Artist Tiffany Calvert, OC ’98, blends traditional and modern techniques to create stunning pieces in her own distinct style. Utilizing a diverse arsenal of methods, including fresco painting, digital painting, digital modeling, and artificial intelligence, Calvert’s approach to art is refreshing, original, and experimental. She is currently associate professor and chair of the MFA in Visual Arts Program at Sam Fox School of Art at Washington University in St. Louis. She gave a talk on her career to Studio Art students Nov. 11. The Review contacted Calvert via email to learn more about her process.

Twenty years ago, Ruth Owens left her medical practice as a plastic surgeon to pursue visual art. Since this transition, she has developed a paint-by-numbers-esque aesthetic that resonates with a kind of quilting of the figure to explore themes of identity constructedness. “Even as a physician, how I thought about the body was based in aesthetics,” says Owens.

Ferrara Showman Gallery announced the selection and participation of artist Paul Villinski for the 15th Bienal de la Habana taking place in Havana, Cuba from November 15, 2024 to February 28, 2025. Celebrating its 40th anniversary since its founding in 1984, the Havana Biennial is a contemporary art event organized by the Wilfredo Lam Center.

Coming full circle by exiting the gallery, one encounters a small sculpture by Esperanza Cortés, an artist with roots in Colombia who grew up in New York City. Colibri (2024), the Spanish word for hummingbird, depicts the figure of a woman as a human bird in the upper part, while the lower part is made of several silver-color chains to which bells are hanging, producing a chime-like sound when touched or moved by air. 

Recent Jenny Day interview for a piece by CanvasRebel

“Picturing Blackness” features 10 other photographers whose works have been important to Black and brown communities of New Orleans, including Jamal Barnes, Edward Buckles, Delaney George, Camille Farrah Lenain, Ashley Lorraine, Girard Mouton III, Akasha Rabut, Tod Smith, Trenity Thomas and Eric Waters. 

On the Guardian Life cover this week, Veuve Clicquot spotlights Rewa and Florentina Agu, two Bold Women who blend tradition and foresight, inspiring the next generation of leaders.

Jonathan Ferrara & Matthew Showman continue to bring unique art, culture, and opportunities to markets worldwide. Article featured on Yahoo! Finance and Millennium.

Photographer and painter Trenity Thomas grew up picking fruit with his cousins in neighborhoods around LaPlace, Louisiana. Now in his mid-twenties, the artist renders lemons, pecans, and misbeliefs (or loquats) throughout his paintings, homages to the women who raised him and visual prompts for his viewer: “Life gives you choices, gives you lemons — what will you do with them, what will you learn?”  

Anastasia Pelias sculpture on view in the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition (PCSE) presented by The Helis Foundation, in partnership with Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the City of New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.

Lori Cozen Geller's sculpture, “Circle of Life”, will be exhibited at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum curated by Julienne Johnson. The Cozen Geller is a part of the 23rd Japan International Art Exchange, USA Exhibition: Pollock- Explored

Burnaway is contemporary art from the South. Via independent art criticism, reviews, and artist projects - they provide context and conversation.

AlCircle recently reviewed Paul Villinski's current exhibition at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. 

StupidDOPE recently reviewed Paul Villinski’s current exhibition at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. 

Colossal recently reviewed Paul Villinski's current exhibition at Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. 

SaveArtSpace x DCDG & Co. is proud to present Indelible Imprints, a public art and gallery exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition is curated by Delaney George and features gallery represented artist Trenity Thomas.

Following a nationwide search, The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) is pleased to announce Brandon V. Lewis as the new Director of The Helis Foundation John Scott Center. 

Gina Phillips’ “Hold It Up To The Light” exhibition is on display in Pensacola State College’s Switzer Gallery May 27-Aug. 9.

CHKD's Children's Pavilion in Norfolk was built to meet the mental health needs in Hampton Roads. May is Mental Health Awareness Month and this facility uses artwork to promote healing and hope - including work by Paul Villinski.

Artist Brandon V. Lewis is named the new director at The Helis Foundation's John Scott Center following a nationwide search.

The Helis Foundation John Scott Center is an interactive gathering space that fosters dialogue and cultivates community. The center presents expansive ideas of heritage and symbolism interpreted through the lens of artist, educator, and humanist John T. Scott’s life, art, and legacy while promoting opportunities that nurture connections and enhance human potential.

Artist Paul Villinski explores the dynamic aerial realm and various notions of “flight” in 'Flight Patterns' - an exhibition held at Federik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park March 29 2024 - August 18 2024.

WATCH: Recent Interview with WWLTV.COM about Kristin Moore's current exhibition 'Through the Bayou, Into the Garden' on view through 25 May. 

Homeworthy's recent house tour video features work by Kristin Moore. Homeworthy is a media platform that features interior design video tours of beautiful homes and apartments given by the fascinating people who live in them.

In Country Roads' latest Baton Rouge art museum guide, Brandon V. Lewis is featured with his work on view at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum as part of the 'Healing Power of Jazz' exhibition.

Kristin Moore interviewed with Dallas Observer as she discusses her work, including her recent exhibition Through the Bayou, Into the Garden. 

Dallas Observer is an online and print publication that covers local news, restaurants, music, and arts in Dallas, Texas.

Country Roads Magazine explores the gallery scene in New Orleans featuring Ferrara Showman Gallery and many more galleries on Julia Street.

Ruth Owens is featured in Country Roads Magazine's latest article highlighting 5 artists that draw inspiration from New Orleans's landscape and culture. 

Country Roads is a cultural reporting publication focusing on South Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta, and the Gulf Coast. 

REWA discusses the increasing confluence between her Art and Finance careers, as well as what to expect from the artist in the coming months.

Established in 1983, The Guardian is one of the most widely circulated independent daily newspapers, in Nigeria.

Artist Jenny Day interviewed with Bold Journey Magazine to discuss adapting to change, building a work ethic, and the artist's recent exhibitions. 

JUXTAPOZ, a monthly magazine showcasing today's trends in contemporary arts and culture, featured Kat Flyn's work in an exhibition preview of Lost and Found: An Assemblage Exhibition @ La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles. 

Glasstire.com, one of the oldest online-only art magazines, discussed the current exhibitions taking place at New Orleans Art Museums. A print by Trenity Thomas is featured in the article with his work in "Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture" - on view at Contemporary Art Center New Orleans from January 6 – April 29, 2024. 

In the spring issue of American Art Collector, Kristin Moore gives a preview for her upcoming exhibition on her latest New Orleans-inspired series. The exhibition Through the Bayou, Into the Garden will be on view at the gallery April 10 through May 25.

Piercing through the cacophony of opinions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its use in the production of art, gallery artist Tiffany Calvert shares her processes, concerns, and hopes for the use of AI in artmaking.

The “ei8ht takes” exhibit features fiery works by students Duane Couch, Nancy Hirsch Lassen, Rhenda Saporito, Sindy Scalfi and Robin Benton Crutcher, with faculty members Aimee Farnet Siegel, Zona Wainwright, and the leader of the pack, Nell Tilton.

The show opens with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturday (March 9) and continues through April 20. The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts is located at 5256 Magazine St. 

