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Inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery February 25, 2011
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February 25, 2011
inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery New Orleans
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Gina Phillips Reviewed, Matthew Cox Closing Saturday
"Heroes and Villains", New Fabric Works by Gina Phillips Reviewed by Art Critic Doug MacCash
Heroes and Villains, New Fabric Works by Gina Phillips is reviewed in today's Times-Picayune by critic Doug MacCash and he did a video interview with Phillips in the gallery as well.
MacCash rates the show as "Wonderful".
"Gina Phillips is New Orleans' master of modern tapestry. She uses recycled fabric, colored thread and a quilter's sewing machine with a 10-foot reach to create some of the Crescent City's most interesting art. Her disquieting current exhibit at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is a surreal, sometimes brutal vision of the exploration of the New World. The installation is made of dozens of small, oddly shaped tapestries scattered across the walls like fabric graffiti." - Doug MacCash
To read the entire review in The Times-Picayune, please .
To watch the video interview with Gina Phillips, please .
Heroes and Villains is a continuation of the visual narrative Gina Phillips began with her 2010 solo show, The Call of The Alluvial Empire, at the Isaac Delgado Fine Art Gallery at Delgdo College. Using a variety of media including fabric, thread, ink, paint, synthetic hair, glass beads, and feathers, Gina Phillips has created a story-telling installation that explores elements of innocence and brutality in primitive American culture in the Southern Delta.
Gina Phillips has a BFA from University of Kentucky and an MFA from Tulane University. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country and her work is in numerous collections including University of Kentucky, Lexington, NASA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Tulane University and House of Blues (various locations across US.)
Gina Phillips is an Adjunct Professor of Painting at Tulane University and also teaches public school children through The Ogden Museum of Southern Art's Artists and a Sense of Place Residency. Phillips is also included in a major survey of New Orleans art to be presented at Ballroom MARFA (March - August 2011) entitled "World According to New Orleans" curated by Dan Cameron.
To view works from Heroes and Villains, by Gina Phillips, please .
Also
The middle gallery exhibition, Reconstitute, Refresh, Embellish, New Embroidered X-rays by Matthew Cox will close tomorrow at 3pm.
To view works from Reconstitute, Refresh, Embellish by Matthew Cox, please .
Pictured:
Gina Phillips
Heroes and Villains
fabric, thread, ink, paint, glass beads, feather
22 x 22 in.
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery Presents Dan Tague at VOLTA NY | Armory Week | March 3-6 | Booth V7
LIve Free or Die: New Dollar Bill Works by Prospect.2 Artist
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce that the gallery will present a solo installation of new folded dollar bill works by artist Dan Tague at VOLTA NY art fair during Armory Week in New York, March 3-6, 2011. The exhibition entitled Live Free or Die will feature Tague's trademark archival prints that utilize a high end scanner as the artist's "camera". The solo installation at VOLTA NY opens on Thursday March 3rd with a press preview from 12-2pm.
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery will be in Booth V7
VOLTA NY is located at 7 West 34th Street, 11th floor in
New York.
About the Artist
Dan Tague has an MFA in Studio Arts from The University of New Orleans, and is a multi-media artist, curator, and activist whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of several awards and residencies including grants from The Joan Mitchell Foundation and Pollock Krasner Foundation, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the La Napoule Art Foundation in France.
Dan Tague's work is multi-faceted. He is well-known for his dollar bill works that are a hybrid of sculpture, photography and political statements. Tague often addresses the issues of our day by rendering visual equivalents by the most powerful means necessary. Installations, photography and artistic activism are his means of confronting and responding to the concerns of today's world.
Tague's work has been exhibited across the US including Exit Art, DUMBO Arts Center, Frederieke Taylor, LMCC, Bronx River Arts Center and Cuchifritos in New York; The Soap Factory in Minneapolis; Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University; Florida Atlantic University and Gallery Camino Real in Florida and the Southeastern Biennial at SECCA in North Carolina.
Dan Tague is one of the first artists chosen for Prospect.2 Biennial that opens in November 2011 where he will present a major installation addressing corporate America and the political feuds that tie up our government. Tague will also exhibit a major installation at Ballroom Marfa (MARFA, TX) March - August 2011.
Tague's work is in numerous public and private collections including The Whitney Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, collectors Beth Rudin DeWoody and Lady Monika Bacardi of Monaco, curator Dan Cameron and most recently the Louisiana State Museum.
Dan Tague lives and works in New Orleans, LA.
To preview works from solo installation, Live Free or Die, that will be presented at VOLTA NY, please .
About VOLTA NY
VOLTA NY is an invitational show of solo artists' projects presented by over 85 international galleries. VOLTA NY is the American incarnation of the successful young fair founded in Basel in 2005 and was conceived as a forum for tightly-focused artist offerings. Both Basel and New York fairs provide a showcase for current art production and relevant contemporary positions regardless of the artist or gallery's age.
