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Art News:
400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
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Inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
August 3, 2012
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Opening White Linen Night (Main Gallery)
July 25- August 25, 2012
 | | Installation shot, St. Claude at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery |
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is excited to announce the opening of St. Claude, a multi-media group show featuring artists who are active in the burgeoning St. Claude Arts District scene and those who live in that area. This event will open in conjunction with the annual Whitney White Linen Night event on Saturday, August 4th, from 6-9 pm.
The St. Claude Arts District is a vibrant artist-driven group of exhibition spaces located in the St. Claude area of New Orleans. Artist studios, collectives, cooperatives and performance spaces populate this area and offer some of the most innovative, experimental, and emerging art taking place in New Orleans. Organic and grass roots, the spaces on St. Claude draw thousands to their monthly (second Saturday) openings. The spaces can run the gamut from very raw to somewhat refined, but they give young artists venues to showcase their creative visions, often for the first time anywhere. The creative energy on St. Claude is palpable and these spaces provide an essential breeding ground for the next generation of emerging artists as well as venues for more established artists to take risks that aren't possible in more commercial galleries.
By presenting the exhibition of White Linen Night which draws over 50,000 people to the Warehouse District and Julia Street, Ferrara aims to shine a bright spotlight on the talents that exist on St. Claude with the hopes of generating even more interest in the exciting scene taking place there. The St. Claude Arts District has grown tremendously over the past five years, especially under the inspiration of Prospect New Orleans Biennial founded by curator Dan Cameron. St.Claude, the exhibition will present the work of thirteen artists works, some that are well-known and others who will show for the first time on Julia Street. It is an exciting time for art in and from New Orleans and Jonathan Ferrara Gallery's White Linen Night exhibition is sure to demonstrate that.
St. Claude will include new works by artists including:
Angela Berry / T-LOT
Hannah Chalew / T-LOT
Kiernan Dunn / The Aquarium Gallery
Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.) / Good Children Gallery
James W. Goedert / Antenna Gallery
Brian Guidry / Good Children Gallery
Stephen Kwok / T-LOT
Malcolm McClay / Good Children Gallery
Michael Pajon / Michael Pajon Studio
Christopher Saucedo / Good Children Gallery
Bob Snead / Antenna Gallery
Dan Tague - Good Children Gallery
*Please note that the St. Claude Art Walk takes place the 2nd Saturday of each month.
to read full St. Claude
to view artworks from this exhibition
to view a list of St. Claude Arts District's events and openings, as well a the full list of St. Claude galleries
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Opening White Linen Night (Middle Gallery)
July 25- August 25, 2012
 | | Stephen Hoskins, left: lace collar, 2012 (gouache and colored pencil on paper, 21" x 29")
right: rainbow striped shirt, 2012 (gouache and colored pencil on paper, 29.25" x 20")
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is proud to announce the opening of omissions, a new series of portraits by Stephen Hoskins. This will be Hoskins' second solo exhibition at the gallery, and will open in conjunction with Whitney White Linen Night; Saturday, August 4, from 6-9 pm.
Stephen Hoskins is a native New Orleanian. He received his BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. Stephen is a visiting professor at Saint Louis University since the Fall of 2009. He is well-known for his ethereal portraiture, which capture essential truths about their subjects often by suggestion as well as rendering.
Hoskins says of this series:
In this series, omissions, I explore the visual identity of a person when the information that we rely on most-a subject's facial features-are missing. These works challenged my approach to figure drawing because I could not rely on the normal elements of the person when determining form, scale, and color range. In addition, removing the subject's facial features curtailed my natural desire to address the figure as a whole and forced me to address the other more subtle details of the subject's representation.
With significant portions of the subject absent from a portrait, the viewer must assess other aspects of the person that may not otherwise be considered. The viewer's emotional and logical response to portraiture is necessarily altered as he or she judges the visual information presented and that which is ostensibly missing.
Stephen Hoskins recently had a solo exhibition at The Ethical Society, St. Louis, and his work was included in the Juried Group Exhibition Irene Rosenzweig 2011 Biennial Exhibition in Pine Bluff, AR. His work is scheduled to appear in the upcoming show Configured and Reconfigured: Transformations of the Body at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, from August 11 through October 13.
