Three Views: A Woman’s Perspective
Sara Elmore, Terry Gaskins & Amie Davis

December 10, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-9pm

Kawliga Gallery
3331 St. Claude Ave
New Orleans, LA 70117
225-276-8159

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

Laura Burlton: Dancing on the Moon

Laura Burlton + Cat Thrasher: Child’s Play

December 1, 2011 – January 31, 2012
Coffee: Saturday, Dec 10, 9am
Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6-9pm

Poet’s Gallery
3113 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-899-4100
Hours: Mon-Sat 11am-6pm

This is a two woman show featuring Laura Burlton and Cat Thrasher.

Dreams in Chalk by Laura Burlton

Dreams in Chalk features Houston photographer Laura Burlton’s on-going series of dream-like images. Shooting with toy cameras and film and inspired by her own two daughters, the stories from fairytales and literature are symbolized by Laura in chalk, a fragile medium easily washed or wiped away, likened to the fragility of childhood. The fleeting moments take you to another place or time, where dreams are made and everything seems possible. Adults recall an easier time, before reality sets in and these dreams are swept away and left behind much like chalk dust left after they are erased. The images serve as a reminder to dream once again.

Child Face by Cat Thrasher

This project is an art-science collaboration between photographer Cat Thrasher and Vanessa LoBue, assistant professor of developmental psychology at Rutgers University. The pictures of 4 to 6 year old children making emotional faces were originally created for a stimulus set intended for use in scientific studies. The children in these photographs exhibit specific combinations of muscle movements that are reliably characteristic of adult displays of emotion in empirical research.

Poet’s gallery invites PhotoNOLA attendees to a casual coffee and pastry reception with the artists on the morning of Saturday, Dec 10th starting at 9am.

Cat Thrasher, from the series Child Face Exhibit

Louis Sahuc: Chartres Street, 2009

New Photographs by Louis Sahuc

December 1, 2011 – Ongoing

Photo Works
521 St. Ann Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
504-593-9090
Hours: Thur-Tue 10am-5:30pm, Wed by appt.

Louis Sahuc is an award winning photographer, preservationist and lifelong New Orleanian who resides in the French Quarter.

Louis has spent much of his storied 40 year career capturing gorgeous and timeless photographs of all that is unique about his hometown, including New Orleans’ historic architecture, beautiful misty mornings and her marvelous people.

Black and White Magazine lauded Sahuc as “…a master of romantic impressionist photography.”

Please stop by the gallery, located on Jackson Square, to enjoy Louis’ elegant and timeless photographs. We look forward to your visit!

Kaylin Idora: Michelle L'Amour

Burlesque Exposed

September 29 – December 31, 2011
Reception: Saturday, Dec 10, 9pm – Midnight

Scott Edwards Photography Studio & Gallery
2109 Decatur St
New Orleans, LA 70116
504-610-0581
Hours: Tue-Thurs 12-8pm, Fri-Sat 12pm- 12am

This group exhibition showcasing and celebrating burlesque photography and videography features ten regional artists:
Sean Yseult, Jason Vowell, Vaughn D. Taylor, Bruce Schultz, Kaylin Idora, Scott Edwards, Joseph Crachiola, Don Corbitt, Ken Sharky Braden and Jian Bastille.

Curated by Scott Edwards.

Laura D'Alessandro: How Could She?! With all This Poking and Pawing, How Can a Girl Stay Good?!

Laura D’Alessandro: Faded/Fated Fairytales

December 6, 2011 – January 7, 2012
Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 5-8pm
Artists Talk: Wednesday, Dec 7, 6pm

Du Mois Gallery
4921 Freret
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-818-6032
Hours: Thurs-Sat 12-6 & by appt

Faded/Fated Fairytales is Laura D’Alessandro’s further exploration of the fairytale motif as embodied in her own self-reflective and intimately photographed dioramas.

She will present an artists talk at the gallery on Wednesday, Dec. 7, starting at 6:00pm.

Statement:
“Vision is, to me, a complicated phenomenon composed of multiple layers, altered under varied states. I incorporate layering in my images to evoke the layers of my internal and external experiences. The artist’s life, recorded through my journals and portraits, is essential to my work and includes much of what I incorporate to create my photographic constructions. I use these fragments, elements of collage, and found objects to create a miniature stage set, a movie still from a fictitious moment in time. By controlling lighting and perspective when I ultimately re-photograph my constructions, I can create a mood and direct the viewer’s gaze.

I have been exploring women’s issues with a partly lyrical, partly satirical approach. I have investigated the many influences, both positive and negative, which act to shape women’s beliefs, choices and appearance. My photographic constructions also reflect elements from my life and journals that are personal, and yet I hope that the viewer can also bring in some of his or her own experience.”

Kirsten Hoving: Cygnus, The Swan

Illusions: KK DePaul, Kirsten Hoving, Lisa McCarty

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

Sibley Gallery
3427 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
504-899-8182
Hours: Tue – Sat 11- 5

Group show – Alternative Photography
Talks by the artists starting at 10am on Saturday, December 10th.

KK DePaul, “Between the Lines”

KK DePaul: Like His Grandfather

“After the death of my grandmother, I discovered a box that contained clues to a horrific 80 year-old family secret. Using the objects in the box, combined with childhood memories, I was able to re-construct the story.”

Kirsten Hoving, “Night Wanderers”
“Night Wanderers is a series of photographs envisioning the cosmos. I photograph objects and nineteenth-century photographs frozen in or placed under disks of ice to create the feeling of galactic swirls of stars, galaxies and spiral nebulae.

For this series, I have been influenced not by the work of other photographers, but by the collage and assemblage art of the American artist Joseph Cornell. In the course of writing an art historical book on the artist, Joseph Cornell and Astronomy: A Case for the Stars (Princeton University Press, 2009), I became aware of the artist’s deep and abiding interest in astronomy. I also came to understand his creative process, which involved juxtaposing objects in often unexpected ways. His working method encouraged me to take risks, to experiment, and to be willing to destroy one object to create another. He also taught me to appreciate the stars.

Using ice as a still life object is always a challenging process. I partially thaw the ice to create transparent and translucent areas, then work quickly to photograph it. While I choose objects and photographs that recall earlier times (an outdated globe, old cartes-de-visite) to help remind us that star light is old light, the ice that encases them underscores the elegance and fragility of our place in the universe.”

Lisa McCarty, “Florid Interiors”
“From 2009-2010 I photographed my grandparents’ home in Arlington, Virginia, with a Polaroid Colorpack camera. Once a pristine environment characterized by its museum like composition of stately furniture, antiques, knick-knacks, and glassware their home of thirty years has gone into a state of disorder as they have aged. Everything is still in its same place, but has gone uncared for, conflicting greatly with my former vision of my grandparents and their home. In order to recreate and fully experience this sense of cognitive dissonance, I dismantle and collapse the images I have taken there via a process called emulsion lifting.

Emulsion lifts are achieved by immersing Polaroid prints in hot water, which causes the emulsion to separate from the paper backing. Once the emulsion is released, the image is reduced to a fragile translucent membrane that is malleable and skin-like. I then transfer the emulsion to watercolor paper, layering and altering multiple lifts. During this process the emulsion breaks apart, warps, and wrinkles, obscuring the image. Once combined, the organic shapes created from the remains of the images appear to be both withering and thriving.”

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.