Recording artist Usher Raymond released his latest single "Ruin (feat. Pheelz)" and its music video, which features five paintings by Nigerian artist REWA, just prior to headlining the Super Bowl LVII halftime performance. On the heels of the subsequent surge of excitement surrounding her work, REWA sat down for an exclusive interview, in conversation with Raphael Dapaah, with ART PLUGGED to share her thoughts on the experience, discuss her painting practice, and announce what is on the horizon for her artistic endeavors. REWA states: I'm immensely grateful for these features because it’s widened my audience base and led to new opportunities to show my work. As a Nigerian artist, it has always been my mission to export our beautiful culture and heritage. Such opportunities and features help me to do just that so I embrace them with open arms.

From Friday January 19 through Saturday, March 16, 2024, Charlotte Street gallery presents Miss/They Camaraderie 2024, an immersive exhibition into the world of drag performance and Black pageantry where the artworks are the “beauty queens” and the exhibition, the stage. Curated by Charlotte Street Curatorial Fellow Yashi Davalos, Miss/They Camaraderie 2024 is an exhibition where “beauty begets camaraderie,” where viewers are showered in a glittering showcase of opulence, vanity, and queer identity. Gallery represented artist Trenity Thomas is featured among six other artists whose works draw upon archival research and contemporary lens-based practices in a subversive and imaginative display of beauty, femininity, and non-binary expression. 

Get a closer look into Miss/They Camaraderie 2024 through the lens of KC Studio Magazine and transport yourself directly into the heart of the exhibition. 

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum celebrates its newest exhibition Improvisation: The Art and Healing Power of Jazz. This exhibition highlights key moments in the history of jazz and how they have impacted the music style we know today and features gallery represtented artist Brandon V. Lewis. 

Maggie Evans discusses her process, the content of her work, her music and a life journey that changed drastically when she was struck by a vehicle while cycling. Her solo exhibition "Parallel Narratives" at Brenau University displays paintings, drawings and installations to examine human social structures and the internal struggle between the need for individuality and the need for inclusion.. Read more about the artist, her experience, and what shes been up to. 

In advance of Usher's Super Bowl LVIII performance, his latest video "Ruin" features five paintings by gallery artist REWA.

Congrats to RUTH OWENS for her participation in Prospect.6: the future is present, the harbinger is home. Continuing its legacy as the longest-running, citywide contemporary art triennial, Prospect.6 will feature the work of 49 artists spanning approximately 20 venues and unconventional spaces. Curated by The Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, the vast majority of the works on view will be newly commissioned, with an emphasis on large-scale and ambitious installations in both galleries and public spaces. The exhibition will open to the public in New Orleans on Saturday, November 2, 2024, and remain on view through Sunday, February 2, 2025. 

Congrats to TRENITY THOMAS for being selected for the 2024 Joan Mitchell Center Artists-in-Residence! This year’s cohort of 37 individuals includes 16 artists from across the United States participating alongside 21 artists local to New Orleans. The 2024 residency program is divided into three sessions, in the Spring, Summer, and Fall, and will provide these artists with the space and support needed to develop new work—while also offering an immersive experience in the heart of one of America’s most culturally rich cities.

Artist Jenny Day (she/her) has been flirting with how the world might end throughout her artistic career. Deep concerns about climate change, natural disasters, and ecological health underpin work that pits the relentlessness of nature against the futility and folly of human construct. A Feast to Remember imagines we’ve been disinvited to the party, or perhaps it just got too out of hand. The exhibition is curated by elizabet elliott as part of the Independent Projects program and is on view through March 9th at Alabama Contemporary. 

Kristin Moore is a featured artist in WOAW Gallery's As Friends and Partners Vol. 2, a group exhibition of 12 international artists, exploring human experience and delving into its nuances across three distinct categories: still life, figurations, and landscape. The exhibition will be on view from 19 January to 24 February 2024 at the gallery’s Singapore location.

Art × Climate is the first art gallery to be featured in the National Climate Assessment. The US Global Change Research Program issued a call for art with the understanding that, together, art and science move people to greater understanding and action. The call received more than 800 submissions, and the final collection features the work of 92 artists. Their work, which represents all 10 NCA regions, offers a powerful depiction of climate change in the United States—its causes and impacts, as well as the strength of our collective response.

The Rising Woman series represents a significant contribution to the global gender inclusion narrative. This exquisite 220 pages collector's edition, adorned with rose gold embossing, celebrates the accomplishments of over 200 women who are making a profound impact in today's world through their respective industries and interests. Within its pages, you will find their invaluable insights, advice, stunning original photography, and visual images, accompanied by compelling stories and interviews from women across Africa and around the world. 

REWA is featured among 33 other women across Africa for the 6th and FINAL NBC.com and Forbes Africa Rising Woman Series, Africa Digital edition.

CAPITEL is an educational non-for-profit magazine with the objective of contributing to the construction of knowledge and critical thinking within its community through art. Each edition of CAPITEL addresses a specific central theme linked directly or indirectly to values ​​or principles of a human, ethical, philosophical or conceptual nature. For its 34th issue, CAPITEL explores the concept of destiny from different perspectives and disciplines. 

Featured is an article written by Mexican Professor and Political Scientist Pablo Romo as he analyzes Western philosophy and its acknowledgement of destiny’s impact. A selection of works by Tony Dagradi is included in the article, creating a conversation about modern thought and its ideas established for freedom, individual responsibility, and causality.
 

From November 3, 2023 to January 4, 2024 the Alexandria Museum of Art will present the works of 17 eco-conscious artists that create art from materials that are usually discarded including wood, metal, glass, plastic, textiles, paper and found objects.

The artwork presented in this exhibition addresses environmental issues and the increased awareness and behavioral changes we need in order to adjust how we live and act on a daily basis and to protect our ecosystem, reduce pollution and conserve natural resources. The exhibition is curated by internationally award winning artist Eric Hess.

Wild animals have been present in art since the first artists painted images on cave walls or carved figures in stone tens of thousands of years ago. Today’s artists continue to use animal imagery as a way to address humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world.

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, explores the meaning of these creative expressions within the context of contemporary art. Featuring a diverse group of more than forty artworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition offers a wide range of styles in a variety of media, divided into four thematic sections: Tradition, Politics, Science, and Aesthetics.

Art plays a meaningful role in Jonathan Ferrara's life, both at work in his CBD gallery and in his home. Take a look through Ferrara's 1890s Uptown shotgun, renovated to add 800 square feet of space designed with kids and art in mind.

In Present Tense, contemporary artists, Kira Nam Greene (American, born South Korea), David Crismon (American, born 1964), and the collaborative team E2: Kleinveld and Julien (Elizabeth Kleinveld, American, born 1967; Epaul Julien, American, born 1972), bring a contemporary twist to art historical traditions. Working with paint or photography, these artists reveal new directions in portraiture and still life.

The American Art Awards has announced its selection of the 20 Best Galleries in USA for the year 2023, with Jonathan Ferrara Gallery receiving the award for the best gallery in Louisiana.

The board bases decisions on years established, industry reputation, online interest, location, size, aesthetics, socially relevant exhibits, motivational and educational programs, represented artists and references, among other criteria.

Skylar Fein’s art installation “Remember the UpStairs Lounge” premiered at the Contemporary Arts Center in 2008 as part of Prospect New Orleans, the inaugural citywide arts exhibition. 

