthusiasts who support the mission through organizing special projects and public programs.

O-Mazing Race � The Details:
When: Sat., May 22, 2010. Race is rain or shine.
Time: 5:30 p.m.: Registration/Starting line up 6 p.m. Race begins (promptly!) 8:30: After party at Republic New Orleans, 828 South Peters St.
Where: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.; After party: Republic New Orleans, 828 South Peters St.
Cost: Race participant and After Party: $125 per person; After Party only: $20 per person (Can buy at door)
Reservation/Tickets:
� Teams consist of 6 people. If you do not have a complete team, the Museum can place you with a team, space available.
� Reservations for the race will be accepted in the order they are received. Space is limited to 17 teams (for a total of 102 participants).
� Participants must be 21 and older.
� There are no refunds for reservations made after Fri. May 14, 2010.
� Questions or to reserve your spot: contact Stephanie Spicer: 504.539.9616, sspicer@ogdenmuseum.org; or to download a form, go to: www.ogdenmuseum.org/race/omazingrace_2010_save.html.

Email it to Stephanie Spicer, or fax it to 504.539.9602. Follow and find updates about the party on Facebook and Twitter (OgdenMuseum).

Thank you for your support of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art�and let�s get our race on!

Address:
4532 Magazine St.

Zip Code:
70115

Web Site:
http://www.octaviaartgallery.com

FORGOTTEN WORLDS
Mixed media engravings by Thomas Hamann

Please join us for a reception with the artist
Saturday, May 8, 6 – 8 pm

Octavia Art Gallery is pleased to announce a solo-exhibition of recent engravings by the German artist Thomas Hamann from May 8 � June 2, 2010. Now living in Belgium, this will be Hamann�s first time exhibiting in New Orleans. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception on Saturday, May 8th, 6 � 8 pm.

On first impression, Thomas Hamann’s artwork reflects the charm of the exotics, the search for the qualities of those cultures and people, which Hamann compares to his own reality. His engravings present themselves as colorful, organic, and deeply earthly-connected. They invite the viewer on a journey full of sensuous discoveries. The encounters are strange and familiar at the same time: familiar, because the many symbols he uses have been known to us for a long time, but strange, because we have not seen such combinations before, and we do not know how to interpret them.

Of his work, Hamann says, �It has been a long time since I could say that I’ve ‘created’ a piece or that I’ve made something. I feel more and more that I am guided, that I put myself into that flow. If I let happen what wants to be expressed, then I experience a feeling that profoundly touches me — a strong sense of harmony and that the work is just ‘right.’ Sometimes it feels like memories, and I wonder to which place it will guide me, and I follow as far as it goes. Nature also attracts me strongly. Therefore, every morning I go into the nearby forest, and each time I experience gratitude and peace. There is a perception of clarity here with direct experience of the laws of nature and its rhythm. I discover the Golden Calf one more time as well as the meaning of ancient runes and other symbols. Each of them follows an inner law.”

Hamann�s works leave the traditional format behind. Instead of the regular rectangle, we find an ensemble of single pieces with partial layers and dyed papers. Strongly defined structural fields that spread over the entire format of the image are responsible for their underlying character, as if made out of stone. Reliefs and molding � important parts in Hamann�s artworks � suggest heights and depths and allow accents to create an interplay between the contrasts of light and dark. Especially noticeable is the compressed handmade paper, as thick as a finger from the process of shaping and printing, that Hamann uses for his engravings.

Thomas Hamann has exhibited widely at galleries and institutions throughout Europe and the United States. His work can be found in the International Monetary Fund collection, the Frankfurt Airport, and in many well known private collections.

Address:
3815 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70115

Web Site:
www.guthriecontemporary.com

Shaw’s latest photographic studies focus on minute elements of the landscape, both tame and wild. Working with a modified plastic camera she shot these images “from the hip”, honing in on details, textures and light. From the seeds of a spent rose, to a bee in the act of pollinating, the photographs depict intimate visions of plant life as it cycles from bud to seed.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www,ogdenmuseum.org

The Contemporary Portrait � An Artist Responds to Trends in Painting
An April 21 lecture featuring Jan Aronson, an artist with local roots

The portrait: It is an entry to the soul of the subject�or the artist. Since pre-historic times through to today, the portrait has symbolized many things�a documentation, vanity, an artist�s intent.
New York-based artist Jan Aronson, a native of New Orleans, has looked at hundreds of contemporary artists who do portraits. She found that the work these artists are doing began to fall into categories.
�The Contemporary Portrait � An Artist Responds to Trends in Painting,� is a one-hour presentation by Aronson that includes 28 artists divided into seven categories: Self Portrait, New Old Masterism, Pop Culture/Historical Figures, Pop Forward, Painterly Realism, Psychological Portraits and Anomolies. Artists she includes are Bo Bartlett (whose paintings were recently on view at the Ogden Museum), Whitfield Lovell, Alex Melamid, William Beckman, and Aronson, herself.
It is both a personal and scholarly investigation of contemporary portraiture. Aronson has chosen art and artists she finds compelling on a personal level, then addresses the trends she sees happening on a global scale. The lecture is presented by explaining the categories and examining the works of the artists within each. Aronson�s approach is meant to be interesting to the layman and to those with a background in art history, students and professionals. Aronson�s interest in portraiture is generated not only because she has been doing them in her own career, but because it is a fascinating, ever changing and enduring form of artistic expression.

About Jan Aronson:
Jan Aronson�s work has been featured in more than 40 solo exhibitions and 40 group shows. A native of New Orleans, she received her bachelor of arts from University of New Orleans, and a masters of fine arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her work is in the collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, as well as in the private collection of Ronald Lauder, among others. Critical reviews and articles about Aronson�s work have appeared in Art News, Art in America, Art New England, the University of New Orleans Magazine, Art Review, and numerous catalogues. She currently lives in New York City.

DETAILS:
Event: The Contemporary Portrait � An Artist Responds to Trends in Painting by Jan Aronson
Date/Time: Wed. April 21, 2010; 6 p.m.
Location: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, LA. Event located in 5th floor gallery
Admission: Free to Museum members; $10 general admission. (Museum members can call ahead to reserve a seat no later than Mon. April 19.)
To reserve a seat or information: Stephanie Spicer, 504.539.9616.

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As part of the exhibition “Joan Mitchell in New Orleans,” a symposium on the artist�s life and work will take place in New Orleans from April 9-11, 2010. Co-organized by Tulane University�s Newcomb Art Gallery and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, this three-day gathering will feature art historians, friends of Mitchell and screenings of select films on Mitchell. The symposium is free and open to the public. On April 10, the Newcomb Art Gallery will host a day-long series of discussions about Mitchell. Featured speakers include Robert Storr, David L. Craven, and Ann Gibson.

Please visit www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu or www.joanmitchellinneworleans.org for a full listing of events and programming at other venues in town.

Please Note: All events are free to the public. However, space is limited. Registration will be assigned on a first come, first served basis.

For additional information visit www.joanmitchellinneworleans.org or call Christa Blatchford at the Joan Mitchell Foundation (212-524-0100) or Teresa Parker Farris at the Newcomb Art Gallery (504-314-2406).

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Kicking off this month with New York artist Sarah Peters’s works from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, a prestigious year-long artist residency in Massachusetts. Duane David Dugas and Ken Howell share Room 2 with photography and paintings concerned with permanence and spiritual quests. Studio collaborators Holis Hannan and Front member Alex Podesta exhibit collage paintings and photographs in their first show together. Lastly, new paintings and works on paper from member Rachel Jones. Opening reception Saturday April 10th, 6-10 p.m. Through May 2nd.

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Four Shows @ The Front
April 10-May 2
Opening reception: Saturday April 10th, 6-10 pm

Room 1
Sarah Peters
In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire
New York artist Sarah Peters�s portrait and seascape drawings depict a world inhabited by American outcasts. A current Fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the early American history of the region, and the landscape of Cape Cod itself, inspired this work. �In Our Youth, Our Hearts Were Touched With Fire� examines agency, human or otherwise, that shapes, distorts, and alters person and place.

Room 2
duane david dugas: under spells
as a curious atheist searching for glimpses of anything magical or holy, photography is the most scientific, anthropological vehicle I have at my disposal. the release of the shutter is the closest I come to prayer.

Ken Howell: New Work
A recent transplant to New Orleans, Ken Howell�s latest series contrasts new media and old; these paintings explore ideas of chance and permanence, convenience and anxiety.

Room 3
Holis Hannan & Alex Podesta
collages
New works by Los Angeles based artist, Holis Hannan and New Orleans based artist, Alex Podesta. Hannan is presenting a new series of photographic collages and Podesta is presenting collaged paintings on panels. While they have been regular studio collaborators for years, this show marks the first time Hannan And Podesta have exhibited together.

Room 4
Rachel Jones
All my Love (To You, My Love)
This exhibition features a new body of work that includes both small-scale paintings on plastic and works on paper. These new, intimate works combine drawn and painted imagery with personal sentiment, and are a new departure for Rachel.