By putting the focus back on artists through exclusively featuring solo projects, VOLTA NY promotes a deep exploration of the work of its selected projects, an opportunity for discoveries that move beyond those afforded by a traditional art fair. While many fairs provide a broader overview, with more represented artists in each booth, visitors to VOLTA NY compare the experience to a more focused series of intense studio visits.
A platform for challenging, often complimentary, sometimes competing ideas about contemporary art, the strictly solo format is what gives the New York fair its unique character.
For more information about VOLTA NY, please .
Pictured:
Dan Tague
Live Free or Die (2011)
Archival Inkjet Print on Rag Paper
44 x 60 in.
Edition of 5
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Upcoming in March: Krista Jurisich and Sidonie Villere
New Mixed Media Works By Jurisich (Front Gallery) & New Sculpture by Villere (Middle Gallery)
Opening March 12th will be two new exhibitions at JFG.
In the front gallery, Krista Jurisich will have her first solo exhibition at the gallery entitled
The Theatre of Cultural Strata:A Visual Journey of Urban Archeology and Cultural Veneer, featuring new mixed media works including paintings, collages, photographs, assemblages and unearthed objects from her recent excavations in New Orleans.
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In the middle gallery, Sidonie Villere will present a new suite of sculptures entitled Wrapped, a series of
sculptures that incorporate a multitude of materials including canvas, muslin, tarpaper, string, plastic, metal-screen mesh and spray paint. These new works by Villere are organic, fresh, abstract and have a wonderful lyrical quality. These works represent some of her most promising work yet.
Stay tuned for more Information on both these upcoming shows
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JFG in The News
JFG in Veranda and Skylar Fein in The Art Newspaper
In this month's Veranda Magazine there is a feature section on New Orleans with locals who highlight their favorite Big Easy spots.
Renowned jewelry designer and JFG collector Nicholas Varney was interviewed and he spotlighted JFG as one of his favorite places in New Orleans. Check out page 56 in the March Veranda Magazine . (pictured left)
and
In the January issue of The Art Newspaper (pictured right) in a recap of the Miami art fairs last December, a image of Skylar Fein's work is pictured.
The work, Black Lincoln for Dooky Chase, was acquired by The Brooklyn Museum during the Pulse Fair.
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Also Upcoming in March JFG artists at Ballroom Marfa
The World According to New Orleans Curated by Dan Cameron at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is proud to announce that three JFG artists, Skylar Fein, Gina Phillips and Dan Tague, will be featured in a major group exhibition at Ballroom Marfa, March 18 - August 14, 2011.
About the Show
This spring, Ballroom Marfa will collaborate with curator Dan Cameron on The World According to New Orleans, a curatorial examination of the art and visual culture of New Orleans, with a particular focus on areas of overlap between self-taught and avant-garde tendencies. New Orleans' location at the geographic fringe of the continental United States, in close proximity to Cuba, Haiti, and Mexico, has generated a unique blend of distinctions between artistic genres and vernacular traditions, and each of the artists in the exhibition has produced work that in some way challenges many of these time-worn distinctions. The exhibition includes work by several artists who were self-taught, as well as documentary photographs and film that examine neighborhood and community expressions.
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NEW ORLEANS Curated by DAN CAMERON
Participating Artists: JULES CAHN, BRUCE DAVENPORT, JR., DAWN DEDEAUX, COURTNEY EGAN, SKYLAR FEIN, ROY G. FERDINAND, SRDJAN LONCAR, DEBORAH LUSTER, SISTER GERTRUDE MORGAN, GINA PHILLIPS, NOEL ROCKMORE, MICHAEL P. SMITH, DAN TAGUE
BALLROOM MARFA
18 MARCH 2011 - 14 AUGUST 2011
Friday, 18 March 2011
6-8 pm: Opening reception
8:30 pm: Community dinner
10 pm: Music performance
Saturday, 19 March 2011
3pm: Exhibition walkthrough with curator and artists
6 pm: Student reading with artist Dan Tague at Marfa Book Company
For more information on Ballroom Marfa, please
For more information about the exhibition, please
To listen to a recording of the Red-Haired Stepchild: Making Visual Art in New Orleans panel discussion, featuring curator Dan Cameron and artists Skylar Fein, Srdjan Loncar, and Dan Tague, held on January 10, 2011 at the Masonic Lodge in Marfa, Texas, please .
Pictured:
NOEL ROCKMORE
The Magician's Silhouette, 1985
Acrylic on rag paper
18" x 24"
Courtesy of the Chris and Jane Botsford collection
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THE 15th ANNUAL NO DEAD ARTISTS NATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION SET TO ANNOUNCE CALL FOR ARTISTS
Submission Period March 1st to June 15th, Call for Artists to Start Next Week
The 15th Annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition will announce the 2011 Jurors and Call For Artists this coming Tuesday March 1, 2011.
The submission period for all artists has been moved up this year and will open on March 1st and run through June 15, 2011.
The exhibition will open at JFG on September 3, 2011.
Stay Tuned For More Details Next Week!
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GALLERY HOURS
Monday - Saturday 11 am to 5pm
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
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