Among those trying to keep the UpStairs fire from fading into historical obscurity is Max Vernon, who penned the 2017 off-Broadway musical “The View UpStairs,” now in a limited run from Jefferson Parish Arts Society.

"NO DEAD ARTISTS" is a unique juried exhibit that for 27 years has shown the works of contemporary artists from around the world. The 15 artists for 2023 come from the U.S. and China, German, Italy, Greece, Russia, Slovakia and the United Kingdom, and the works will be featured at an opening reception Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400A Julia St., New Orleans. The opening coincides with the Arts District New Orleans' First Saturday Gallery Openings. The exhibit is up until Oct. 14. 

A passage in Rodin’s notebook describes a torso as “…that garden of pleasure the secret charms of which imbue old and young alike with a terrible power. Feminine charm which crushes our destiny, mysterious feminine power that retards the thinker, the worker, and the artist, while at the same time it inspires them—a compensation for those who play with fire!” Entering Anastasia Pelias’s Across Space and Time (The Divine Feminine) at JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, a six-foot torso-like form looms, echoing Rodin’s sentiment. This archetypal shape presides over the entryway, serving as the foundational marker upon which the exhibition operates. From the torso, all appendages extend.

Since the inaugural exhibition twelve years ago, Ogden Museum has shown works by over 500 artists, making Louisiana Contemporary an important moment in the national arts calendar to recognize and experience the spectrum and vitality of artistic voices emanating from New Orleans and in art communities across Louisiana. This statewide, juried exhibition promotes the contemporary art practices in the state of Louisiana, provides an exhibition space for the exposition of living artists’ work and engages a contemporary audience that recognizes the vibrant visual arts culture of Louisiana and the role of New Orleans as a rising, international art center.

Water Valley artist Adrienne Brown-David sent her husband’s youngest sibling a picture of the portrait she had done—one among a series exploring the growth, development and identities of those closest in her orbit. “Sometimes I’m taken aback by my own beauty,” came the assessment from her brother-in-law. Three of those striking portraits hang at the very start of the 2023 Mississippi Invitational at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Miss. The invitational, on view at the museum through Sept. 17, 2023, is a biennial survey of recent works from contemporary artists living and working across the state.

Go behind the scenes with multi-disciplinary artist Trenity Thomas as he talks about his latest solo exhibition "PRESENT MEMORIA".

NEW ORLEANS – Arts District New Orleans, the organization that founded White Linen Night in 1994, has announced that the event will take place on Aug. 5 2023, in conjunction with the city’s first Saturday gallery openings. 

The event is also supported by Arts New Orleans and the Downtown Development District.

White Linen Night, the downtown arts stroll in appropriate seasonal attire, returns Aug. 5.

The one-night festival of art openings, music, food and beverages will focus on the Warehouse District, primarily in the 300 to 600 blocks of Julia Street and 500 block of St. Joseph Street.

The street party, which traditionally draws several hundred participants mostly decked in white or light-colored togs, has a festive atmosphere. Vendors and other purveyors of refreshment help mitigate the seasonal temperatures.

NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Ogden Museum of Southern Art is excited to announce the artists selected for the 2023 edition of Louisiana Contemporary, Presented by The Helis Foundation, the Museum’s annual juried exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists from across the state. This year’s juror, Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, the Robert M. and Ruth L. Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, has selected 45 works by 31 artists from a total of 790 submissions. 

For this Artists at Work, ISCP artists-in-residence Ruth Owens and Sukaina Kubba will give presentations on their respective artistic practices and engage each other and the audience in conversation. They will be joined by Director of Programs Alison Kuo. 

Among the points of commonality between them, both Owens and Kubba left careers as highly respected professionals, Owens as a medical doctor and Kubba as an architect, to fully commit to their artistic practices. They share a passion for telling diasporic narratives with unexpected twists, and they recognize the power of craft, design, and specifically the use of pattern, as tools for better understanding cross-cultural histories.

As Pride Month kicks off, the celebrations this year are set against a wave of unprecedented backlash threatening the funding of countless organizations and institutions working to help the LGBTQIA+ community.

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art—the only museum in the world dedicated to the work of LGBTQIA+ artists—is raising funds this Pride Month to ensure queer creatives are represented in the historical canon. 

Kristin Moore is featured in The Floating Gallery's Electric Ladylandy, an all-women exhibition curated by Amanda Benefiel that celebrates the ferocity, beauty and kaleidoscopic power of the divine feminine, turning our way of seeing upside down and setting it ablaze.

The annual Jazz Fest poster is probably the most avidly collected piece of art in New Orleans. The subjects of the souvenir silk screens, from Professor Longhair to Pete Fountain to Dr. John, are our musical heroes. That combination of iconic musicians and popular artists has made the posters irresistible. But there’s a problem.

As far as poster painters are concerned, here are a few possibilities. Try to imagine how these women's work would translate to a musician's portrait or festival landscape.

How about figural artist Ruth Owens? If you want a poster with emotional punch, look no further. 

Fabric artist and part-time musician Gina Phillips could bring amazing texture to a print featuring Ms. Daigle, right?

Tiffany Calvert’s Adversarial Nature

Tiffany Calvert works in the space between the ones and zeros of a preeminent algorithm, generating novel compositions by complicating the shallow, diagrammatic space of historical Dutch floral paintings.

Jered Sprecher discusses his and other artists’ artwork, and how they embrace or resist against the hyper fast paced time in which we live.

Sprecher explores the precarious relationship between nature and technology in his abstract paintings and installations. His work wrestles with the beauty and complexity of the environment and how we as humans interact with the world around us both directly and mediated through technology. He received his BA from Concordia University and his MFA from The University of Iowa. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Bailey Opportunity Grant, and a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. He has received prestigious residencies and exhibited in major venues. He is a Professor in the School of Art at the University of Tennessee. He lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee.

In 2012, the Current in Stowe hosted a group show called "Migration" that included a single, beaded-heart sculpture by Esperanza Cortés.

The Colombia-born, New York City-based artist now has a solo show of 28 works at the gallery, curated by executive and exhibitions director Rachel Moore. Titled "Tierra Dentro" ("inside earth") — which is also the name of a national archaeological park in Colombia — the exhibition excavates Cortés' cultural and personal history.

New Orleans artist John Isiah Walton has created 100 paintings that explore the Black experience — and his personal journey — through a comprehensively contemporary lens that touches on everything from Tinder dating to Walton’s Ancestry.com results.

The exhibit, titled “Black Paintings,” can be seen at the Acadiana Center for the Arts Main Gallery until May 13. The works in this series were completed over the past seven years, and many feature Walton’s viewpoint as a native New Orleanian.

It’s often said that the best kind of art holds a mirror up to society. But reflections can also create distorted images that need redressing. With a mix of humor, irreverence and irony, photographic duo E2 — New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien — re-create masterpieces from previous eras in ways that reflect a view of the world more relevant and engaging to visual art’s growing audiences.

In doing so, the pair explores race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status and beauty, prompting a revaluation of the norms and stereotypes perpetuated by the Western art canon. The act of dismantling these established “truths,” however, isn’t a reductive process for E2. Rather, their glossy hyperreal photographs are lavishly constructed compositions.