Address:
518 Julia Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.gallerybienvenu.com

Haunting, luminous, and richly allusive, the semi-abstract landscapes of celebrated painter Arturo Mallmann transport us into realms of the sublime. The artist, who was born in Uruguay and has traveled and exhibited internationally, has seen many of the world�s most spectacular landscapes�but the mountains, canyons, and plateaus in his paintings are landscapes of the mind. Complex psychological allegories, they glow with mystical expanses of light, sky, land, and water, punctuated by sensual daubs of paint that seem to enclose the drama of Abstract Expressionism within the cool implacability of color-field painting. The works are born of a painstaking, time-intensive process in which the artist applies up to 100 layers of translucent paint, varnish, and resin, imparting a luxuriantly aqueous sense of depth that invites the viewer to dive into an alternate universe.

Most of the compositions are peopled with one or more human figures, who are simultaneously dwarfed and embraced by the fantastical landscapes that surround them. �I don�t see the figures as particular people,� Mallmann reflects. �I see them as metaphors for a state of expectation and exploration, which we all experience. They are struggling to reach a place that is inside themselves, a place where they belong.� Because the figures symbolize universal longings, viewers often find themselves projecting their own desires and dreams into Mallmann�s otherworldly vistas.

The skyscapes that are so integral to these compositions are especially evocative. When he was in his twenties, the painter was profoundly touched by a scene in Tolstoy�s War and Peace in which a soldier, wounded on the battlefield, gazes up at the sky. Despite the havoc and carnage all around him, the soldier is overcome by a deep contentment and serenity. Mallmann hopes that collectors of his work will be able to enjoy a similar tranquility as they contemplate his paintings.

Those familiar with Mallmann�s paintings will notice in the current body of work a heightened concern with surface and contrast. The compositions are more dynamic than ever, and the color palette is brighter. �They are more visceral,� the artist observes of the new works. �The images are expanding. The space is growing. The light is taking over the whole image.�

Gallery Bienvenu hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Please contact Borislava Kharalampiev, Gallery Director, or Britney Penouilh, for additional information or visit the gallery website at www.gallerybienvenu.com.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

Have fun thinking out of this world � in three dimensions!

Sat. March 27 � 10 am-noon � For Children

For this puppet-making workshop directed by Karen Konnerth of Calliope Puppets, the inspiration are works by Clyde Connell (�Creatures of the Hot Humid Earth�) and John T. Scott (�Black Butterfly�). Build and decorate a rod-and-string controlled puppet using lightweight construction materials, producing a creature never seen before on Earth!

Each participant will leave with their own working rod marionette.

Museum members: $20; nonmembers $25. Fee includes materials.

Reservations recommended.

Call 504.539.9616 for information or to make a reservation.

Shown here: “Creatures of the Hot Humid Earth” by Clyde Connell

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DESCRIPTION OF EVENT

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Opening reception: Saturday March 13th, 6-10pm
Open Saturdays & Sundays, 12-5 pm in the Bywater

Room 1: Lou Blackwell
Americana Revisited
Following the conventions of wallpaper design, this series of “novelty prints” commemorates the American experience in the first decade of the new millennium.

Room 2: Angelo Arnold and Gowri Savoor
Surroundings
Vermont- based visual artists, Angelo Arnold and Gowri Savoor explore sustainability of global climate, society and economic change through an installation of drawings and sculpture. More information on the artists can be found at www.angeloarnold.com and www.gowrisavoor.com

Rooms 3 & 4: Stephanie Patton
Relocation Beige
Founding Front member, Stephanie Patton�s recent work includes a series of large-scale paintings that reference furniture showrooms and mail order catalogs. These paintings and other works allude to a psychological space of heightened anticipation.

Address:
Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University

Zip Code:
70118

Web Site:
http://www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu

Join us Friday, March 12th from 4-6PM for a celebration featuring the Latin music of Mas Momones! This event is sponsored by Newcomb Art Gallery and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Polaridad Complementaria is part of �Si Cuba!, a major citywide presentation of arts, music, and culture related to Cuba.

Exhibition developed by the National Council of Fine Arts and the Centro de Arte Contempor�neo Wifredo Lam, Havana and toured by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

Tables � those in dining rooms and kitchens, and used for drafting and other activities. They are where we work and where we play. Treaties are signed on them and revolutions plotted around them. Indeed, they are so much a part of our lives that we rarely consider their iconic importance. That will all change when artists John Barnes and Ayo Scott join forces to present �The Table in Art.� Series director Jessica B. Harris says, “I guarantee after this evening you’ll never look at this everyday piece of furniture the same way again.” This is the fourth in the Dillard University’s Institute for the Study of Culinary Cultures/Ogden Museum of Southern Art evening event series. The series is underwritten by grants from the Ray Charles Foundation with additional support from the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation.

Where: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St.

Admission: Free to Museum members; $10 general admission

Information and to reserve a seat: 504.539.9616

On March 6, 2010, the Kohlmeyer Circle of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will once again hold the O-Mazing Race�an exhilarating, interactive scavenger adventure in New Orleans. Participants start at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, then travel in teams via mule-drawn carriages in pursuit of clues and the answers, testing their knowledge of Southern culture in New Orleans: music, art, literature and fashion are all potential topics in this ultimate quest to explore the Big Easy. Past years� clues have led participants through secret gardens, galleries, wedding chapels and more! The race ends at Republic New Orleans, where there will be an O-Mazing After Party at which the top three winners of the race will be announced. This party is open to both race participants and others who want to be part of the festivities, featuring music by Walter Wolfman Washington, James Andrews, New Birth Brass Band, Gregory Davis (of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band), DJ Ghost, and more to be announced! There will also be cash bar featuring O-Mazing drink specials and free food. The O-Mazing Race is a benefit for the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans. The Kohlmeyer Circle is a group of young art and culture enthusiasts who support the mission through organizing special projects and public programs.

O-Mazing Race � The Details:
When: Sat., March 6, 2010. Race is rain or shine.
Time: 5:30 p.m.: Registration/Starting line up 6 p.m. Race begins (promptly!) 8:30: After party at Republic New Orleans, 828 South Peters St.
Where: Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.; After party: Republic New Orleans, 828 South Peters St.
Cost: Race participant and After Party: $125 per person; After Party only: $20 per person (Can buy at door)
Reservation/Tickets:
� Teams consist of 6 people (though there are two carriages with 8 seats). If you do not have a complete team, the Museum can place you with a team, space available.
� Reservations for the race will be accepted in the order they are received. Space is limited to 17 teams (for a total of 102 participants).
� There are no refunds for reservations made after Fri. Feb. 26, 2010.
� Questions or to reserve your spot, contact Stephanie Spicer: 504.539.9616, sspicer@ogdenmuseum.org; or to download a form, go to: www.ogdenmuseum.org/race/omazingrace_2010_save.html. Email it to Stephanie Spicer, or fax it to 504.539.9602.

Address:
Tulane University

Zip Code:
70118

Web Site:
www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu

Please join the Newcomb Art Gallery for �Social Expressionism: The Art of Luis Cruz Azaceta,” a lecture by Alejandro Anreus, Associate Professor of Art History and Latin American Studies at William Paterson University and the author of Orozco in Gringoland and The Social and The Real.

Luis Cruz Azaceta was born in Cuba in 1942 but has been resident of New Orleans for the past seventeen years. His works have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His exhibit “Swimming to Havana,” is on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through March 28.

The lecture is Wednesday February 24 from 6-8 PM.

Address:
4031 St. Claude

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.rustypelicanart.com

As part of the monthly 2nd Saturday St. Claude Arts District event, Rusty Pelican Studios will be showing soft sculpture artist Ivana Louvar and metal sculptor and painter Travis Linde. $5 Metal valentines, cheap drinks, art.
www.scadnola.com

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Featuring work from collective members: Kyle Bravo, Lee Deigaard, Rachel DeTrinis, Andrea Ferguson, Dave Greber, Rachel Jones, Morgana King, Jenny LeBlanc, Stephanie Patton, Julie Pieri, Alex Podesta, Claire Rau, Megan Roniger, and Jonathan Traviesa.

Love Letters exhibition, an installation of works by Rashida Ferdinand. Opening on February 4 at 6PM.

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Open Studio with Karen Rich Beall
Changing Landscapes Artist-in-Residence

Works in progress: Lichen (Ramalina montagnei), 2010, felted sculpture (shown)

Join Karen as she reveals work in progress based on lichens and ferns found in our forest at A Studio in the Woods. Karen has collected samples from the woods and sketches them in detail using a microscope. Working from life, she references the specimens and her drawings to render them in three dimensions using felted hand-knitting, papier mache and other mixed media.

Open Studio with resident artist Karen Rich Beall
Saturday, January 30, 2010
12-3pm at A Studio in the Woods
For a map and directions: http://www.astudiointhewoods.org/sitw/?page_id=10

Karen Rich Beall was born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from the University of Florida in 1986, Beall moved to New York City and worked as a studio assistant, wood restorer, and Circulation Director for Artforum Magazine while pursuing her own art work. In 1992 Beall left New York to attend graduate school at the University of Tennessee, where she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture in 1995. Beall then moved to Atlanta where she worked as the Public Art Assistant for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. She also worked for several years at the Fulton County Arts Council as the Public Art Coordinator. In 2002, Beall and husband Michael Pittari moved to Lebanon, Pennsylvania where Pittari accepted a full-time teaching position. Beall is currently teaching Ceramics and Sculpture as an adjunct instructor of art at Lebanon Valley College.

