New Orleans Festival of Photography
Sleeping by the Bayou: Tammy Mercure December 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Dec 14, 6-10 pm Sleeping by the Bayou is an exploration of the ten cemeteries of St Bernard Parish. The cemeteries contain the rich history of the area and the current state of the parish. With cultural changes in death […]
MEMORY IS A STRANGE BELL: THE ART OF WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY October 5, 2019 – March 1, 2020 Exhibition Walkthrough with Richard McCabe: Saturday, Dec 14, 12-1pm Perhaps no other artist in the American South engaged more deeply and consistently with the concepts of time, place and memory through their work than William Christenberry. Although widely […]
Basis of Improvement: Whit Forrester December 14, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Opening: Saturday, Dec 14, 6-10pm Artist talk: TBA A solo show of artist Whit Forrester. Forrester’s work looks primarily to plants as principal actors in nature, providing a focal point on the human connection to the idea of nature as well as the […]
Land of Evangeline: Reconstructed Southerly Gold November 19, 2019 – January 26, 2020 Opening: Friday, Nov 22, 5:30pm In conjunction with “Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana,” NOMA’s exhibition of 19th-century Louisiana landscape paintings, Southerly Gold has contemporized the exhibition’s painted landscapes by photographing the original locations through a feminine lens, thus bringing the […]
Enigmatic Stream: Richard Sexton September 17, 2019 – April 5, 2020 Artist Talk: Thursday, Dec 12, 12-1pm Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River Enigmatic Stream features more than one hundred black-and-white photographs by Richard Sexton, accented by other materials drawn from and inspired by the Mississippi River, capturing the essence of a […]
LaToya Ruby Frazier: Flint is Family August 21 – December 14, 2019 In 2016, artist, activist, and MacArthur genius awardee LaToya Ruby Frazier spent five months living in Flint, Michigan with three generations of women–the poet Shea Cobb, her mother Renee, and daughter Zion–observing their day-to-day lives as they endured one of the most devastating […]
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 […]
