Sara Essex Bradley

Sara Essex Bradley: Combined Ingredients: Recent Food Photographs

December 1 – 31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 10am-2pm

Hollygrove Market
3801 Olive Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-483-7037
Hours: Tue Noon-6pm, Sat 10am-2pm

Meghan Hall: scream my name

Photographers of St. Joe

December 1-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-9pm

St. Joe Lofts
923 Constance Street
New Orleans, LA, 70130
504-899-2868
Hours: by appointment Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Group Show featuring photographers who reside in the St. Joe Lofts Artists Community, including Meghan Hall and others.

Curated by Epaul Julien.

Philip Denman: Rooftop Scene, French Quarter and Bridge

Philip M. Denman: New Orleans French Quarter Circa 1970

December 3, 2011 – April 3, 2012

504 Fitness
2600 Gravier Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
504-373-6611
Hours: Mon-Fri 5:30am-9:30pm, Sat 7am-7pm, Sun 7am-3pm

This exhibition features black and white photographs of New Orleans’ French Quarter, taken by Philip M. Denman from the years 1969 to 1973. Images include roof top scenes of Mississippi River with one bridge, snow in the winter of 1973, Brocato’s, Decatur Street, Chartres Street, Jewel’s Tavern, and others reminiscent of the French Quarter that was.

Sara Essex Bradley

Sara Essex Bradley: A Subtle Philosophy: Still Life Photos

December 1 – 31, 2011

Ochsner Medical Center
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans, LA 70121
504-842-3000
Hours: 24/7

Ochsner’s rotating exhibition space, “Healing Healthcare Environment,” will feature still lifes by New Orleans photographer Sara Essex Bradley in ArtWalks 1 & 2.

Michael Grecco: NAKED AMBITION:
An R-Rated Look at an X-Rated Industry

December 1, 2011 – February 16, 2012
Opening: Thursday, Dec 8, 4-7pm
Talk: Saturday, Dec 10 at Martine Chaisson Gallery, 4pm

Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club
225 Bourbon Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-524-0010
Hours: Noon-close, Daily

The Naked Ambition: An R Rated Look at an X Rated Industry project contains over 200 photographs of actors, filmmakers and personalities in the world of adult entertainment. Grecco photographed his subjects during the 2006 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, the convention which surrounds the annual AVN Awards.

The accompanying book’s forewords, written by rock musician Dave Navarro and Hustler magazine editor Larry Flynt, discuss modern culture’s acceptance of pornography into the mainstream, which allows an overtly sexual work like this to be considered a coffee table book.

Included among the portrait subjects are Larry Flynt, Jenna Jameson, Ron Jeremy, Chi Chi LaRue, Tera Patrick, Alexandra Silk, Katsuni, Dana DeArmond, Sunny Lane, Kurt Lockwood, and Michelle Aston. Uncommon in pornography-related works, the photographs have not been altered with any significant image editing or photo manipulation, thus avoiding the layer of fantasy usually applied to actors in this field.

Mr. Grecco will give a talk about the project on Saturday, Dec 10 at the Martine Chaisson Gallery. The presentation begins at 4pm, free and open to the public.

Sean Yseult and Louis St. Lewis: Applause

Sean Yseult and Louis St. Lewis: Through The Looking Glass

December 1 – 31, 2011

House of Lounge
2044 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-671-8300
Hours: Mon – Sat, 11am-6pm

Through The Looking Glass features mixed media works by Sean Yseult and Louis St. Lewis. The exhibition will include canvasses, studies and framed ceramic tiles of pigment and archival prints, some of which spotlight the ladies of local burlesque troupe, Fleur De Tease. The canvasses are multimedia works combining pigment prints, collage, acrylics, pastels and gold leaf, while the studies employ a mix of archival prints with collage, acrylics and pastels. St. Lewis’ skewed vision of the world combined with Yseult’s love of photographers Bellocq, Witkin and Avedon make for a playful romp through the world of mermaids, showgirls, royalty and beautiful ladies.