Changing Landscapes are 6-week residencies based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. We ask artists to describe in detail how the region will affect their work, to propose a public component to their residency and to suggest ways in which they will engage with the local community. Four accomplished artists have been selected to participate in this year�s program, funded in part by the Ford Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The artists in this round of residencies are Tory Tepp of Los Angeles (September-October 2009), David Sullivan of New Orleans (November-December 2009), Karen Rich Beall of Lebanon, PA (January-February 2010), and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts of New York (February-April 2010).

For more information about Karen�s work please visit http://www.karenrichbeall.com

Gris Gris Lab presents �Across The Waters,� an exhibit featuring the expressive works of native New Orleanian painter Sarah Dearie. Dearie�s paintings focus largely on the female Orishas, which have their root in the Yoruba spiritual canon. Each female Orisha deity corresponds to a body of water, and in this symbolism, Dearie has found visual inspiration and artistic resonance. After adopting Salvador, Bahia, Brazil as her second home in 1999, Dearie found tremendous inspiration from Salvador�s African culture. Following Hurricane Katrina, Dearie and her family moved to Salvador full-time, returning to New Orleans in 2007. The convergence of her New Orleanian roots, Salvador�s cultural influences, and the ever-present water flowing between these locations prominently define Dearie�s artistic style.

WHEN: Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Jan. 23. Musical Guests DJ Manga Rosa, Tedo Oliveira, and Marcio Pereira will be performing. Exhibition runs through Feb. 13

WHERE: Gris Gris Lab, 2245 Brainard St., New Orleans, LA 70130

OTHER: �Across The Waters� is curated by Gia M. Hamilton and Tara Foster. For more information, call Gris Gris Lab at (504) 654-1927 or email: Gia@grisgrislab.com tarafoster@grisgrislab.com.

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Gris Gris Lab, located in the Lower Garden District, is a premier international healing/arts movement that produces leading-edge, multidisciplinary cultural projects, wellness events, creative consultation, educational playshops and eco-tourist work exchange programs that concentrate on healing through intentional community. Healing services offered by appointment at The Lab include Reiki, fasting support, Ionic foot baths and body. Ground has been broken at the �Magic Garden� and is readily available for community participation on Saturdays from 11 a.m. � 4 p.m.

About the founder:
Gris Gris Lab is a part of Gia Hamilton’s life work to establish intentional communities throughout the world and build public shrines on specific meridians paying homage to great women, past, present and future. Hamilton envisioned a live work space where she could redefine concepts like work, motherhood, woman, black and create new paradigms based on social entrepreneurship and community vision.
Hamilton is a New Orleans native who recently returned home from living, studying and work in New York for 12 years. There, Hamilton received an undergraduate degree in Cultural Anthropology from New York University and her Master�s degree in Applied Anthropology from City University of New York.

Hamilton�s work is inspired by the combination of intentional lifestyle design and community, alternative living, spiritual rituals, healing and women centered programming.

Hamilton is also a visual artist who works with 3-D wood, fiber, metal, written word and storytelling. At the opening of �I Put A Spell On You: Women & Magic Reclaimed and Re-defined,� she will showcase the latest in her Root Chair series: �Seated in Power,� a tribute to Betty Davis. This piece will explore women as muses and where women find inspiration for their magic and creative process.

Experience:
� Holistic Health practitioner at Brooklyn�s Women�s Health Center, consultations with women with HIV
� Resident massage therapist at Cynergy Day Spa in New York City
� Certified Colon Hydrotherapist at Midas Well
� Studied herbology under Peeka Trenkle at the New York Open Center and continued her studies at South East school of Botanic Medicine in Mississippi
� Shaped and implemented a Rites of Passage program for girls in 5 different NYC public schools
� Certified Life Coach from Ekaya Institute in Ojai, California. She used her studies to build a wellness consulting business, working with nonprofit organizations, cultural Institutions and spiritual leaders.

Developed by the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Polaridad Complementaria:
Recent Works from Cuba attests to the concepts and aesthetics characterizing Cuban art today.
The show features more than 50 works of painting, drawing, sculpture, video, photography, and
installation art by 27 Cuban artists, among them René Peña, Abel Barroso, Aimeé García, Yoan Capote,
and Roberto Fabelo.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

A master basketmaker from North Carolina, Billie Ruth Sudduth�s baskets are made of reed splints, split oak, round reed, henna, and iron oxide, and inspired by Shaker and Appalachian baskets, as well as the Fibonacci sequence (in which the same proportions occur throughout nature, with the distance between the numbers in the proportion theory approximating the golden mean). The detail of her work makes her baskets sinuously sculptural, incorporating a sophisticated color palette.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

The Jos� Bedia exhibition, a collaboration with the Heriard-Cimino Gallery in New Orleans, will include a site-specific drawing done on a wall in the Museum. Bedia uses a personal, pan-humanist language informed by the religious, mythical and magical symbols of primitive cultures to explore concepts of identity and place in his large-scale drawings.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

Jorge Otero: Un-restored Miami is an exhibition of color photographs of Miami in the early 1980s, when the city�s faded glamour retained a poignant beauty.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

“Mario Petrirena: Soul House” is an exhibition of his sculptural clay pieces. These pieces have repeating motifs of the human head and the archetypical form of a pitched-roof house, addressing issues of abandonment and whether the home or body holds the soul.

Address:
925 Camp St., New Orleans, La.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.ogdenmuseum.org

The Museum�s Center for Southern Craft and Design presents “Contemporary Baskets: Billie Ruth Sudduth, Emma Hughes & Cindy Kilgore.” The Center showcases baskets by three Southern master craftspeople�Billy Ruth Sudduth (North Carolina), Emma Hughes (Louisiana) and Cindy Kilgore (Louisiana)�who show the intricacy and diversity of this craft. These baskets are also for sale. This showcase is funded in part by the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

A survey of recent acquisitions by the Museum. Artists include: Michael Meads, Will Steacy, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Sye Williams, Deborah Willis, Mary Tortorici, Leslie Addison and others. The photographs in this exhibition showcase the diversity and wealth of talent in Southern photography. Images of architecture, landscapes and portraits are graphic, dreamy or documentary�all imbued with a sense of place.

photo: “Cockfighter’s Son” (1992) by Michael Meads

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

The Front, an artist run gallery, presents the work of Front members Morgana King and Kyle Bravo exhibit this month, each with solo shows featuring books, silkscreens, paintings, and installation, with assemblage and drawings by Mary Early from Washington, D.C. Opening reception on Saturday January 9th from 6-10 pm in the Bywater. Go to www.nolafront.org for more details and join us at the opening!

Address:
3815 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70115

Web Site:
http://guthriecontemporary.com/

DESCRIPTION OF EVENT

Address:
1111 St Mary St., New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.neworleansphotoalliance.org

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is proud to present BLIND PROM, a solo exhibition by 2008 PhotoNOLA Review Prize recipient Sarah Wilson. BLIND PROM focuses on an American right of passage, the high school prom. This award-winning project features full color images, which convey the energy and excitement of a group of marginalized teens as they participate in the all-American ritual of attending a formal prom. Wilson�s exhibition, during the fourth annual PhotoNOLA festival, will feature 23 images from the series.

Wilson began photographing visually impaired teenagers in 2005 while working as field producer and stills photographer on the PBS-funded documentary �The Eyes of Me.� For the past three years she has documented prom night at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin, where she serves as the official prom photographer, producing the students� formal portraits and capturing candid moments throughout the night.

BLIND PROM will be on display at the NOPA Gallery from Nov 27, 2009 through Jan 24, 2010, with an opening reception on Saturday Dec 12 from 6-9pm.

Sarah Wilson will present an artist�s talk on Sunday Dec 13 from 7-8pm. In a slideshow and lecture presentation, Wilson will discuss photographs featured in the exhibition and share additional images that reach beyond prom night. She will also elaborate on this unique high school and her relationship to it. The talk is free and open to the public.

�The images are insightful, poignant and intimate. They help us understand a world very different from our own without being either intrusive or condescending.� � Doug Parker, Photo Editor of The Times-Picayune

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Web Site:
www.postmedium.org

Most artists are without the time, money, knowledge or resources to establish an effective online web presence.

Postmedium is a portfolio management system through which artists can update their online portfolios, add new content and images, and take control of their online presence.

Along with this system, we provide custom designed artist portfolios with support and hosting, all on an affordable budget.

Let us know if you, your gallery or collective would like a demonstration of the system. We would be happy to share.

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We are also currently in the process of creating a service that will allow any New Orleans artist to have access to a free, easy to use, updateable online artist portfolio.

For more information or Sign up to the waiting list, please visit: http://www.postmedium.org

This month at The Front features Roadhouse, a collection of works from Kathy Rodriguez, Matthew Kirscht, Thomas Riess, Jeff Rinehart and Natalie Sciortino, with a solo show by Maria Lovullo. The Front, an artist run gallery located at 4100 St. Claude Avenue, presents works by these artists on December 12th with a reception from 6-10pm. Please visit www.nolafront.org for more information.