Lorin Gallery is proud to announce California Dreamin’ — a group show opening during Frieze LA week with NY based consultant and curator Joe Chira aka JC The Art Consultant. Featured in the exhibition is gallery artist Kristin Moore.

Esperanza Cortés is a Colombian born multidisciplinary artist based in New York City. Cortes’s passion for the mosaic of the Americas, its folk art traditions, rituals, music, dance and their ever evolving changes are at the core of her sculptures, paintings, installations, site-specific projects and interventions. Her artwork examines the extent to which a consciousness, national or personal, defines itself through the opposing force of a transcultural experience. The work is poetically and intricately crafted to encourage the viewer to reconsider social and historical narratives especially when dealing with Colonialism and raises critical questions about the politics of erasure and exclusion.

Children’s Pavilion, a new pediatric mental health hospital and outpatient center, was developed by Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters, in Norfolk, Virginia, to answer a pressing regional need for pediatric mental health services. The new facility is a colorful, sun-drenched environment filled with contemporary art selected to soothe, engage, entertain, and inspire.

Approaching the café is New York City-based sculptor Paul Villinski’s Celebration, which repurposes old vinyl records to portray birds soaring in flight. Record labels recognizable to families make up each bird’s unique plumage, evoking a joyous, musical migration made especially for CHKD.

In "Looking Ahead" the works of six artists from five countries will be exhibited in the Parktheater Iserlohn. One of the artist featured is our very own Jenny Day, and the all the artists' works have one thing in common.

Jutta Bengelsträter-Ewest waves a few sheets of paper and then can't stop raving: "God, this colourfulness," she says at one point. "Your heart opens when you get involved with the pictures."

Iserlohn. When Niels Gamm, head of the Kulturbüro and head of the Parktheater, sat down with Jutta Bengelsträter Ewest and Werner A. Ewest in autumn 2021 and the next exhibition was being planned, Corona had largely paralyzed the cultural scene. Nobody knew how it would go on and what restrictions would come. And the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis could not even be foreseen, Ewest looks back Under the title Blick vornn (Looking Forward), the gallery owner couple has now brought together six artists from five countries, who have delivered very different yet matching works on the subject. Four of them have never been seen in Iserlohn with their pictures. Although Jutta Bengelsträter-Ewest regularly curates exhibitions for the theatre, this time there is something new: ten percent of the sale of the pictures will be donated to the association. "We want to give something back," says Werner A. Ewest

Nearly two decades ago, gallerist Jonathan Ferrera began collaborating with Cuban artists – and their joint projects haven’t stopped. Ferrera, along with artist Elio Jesus, tell us about exploring the connection between New Orleans and Cuba in the new exhibition, CUBA Revisited: 20 Years Later.

NEW ORLEANS —

A New Orleans art gallery is hosting a special exhibition to highlight the art of Cuba.

The "Cuba Revisited" exhibition will run at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery through mid-February.

The art exhibition called Cuba Revisited: Twenty Years Later at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery will have its official opening this Saturday, January 7th.

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY proudly presents CUBA REVISITED, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s return to its work in Cuba that dates back to 2001.

The exhibition features the work of nine Havana-based artists working in various media including painting, collage, photography, and sculpture. In a nod to the past, three artists from the first two shows: Damian Aquiles, Nelson Ramirez, and Ernesto Leal are featured alongside a new generation of young Cuban artists.

Just over twenty years ago at the beginning of the 2000s, New Orleans art curator and gallery owner Jonathan Ferrarra conducted dozens of artist studio visits across Havana, Cuba. The result was two exhibitions, Made in Cuba (2001) and Havana Inside Out (2003), which were massively successful for the artists as well as the gallery.

In Cuba, Revisited, which is currently on display, Ferrarra looks back at many of the highlights from these Cuban exhibitions, exhibiting the works of nine Havana-based artists. 

The Springfield Museum of Art will welcome in the holidays and a new exhibition on Saturday, and the public can take in both both at the second Holiday at the Museum from noon to 4 p.m.

The admission-free event will offer family artmaking activities, visits with Santa Claus and access to all the galleries and exhibitions, including the newest opening Saturday, “Dish” by artist Laura Tanner Graham.

“‘Dish’ analyzes a community’s social structure through its dining and looking at how you can understand people through food,” said Elizabeth Wetterstroem, the musem’s collections and exhibitions manager. “There’s some fine detail work.”

In computer science, a "value" is defined as a unit of data that can be calculated or manipulated by a program. It can be a digit, a single letter, or a specific sequence of characters. When applied to images, every pixel is a unit of account containing the values that represent a block of color. Pattern recognition is achieved by interpreting average image values—extrapolating on these values and generating new graphic arrangements. Tiffany Calvert’s solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara takes its title from this term—Image Value—using machine learning to synthesize approximations of 17th-century Dutch still lifes. The artist prints these mutant compositions on canvas and embellishes the surface with swaths of impasto paint. 

Unveiling thirteen new paintings, this exhibition serves as a letter to art history, literature, and mythology. An attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped society over the past century, Michael Tole explores the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual and literary culture, negotiating aesthetic pleasure, justice, and cultural discourse on beauty. Following his inclusion in the 25th Annual ‘No Dead Artists’, Tole was selected as the grand prize winner of the exhibition and recipient of a solo exhibition at the gallery in 2022.

Joy Garnett: When we first met years ago, I visited your studio in Brooklyn. I noticed source materials that appeared to be unrelated, such as Old Masters paintings, architectural structures, and what we all used to call "new media." Were you already trying to make connections in your work between these far-flung elements? Why do it through painting?

Tiffany Calvert: Well, I used paint in my formative years, but I wasn’t much of a painter. In the nineties, installation art was queen. I thought that no one made abstract paintings anymore, so I made installations and sometimes paintings, and ascribed to the idea that concept should lead and medium was merely a tool for ideas. It wasn’t until grad school at Rutgers and training with Thomas Nozkowski that I came to understand paint itself as an idea-driver...

TWO TIMES THE CHARM

Cover art by Nigerian artist REWA wins Pigment Magazine the prestigious 2022 Folio: Eddie and Ozzie Awards for Best Cover Design for its Winter 2021-22 issue.

John Isiah Walton featured in yahoo! life article ... "

There’s an observation month for everything and October just happens to be a time to appreciate Black visual artists. Black Fine Art Month was designed to celebrate the work of Black artists and their contributions to the visual arts world. The annual observation was entered into the Congressional record books in 2019 by Illinois Congresswoman Robin Kelly . . . 

The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper. Based in Baton Rouge, it serves the southern portion of the state. Separate editions for New Orleans, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, and for Acadiana, The Acadiana Advocate, are published.

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Art that Elevates the Human Spirit

From the artistry of the 14-story architecture that showcases stunning views and light-filled spaces for children, to the stunning artworks created especially for the facility, Children’s Pavilion is designed to bring comfort, inspiration and healing to all who enter its doors.

Art enhances and humanizes the hospital environment for patients, families, and staff. And a growing body of evidence shows infusing the arts into places of healing can improve both body and spirit.

The arts can be particularly important in mental health treatment: Healing emotional injuries. Helping patients understand themselves and others. Developing capacity and space for self-reflection that can lead to changing behaviors and thinking patterns.

