MICKALENE THOMAS: FEMMES NOIRES November 2, 2019 – June 14, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30 – 10pm Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires is an exhibition of new work—collages and montages by Mickalene Thomas that confront and subvert stereotypes with powerful, self-possessed depictions of Black women. BIO Mickalene Thomas makes paintings, collages, photography, video, and installations […]
Tina Freeman: Lamentations September 13, 2019 – March 15, 2020 Gallery Talk with Brian Piper: Wednesday, Nov 13, 12-1pm Gallery Talk with Lily Brooks: Wednesday, Dec 11, 3-4pm Book Signing: Saturday, Dec 14, 1pm Over the past seven years, Tina Freeman has photographed the wetlands of Louisiana and the glacial landscapes of the Arctic and […]
FEMMES FÉROCES: MATERIAL LIFE X FEMMES NOIRES November 2, 2019 – June 14, 2020 Openng: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30-10pm A collaborative pop-up between Material Life and Mickalene Thomas, Femmes Féroces celebrates the creativity and originality of our collective community of femmes noires—who, borrowing from the 100 Black Females Project, we define as “…all who express […]
MEG TURNER: HERE AND NOW November 2, 2019 – April 12, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30pm-10pm Meg Turner: Here and Now is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition. The installation, including over 100 portrait tintypes of artists, activists, teachers, school mates, friends, lovers, and near-strangers, documents a self-selected community who over the past five […]
AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE November 2, 2019 – February 2, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 5:30 -10:30pm Akosua Adoma Owusu is a Ghanian-American filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer whose films and installations address the collision of identities. Often combining personal ethnography and cultural representations of beauty in her work, Owusu transitions between avant-garde […]
Dawn DeDeaux: THE ADVENTURES OF ACID FROG & FRIENDS November 2 – December 21, 2019 Opening: Saturday, Nov 2, 6-8pm New Orleans artist Dawn DeDeaux’s exhibition THE ADVENTURES OF ACID FROG & FRIENDS features digitally-manipulated images printed on mirror and paper. The series renders an array of large-scale mutant creatures in highly saturated, psychedelic-chemical colors. […]
Everett Kennedy Brown: Seeking an Open Life: Photographs of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japan October 10, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Artist Talk: Saturday, Dec 14, 4:00-5:30pm Sister cities New Orleans and Matsue, Japan, both claim renowned 19th-century journalist and author Lafcadio Hearn as their own. This exhibition of contemporary photographs by Everett Kennedy Brown of Japan’s […]
An Ideal Unity: The Bauhaus & Beyond August 16, 2019 – March 15, 2020 Celebrating the centennial of the Bauhaus (1919–1933), An Ideal Unity explores the artistic breadth and reach of the innovative school that integrated fine arts and design. In response to the rise of industrial production and the movement away from individually made […]
Josephine Sacabo: Moments of Being October 3, 2019 – January 4, 2020 Opening: Thursday, Oct 3, 5-8pm PhotoNOLA Reception & Book Signing: Saturday, December 14, 5-8pm A Gallery for Fine Photography is pleased to premier Moments of Being, a new series of photogravures by Josephine Sacabo. Moments of Being “What would such an inexperienced soul […]
There, Still: Wallace Merritt December 3-28, 2019 Opening: Saturday, Dec 7, 5:30-8:00pm “There, Still” is a collection of Louisiana landscape and nature photographs by New Orleans artist Wallace Merritt. The black and white prints have been formatted into small-scale tondos to reference the intimacy of viewing wildlife through a telescope. Merritt’s poetic stills seem to […]