Changing Landscapes Artist-in-Residence
David Sullivan Screens his Abstract Animations
at A Studio in the Woods

Join David on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at A Studio in the Woods for Films in the Forest, a screening of David Sullivan�s abstract animations inspired by the effects of air and water pollution prevalent in the chemical corridor. The films will be projected on screens installed in the woods, using the ambient sounds of the forest to provide the soundtrack. Louisiana Bucket Brigade will be on hand to talk about their work advocating for communities affected by industrial development.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
6:30-8:30pm at A Studio in the Woods

Click here for a map and directions: http://www.astudiointhewoods.org/sitw/?page_id=10

Animations to be screened include:
Bubble Pop, 2009
Swamp Gas, 2009 (shown)
Sunset Refinery, 2008

Changing Landscapes are 6-week residencies based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. We ask artists to describe in detail how the region will affect their work, to propose a public component to their residency and to suggest ways in which they will engage with the local community. Four accomplished artists have been selected to participate in this year�s program, funded in part by the Ford Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The upcoming artists in this round of residencies are David Sullivan of New Orleans (November-December 2009), Karen Rich Beall of Lebanon, PA (January-February 2010), and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts of New York (February-April 2010).

For more information about David�s work please visit www.swampmonster.org

Address:
1000 St. Charles Avenue, NOLA

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.descours.us

This December, downtown New Orleans will showcase DesCours, a week-long, contemporary architecture and art event that explores the latest in design and technology with new media and interactive art installations. After a competitive review of proposals from internationally recognized architects and artists, thirteen installations were chosen to nightly transform hidden spaces across the French Quarter and Central Business District of New Orleans.

During the week of December 7-13, this free, public event invites locals and visitors to view New Orleans historical spaces in a new way. The private courtyards, vacant buildings, and rooftops will be activated with an eclectic variety of site responsive installations by artists including Sadi Brewton, Marshall Brown + Dana Carter, Felipe Correa of the Somatic Collaborative, Gregoire Diehl of Smoothcore, Hiroyuki Futai of F-TAI Architect, Mary Hale, Jennifer Hiser, Tiffany Lin + Mark Oldham, Leah Nanpei + Koko Hovaguimian of nan.ko studio, Virginia San Fratello + Ronald Rael of Rael San Fratello Architects, Junji Watanaabe, and Jimmy Stamp + Sergio Padilla. These artists represent cities from seven US states, including two teams from New Orleans, and the international cities of Tokyo and Paris. The installations will be paired with nightly changing entertainment by musicians and a total of three public parties will be held to commemorate the start, midpoint, and end of the event.

DesCours goes beyond traditional art mediums to explore creativity, culture, and expression within urban settings. �With DesCours now in its third year, we are looking forward to increased exposure and awareness for this event, and the highest caliber of unique installations from top designers as we uncover more hidden spaces for the public to see.�, said Melissa Urcan, Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects New Orleans Chapter (AIA New Orleans). �While DesCours is a great means of cultural outreach within the city, it also showcases the unique architectural identity of New Orleans and puts our city on the map with other major art destinations worldwide.�

AIA New Orleans is presenting the event in partnership with the Downtown Development District (DDD), the City of New Orleans, and numerous private businesses, organizations, and individuals. DesCours is recommended to be viewed either on foot or by use of bicycle, and will have self-guided and docent-led tours leaving from the new Center for Design on Lee Circle on a nightly basis during the event. More information can be found on the website, www.descours.us.

New Orleans, LA � November 19, 2009) A rose is a rose is a rose � But is that really all?

Looking back into the ancient history of flower symbolism, that same rose might represent love, pleasure, pride, pain, secrecy, and even old age. The meaning, sentiment and �Language of Flowers� – a term first used in print in 1809 � traces its origins back to the earliest Chinese Dynasties. It now makes its way to New Orleans, as the theme for the Garden District Gallery�s third group invitational exhibition of the season � �The Language of Flowers�, December 5 through January 9, 2010. An Opening Reception is scheduled for Saturday, December 5, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The show will feature the works of eighteen artists from New Orleans, the Gulf South, and as far away as China. The participants will contribute artistic works using a variety of mediums, and provide various interpretations of flowers, their symbolism, colors and textures.

The renowned Auseklis Ozols, founder, director and senior instructor at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, will participate in the exhibition, as well as ceramist JoAnn Greenburg and Trailer McQuilkin, wildflower sculptor whose pieces show wildflowers in their habitat. (Pictured – Cherokee Rose by Trailer McQuilkin)

Other featured artists include: Patti Adams, Suzie Allain, Katie Arimura, Tony Benjamin, , Kiki Ceng, William Crowell, Jean Geraci, Martha Guthrie, Peggy Hesse, Susan Hotard, Laura Mitchell, Carol Peebles, Don Rhodes, Diane St. Germain, and Marilyn Woolverton.

Located only steps from Commander�s Palace, the Garden District Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 11am – 7pm. For more information, call 504-891-3032 or visit www.gardendistrictgallery.com.

Address:
440 Julia St.

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.heriard-cimino.com

Shifting is a series of photographs by New Orleans native, Michel Varisco that focus on the watery lands of coastal Louisiana from land, water and air that is sponsored in part from a grant by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
“When left untouched, the marshes and swamps grow, shift, move and die according to the movements of the sediments, the winds, and the presence of salt, fresh or brackish waters. The land is a living organism that’s dynamic, much like the cells in our bodies, replacing what’s lost as it can, unless the process is interrupted dramatically. As an artist, I’m watching the accelerated shifting of this endangered land.”

Address:
518 Julia Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.gallerybienvenu.com

Drama, mystery, and the duet between the sensual and the sinister�these are the keys to the world that Ray Donley�s artworks unlock. For the past 25 years, Donley has been conjuring the elegantly enigmatic characters who inhabit his ongoing series of psychologically charged portraits, Los bien perdidos (The profoundly lost ones). While these narratives exist outside the normal parameters of time and place, the artist�s meticulous technique, luxuriant brushstrokes, and richly layered surfaces harken to the Italian Baroque, when masters such as Caravaggio used theatrical contrasts of light and shadow to heighten the impact of composition and content.

In the paintings, drawings, mixed-media pieces, and assemblages that comprise Donley�s Encounters in the Bone Garden at Gallery Bienvenu, he deploys the virtuosity that has made him a fixture in prestigious collections around the world. �The world of shadows,� he explains, �is more compelling to me than the bright light of day, which holds no secrets. When we peer into the darkness, we have to be on alert; we have to listen. We�re more excited, because we don�t know what�s going to happen.�

To portray this realm of shadows and intrigue, he draws upon his studies of art history, in which he has earned two degrees, and his travels throughout Europe and Latin America. From Caravaggio and fellow 17th Century masters such as Velazquez and Rembrandt, Donley learned the impact of moody, undefined backgrounds, which throw subjects�and their inner lives�into greater relief. The extraordinary faces that populate his canvases, panels, and works on paper are not drawn from live models. Donley, unlike the Old Masters, aims not to elucidate the mindset of a particular sitter, but to engage the mind and fantasies of the viewer.

�I want the viewer to complete the image,� he says. And in fact, many of his collectors report that the figures in his paintings seem to change expression from one day to the next, reflecting their own ideas and emotions. With their alchemy of darkness, humor, and ambiguity, these romantic visions invite us to step outside the boundaries of everyday experience and explore realms that would be hidden from view, were it not for the power of art.

Evocative black-and-white environmental portraits of 38 people who encompass the widely ranging diversity of New Orleanians comprise the exhibition, �Jonathan Traviesa: Portraits in New Orleans 1998-2009.� The exhibition opens on Nov. 27, 2009 and will be on view until Jan. 23, 2010. The subjects of Traviesa�s photographs are not random, but were carefully selected by the photographer, based on friendship and an intuitive understanding of his subjects and their environments. Some know each other, some do not.
�I am interested in where and how people live in New Orleans,� says Jonathan Traviesa. �I believe that who these people are is shaped in part by the spaces they know and live around. This project attempts to record the dialogue between the intimate, built environment of New Orleans and the personalities contained therein.� The black-and-white images were taken with an old Rolleiflex twin-lens camera that was given to him by his father. The settings are outdoors, which keeps the lighting simple and gives the viewer a sense of how and where the subjects live. (Most reside in the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods in New Orleans.) This exhibition offers a unique update on the Southern tradition of integrating the arts�visual, literature and theater�with a sense of place. The photographs in the exhibition were selected from the book, �Portraits: Photographs in New Orleans 1998-2009� by Jonathan Traviesa, which features 100 portraits. There will be a booksigning with the artist on Thurs. Dec. 10.
This exhibition is part of the New Orleans Photo Alliance�s Photo NOLA, an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans. (http://photonola.org).

The New Orleans Museum of Art will present Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio, a major exhibition featuring more than 600 original artworks that shaped legendary animated features including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.

Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio also will include artwork from the upcoming Walt Disney Animation Studios musical, The Princess and The Frog, an animated comedy from the creators of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin, set in New Orleans and due for release at Christmas 2009.

“We are delighted to present this magical exhibition in New Orleans,” said NOMA director E. John Bullard. “Children will love seeing their favorite Disney characters in a museum setting and adults will be taken by the technical skill and emotional depth reflected in these works. It was Disney animators who really led the way in the 20th century toward establishing animation as a serious art form.”