Besides being inspired by the art that surrounds them in Children’s Pavilion, children who come here for treatment will also be able to make their own art -- through painting, music, dance -- to dovetail with the art on display.

The art here not only elevates the human spirit, but the mission of mental health treatment. It brings a sense of joy and extends the idea of healing beyond these walls of Children’s Pavilion to the community that rallied to build it.

The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25, 1837. 

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Our mission is “to ask big questions in small places.”

Gambit is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based free alternative weekly newspaper established in 1981. Gambit features reporting about local politics, news, food and drink, arts, music, film, events, environmental issues and other topics, as well as listings.

The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate is an American newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, since January 25, 1837.

Welcome to the premier destination for women with stylish minds. No matter the subject, we address our readers’ lives head on, with generous wit, honesty, and power. We are in a dynamic conversation with women about the issues that matter to them most — politics, feminism, work, money, relationships, mental health, fashion and issues relating to equality.

Our stories are organized around four categories: Style, Self, Culture, and Power — words that give us a framework for what it means to be a woman moving forward in the world today. Each one informs the other. After all, a woman with a stylish mind poses a real threat to every industry she enters.

Last December, CaFÉ opened Recharge the Arts, a call for entry which was originally intended to feature artwork throughout our website and our Instagram page. Beyond that, the goal behind Recharge the Arts is to showcase the resiliency, hope, and endurance of the community of artists that use CaFÉ following years of hardship caused by the pandemic, ongoing racial injustice, climate change, and more.

After receiving over 1,700 artwork submissions from more than 400 artists around the country, we hope to showcase even more of the incredible talent from the artist community. In this blog post, we are highlighting five artists whose work has been inspired by or created during these recent challenges. Featuring Sherell Chillik, Tony Dagradi, Morgan Johnson, Arthur Kobin, and Daniel Merkowitz-Bustos, you can read more about each artist, view their artwork, and read a short Q&A with each artist to find out just what they are doing to recharge the arts! 

In 2011, we held the first Art of the Book exhibit in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Rochester Public Library. At the time, we wanted to celebrate what has been at the core of libraries for centuries–the book. We marveled over the intricate interpretations of this humble format, and we were thrilled with the response to the exhibit from the community.

In subsequent years, the exhibit has grown to include entries from all over the world, featuring well-known artists for their exquisite work. We have built a reputation worldwide among book artists, and we are so pleased to see that reputation upheld.

Books continue to ensnare the imagination, both for their form and content. Artists manipulate those two components to create breathtaking, mind-bending works of art that tease and cajole people to consider the intricacies of paper, ink, words, and meaning.

Mesa Contemporary Arts (MCA) Museum is the exciting visual art exhibition space at Mesa Arts Center. In five stunning galleries, MCA Museum showcases curated and juried exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and internationally recognized artists. MCA Museum also offers lectures by significant artists and arts professionals, art workshops and a volunteer Docent program. 

Jasmin Hernandez is many things. Dominican Yorker. Black Latinx. She/Her/Ella. Harlemite. Founder of Gallery Gurls. Fashion Nerd. Photo Editor Extraordinaire.  Parsons Grad. Writer of dope people and dope things for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Latina, CNN Style, Artsy, Sotheby’s, etc Constantly devouring spectacular art both locally and globally. Voraciously reading books by Black womxn authors.

Debut author of We Are Here, about influential Black and POC artists & cultural workers released by Abrams, 2021.

There are dozens of ways to explore Central Texas, including one way that features artist Kristin Moore.

Majuscule is a tri-quarterly literary magazine, each issue of which contains four substantial essays on elements of culture and literature, as well as three to four letters from correspondents abroad and in the United States.

Majuscule’s mission is to publish serious nonfiction essays on a variety of topics that would not otherwise be published in a climate where journalism and magazines are forced to compete for “clicks” and “page views.”

For Majuscule, publishing good writing is paramount. We are free to search out under-represented writers and voices and to give them the space to develop nuanced or unconventional narratives.

Sensitive to Art and Its Discontents

Hyperallergic is a leading voice in contemporary perspectives on art, culture, and more. The online publication was founded by the husband-and-husband team, Veken Gueyikian and Hrag Vartanian, in 2009 as a forum for playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art in society. With over one million visitors monthly, Hyperallergic combines round-the-clock art world news coverage with insightful commentary.

Challenging the art world status quo, Hyperallergic goes beyond the surface to investigate the inner workings of art institutions and markets, shedding light on the movements and individuals fighting for greater inclusion and representation. With hundreds of global contributors, Hyperallergic is a constant source for the latest in film, visual art, books, and performances around the world.

PIGMENT is a collective promoting Black art, innovation and curation. Fndrs of Black Fine Art Month and Pigment Mag. 

As the authority on extraordinary design, VERANDA delivers the very best in decorating, outdoor living, luxury travel, and lifestyle content, with ideas, tips and tricks from leading designers around the world to make your home feel as good as it looks. Whether you’re looking for ways to liven up your living room or need help choosing the perfect paint color, you'll find your solution here. This is where extraordinary design lives.

"Eraser," a group exhibition curated by Brian Edmonds, brings together artists featured in Edmond's biannual arts monograph, "Eraser," published by Curating Contemporary. On view will be paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Sharon Butler, Matt Kleberg, Jered Sprecher, Jason Stopa, Sean Sullivan, Vadis Turner, Cecilia Vissers, Don Voisine, and Thornton Willis. With a nod to Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing, the exhibition focuses on smaller, more intimate work, and each artist was selected for their distinct vision as well as the materials and methods they employ. Viewed individually or in unison, the works beg the viewer to ask questions and explore the many possible narratives and conversations.

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the CBS Evening News, CBS Mornings, news magazine programs CBS News Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours, and Sunday morning political affairs program Face the Nation. 

The Open Studios Press was founded in 1993 as a vehicle for facilitating contact between artists and art enthusiasts. To date, our critically acclaimed periodical, New American Paintings, has featured the work of more than three thousand painters from throughout the United States, many of whom have gone on to receive international attention. The publication benefits artists and viewers alike. While included painters receive international exposure, those with an interest in contemporary painting are provided with an invaluable resource for discovering new artistic talent. New American Paintings is a juried exhibition-in-print. Each museum-quality issue results from a highly selective juried competition and presents the work of forty painters. Thousands of artists enter our competitions every year, but only a limited number make it through the jurying process. We work closely with renowned curators in order to select those artists whose work deserves to be seen by a wider audience. Unlike other art publications, New American Paintings does not discriminate by style or yield to art-world trends.

The Advocate is Louisiana's largest daily newspaper. Based in Baton Rouge, it serves the southern portion of the state. Separate editions for New Orleans, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, and for Acadiana, The Acadiana Advocate, are published.

Hyperallergic is a leading voice in contemporary perspectives on art, culture, and more. The online publication was founded by the husband-and-husband team, Veken Gueyikian and Hrag Vartanian, in 2009 as a forum for playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art in society. With over one million visitors monthly, Hyperallergic combines round-the-clock art world news coverage with insightful commentary.

Challenging the art world status quo, Hyperallergic goes beyond the surface to investigate the inner workings of art institutions and markets, shedding light on the movements and individuals fighting for greater inclusion and representation. With hundreds of global contributors, Hyperallergic is a constant source for the latest in film, visual art, books, and performances around the world.