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16th Annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Winners Announced
Exhibition on View September 3 - September 29, 2012
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Ayano Hisa, Untitled (from Schools in Tohoku), 2012
C-Print, 30" x 40"
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce the jury selections for the 16th edition of the annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Of the approximate 2,500 artworks submitted to this jury by over 500 artists, twelve artists were selected to have their work exhibited at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
The 2012 No Dead Artists Jury Winners:
Abhidnya Ghuge - Tyler, Texas
Ayano Hisa - New York City, New York
Edward Ramsay-Morin - Huntsville, Texas
Tadashi Moriyama - Brooklyn, New York
Jeffrey Pastorek - New Orleans, Louisiana
Samuel Provenza - New Orleans, Louisiana
Aaron Raymer - New York City, New York
Nikki Rosato - Medford, Massachusetts
Ira Upin - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Raine Vasquez - Providence, Rhode Island
Derrick Velasquez - Denver, Colorado
Adam Void - Baltimore, Maryland
This year's selections were made by the prestigious jury consisting of
Eric Shiner - Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA;
Amanda Coulson - Director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Founder of VOLTA Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland and VOLTA New York; and prominent collector Tommy Coleman.
The No Dead Artists Juried exhibition will be on view from September 3rd-September 29th, with an opening reception Saturday, September 8, from 6-9 pm.
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WHITNEY WHITE LINEN NIGHT SATURDAY, AUGUST 4
A CAC Fundraiser. Presented by the New Orleans Arts District.
Julia Street Block Party (6-9pm) FREE admission. Cash Bars & Cuisine. 21 museums & galleries. 20 local restaurants.
LIVE MUSIC on 3 stages:
The Good Country Hey Brahs: Jim McCormick and Mark Carson
Picnic
Jim Smith's Damn Frontier
Gina Phillips will also have artwork on display for White Linen Night in the JFG back gallery, 400a Julia Street.
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Opening Reception
Saturday, August 4, 2012, 6 - 8PM
during White Linen Night
Louisiana Contemporary Annual Juried Exhibition
Louisiana Contemporary is a statewide juried art exhibition organized by The Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Established in 2012, this annual juried event promotes contemporary art practices in the state of Louisiana and provides exhibition space for the exposition of art by artists age 18 and over residing in the state of Louisiana.
Presented by Regions Bank
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Sidonie Villere is a native of New Orleans and is one of the most experimental and progressive sculptors and painters working in Louisiana today. Her works in clay remind me of Lynda Benglis, another Louisiana native, who has made significant contributions internationally.
-Curator Mark Tullos to view feature in Country Roads Magazine for more artwork by Sidonie Villere |
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August 3, 2012
Buzz'd Whispers and Light Kisses
by Michael Pajon
Collage is a scavengers' medium, and though collected from the discarded, this work is not meant to be nostalgic. It is this ghost that haunts the back of your closet, and whispers to you in your sleep. These bits of bone and sinew are not unlike a memento mori--a remembrance of ones mortality--in a state of reanimation. These maps, postcards, children's book illustrations, matchbooks, sheet music, and calling cards are the guts and gristle of common things people collected over a life, spared the fate of being buried in the rubble and shadows of once prosperous towns, of the work of the grass.
This group of work contemplates the most humble of human remains: old matchbooks from junk shops, antique postcards and books, sheet music, cracker jack toys, and other objects once treasured, lost and resurrected. By collaging these elements amidst drawings and other media, I create small relationships to arrive at a whole image. Like delicate strands of DNA, these tiny pieces in combination hold the key to unique identity--the common as well as the fantastic. -Michael Pajon
Chicago Native Michael Pajon graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003 with a focus in printmaking, gravitating to the graphic nature of the medium that closely resembled the comics he loved. He worked closely as an assistant and then studio manager to renowned artist Tony Fitzpatrick. During this time he started making assemblages of the bits and pieces he had accumulated from alleys, junkshops, and thrift stores, slicing up old children's book covers and rearranging their innards into disjointed narratives. In 2009 he left Chicago and headed south, settling in New Orleans, where he lives and maintains an active studio.
The piece above, Buzz'd Whispers and Light Kisses, will be on view at Acadiana Center for the Arts as part of the exhibition Configured & Reconfigured: Transformations of the Human Body (August 11, 2012 - October 13, 2012).
In his recent interview with American Hipster Presents, Pajon discusses the creation of this piece and also describes the sources, process and inspirations that inform his unique and acclaimed collage works.
Watch video interview below:
 | | Michael Pajon - American Hipster Presents #17 (New Orleans) |
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JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY
400a Julia StreetNew Orleans, LA 70130
tel: (504) 522-5471
fax: (928) 597-5471
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday 11am - 5pm
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is a collective environment of creative visions. A commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur Jonathan Ferrara opened the gallery in 1998 to give emerging artists a voice. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local, national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message.
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