Visitors to the exhibition will encounter themed rooms showcasing artwork related to specific animated features. Arranged chronologically by year of release, the rooms will feature, in order: Silly Symphonies, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Princess and the Frog. Film clips will accompany the artwork to demonstrate how individual sketches and paintings lead to a finished celluloid masterpiece. An adjacent Education Area will highlight Disney’s long association with music and also will serve as a mini library for animation research and storytelling programs.

About The Princess and the Frog
Walt Disney Animation Studios presents The Princess and The Frog, an animated comedy set against the great city of New Orleans. From the creators of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin comes a modern twist on a classic tale.

When the free-spirited, jazz-loving Prince Naveen of Maldonia comes to town, a deal with a devious scoundrel goes bad and the once suave royal is turned into a frog. In a desperate attempt to be human again, a favor in exchange for a fateful kiss on the lips from the beautiful girl, Tiana, takes an unexpected turn and leads them both on a hilarious adventure through the mystical bayous of Louisiana to the banks of the almighty Mississippi and back in time for Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

An unforgettable tale filled with music, humor and heart where two frogsÑalong with the help of a 200-year-old bayou fairy godmother, a love-sick Cajun firefly, and a trumpet—playing alligator—discover that what they want isn’t as important as what they need.

The Princess and The Frog will feature Disney’s first African American princess, Tiana, who lives in New Orleans during the Jazz Age. Other characters include Louis, a trumpet-playing alligator, and Ray, a love-sick Cajun firefly. The Princess and The Frog marks the return to hand-drawn animation from the revered team of John Musker and Ron Clements with music by Oscar¨-winning composer Randy Newman (Monsters, Inc., Cars, Toy Story).

Address:
1332 Washington Avenue

Zip Code:
70115

Web Site:
www.gardendistrictgallery.com

The Garden District Gallery proudly presents its second group invitational exhibition of the season – Fire, Earth, Air and Water: The Elements. The exhibit features fourteen local New Orleans women who bring their singular, creative interpretations to the four elements.

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents, �Art of the Cup: Functional Comfort.� This exhibition will feature the winners of this invitational juried competition of ceramic tea bowls, cups and mugs. The exhibition opens Thurs. November 12, during Ogden After Hours (featuring Mary Gauthier), and will be on view through December 20.
The show will feature work by 45 artists, including: Linda Arbuckle, Posey Bacopoulous, Anderson Bailey, William Baker, Chris Baskin, Chris Bauman, Hayne Bayless, George Bowes, William Brouillard, Jeff Brown, Joe Bruhin, Conner Burns, Kyle Carpenter, Carolyn Cercone, Andrea Freel Christie, Sam Chung, Jim Connell, David Crane, Ross Edwards, Susan Filley, Alexandra Geller, Lynda Katz, Martina Lantin, Suze Lindsay, Courtney Martin, Frank Martin, Kent McLaughlin, Laura Jean McLauglin, Ron Meyers, Sequoia Miller, Brian Nettles, Karen Newgard, Abigail Oesterritter, Marsha Owen, Emily Reason, Mark Rigsby, Justin Rothshank, Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph, Nigel Rudolph, Ellen Shankin, Andy Shaw, Gertrude Graham Smith, Tom Spleth, Rachel Therese Husser Stegman and Charity Davis Woodward. The awards judge is Bill Griffith, Assistant Director of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gaitlinburg, Tenn.
Participants submitted up to three ceramic pieces�either tea bowls, cups and saucers, or mugs. More than 80 pieces will be on view and offered for sale. Prices range from $25 to approximately $75.
This show is presented by The Center for Southern Craft and Design with support from the Windgate Charitable Foundation.

Join installation artist Tory Tepp in kicking off The Spirit Ferry Project, a public art piece conceived during his Changing Landscapes Residency at A Studio in the Woods. You are invited to get your hands dirty while helping Tory in his �art-scaping� of a site in the Bywater next Saturday, November 7th.

The Spirit Ferry Project
Date: Saturday, November 7th, 2009
Location: 3429 Burgundy (at the corner of Gallier)
Art-scaping: 10am-2pm
Festivities: 2pm-4pm

The Spirit Ferry Project is manifested by a mobile installation Tory has fabricated in the form of a boat from a 10-foot flatbed trailer that he is calling a portable �art-scaping� unit. The curved prow boasts a maidenhead in the form of a kinetic sculpture of a bee drinking from a flower and its cargo will include two cubic yards of soil, seeds and the tools and equipment to build and plant living installations / earthworks in Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes. The project will involve volunteers from both areas and will include physical earth shaping and structural fabrication. Tepp holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis College of Arts and Design in Los Angeles and has been involved in exhibitions in a variety of media.

Changing Landscapes are 6-week residencies based on the premise that Southern Louisiana can be seen as a microcosm of the global environment, manifesting both the challenges and possibilities inherent in human interaction with the natural world. We ask artists to describe in detail how the region will affect their work, to propose a public component to their residency and to suggest ways in which they will engage with the local community. Four accomplished artists have been selected to participate in this year�s program, funded in part by the Ford Foundation, the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The upcoming artists in this round of residencies are David Sullivan of New Orleans (November-December 2009), Karen Rich Beall of Lebanon, PA (January-February 2010), and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts of New York (February-April 2010).

Address:
4532 Magazine Street

Zip Code:
70115

Web Site:
www.octaviaartgallery.com

For Victoria Montoro Zamorano, the art of seeing consists not in actively looking for the striking or unusual, but in being ever open and receptive to see the world with new eyes. This unguarded, spontaneous approach gives her images a quality of abstract realism that turns undulating sand dunes into a woman�s prone body, and equally captures the emotional content of a crumbling fa�ade or an old woman�s face.

Zamorano left Havana in 1961, when she was 12 years old. In May 2008, she returned for the first time, a trip she calls �the most important� of her life. Zamorano says, �I was a bit scared, being the daughter of a former political prisoner.� It was a time for Victoria to reconcile her own memories, from those invented ones, or imagined ones acquired through the years from her parents and family members. While on the 5-day journey, Zamorano captured images � and memories � that became the stunning exhibit showcased at Octavia Art Gallery.

This body of work displays how the buildings on the Malecon in Havana have survived in spite of time and circumstances, political and economical. They stand, proudly facing the sea like a row of Grand Dames, waiting to be restored to their former glory. One piece in the exhibition uncovers this glory. Victoria�s cousin, Cuban painter Humberto Calzada, has tried to reconstruct his visual past by painting a partial restoration over one of Victoria�s photographs on canvas, leaving behind part of the ruin as a witness to the tragedy that has occurred.

An exhibition of drawing, printmaking, painting, and mixed-media installation, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America examines American Indian life in contrast to the consumerism of contemporary society. Her work is centered by her political activism and strong American Indian spirituality.

Address:
938 Royal Street

Zip Code:
70116

Web Site:
www.ammoarts.com

“The Makings of Memory”
a group show of collage, fiber, and photography

Jon Coffelt
Manuel Gamallo
Alpha Lubicz
Michael Pajon
Frank Relle

Artist’s Reception:
Friday, November 6, 6 -9pm

Address:
Botanical Garden @ City Park

Zip Code:
70124

Web Site:
http://www.nolafunguide.com/event.php?id=21189

Pamela Conway Caruso will be representing the non-profit New Orleans ArtWorks with an exhibit offering one-of-a-kind inked and hand-printed botanical impressions of New Orleans foliage and other works on paper.

New Orleans ArtWorks @ the New Orleans GlassWorks & Printmaking Studio (727 Magazine Street) offers demonstrations and workshops in glassblowing and printmaking for groups and individuals. The Fall Garden Show offers something for just about everyone with gardening exhibits and information in one of the city’s most beautiful settings – the Botanical Garden at City Park.

PRICE: Admission to the event is $6 for adults and $3 for children ages 5-12. Children under 5 and members of Friends of City Park may enter free.

Time/Dates:
Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:00 am � 4:00pm Sunday, October 18, 2009 10:00 am � 4:00pm

Address:
4100 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70117

Web Site:
www.nolafront.org

Jonathan Traviesa launches his Portraits monograph this month at The Front with a signing on opening night and exhibition, Elaine Gan exhibits letterpress, silkscreen, and digital print produced at Hot Iron Press this summer, and David DuBose showcases print and college works on paper exploring heritage and identity.

Opening reception on Saturday, October 10th from 6-10 pm
Exhibition runs from October 10-November 8, Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 pm

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Coup d’oeil Art Consortium is privileged to exhibit paintings by Chris Dennis. Chris’s therianthropic figures invite viewers to create their own narratives and process emotions which otherwise might not be confronted without masks. His use of mixed media textural elements serves up a heightened dimension to the experience.

Address:
725 Howard Avenue, New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70113

Web Site:
www.louisianaartworks.org

Louisiana ArtWorks Presents a Contemporary Art Exhibition: Who Loves a Garden Still His Eden Keeps

Opening on October 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM.
Exhibition will be available for public viewing Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 11 AM � 5 PM, October 2, 2009 through January 23, 2010.