Glasstire is the oldest online-only art magazine in the country. We are proud to have promoted the visual arts in Texas to a local, regional and national audience since 2001. Glasstire is the only publication in Texas that is producing serious art criticism on a daily basis. We are the journal of record for the Texas visual art community. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) publication, and we’re supported in part by grants from The Houston Endowment, The Brown Foundation, Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greater Houston Community Foundation, the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance, and the Texas Commission for the Arts.

Artsy envisions a future where everyone is moved by art every day. To get there, we’re expanding the art market to support more artists and art around the world. As the leading marketplace to discover, buy, and sell fine art, Artsy believes that the process of buying art should be as brilliant as art itself. That’s why we’re dedicated to making a joyful, welcoming experience that connects collectors with the artists and artworks they love.

OffBeat Magazine is the definitive guide to Louisiana & New Orleans music, featuring news, album reviews, artist interviews, concert listings, and more.

Welcome to Artnet News, the world’s first dedicated 24-hour global art market newswire. Our mission is to inform, engage, and connect you—the most avid members of the art community—with daily art world news and expert commentary. We have assembled a team of trusted, experienced reporters and editors in Europe, Asia, and North America. They will track who is making news and what’s driving the market around the clock.

We will bring attention to what’s worthy, reward and foster talent, and report in a way that is accurate, timely, colorful, and fun. We also want to connect you to a global community: dialogue and engagement best describe our approach to reporting on the art world. We invite you to join us and share your knowledge and expertise, with us and with each other, via comments or by contacting our reporters.

Country Roads is a cultural reporting publication focusing on South Louisiana, the Mississippi Delta, and the Gulf Coast. Published continuously since 1983, Country Roads magazine helps its readers to make the most of life in their region by offering:

• An extensive calendar of forthcoming events

• Articles showcasing daytrips and weekend getaways

• Restaurant news, reviews, and recipes

• Reporting on developments in historic preservation, conservation, and natural history

• Profiles of regional artists, crafters, and other folks of note

• Explorations of popular Southern folklore and humor

All free. Published monthly. Distributed widely.

Lagniappe is Mobile, Alabama’s independent weekly newspaper, providing highly localized content for the citizens of Mobile and Baldwin counties. Lagniappe is the largest locally owned publication in the Mobile area and largest weekly newspaper in the state of Alabama. Lagniappe has published continually since July 24, 2002.

Every month, Where Y'at Magazine brings the best of New Orleans entertainment, music and film reviews, and the best places to eat and party. 

GREECE IN USA is a New York City-based organization that promotes Greek culture in the U.S. Founded by Dr. Sozita Goudouna, one of America's acclaimed Greek curators and adjunct professor at City University of New York (CUNY), GREECE IN USA makes an impressive launch amid the pandemic, under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture, with the group exhibition The Right to Silence? on the reform of criminal justice.

Kimpton Hotel Fontenot To Open In New Orleans On May 11 - the hotel's living room lobby features stunning custom art, including a butterfly installation by Paul Villinski located behind the front desk.

Shoutout Colorado Magazine sat down with Jenny Day to discuss the artist's creative career, her artistic journey, and her favorite places in Santa Fe. 

Shoutout HTX Magazine interviews artist Trenity Thomas to discuss the inspiration behind their art and their creative process.

Jonathan LeVine Projects presents Resonant Frequencies, curated by Debra Manville featuring painting and sculptural works from seven international artists including Joshua Edward Bennett. The exhibition is a visual meditation on the energy behind resonance and shifting frequency.

The Odeon at South Market isn't just the tallest building to be built in New Orleans in 30 years. The new residential development is home to a beautiful collection of artwork by both female and local artists displayed through the entire structure, including the outdoor mural created by New Orleanian Anastasia Pelias. 

In this conversation with Jasmin Hernandez, the mind behind Artsy’s online show “Dress Codes: Black and Brown Women Artists Fashioning Identity,” the writer explains how style serves as a tool for the empowerment of BIPOC excellence - including artist REWA.

Harnessing the cosmic Overview Effect, Richelle Gribble is building a future for humanity in space and examining the interdependence of our rapidly-evolving environment.

Featured on the cover of St.Ed's: St. Edward's University Magazine, Spring 2021 is Kristin Moore's Main Building, 2020, oil on wood panel. 

Donna Karan and curator Mashonda Tifrere team up for "Truth About Me" a new exhibition on view at Urban Zen featuring 19 female or non-binary artists, including REWA and Adrienne Brown David, who explore identity and the human condition for a show during Women's History Month.

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church and our Contemporary Moment is a national collaborative exhibition exploring the theme of cross-pollination in art and the environment from the 19th century to today and features artists Lisa Sanditz, Rachel Berwick, Nick Cave, Mark Dion, Richard Estes, Juan Fontanive, Jeffrey Gibson, Paula Hayes, Patrick Jacobs, Maya Lin, Flora C. Mace, Vik Muniz, Portia Munson, Emily Sartor, Sayler/Morris, Dana Sherwood, Jean Shin, Rachel Sussman, and Jeff Whetstone.

California-based aerospace startup Relativity Space will celebrate International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month with a new video highlighting an all-woman analog astronaut crew, including artist Richelle Gribble.

Comunidades Visibles (Visible Communities): The Materiality of Migration brings together artworks by first- or second-generation immigrant Latinx artists. These artists celebrate their communities by using materials and techniques from their country of origin, from other colonized places, and from their present context.

Watch Jered Sprecher in conversation with art historian Jeff Thompson as part of his exhibition House of Leaves at University of the South, Sewanee, TN

An exhibit at Connecticut’s Fairfield University Art Museum, featuring artist Paul Villinski, combines scientific study and artistic interpretation.

Prospect New Orleans, the contemporary art triennial, will receive $2.5 million in grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Open Society Foundation to support work about monuments in its Prospect.5 expo.

Seven artists have been commissioned to make new works on the subject of monumentality for this year’s edition of Prospect New Orleans. The works will be funded by a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.

The Everson Museum, via the Kottler endowment, has recently added Dirk Staschke's Vanitas Vase Number 5 to their permanent collection.

Join us on DECEMBER 28 as we venture virtually to tour New York-based artist Paul Villinski’s home in New York’s Catskills Mountains. During the tour, see some of Paul’s early works and hear about his decision to switch from painting to sculpture. Paul will also share insight into his creative process including works he exhibited at the Taubman like "Flower Bomber."

Can art save the world? Join a team of three incredible Artists for the Earth, plus Nora Lawrence of Storm King Art Center and EARTHDAY.ORG's own Shelley Rogers, to discuss the ways that moving, educational art can make our planet more sustainable.

The Fairfield University Art Museum announces an exhibition exploring environmental issues through avian art from the 19th-21st centuries.

PhotoNOLA: CURRENTS 2020 - Highlighting the Work of New Orleans Photo Alliance Members

Il a commencé sa carrière en 1995, lorsqu'il a cofondé et construit le collectif d'artistes Positive Space à la Nouvelle-Orléans où il était galeriste, réalisateur, artiste et publiciste. Il s’appelle Jonathan Ferrara.

