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.

Becca Fitzpatrick: Penn Station 1

Becca Fitzpatrick: Penn Station: a distant view

October 22, 2011 through January, 2012

Preservation Resource Center
923 Tchoupitoulas St.
New Orleans, La. 70130
504-581-7032
Hours: Mon-Fri 9-5

Penn Station: a distant view
Photographs by Connecticut artist Becca Fitzpatrick alongside a historical retrospective.

“Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldn’t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed.”
- “Farewell to Penn Station,” New York Times editorial, October 30, 1963

The tear down of the Beaux Arts-style Pennsylvania Station in 1963 was pivotal in the formation of the modern historic preservation movement. As someone who was not alive when the colossal landmark existed, Fitzpatrick’s only perspective on the disastrous demise of this architectural monolith is through period photographs exhibited behind Plexiglas at the modern Penn Station. In order to re-imagine the destruction of the original station, Fitzpatrick photographed two of the period images, then photographed her own photographs, printed, photocopied and photographed the copies. Each generation lost more information until the 84 granite columns on the station’s exterior and the 15-story waiting room became fragmentary and distant survivors of the station’s architectural grandeur. Her dual large-scale photographs mirror the station’s monumental proportions as well as its faded memory. The exhibit will hang from October 22 through January.

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

Oyster Boat, Lake Ponchartrain by Luana Perez

Healing Healthcare Environment
ArtWalk 1: Luana Perez
Dec 1, 2010 – January 3, 2011

Ochsner Medical Center
1514 Jefferson Hwy
New Orleans, LA 70121
504-842-3000

Luana Perez is an eclectic personality who rejoices in Nature. Whether she’s snapping baby bluebirds in their nest or prowling the swamps and waterways of Louisiana for shots of indigenous wildlife, Luana’s keen eye reflects the beauty and warmth of Louisiana.

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Lucie Fishing, Bay St. Louis, 1899 by Alexander Allison

Alexander Allison’s New Orleans: Selected Photographs

On view through 2011

New Orleans Main Public Library
219 Loyola Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-596-2560
Hours: Mon – Thurs 10am – 6pm, Fri + Sat 10am – 5pm

In 1953, while still working for the Sewerage and Water Board, Allison donated 323 4” x 5” prints of his work to New Orleans Public Library. Following his death on January 18, 1964, Mr. Allison’s daughter, Elizabeth Law, gave additional prints and his entire collection of negatives to the Library’s Louisiana Division. In 2009, Division staff, with volunteer assistance, completed a multi-year project to scan all of Allison’s negatives. The entire collection can be viewed online.

This exhibit, in some ways “The Best of Alexander Allison” comprises selections of his views of the city of New Orleans and his images of family-related activities at home, around Louisiana, and in Bay Saint Louis.

Alexander Allison photos are on display at New Orleans Public Library, in the Louisiana Division (Main Library, 3rd floor) into 2011.

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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

Jill Stoll

Jill Stoll: In Camera

Dec 1, 2010 – Jan 10, 2011
Gallery Talk: Monday, Jan 10 :: at noon in room 204
Closing Reception :: Monday, Jan 10 :: 5-6PM in the Favrot Lobby

Tulane School of Architecture
Richardson Memorial Hall, Tulane University
6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-865-5389
Hours: 8am-5pm Daily

In this new body of work, Jill Stoll explores using masking devices to create multiple exposures on one frame of film resulting in images of New Orleans that are at times fragmented and strangely lyrical.

Braids by Lori Vrba

Piano Farm: Lori Vrba

Sunday, December 5, 2010
Opening: Sunday, Dec 5, 7-9pm

Louise Arsene Vitry House
2003 Dumaine Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
504- 275-9845

This one-night only show will feature the tender, haunting and emotionally evocative works of Chapel Hill-based photographer, Lori Vrba. Curated by Edward Hebert, this event will mark the debut of “Piano Farm”, Vrba’s most recent collection. “Piano Farm” speaks to the connection between an artist and a place of endless creative possibility. Join us for a night of New Orleans style cocktails, music and art in the historic Louise Arsene Vitry House.

The Louise Arsene Vitry house was built in 1855 for free woman of color, Louise Arsene Vitry, her consort, Archille Barthelmy Courcelle, and their 5 children. Louise Vitry was sued for possession of the house in 1858 and in a case that went all the way to the Louisiana State Supreme Court, she won final control of the house in 1860.

Location:

Photo Works
521 St. Ann, on Jackson Square
New Orleans, LA 70116
Thur – Tue 10-5:30 and by appt.
504-593- 9090 / toll free 877- 593-4130

Exhibition Dates:

Dec 3, 2009 – Ongoing

Opening:

Thursday, Dec 3, 5-8pm

New Photographs by Louis Sahuc