First floor lobby: Deborah Masters
Second Floor Gallery: Ben Diller, Kelli Scott Kelley, Kathryn Hunter, Steven Collier, Kenneth Baskins
Second Floor Project Space: Mia Kaplan

Funded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation and a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Address:
725 Howard Avenue New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70113

Web Site:
www.louisianaartworks.org

University art museums and galleries explore a variety of innovative exhibition themes with a focus on education components, resulting in unique learning opportunities for students, the academic community, and the public. Unconstrained by considerations of selling work, University galleries occupy a unique role in the exhibition world, serving as a venue for far reaching work. Join Louisiana ArtWorks on September 29th as moderator Charles Lovell and panelists Benito Huerta, Kaytie Johnson, Christopher Saucedo, and Karoline Schleh explore the role of University Galleries in the exhibition world.

Suggested Donation $3.00.

Moderator Charles Lovell, Director, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University

Panelists:
Benito Huerta, Director/Curator, the Gallery at UTA, University of Texas at Arlington
Kaytie Johnson, Director and Curator of University Galleries, Museums and Collections, DePauw University
Christopher Saucedo, Professor of Fine Arts, University of New Orleans
Karoline Schleh, Director, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery & Asst. Professor of Foundations, Loyola University

This program is made possible by the Joan Mitchell Foundation and a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.colabprojects.com

Ann Schwab: ‘PURE’
October 3 – 31, 2009

Opening Artist Reception: October 3, 2009 from 6pm – 9pm during ‘Art for Arts’ Sake’

“My photographic work depicts different steps in the process of coping with physical and emotional trauma, the physical wounds often acting as metaphors for emotional ones. Depiction of uncomfortable, disquieting acts, evidence of the sources of strength within and the course of healing provide trauma and healing as the point and counter point in the stages of affliction and recovery.

This current body of work – PURE – focuses on the regenerative, curative power of the natural world. The exaltation of the humble, the reverence of the beauty and singularity of form and the evocation elicited by a site or entity are presented as a balm for healing from injury.

Plants or natural forms figure prominently in my work. The human healing process is metaphorically paralleled and facilitated by nature. The aesthetics/beauty of nature allows for a rejuvenation of the spirit, and function as a wellspring of strength. Also, the self-healing capabilities of plants are contrasted with the human process of healing. I am fascinated with a plant’s ability to regenerate. I draw parallels between our human methods of overcoming trauma- both emotional and physical- and the growth processes of the natural world.

For the Lilt installation, and the other works based on maple seeds, I was captivated by the dual fragility and durability of these seeds. Their diaphanous structures- seemingly so tenuous- are tenacious, and result in the propagation of the species. These seeds have a strength that belies their delicate appearance.

In both the Ultrasounds series and in Linger, this parallel between our human progress and the growth processes of the natural world manifests itself in a different manner. While viewing jellyfish, I was struck by the similarity of their movements in the water with the movements of my unborn son in the amniotic fluid of the womb. The elegant, languorous movements of the jellyfish were hypnotic and soothing. I was again made aware of the commonalities of all living organisms and the underlying connections between us.

Formally, I enjoy creating relationships between disparate elements. And, through the use of multiples and serials of prints, I am able to reveal narratives and to draw correlations between seemingly incongruous elements. In Ultrasounds, I have created a relationship between an image and a sound component. When experienced in conjunction with one another, each element becomes greater than the sum of its parts- and maintains a symbiotic dependency. By utilizing a variety of materials, I can develop a more interactive piece of work with which the viewer can have a dialogue. In Lilt, by freeing the image from the confines of the standard rectangle, and by giving it a three-dimensional form, the images become interactive with the viewer’s space- blurring the edge of where the piece ends and the outside world begins. Employing varied media and alternative formats allows me a simultaneous freedom and accuracy which traditional photography alone does not provide. It allows me to correlate my idea with my piece more exactly to most effectively convey my message.” – Ann Schwab

About the artist:

Ann Schwab works in photography, mixed media and installation and received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an M.F.A. from Tulane University. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including: a Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, a Surdna Foundation Fellowship and professional development grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the Surdna Foundation. Ann Schwab’s work has gained critical acclaim in publications such as Art Papers, New Orleans Art Review, Kansas City Art Review and The Gambit. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in numerous institutional and private collections.

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A selection of current works by Ann Schwab may be viewed online at: http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19143/Ann%20Schwab

The exhibition, ‘PURE’, in its entirety will be viewable online at www.colabprojects.com beginning October 6, 2009. A forthcoming companion exhibition book will be released on October 15, 2009 with an introductory essay by noted art critic, D. Eric Bookhardt.

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70130

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opening reception for an exhibition of paintings by Chris Dennis.

Chris’s therianthropic figures invite viewers to create their own narrative and process emotions which otherwise might not be confronted without a disguise behind masks of animal heads on human bodies. His use of mixed media textural elements in the paint offers a sweetened dimension to the experience.

Capital One’s Art for Arts Sake
Opening Reception, October 3rd, 6pm-9pm
Show will hang until November 3rd

CANARY Gallery is pleased to present, CANARY artist Heidi Domangues’ “3D Bayou Battle” – opening Saturday, October 3rd during Capital One’s Art for Arts Sake. Heidi has been experimenting with 3D screen printing, as she debuted new work for her October 2008 group show “South of I-10: Artists along Louisiana’s Main Drag” at The CANARY Gallery. For her upcoming solo show, Heidi has been matching color palettes, and using color theory to explore deeper the true successes of painting to achieve the 3-Dimensional print. She has been painting these new creations wearing 3D glasses, and viewers that attend her opening next week, will be able to view her prints the same way she creates them.

3D “Chroma-Depth” glasses gratefully donated by American Paper Optics

CANARY Gallery • 329 Julia St
Gallery Hours – Wed-Fri 2-5 or by Appt:
(504) 208-3882

Address:
1332 Washington Avenue, New Orleans, LA

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.gardendistrictgallery.com

The Garden District Gallery celebrates its grand opening with a plein air invitational exhibition featuring fifteen of the finest landscape painters in the region, painting on site in the historic Garden District.
The participating artists are Patti Adams, Anthony Bordelon, Steve Bourgeois, Robin Durand, Claude Ellender, Robert Guthrie, Peggy Hesse, Diego Laguira, Auseklis Ozols, Roy P?ster, Don Rhodes, Robert Seago, Jacques Soulas, Joseph Stahl, and Garth Swanson.
In the weeks before the exhibition’s grand opening, these plein air (open air) artists will be painting throughout the neighborhood capturing the ephemeral beauty of these historic streets.
This exhibition celebrates the quiet but signi?cant revolution launched by artists working outdoors in 19th century France, the original plein air painters in the forests of Fontainebleau. Today, this revolution has begun anew with a renaissance of plein air painters across the country embracing the fertile relationship between artist and their unique location.
The Garden District Gallery celebrates its inaugural year with a season-long series of invitational exhibitions featuring work by local, regional and national artists. We are committed to the personal visions of our artists and to exploring the process by which those visions are realized with the o?ering of a variety of workshops in painting, drawing and calligraphy throughout the year.

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Zip Code:
70116

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The directors of AMMO are pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Tony Fitzpatrick, �No. 9: An Artist’s Journey�. The exhibition opens on Saturday, September 19, with an opening reception from 6 -9pm to include musical guests John Boutte and Paul Sanchez, and will be on view at AMMO, located at 938 Royal Street in the French Quarter, through October 16, 2009.

Tony Fitzpatrick (born 1958) is an American artist born and raised in Chicago. His work can be found in several permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, The National Museum of American Art in Washington DC, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Portland Museum of Art.

Fitzpatrick’s recent exhibitions include the Prospect 1 Biennial, PS1, the Chicago Cultural Center, Dieu Donne Papermill in New York, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His passion for storytelling, poetry, and music go into his intricately pieced together collages that use collected scraps, matchbooks, and other curiosities to create vignettes around a particular story….subjects range from Chicago-vernacular tales to his most recently celebrated love poems for New Orleans.

View the exhibition online: http://www.ammoarts.com/artists/tony_fitzpatrick/index.html See more work on the artist’s website: http://www.tonyfitzpatrick.wordpress.com

For further information, please contact Mia Kaplan at 504-301-2584, 504-220-9077 or by e-mail at info@ammoarts.com.

This fall, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto the first solo museum exhibition of work by the New Orleans-based artist Skylar Fein. Focusing on youth culture, rock and roll, Americana and advertising, Youth Manifesto tackles the pervasive power and symbiotic relationship between rock music and consumerism. The high-energy exhibition is comprised entirely of new work, including painting, sculpture, video and screen prints.

A concert to celebrate the opening of Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto featuring New Orleans-based bands, including experimental indie rockers Belong and others to be announced, as well as DJ Musa Alves, will be held Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at the Museum. The free concert, co-curated by Fein and Alves, is supported through a grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.

Reception is Saturday, September 5th
6pm-9pm

Works on film shot with Mamiya 645 and Holga cameras in New Orleans, New York and Brazil.

Work will run through September
Gallery Hours are 2-5pm, Wed-Fri or by Appt.
504.208.3882

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Zip Code:
70130

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Please join us for an Opening Artist Reception with Jessica Goldfinch on Saturday, September 5, 2009 from 6pm – 9pm.