Through mesh busts and delicate portraits, Nikki Rosato visualizes the connections between place and identity. The Washington, D.C.-based artist carves out the multi-colored highways and back roads from common maps, leaving the distances and spatial markings intact.

A group of six researchers will embark on a mission to "Mars" on Monday (Nov. 2). Our very own artist, Richelle Gribble will be amongst other artists, researchers, and scientists that make up the Martian crew.

The Mason Lane Art Advisory team discusses the contemporary artists they love recommending to clients - and Bonnie Maygarden is a fast favorite!

How many ways can one approach mourning? Jenny Day has tried to jest at it, deconstruct it, cover loss in trashy glamour and glitter, and reassemble it, so the source material is only hinted at—an assemblage of Instagram snippets and sad wry and sour jokes and heartbreak.

Ruth Owens’s solo exhibition Black Outdoors: Crossing Boundaries is a lush and impressionistic journey through the memory, both individual and collective, of a Black/mixed-race family. Displayed alongside preparatory studies, many of the works found their genesis in a series of isolated still shots taken from archival Super 8 footage of the Owens family in the sixties and seventies.

An exhibition by New Orleans artist Ruth Owens at Southeastern's Contemporary Art Gallery

Villinski’s creatures spiral and swarm over wire figures and wooden horses. They flit along guns, topping their barrels. They escape from overalls and are dramatically backlit on walls. Mostly, they tell the story of their creator, a man who is also fragile but enduring.

A portion of Jonathan Ferrara Gallery’s sales during the month of October will support House of Tulip, the nonprofit collective creating housing solutions for trans and gender non-conforming people in Louisiana. According to the US Trans Survey, 1 in 3 trans people in Louisiana reports experiencing homelessness at some point in their lives. House of Tulip provides zero-barrier housing to trans and gender-nonconforming people in need of a safe place to stay while growing the supply of affordable housing in New Orleans.

One of the most celebrated landscape painters working in America today, Sanditz’s richly coloured works explore humanity’s impact on the natural world. Sanditz depicts the landscape as a reflection of contemporary cultural values.

CBS "Sunday Morning" show, "Hail to the Chiefs’ Portraits," September 13, 2020, features William Woodward's mural "Dolley Madison Rescuing the Portrait of George Washington." 

You may not leave the 2020 Louisiana Contemporary exhibit at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art clicking your heels and whistling a happy tune. That’s for sure. Many of the Bayou State artists whose work is included used the exhibit to express angst over society’s woes, from gun violence to racism to the coronavirus pandemic.

The 2020 guest juror, René Morales, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), has announced the awards for the 2020 edition of Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The HelisFoundation.

NEW ORLEANS — They are famous actors, musicians or the people who live next door. They’re all New Orleanians and they’re all part of the Hope Photo Project by local artist Jonathan Ferrara.  “I’ve been able to see some people who are in more dire situations than mine who remain completely hopeful,” said Ferrara.

Hiroyuki Hamada chose paintings by Elliott Green, Eric Banks, and Sean Sullivan, above, for the upcoming exhibition at the Arts Center at Duck Creek.

Presented by the Helis Foundation, Louisiana Contemporary is the Ogden Museum of Southern Art‘s annual juried exhibition featuring works by artists across the state. For 2020, 55 works by 56 artists were chosen by guest juror René Morales, Director of Curatorial Affairs and Chief Curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami - including JFG artist, Monica Zeringue.

Because of COVID-19, another big New Orleans event has been altered. White Linen Night was set to happen this weekend. WHITE LINEN LIGHT will go on in it's stead.

New Orleans - "The Big Easy," as its popularly described, is a city worth taking a trip to, and while you're there visit JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY!

At the many intersections of art, science and technology, creativity, innovation and advocacy, a network of collaborators and colleagues steered by the trio of Kate Parsons, Richelle Gribble, and Janna Avner are thinking about the future while building a new present. Across their personal careers in art, technology, and scholarship as well as in crucial cross-platform venues and projects, they and their network offer a unique, unapologetically feminist perspective on the futuristic zeitgeist

The New Orleans artist pulls together found text and political messaging in his powerful and thought-provoking pieces.

New Orleans artist used his talents to spread hope during the coronavirus pandemic. Jonathan Ferrara started his communitywide hope photo project to inspire people battling coronavirus.

One thing we all need right now is hope in these troubling times. WGNO’s Kenny Lopez introduces us to Jonathan Ferrara, an artist who’s spreading the message of hope with a special community-wide project.

For her interview with My Modern Met, artist Kristin Moore talks about the inspiration for her sweeping landscapes and immersive skies in her acrylic paintings. 

Kristin Moore featured in a blog post on The Jealous Curator 

A lot of things that make New Orleans special don’t translate well to the new socially distanced reality of these last several weeks. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery and some other arts organizations are meeting the challenge in some very creative ways.

As the New Orleans Museum of Art was making preparations for Art in Bloom, a yearly Spring event, the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery opened Art in Doom: A Springtime Group Exhibition. The slightly derisive title became premonitory overnight in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

ArtNet News highlights Per(Sister): Incarcerated Women of Louisiana, featuring artist Anastasia Pelias.

Voyage Denver interviews Jonathan Ferrara Gallery artist, Jenny Day. Get to know her!

There are artists who paint, and those who use paint. John Yau reviews JFG artist Tiffany Calvert

Prospect.5, New Orleans International art festival, is coming back on Oct. 24 and will be featuring Jonathan Ferrara Gallery artist, Anastasia Pelias.

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Women On the Rise brings together accomplished artists who continue to ascend in their power and significance.

VOLTA New York is officially back this week, after an unexpected cancellation last year. The 2020 edition has a new location—Metropolitan West—and director, too, Kamiar Maleki. From March 4-8, 53 international galleries will gather to present solo and curated booths of work by a range of contemporary artists.

The American Academy of Arts and Letters presents its 2020 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, displaying artwork at its galleries in Washington Heights’ historic Audubon Terrace. Paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, and works on paper by 28 contemporary artists will be exhibited from Thursday, March 5 through Sunday, April 5, 2020.

Prospect New Orleans is proud to announce the artist list for the 2020 iteration of the international contemporary art triennial, Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, including Jonathan Ferrara Gallery artist Anastasia Pelias. 

After several years’ absence from participating, several galleries from VOLTA’s “extended family” will return to the fair, including Jonathan Ferrara Gallery from New Orleans, presenting a solo project by celebrated American sculptor Paul Villinski.

After Scrapping Its 2019 Edition, Volta Art Fair Relaunches Its New York Event with a Focus on the Positive.

Billboard Creative opens its sixth exhibition, bringing large-format art from emerging and established artists to 34 billboards across Los Angeles.

OPENING NIGHT. The downtown arts district kicked off 2020 with a round of openings, inviting art-lovers for social mingling and visual refreshment.

The earth beneath our feet serves as the subject of choice for artist Esperanza Cortes in her current exhibit, “Arrested Symphony,”... The artist is specifically interested in the minerals and elements that can be mined and utilized from the soil: extracted ethically or otherwise.

In Colombian born, NYC-based multidisciplinary artist Esperanza Cortés's premiere solo exhibition, Arrested Symphony, at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, the injustices of the global mining industries are explored and exposed, their jewels made once again sinister in their seductive properties. Through sculptures, reliefs, drawings, and hanging works, Cortés reflects on a history of human conflict fueled by minerals...

