The Angola Project

November 22 – December 31, 2010
Symposium: Saturday, Dec 4, 3–5pm

Mahalia Jackson Center
2405 Jackson Avenue
New Orleans, LA
504-359-6802
Hours: Mon – Fri 10am-5pm

The Angola Project consists of a series of programs exploring the social issues surrounding crime and the penal system through art, featuring work by Bruce Davenport, Jackie Sumell, Willie Birch and Lori Waselchuk and a free two-day public event with a performance by members of Resurrection After Exoneration.

The exhibition, installed in the Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation premises on the second floor of Building C of the Mahalia Jackson Center, features Prospect New Orleans artists who have developed work in and about Angola State Penitentiary, presented alongside a selection of art by Angola prisoners.

Saturday, December 4, 2010 – Symposium
3pm – 5pm
Mahalia Jackson Center, Auditorium

Moderated by David Johnson of the Louisiana Endowment for Humanities, the panel will include artists Bruce Davenport, Jackie Sumell, Willie Birch and Lori Waselchuk; representatives from Innocence Project and RAE, and other community members who will address the difficult ethical, social and legal questions surrounding imprisonment, as well as how we treat the past, how we address the future, and what role art plays in dealing with these issues.

Produced by the Early Childhood & Family Learning Foundation and Prospect New Orleans

Still Under Water, 2007, from the Louisiana Marsh series by Marjorie Pierson

Fragile Beauty: Marjorie Brown Pierson

December 4, 2010 – January 31, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-9pm

Martine Chaisson Gallery
727 Camp Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-302-7942
Hours: Tues – Sat 10am-5pm

Imagine the entire state of Rhode Island — its cities and towns — slipping into the Atlantic Ocean. Where would its inhabitants go? What would the American government do? Scientists estimate that by the year 2040, the state of Louisiana will have more than a million acres of land — an area larger than the state of Rhode Island — as it disappears into the Gulf of Mexico. Staggering coastal erosion, caused by human activity and natural causes, is the culprit. Major events like hurricanes and oil spills are hastening this process.

Rapid wetlands erosion threatens Gulf Coast communities and the hundreds of thousands of American citizens who live and work in south Louisiana. Culturally significant cities and towns, such as New Orleans and Houma, are increasingly exposed to destructive hurricane storm surges in the Gulf of Mexico, as the buffering wetlands slip into the sea.

Marjorie Pierson grew up in south Louisiana, where her family has lived for generations. Her project to document the disappearing wetlands of her homeland began after Hurricane Rita ravaged south Louisiana. In “Fragile Beauty,” Pierson explores the constant cycle of post-catastrophe loss and renewal in the wetlands. Her exhibition combines abstract marsh landscapes discovered after Rita with hyperreal photographs of lush Louisiana wetlands. She lets the marsh tell its story, but amplifies the sound, wondering if anyone in America is listening.

Installation by E. Paul Julien

Southern Isolation:
Anna Hrnjak & E. Paul Julien

December 4, 2010 – January 28, 2011
Opening: Saturday Dec 4, 6-10pm

Poets Gallery
3113 Magazine street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-899-4100
Hours: Tue – Sat 11am-5pm

“Southern Isolation”
Lonely Landscapes – Gilded Redemption

Anna Hrnjak’s lonely landscapes are a representation of her travels. She makes many journey’s from here to there and back again. Along the way she is searching for objects and form that are nestled in desolation that elude to personal metaphors for the viewer.

After leaving the world of photography for five year for a mixed media that he found as a way of healing from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, E. Paul Julien returns to his love of photography combing old techniques of transferring images on top of gold leaf. He contributes this new body of work to the devastation and shows how by losing everything you gain even more. E. Paul Julien won portfolio competitions in B&W Magazine in 2007 and 2008.

Jesus by Anna Hrnjak

The Head Of John The Baptist, 2008 by Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.)

Selections from the Past: Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S)

December 1-31, 2010
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-9pm

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-522-5471
Hours: Mon-Sat 11-5

1938 by Kevin Levine

Untimely Ruins: Kevin Levine

December 1-31, 2010
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-9pm

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-522-5471
Hours: Mon-Sat 11-5

Cupped by Ann Schwab

Keep: Ann Schwab

December 1-31, 2010
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-8pm

Soren Christensen Gallery
400 Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-569-9501
Hours: Tue-Fri 10-5:30pm, Sat 11-5pm, Sun & Mon by appt

Grand Isle, November 2009 by Rita Posselt

Rita Posselt: Final Resting Place

December 2, 2010-January 11, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-10pm

Down the Hatch
1921 Sophie Wright Place
New Orleans, LA 70130
504-522-0909
Hours: 11am-2am Daily

Rita Posselt’s “Final Resting Place” features new work focusing on cemetery scenes in New Orleans and Wisconsin.

Laurel Valley Washday by Ed Hammerli

Ed Hammerli: Poems of South Louisiana in Black and White

December 4, 2010 – January 6, 2011
Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 5:00 – 6:30 pm

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

Poems of South Louisiana in Black and White will feature Ed Hammerli’s selenium toned silver gelatin prints of natural scenes and architecture in South Louisiana and New Orleans.

Azalea and Leaves by Natasha Sanchez

Natasha Sanchez: Crescent City Illumenations

December 1, 2010 – Jan 15, 2011
Opening: Saturday Dec 4, 6-8pm

Julie Neill Designs
3908 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-899-4201
Hours: Mon–Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 10am-3pm

“..the spirit is really the bouquet of life.” – Joseph Campbell

Crescent City Illumenations is an ongoing series of Lumen Prints, an early photographic process using organic objects as subjects, and the sun as developer. I’ve spent the last 10 years taking daily walks in the Garden District. As I began experimenting with the lumen print process, my subject matter became the fallen flowers and leaves that I gathered as they crossed my path during these walks. The result is a series of images that reflect my own personal and creative development as a person, and as an artist. – Natasha Sanchez

Lovers Stroll, Central Park 2006 by Max Singer

Max Singer

December 1-31, 2010
Opening: Saturday Dec 4, 6-10pm

Neophobia
2855 Magazine St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-899-2444
Hours: 10am to 5pm Daily

Before turning to photography full-time, Max Singer was an award-winning artist and designer whose work has appeared in numerous national publications including ArtNews, the NY Times and NY Magazine. His unique, colorful and bold illustrative style of imagery has been exhibited widely both in his homebase of New York City, as well as various outsider and contemporary galleries in his spiritual home of New Orleans.