We’re thrilled to present a solo exhibition of new works by Jessica Goldfinch here at CoLAB Projects. This showing is certain to shake up the typically tranquil Warehouse Arts District and we look forward to hosting such a thought provoking, innovative and challenging exhibition for collectors, art enthusiasts and curators alike. A companion exhibition book will be released on September 15, 2009 with an introductory essay by noted art critic D. Eric Bookhardt.

“Many religious myths have parallel storylines and meaning, and are thought to have the same historical point of origin. To explore this complex nature of religion, the Holy Card series collapses religious concept and imagery into one ideal, incorporating iconography from the Egyptian bird god Horus to Michelangelo�s Piet�, as well as other religious signifiers such as the Christian cross, the veil of Muslim faith, and the Hindi multiple-armed figures. In repealing the fourth-century Nicene Creed and humanizing the divine, the series is intended to depict humanist �religious� imagery that fits human concerns and needs more truthfully in our times. These works are meant to investigate the commonalities of humanity and to dissect the global clash of cultures and values present in our world today. Although the works illustrate the mystery and beauty of religion, they also are intended to be ironic and secular � an attempt to humanize the concept of �god.� – Jessica Goldfinch

You may view a selection of current works by Jessica Goldfinch at http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19142/Jessica%20Goldfinch:%20Holy%20Cards and also at http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19424/Jessica%20Goldfinch:%20Little%20Things

Gallery Hours: TH/FRI (1pm – 6pm), SAT/SUN (11am – 6pm) and also by appt.

The 13th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS Juried Exhibition of Louisiana Art Today co-sponsored by The Gambit. opens this Saturday September 5, 2009 with an artists’ reception from 6 – 9pm.

Each year the show draws attention to an emerging generation of contemporary artists who live and work in the state of Louisiana and celebrates its cultural resiliency.

For thirteen years, No Dead Artists has provided the art world with the opportunity to see innovative works being produced in Louisiana. The concept for No Dead Artists was initiated in 1995 by Jonathan Ferrara and Alex Beard to give a voice to emerging artists and help them gain recognition for their passion in life.

Each year hundreds of artists submit their work to a jury of renowned arts professionals and noted collectors. Participation in the show has been a springboard for several artists leading to national recognition, museum and corporate acquisitions, and gallery representation. The exhibition has become an annual rite of fall and showcases the newest talents emerging in Louisiana today and beckons the opening of the art season. The opening draws thousands of art enthusiasts to the gallery.

We are thrilled to announce the unveiling of “The Magnificent 7” at
Galerie Gigi. The much anticipated group show, curated by Terrence
Sanders, features work by artists Blaine Capone, Colin Meneghini,
Anthony Carriere, Tony Nozero, Bruce Davenport, Steve Soltis, and Chad
Moore.

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2033 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130

Zip Code:
70130

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www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com

Coup d’oeil Art Consortium is excited to be hosting an exhibit of new works by TONY NOZERO through September 26. Tony’s journey from eclectic musician to authentic artist is familiar to art aficionados looking for the next contemporary art sensation. Collectors have developed a crush on his spontaneous bursts of color and fantastical imagery. In this body of work, Tony infuses a perpetual search for meaning with both intense composition and simple imagery while sneaking in subtle hints of symbolism and humor, a now recognized theme which runs throughout his work.

Exhibition at Issac Delgado Fine Arts Gallery, 615 City Park Avenue, Building One, 3rd Floor, New Orleans, LA, 70119

Delgado Community College invites the public to Fragile Land Revisited, photographic works by Michel Varisco that will be exhibited in the Isaac Delgado Fine Art Gallery on the third floor of Building One/Isaac Delgado Hall on Delgado’s City Park Campus (615 City Park Avenue in New Orleans, La) Sept. 3 to Nov. 1, 2009. There will be an opening reception, free and open to the public, on Thursday, September 3, 2009, 6 – 8 p.m. in the gallery.

The Isaac Delgado Fine Art Gallery is open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday – Thursday. For more information, call (504) 671-6377.

About Fragile Land Revisited
Fragile Land Revisited is a study of landscapes photographed from 2006 through 2009. Derived from New Orleans City Park and the surrounding wetlands, the images of tree stumps, missing limbs and scattered birds mirrored the collective experience of New Orleans post-Katrina said Varisco. This series ended up expressing grief and hope for the region and was a gentle reminder of the collaborative system we are all a part of.

Photographed originally on medium format black and white film and printed as silver gelatin prints, eventually the series was incorporated into an outdoor public arts piece (commissioned by the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Arts Council of New Orleans). Large translucent mesh banners were installed into a partially ruined Works Progress site in New Orleans City Park called Popp’s Fountain.Since the creation of the installation, the ruined site has been almost completely restored by the parks management, FEMA and volunteers.

The tall, arched window of the Isaac Delgado Gallery inspired a new piece in the series entitled The American Passenger Pigeon. As described in the book by Alan Weisman entitled The World Without Us, the American Passenger Pigeon, found originally only in North America, was once so plentiful a species that its flocks were 300 miles long and numbered in the billions. A bystander could watch for hours as they passed overhead. Somehow, humans managed to kill them all off within 100 years. Farming methods which limited their food supplies and hunting of the birds for easy meals reduced their numbers to nothing. When we realized what we had done, it was too late to change the course of our actions. The last one died in 1914. However, hunters began a conservation movement, ironically titled Ducks Unlimited,to help ensure that no game species would follow the American Passenger Pigeons’ fate, a complicated and not so easily realized goal.

Even in its beat up glory, I watch nature heal itself and witness it heal humans, despite our relentless assault on its and our own survival, said Varisco.

About Michel Varisco
A New Orleans native, Michel Varisco has an MFA from Tulane University. Her work explores the link between natural and manmade environments and the elegant and complex weavings of the two. She has exhibited in Louisiana, Tennessee, New York, Mississippi, Washington, Czechoslovakia, Germany and
France. She has received grants from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the SURDNA Foundation, The
Cultural Economy Foundation and The Active Element Foundation. Varisco’s work has been published in Adbusters, USA Today, Common Ground Archeology, Cultural Vistas, New Orleans Review and Habitations, among others, and is included in the collections of Kimberly Clarke Corporation, Historic Restorations Inc, Loyola University, Southeastern University, Gulf Coast Bank and the Biblioth que Nationale in Paris. She teaches at NOCCA|Riverfront and is represented in Nashville by Richter Photography Gallery and in New Orleans by Heriard-Cimino Gallery.

Address:
615 City Park Ave. City Park Campus building 1 3rd Floor

Zip Code:
70119

Web Site:
http://www.dcc.edu/newscenter/News_View.aspx?Articleid=13

Open to the public Mondays-Thursday 10am-4pm

Address:
3530 Magazine Street

Zip Code:
70115

Web Site:
www.mariopadilla.com

Please join us for

“Boundaries of Summer”
featuring the works of 5 local artists:

David Bergeron
Benjamin Bullins
Georgette Fortino
Mario Padilla
Suzanne Saunders

an evening of art, music, and revelry!
Friday, August 28
6-8pm

at Mario Padilla Studio and Gallery
3530 Magazine Street, New Orleans 70115
www.mariopadilla.com
512-627-5071

Please bring your family and friends, and forward widely.

American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print celebrates a time-honored graphic art tradition through the work of Nashville’s Hatch Show Print, one of the nation’s oldest and continuously printing shops. IMAGE COURTESY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

Good Children Gallery is pleased to present its first video exhibition I am a Video featuring six video artists at various stages in their careers. I am a Video was inspired by the title of the play, film, and song, I am a Camera written by The Buggles of Video Killed the Radio Star fame, from their album, Adventures in Modern Recording. The full song title is I am a Camera With its Shutter Open, Quite Passive, Recording, not Thinking.

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527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

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http://www.colabprojects.com

InnerSpace is the rear gallery space at CoLAB Projects dedicated to a rotating exhibit of works by CoLAB artists.

Through August 29, 2009, InnerSpace will feature works by CoLAB artists Jessica Goldfinch and Ann Schwab. View a selection of works online at http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19142/Jessica%20Goldfinch:%20Holy%20Cards , http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19424/Jessica%20Goldfinch:%20Little%20Things , http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19143/Ann%20Schwab

Gallery Hours: TH/FRI 1pm-6pm, SAT/SUN 11am – 6pm and also by appt. 504.566.8999

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.colabprojects.com

Please join us for an opening artist reception with Ann Schwab on Saturday, September 5, 2009 from 6pm – 9pm.

InnerSpace is the rear gallery space at CoLAB Projects dedicated to a rotating exhibit of works by CoLAB artists.

From September 5 – 27, 2009 InnerSpace will feature works by CoLAB artists S.J. Hart and Ann Schwab. View a selection of works online at: http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19143/Ann%20Schwab and
http://www.colabprojects.com/gallery/19667/Exhibition%20-%20S.J.%20Hart:%20shining%20with%20the%20secret%20of%20it

Gallery Hours: TH/FRI (1pm – 6pm), SAT/SUN (11am – 6pm) and also by appt. 504.566.8999

Picking up where the Louisiana OPEN (the CAC’s biennial) left off, Hot Up Here is the first in an ongoing
series of exhibitions of new work by New Orleans and Louisiana-based artists.
Organized by CAC Visual Arts Director Dan Cameron.

