The NOPA List: October 2016

Ogden Museum of Southern Art: 925 Camp Street, New Orleans

Maude Schuyler Clay is a fifth generation Mississippian. Clay started her color portrait series “Mississippi History” in 1975 when she acquired her first Rolleiflex 2 1/4″ camera. Over the next 25 years, the project evolved in part as an homage to Julia Margaret Cameron, a definitive pioneer of the art of photography. Clay’s expressive, allegorical portraits of her friends, family, and other Mississippians, as well as her artful approach to capturing the essence of light, are the driving forces behind her recollection of moments of family life in Mississippi in the 1980s and 90s.

Antenna | Press Street Gallery: 3718 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans

In this media-filled and product-innundated world, how often do we blindly oblige societal expectation of womanhood, beauty and identity? Refractional Presence unites five local female artists who are simultaneously well-versed in and decisively critical of cultural ideals — especially ones that force repeated modifications and destructive stereotypes onto our bodies and beings. Featured artists: Jer’Lisa Devezin, Cecilia Givens, Natori Green, Imani Hadden, and Chloe St. Etienne.

Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery, Loyola University New Orleans: 6363 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans

In addition to the works of Kyle Encar and Azu Roma, two artists with ties to Loyola University New Orleans, the exhibition also includes selected student works in partnership with the Danna Center Gallery student exhibition.

A Gallery For Fine Photography: 241 Chartres Street, New Orleans

A Gallery for Fine Photography presents “In Color: Photographs from 1846 to 2016″, an exhibition of photographs that illustrate the history of color photography. With works from the early days of hand-colored daguerreotypes to computer generated pigment prints, this exhibition shows the many ways in which artists, inventors, and photography lovers experimented with interpretations of our color world.

Featuring a selection of color processes including hand-colored daguerreotypes and tintypes, photo chromolithographs, Cibachromes, Autochromes, Dye-transfers, Polaroids, and pigment prints, the exhibition includes early pieces by anonymous artists, as well as work by William Henry Jackson, Eduard Steichen, Helmut Newton, Harold Edgerton, Joshua Mann Pailet, Eve Sonneman, Birney Imes, Josephine Sacabo, Joyce Tenneson, Louviere+Vanessa, Maggie Taylor, Richard Sexton, Elliott Erwitt, Harry Callahan, Herman Leonard, Jan Saudek, Jerry Uelsmann, Walter Nelson, Robert Glenn Ketchum, René Pauli, Sandy Skoglund, and Wendi Schneider.

NEW ORLEANS VOICES by the Creative Alliance of New Orleans

CANO Creative Space at the Myrtle Banks Building, 1307 Oretha Haley Blvd., New Orleans

For CANO’s presents “Voices of New Orleans” for their 2nd anniversary exhibition the Creative Space at the Myrtle Banks Building in Central City, The exhibition is comprised of work by 21 artists from the greater New Orleans area. Curated by Megan Mitchell, the work represents a range of established and emerging artists showcasing a range of work being produced today in New Orleans.

LSU Student Union Art Center: Raphael Semmes Road, Baton Rouge

In many ways, local artists are at the heart of every community. Local art can bring a community together by giving the people who live in that community personal enjoyment and intellectual stimulation while encouraging local involvement. The LSU Student Union Art Gallery presents two local artists who have co-created the summer exhibition: The David Humphreys & Aaron Hogan Photography Exhibit.

United Bakery Gallery: 1325 St. Bernard Avenue, New Orleans

Seven photographers interpret the theme of Light Limbs and Loved Ones. Daniel Grey, Sarah Bray Davis, Laura Clifton Byrne, Jason Kerzinski, Michelle Krivanek, Leah Floyd, and Brandi-Lea Harris

Upstairs gallery at the New Orleans Art Center: 3330 St. Claude Avenue, New Orleans

OUTGROAN features work that deals with innocence lost. It lives in the space where nostalgia and disappointment meet. OUTGROAN takes the revered memories of the past and strips away the romanticism with a bleak glimpse into the future. There is only now. Mash Buhtayduss is a collaboration between visual artist Barbie L’Hoste and photographer Brandt Vicknair.

Oct 8, 6:00 to 9:00 PM:  Second Saturday Art Walk at The New Orleans Community Print Shop and Darkroom, 1201 Mazant Street, New Orleans

Oct 10, 6:00-8:00 PM: Gallery Show in recognition of World Homeless Day at Propeller, 4035 Washington Avenue, New Orleans

MyNew Orleans Photo Project 2016 is designed to provide an opportunity for people affected by homelessness to share their perspectives through photography.