Matthew D. White: South Pass, Port Eads, Louisiana

Matthew D. White: The Louisiana Coast

December 2011 – January 2012
Lecture/Presentation: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 6:30 pm

The Hubbell Library, Algiers
New Orleans Public Library
225 Morgan St., in the Carriage House
New Orleans, LA 70114
504-366-0657
Hours: Mon – Thur 10am – 7pm, Sat 10am -5pm, closed Fri & Sun

The Hubbell Library is located in the carriage house at 225 Morgan Street, behind the Algiers Courthouse.

Matthew White began photography as a teenager in upstate New York, and taught himself traditional printing and technique using Ansel Adams’ three-part series of instructional books. He resides in New Orleans and has been photographing Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast since 2000.

Aubrey Edwards: Untitled, from the series Big River (1)

Aubrey Edwards: Big River

December 10, 2011- January 10, 2012
Opening: Saturday, Dec. 10, 6-9 pm

St. Coffee
2709 St. Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA, 70117
504-872-9798
Hours: 7am-7pm daily

St. Coffee will present a selection of portraits from Aubrey Edwards‘ current project, “Big River”.

Statement:
Mississippi comes from the native Ojibwe words gichi-ziibi and misi-ziibi, meaning Big River and Great River.

Big River is a series shot entirely on the banks of the Mississippi River in 5 different areas of the Greater New Orleans region over 3 months. It comprises portraits, landscape imagery and still life of found objects, together giving its audience an understanding of a community and culture depending and thriving on the river. Over the past 12 years, Edwards has visited, photographed, taught and lost a family member to violence within Orleans Parish. Edwards has finally moved to New Orleans full time, and continues to examine her complicated relationship with the city; Big River is a study of her new home, her new life, and the river that runs through them.

Meg Turner: Market Steet Power Station 2

NO TRESPASSING – industrial photographs by Meg Turner

December 9, 2011 – January 4, 2012
Opening: Sunday, Dec 11, 2011, 3:30-5:30pm

New Orleans Public Library – Alvar Branch
913 Alvar Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
504-596-2667
Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-7pm, Sat 10am-5pm.

NO TRESPASSING features local photographer and printer Meg Turner’s on-going series of industrial ruins. Shooting with a large-format camera and operating under, over, and through the radar, Turner explores the landscape of American industry that has been left behind by globalization and industrial out-sourcing. All prints shown are gravure -both copper and polymer- prints made by the artist.

NO TRESPASSING – Artist’s talk
Meg Turner will be talking about her work, the centuries-old relationship between printmaking and architectural ruins, the changing industrial landscape of America, and the processes of photogravure and polymer gravure.
Sunday Dec. 11th 4:15 pm (part of opening reception)

Renee Allie: Holding Dolls

CURRENTS 2011: NOPA Members Showcase

December 5, 2011 – January 2, 2012
Opening: Thursday, Dec. 8, 5-7pm

Crescent City Brewhouse
527 Decatur Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
888-819-9330 / 504-522-0571
Hours: Mon-Thurs Noon-10pm, Fri & Sat 11:30am-11pm, Sun 11:30am-10pm

The New Orleans Photo Alliance’s annual members showcase. Curated by Richard McCabe, Photography Curator at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and hosted by the Crescent City Brewhouse, the exhibition showcases works by twelve New Orleans Photo Alliance members:

Renee Allie, Susan Barnett, Laura Burlton, Charles Franklin, Carolyn Hampton, Maria Levitsky, Hannah Neal, Don Norris, Valorie Polmer, Mary Quin, S. Gayle Stevens, Warren Thompson

Preview the exhibition here.

The Crescent City Brewhouse is one of New Orleans’ premier restaurants and the only French Quarter microbrewery. The atmosphere at the Crescent City Brewhouse is warm, relaxed and festive with Live Jazz performed nightly by local musicians.

Susan Barnett: Hustle

Laura Burlton: Adrift

Charles Franklin: Untitled 008

Carolyn Hampton: The Blooms Are Heavy

Maria Levitsky: DIXIE BREWERY, HOLE IN FLOOR

Hannah Neal: Prima Ballerina

Don Norris: Tourist Cabins (1930)

Valorie Polmer: Cat Claw Roof

Mary Quin: Through the Glass

S. Gayle Stevens: Thread

Warren Thompson: Grid 14