Louviere+Vanessa: Heretic
December 15, 2018 – February 28, 2019
Opening: Saturday, Dec 15, 5-8pm

Louviere+Vanessa premiere a new series, Heretic, in conjunction with PhotoNOLA 2018.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
Louviere + Vanessa‘s work combines the mediums and nuances of film, photography, painting and printmaking. They utilize Holgas, scanners, 8mm film, destroyed negatives, wax and blood, gold and resin. Since they began professionally showing in 2004, they have been in over 50 exhibits and film festivals in America and abroad. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Art | Houston, the Photomedia Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art as well as the film archive for Globians International Film in Potsdam Germany and Microcinema in San Francisco. Six images from the Creature series were acquired by the George Eastman House for an exhibit that traveled the world through 2010. They experiment in moving pictures and have created the first movie shot with a plastic Holga camera consisting of 1,944 frames. L+V were invited to exhibit for the Ballarat Photography Biennale. They had their first solo museum exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in October 2012, followed by a solo show at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL.

Jeff Louviere is from New Orleans, Vanessa is from New York and they met each other in Savannah, Georgia. Jeff graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design where he and 3 other artists created the world’s largest painting, a 76,000 square foot image of Elvis. Vanessa began photographing at age 12 and won a Kodak International Award of Excellence in Photography when she was 17. She almost became a professional race car driver, but instead she photographed through Italy and Greece before graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Photography.