FROM MOUSS’OR TO TIGNON: THE EVOLUTION OF THE HEADRESS

McKenna Museum of African-American Art: 2003 Carondelet Street, New Orleans

The Olaju Art Group presents the release of the latest collection of photographs by Juliana Kasumu. This portraiture series reflects on the sensationalism of head wraps worn by women of color in past and present societies. By tracing the history of this notorious fashion statement, Kasumu presents unique perspectives into the linkages between Creole women of color in New Orleans and signares in Senegal.

The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette: 710 East Sint Mary Blvd., Lafayette

“Cajun Dance Halls and Zydeco Clubs” is the combined research of two ongoing projects from John “Pudd” Sharp and Philip Gould. Sharp’s work with the Center for Louisiana Studies’ Dancehalls project showcases visual artifacts and memorabilia from the archive of the Center. Gould’s photography is drawn from his upcoming book: Ghosts of Good Times: South Louisiana Dance Halls Past and Present published by UL Press. Included in the exhibit are recent architectural images of clubs, open and closed, as well as a selection from Gould’s four-decade career documenting Louisiana. Additional archival materials from the Center for Louisiana Studies come from a variety of sources including collections by club owners, musicians, family members and patrons.

Alexandria Museum of Art: 933 Second Street, Alexandria, LA

The 29th September Competition is an annual juried exhibition highlighting the work of contemporary artists in all media and styles created within the past two years. 47 artworks were selected by juror Frances Pavy from over 300 international submissions. Photographer Paul Nettles took third prize with his image “Lost and Found.”

The R.W. Norton Art Gallery: 4747 Creswell Avenue, Shreveport

Thanks to photographer Lee Friedlander, who discovered Bellocq’s work in the 1960s, we have these transcendent images with which to remember the humanity of the often otherwise anonymous “soiled doves” of the fabled Storyville.

New Orleans Museum of Art: One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans

This exhibition presents a brief survey of Kenneth Josephson (American, born 1932), one of the most inventive photographers of the second half of the twentieth century.

New Orleans Museum of Art: One Collins C. Diboll Circle, City Park, New Orleans

This exhibition of works from NOMA’s collection explores photography’s relationship to the world through a diverse selection of photographs that include obstructing elements or remind us that the photograph itself is often an obstruction to the real world.

The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette: 710 East Saint Mary Blvd., Lafayette

FACE TO FACE features work by twelve nationally and internationally acclaimed artists working in a variety of media, including photography. It includes Willie Birch, Douglas Bourgeois, George Dureau, Elizabeth Kleinveld & Epaul Julien, Aubrey Edwards, Deborah Luster, Rashaad Newsome, Tameka Norris, Gina Phillips, Jennifer Shaw, Jonathan Traviesa, and Heather Weathers. This exhibition of visually powerful and evocative work is accompanied by an essay in which Miami-based independent curator Jane Hart states, “During this present moment, we are increasingly witness to social unrest and an escalating violent state of affairs, both at home and abroad. These disturbing conflicts often can be attributed to a lack of understanding amongst us based upon ethnicity, race, religion and other differences. Through depictions of people created by artists, seeing our shared humanity, we can collectively come together with a greater tolerance and acceptance.”

“Photographer W. Eugene Smith recorded 4000 hours of audio tape and took 40,000 photographs in the Jazz Loft between 1957 and 1965. Ours is the first film to make use of this archive, now housed at the Center For Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.”  WNYC review.

Based on NOMA’s permanent collection, “Something in the Way: A Brief History of Photography and Obstruction” explores photography’s relationship to the world it records through a diverse selection of photographs that include obstructing elements or remind us that the photograph itself is often an obstruction to the real world. Russell Lord is the Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings.

Please join us for a special evening with Prof. AnnieLaurie Erickson in the NOPA Gallery. Erickson will discuss her creation of alternative modes of photographic production from interactive gallery installations using photography and eye tracking to the creation of images of radioactive residue from the first manmade nuclear reaction in 1942. This is thought-provoking and beautiful work from one of New Orleans’ most innovative artists.

Gannan’s photographs are included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; NY; The Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. She is also a longtime contributor to the NYT Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other important publications.

“THE NINE is a film about the beauty of those who fall by the wayside, a bittersweet country ballad that feels at time like a lost page by John Steinbeck or William Faulkner.” –NOFF

Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. has been working in fine art photography for over 40 years. His imagery has been greatly influenced by architecture with an MA Degree from the Technical University in Munich, Germany. Schaefer’s gelatin silver and cyanotype prints have been exhibited and are part of major collections in the US and Europe. His expertise in photography is passed on to students at New York University, and in his workshops and lectures for Penumbra/CAP. schaeferphoto.com