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

Vinca Marais

Group Show:
Vinca Marais, Kent Hardouin, Global Lounge, Sandy Iteld

December 3-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec.3, 2011 6-9pm

Kevin Gillentine Gallery
3919 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-891-0509

Daniel Canogar (Madrid, Spain) - Enredos 1

P.2 Projects: Dan Tague, Daniel Canogar,
Ken Matsubara, Sebastian Preece

November 19, 2011- January 21, 2012
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 6-9pm

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
504-522-5471
Hours: Tue- Sat 11am – 5pm

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery proudly joins together 18 International Artists embodying a cross-section of trends in Contemporary Art, curated by Jonathan Ferrara. In conjunction with Prospect.2 Biennial, New Orleans, P.2 Projects encompasses a vast range of mediums, styles and aesthetics including four cutting-edge photographers.

Sebastian Preece (Santiago, Chile) - Volumen V

Ken Matsubara (Tokyo, Japan) - Tide (Winter Dreams) - Mixed Media (looping film)

Hanna Quevedo

GROUP SHOW: Stewart Harvey, Thomas Paul Kiefer, Robert Kjendlie, Hanna Quevedo, Jeff Rich, Chrystal Scanlon

December 3-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 6-9pm

Gallery Veriditas
3822 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
Hours: Tue-Thurs 11-6, Fri 11-7, Sat 12-7

Gallery Veriditas presents a group show featuring:
Stewart Harvey
Thomas Paul Kiefer
Robert Kjendlie
Hanna Quevedo
Jeff Rich
Chrystal Scanlon

Thomas Paul Kiefer

Rodolfo Choperena: Red, 2011

Rodolfo Choperena: Recent Work

December 3, 2011 – January 15, 2012
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 6-9pm

Guthrie Contemporary
3815 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
Hours: Tue–Sat 12-5pm
505-897-2688

Rodolfo Choperena, an artist from Mexico who lives and works in San Antonio, Texas, exhibits unique large-scale photo-based abstractions.

Statement:
My work is “abstracted” photography: representational but complicated by the obscuring and absenting of the subject. By inducing movement and the manipulation of light sources, I provoke a figurative tableau towards transforming into abstraction. Every shot, every video is the evidence of a performance, with the acts of montage and manipulation performed in-camera. Movement is the primary performative act. By manipulating the camera’s placement, aperture and exposure settings in relation to color fields, landscapes, light sources, precipitation and seascapes, my work pushes the boundaries of perception to create organic and lyrical freeforms. Resulting images retain their pure chroma. Each is a reinterpretation of the original subject, containing striations that move in varying intervals and rhythms, alternately compressing and expanding positive and negative space. However abstracted a composition may be, a firm representational vantage points plays host to personal objects and scenario manipulations, making each image a direct reflection of my ever-changing environment.

With special thanks to Michael Mehl and the FOTOSEPTIEMBRE USA photography festival.

Philip Gould: Real Evangeline Oak, St. Martinville

Philip Gould: Landscape and Grass Roots

December 3-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 2011, 6-8pm

LeMieux Galleries
332 Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-522-5988
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-6

In nearly four decades photographing in Louisiana, Philip Gould has found fascination with that common ground where landscape and culture meet. In this lush, soggy terrain where nature seems to have the last word, the hand of man still has tremendous impact. People manifest cultural expression, spontaneously and naturally, as if from Louisiana’s grass roots. We impact the landscape and, in
abstract and very real ways, it nourishes us.

Based in Lafayette, Philip Gould has photographed throughout the state, the south, the nation and beyond. His work has been published in over a dozen books on Louisiana as well as various periodicals from around the world. His photography has become one of the largest privately-held photographic archives on the Bayou State. His latest book Acadiana with text by Carl Brasseaux was published by LSU Press in May of 2011.

Jack Kotz: Blindpass Stormpool

Jack Kotz: Home and Away

December 1-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, December 3, 2011, 6-8pm

Soren Christensen Gallery
400 Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-569-9501
Hours: Tues-Fri 10am-5pm; Saturdays 11am-5pm

New and retrospective works from various series by the Mississippi-based artist, Jack Kotz. Featuring large-scale panoramic works and a selection of images from the artist’s series spanning twenty years entitled “Ms. Booth’s Garden”.

Deborah Luster: LCIW 25, 1999

Gallery Artists

December 3-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 6-8 pm

Arthur Roger Gallery
432 Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-522-1999
Hours: Mon-Sat 10-5

A group show of gallery photographers in the showroom areas, featuring:

Robert Polidori
Debbie Fleming Caffery
Deborah Luster
David Halliday
John Waters

David Armentor: Smoke Stacks II

Randy Asprodites: New Work
David Armentor : The Sugar Mill Sessions – Revisited

November 29 – December 31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec. 3, 6-8 pm

Cole Pratt Gallery
3800 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA, 70115
504-891-6789
Hours: Tues – Sat, 10am to 5pm

Cole Pratt Gallery will feature two separate shows in conjunction with PhotoNOLA.

Randy Asprodites: Cover 17

In main gallery, Randy Asprodites:
New Orleans artist Randy Asprodites works with oil and mixed media on photographic prints. His most recent works on paper create a partnership between trompe l’oeil painting and photography that stays true to Asprodites’ abstract, minimalist sensibilities.

In rear gallery, David Armentor:
Focused on Iberia parish’s once vibrant sugar cane farming community, David Armentor’s “The Sugar Mill Sessions – Revisited” is a study that juxtaposes modernistic imagery of an active mill in the area during past harvesting seasons in contrast with a stark contemporary view of the industry in South Louisiana.

Three Sticks by Eleonor Owen Kerr

Christmas Exhibition:
Including Christina Goodman, Eleanor Owen Kerr, Jere Allen, John Oles

December 3-31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 3, 6-8pm

Carol Robinson Gallery
840 Napoleon Avenue (at Magazine St)
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-895-6130
Hours: Tue-Sat 10-5pm

Annual Christmas Exhibition featuring gallery artists including Christina Goodman, Eleanor Owen Kerr, Sandra Burshell, Walter Crump, Jere Allen , John Oles, David Goodman & others. Open Tuesday-Saturday during the exhibition for gallery visits. The gallery has an ongoing display of photography at all times along with an extensive collection of works in all other media.

Classical guitarist Scott Perro to perform at opening reception on Saturday Dec 3, 6-8pm.