Josephine Sacabo: Oyeme Con Los Ojos
October 1, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Opening: Saturday, October 1, 6-8 pm
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp Street
New Orleans, La. 70130
504-539-9600
Hours: Wed – Mon 10am – 5pm; Thurs 6-8pm
Josephine Sacabo’s photographs transfer the viewer into a world of constructed beauty. Built upon a foundation of poetry and literature, her many portfolios are visual manifestations of the written word. Sacabo divides her time between New Orleans and Mexico. Both locales inform her work – culminating in imagery that is as dreamlike, surreal, and romantic as the places that she calls home. On view through Jan. 8, 2012.
For over three decades, artists Josephine Sacabo and Ersy have shared inspirations and ideas through a friendship based on a mutual respect and joy in one another’s lives. In keeping with that spirit of friendship, inspiration and collaboration, two exhibitions – Ersy: Architect of Dreams and Sacabo’s Óyeme Con Los Ojos – share space in the Ogden Museum’s galleries, allowing the viewer to see the dialogue between these unique bodies of work.
Read more about Ersy and Josephine Sacabo in the New York Times article: Life and Art, Side by Side in the French Quarter
There will be panel discussion/gallery talk scheduled.
Shown above: Óyeme Sorda, 2010, photogravure printed on handmade Japanese tissue and chine-colléd velvet rag paper.