Address:
527 St. Joseph Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
http://www.colabprojects.com

“Somehow out of their own space and time, the Songbirds are here. Part animal and part child, they live in a weird zone between imagination and reality, portraiture and decoration, grief and joy.” – S.J. Hart

S.J. Hart received her MFA in Book Arts/Printmaking from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA and her BFA in Printmaking from The Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT. Her work combines traditional elements of etching, drawing, and figurative painting with a taste for the gothic, abstract and decorative.

Recent series explore the psychological space of figure and portrait paintings, Victorian post-mortem photography, and the odd realms in which zoological illustrations turn into images of childhood. The children created in each of her surrealistic stories are a focal point of emotion and dream mystery set admist highly decorative floral and fauna.

Since 2000, S.J. Hart’s work has been exhibited in universities, art centers and galleries throughout Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, New Orleans, Portland, OR, Eugene, OR, Portland, ME and New York. Her works are held in private collections throughout the United States and in Europe. In her spare time, she restores antique, historical and rare books.

‘shining with the secret of it’ is viewable online at: http://tinyurl.com/SJ-Hart-shining-with

The companion exhibition book may be previewed at: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/811135

Gallery Hours: TH/FRI 1pm-6pm, SAT/SUN 11am – 6pm and also by appointment. 504.566.8999

Address:
518 Julia Street

Zip Code:
70130

Web Site:
www.gallerybienvenu.com

Inspired, virtuosic, and deeply allusive, the paintings of Michael Kessler explore the continuum between gesture and geometry, jubilant improvisation and rigorous architectonic forms. Kessler lavishes his panels with as many as 50 micro-thin layers of translucent and transparent acrylic, imparting a limpid, 3-dimensional quality. Suspended within the layers, biomorphic tendrils branch to and fro, while arcs of line and color slip over and under matrices, balancing nature�s sinuous curves with the mindfulness of structure. With this exhibition, the artist debuts a new series of small-format pieces, which incorporate the signature elements that distinguish his medium- and large-scale paintings. Immaculate and jewel-like individually, they are particularly stunning when grouped together. A winner of the Prix de Rome and the Pollock/Krasner Award, the Santa Fe-based Kessler has exhibited widely throughout the Americas and Europe. He has been profiled and rapturously reviewed in publications including Art in America, ARTFORUM, and ARTnews. As an artist and thinker, he is keenly interested in the integrity of the built surface, the meandering line, and the joyous invention of deconstruction and reconstruction. He likens the gestural freedom in his works to a kind of painterly tai chi�a visible expression of a line of energy�and imbues his structural motifs with a sense of play and buoyance. Another development that can be seen in this exhibition is the artist�s increasing use of dramatically horizontal compositions, in which a continuous line weaves and wanders across the panel, inviting the viewer to walk alongside and experience the gesture peripatetically. Like a piece of film on an editing table or a succession of musical notes across a staff, these panels have a linear and temporal presence that is more spatial and sculptural than more traditionally scaled paintings. In these and other works across richly diverse scales and color palettes, Kessler enables the viewer to connect with the power of contrast, balance, and harmony. Like the yin and yang, the organic and geometric elements in his paintings speak not of dichotomy, but of integration.

Bo Bartlett, of Columbus, Ga., is one of the leaders of the new American realist movement. In the tradition of Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth, of whom he was a prot�g�, Bartlett�s large canvases (such as �The Good Old Days,� 2000, right), capture the spirit and beauty of the everyday and the extraordinary, often with a hint of mystery and fantasy.

This exhibition, curated by artist and writer William Dunlap in collaboration with the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum, is centered around a painting, �Storming the Ramparts,� by Gilbert Gaul, a late 19th-century artist known for his depiction of military subjects, particularly those of the Civil War. Many of the objects shown in the painting�as well as those that could have been found at the battlefield�will be on loan from the collection of the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum.

Featuring the work of American artists Matt Barton, Brad Benischek, Doug Dertinger, Corey Drieth, Colin Frazer, Nicole Jean Hill, Cristin Millett, Lydia Moyer, Greg Murr, Arthur Brett Reif, and Mark Bradley-Shoup, this group exhibition at The Front responds to issues concerning the influences of the United States of America. Typically referring to cultural artifacts or the westward expansion of the pioneers, Americana seeks to extend the horizon of American popular culture through an exploration of side-show and backwoods phenomena, altered landscapes, and arcane celebration. New Orleans is of particular interest in lieu of these objectives as the Crescent City, both historically and currently, has been an incubator for a diverse population that challenges much of the racial, economic, and religious status quo. Americana will open with a reception on Saturday July 11th from 6-10 pm at 4100 St. Claude Avenue, and run through August 1st. Please see www.nolafront.org for more information.

The directors of AMMO are pleased to present a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Rajko Radovanovic. ?I Am Standing Behind My Work? opens this Saturday, June 20, from 6 ? 9pm. The artist will be arriving via mule-drawn carriage to complete a performance piece upon arriving in the gallery at 6pm to discuss his work during the opening reception. Photos are encouraged, shirt and shoes are optional.

This exhibition is of certain significance to the artist – his first one-man show in the United States. Radovanovic has remained active throughout his extensive career as a conceptual artist and community activist, having shown in the UK, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Italy, and Poland . In a recent publication about the artist, he is considered to have lead a significant role in the development of the Contemporary Arts scene in Eastern Europe, and has already begun his work as an activist in New Orleans. Radovanovic joined the Good Children Gallery collective in early 2009 and has since then completed a public mural project of his work “A Precondition”, prints of which will be shown in this exhibition along with a series of playful self-portraits illustrating the artist’s relationship to his work.

This summer, the New Orleans Museum of Art presents With a Little Help from Our Friends: Recent Accessions in the Decorative Arts, an exhibition of more than 50 diverse works that significantly enhance the Museum?s already renowned Decorative Arts collection, from June 20 to October 18. The pieces come to the New Orleans Museum of Art as the result of several generous gifts by private collectors.

?That federal, state and local funding for the arts continues to shrink is well known and documented,? says John W. Keefe, the RosaMary Foundation Curator for Decorative Arts. ?Less well known is the resultant fact that museums are therefore increasingly dependent upon the generosity of their friends and patrons for the continued growth of their collections. This has definitely been true of the Decorative Arts Department at the New Orleans Museum of Art in these post-Katrina years. The magnanimous support from the Museum?s friends is celebrated by this exhibition.?

Coup d’oeil shows the diverse works of NOCCA* graduate students and Prospect .2 artist Bruce Davenport, Jr.‘s drawings of area marching bands.

*New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

Opening reception: Saturday June 13th, 6-10pm

Painting and drawing, assemblage, and installation, will be featured June 13th through July 5th at The Front with the work of Ashley Hope Carlisle, D. Nuego, David Jones, and Sesthasak Boonchai.

Photos by Michael P. Smith

Works by Angela Driscoll and Kevin H. Jones

Paintings of butscher shop windows by Alisoun Meehan and sculpture made by firing guns at targets by David Bradshaw.

Martin von Haselberg (a.k.a. Harry Kipper) was a member of the infamous London and Los Angeles-based 1970s performance art duo, The Kipper Kids. Also in the early 70’s he began evolving his deeply psychological public performance work into personal photographic self-portraiture, a practice which he continues today. His artistic lineage leads the viewer from the slapstick clowning of Spike Jones to the heightened abreaction of the 1960s Vienna Aktionists. In this, von Haselberg’s first American museum show, his latest photographic experiments are presented as inflatable works, which instead of rising into the air, rest upon the floor as sculptures. “FLOATULENTS” are air balloons in the sense of Warhol’s 1964 “Silver Flotations”, but they are more than mere design. Von Haselberg describes these new works as “time-based”, as springing from the facial contortions and grimaces of his performances. FLOATULENTS is the third in the _museological exhibition series, organized by Diego Cortez, Freeman Family Curator of Photography.

Presented in NOMA’s new permanent video art space, Marcus Coates: Animal Instincts is comprised of five video pieces featuring a range of work from the past 10 years. Ornithologist, naturalist, artist, and shaman, Coates creates videos that examine humankind’s complicated relationship to other living species. Assuming the role of a shaman in his later pieces, Coates journeys to the “lower world” of animal spirits, updating the historical role of a shaman as a community problem-solver. In his own words, you can’t escape your humanness, but the point of my work has been to explore the degrees to which you can test that boundary and entertain the possibility of becoming something else. Organized by Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

A duo of Louisiana artists, Rachel Jones and David Webber explore the process of selecting and assembling information from memories and pre-existing documents into new visual amalgams. Working in painting and video respectively, the artists share an interest in dissolving imagery and narratives into expressive fragments. In her paintings, Jones depicts loosely-defined human figures and landscapes which hover on the edge of recognition. Webber, working in video, superimposes images on top of each other, evoking the cognitive process of recollection as it is built through associations. Organized by Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Sculpture by John Barnes Jr.

Works on paper by Red Grooms, Karin Broker, Bruce Davenport Jr. and more.

John Alexander, Cabin Land, Stephen Paul Day