Over the past three and a half years, Richelle (as I’ll refer to her) has been an artist-in-residence in 15 different programs around the world, from a biosphere in Arizona to a ranch in Wyoming to the Arctic Circle in northern Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago.

JFG artist, Marna Shopoff, has been included in this year's Winter Issue 11 of ART MAZE Mag, curated by Anna Gram Sørensen and Kerry Harm Nielsen, Directors and Head Curators of Galleri Kant in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Colombian-born artist Esperanza Cortes is the originator of the strong show “Cante Jondo” (“Deep Song”), composed of a series of works, mostly sculptures in the form of decorated chairs; chandeliers, and embellished skulls. She brings attention to the colonial practices that so badly damaged the indigenous peoples of her region. 

Psychologists long have suggested that dreams are a way our subconscious minds reorder everyday events into more symbolic narratives. Some artists and poets use dream imagery to suggest heightened awareness. Even so, it may seem surprising that so many dreamy images appear in Jonathan Ferrara Gallery’s 23rd annual “No Dead Artists” expo of work by emerging artists in an age when alarming political events are supposed to usher in protest art. Is this just a subjective reaction to political figures who appear to live in a dream world untethered to any verifiable reality? Many of these dreamy views are infused with biting or ironic social content reflecting a range of contemporary issues.

Jenny Day is a painter who blends real landscapes together with imagery from her memory and from social media to create fantastical scenes that frequently focus on both small- and large-scale personal or environmental disasters.

Tony Dagradi is not only a visual artist but a musician as well. Since the late '80s, he has been playing saxophone with his award-winning group Astral Project. offBEAT Magazine reviews his most recent solo album. 

Following decades of being a renowned jazz musician, saxophonist Tony Dagradi extended his artistic reach to visual art. In 2015, Dagradi, best known for his musical explorations with Astral Project and teaching at Loyola University, developed a passion for making sculptural collages.

BY D. ERIC BOOKHARDT

The histories of jazz and graphic art aren’t similar, but the two come together in the work of Tony Dagradi. Best known as the founder of the group Astral Project, Dagradi's smooth saxophone playing weaves in and out of the sounds of his fellow instrumentalists in what may be the closest thing to a classical contemporary jazz combo...

Skylar Fein combines text and paint to create powerful imagery on paper, aluminum, and wood. With a burst of dry verbal wit and starkly contrasted style, his works bite you subtlety and leave you thinking

Skylar Fein's "Red Lincoln" featured at the LSU Museum of Art.

At Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Japanese painter Akihiko Sugiura explores a magical world of the fluid energy fields that he regards as the inner essence of what most of us see as the “real world.”

Deborah Brockus, director of BrockusRED, has choreographed DUST: Permutations of the Unknown In collaboration with visual artist Richelle Gribble, and composers Peter Askim and Zac Greenberg for three performances at Ivy Substation.

Ruth Owens' work reflects her cultural roots, as well as her family's past.

Nikki Rosato of Washington, D.C., uses road maps to create fascinating faces. In “Connections” and “Couple, Boston, Ma.,” her slightly elevated, cut-out maps placed against a white background form human faces — in the case of the latter, a man and woman looking at each other. Like the locations on maps, these humans are connected yet separate from one another.

Painter Jenny Day has a major exhibition of large-scale paintings and small collages, reviewed by Tucson Weekly.

Bonnie Maygarden (b. 1987, New Orleans) is a multimedia artist who received her MFA in Studio Arts from Tulane University.

Much like the bird experts who were called in to make sense of the turkey video on radio and television news segments, the artists in Spontaneous Emergence of Order use scientific rigor to deepen our understanding of the natural world and humans’ relationships to it. For Tanya Chaly and Richelle Gribble, this often involves processes not so different from those used by field researchers to catalogue and categorize flora and fauna, with particular attention to how both have been impacted by human behavior.

Review of Pelias' installation: "mama"

Formerly incarcerated women paired with more than 30 artists to portray the challenges woman in the prison system face, in an exhibit opening Saturday (Jan. 19) at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Museum.

Most of the work in PhotoNOLA is consistently interesting, but the edgy, art-history-inspired collaborative pieces by Epaul Julien & Elizabeth Kleinveld can be startling.

Richelle Gribble's work is included in an exhibit inside the BioBat Art Space.

Commissioned by the McNay from New Orleans-based multimedia artist Anastasia Pelias, the site-specific concrete sculpture mama aims to offer “a place for people to be, to think and to meditate.”

Richelle Gribble explores the interdependence of life at all levels of living systems – organisms, social systems, and ecosystems.

Pamela’s favorite piece of art, a stainless steel sheet riddled with bullet holes, by Margaret Evangeline, hangs on the left.

E2 - Kleinveld & Julien featured in "Galleries+Antiques" of Where New Orleans.

​There's a frank humor to artist Adam Mysock's work, even as he chronicles decades of deception. In thirty-five paintings at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery—one for each year of Mysock's life—he explores lies, likability, and morality. 

New York artist Paul Villinski created “Currents” to celebrate New Orleans’ musical influence around the world.

Jenny Day discusses her work and inspiration with Gabbi Hollander.

Day impresses audiences with her culturally relevant art pieces inspired by post-hurricane Texas.

Nelle Mills reflects on Ruth Owens’ current show at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery and the racialized history of photography.

In 2008, artist Skylar Fein shed light on the event with Remember the UpStairs Lounge, an immersive memorial installation—presented at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans for Prospect.1.

Richelle Gribble’s pulp-painting series “On Place,” translations of aerial photographs into vast fields of green and white, complicates assumptions about pictorial space and abstraction.

Nikki Rosato’s dissected images use vintage road maps’ thoroughfares, roads and highways, whittling away at their land masses, until they create two people gazing into each other’s eyes.

Artist Skylar Fein’s installation Remember the Upstairs Lounge (2008) commemorates the 1973 arson at the Upstairs Lounge, a popular gay bar in the French Quarter, while continuing the conversation about ongoing violence against LGBTQ communities. 

Anastasia Pelias' work featured in "The Whole Drum Will Sound" exhibit.

Richelle Gribble’s exhibition, ‘Anthropocene’, took place at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery (New Orleans, LA) between May and July 2018. With a strong interest in environmentalism, the artist examines human impact on nature and the biological consequences of human influence. Gribble’s highly conceptual work includes painting, drawing and sculpture.

A new exhibit timed to the city’s tricentennial explores The Big Easy’s diverse and sometimes troubled past.

Fein's art honors the 32 killed in the UpStairs Lounge.

One of the most shocking works in the gallery is a piece by Adam Mysock called “Looking Down the Barrel of A Gun (Last Judgement).”

Margaret Evangeline featured in an article focusing on gun-related artwork.

"Anthropocene," a solo exhibition by Richelle Gribble, explores the concept of man's impact on and relationship with the environment, while connecting humans to nature through her tactile, colorful, and multi-layer works.

Jenny Day's work selected for an exhibit at Blue Star Contemporary.

Fractured Architecture is the domain of an young up-and-coming Tucson artist: Jenny Day, whose "Dwellings," a glittery acrylic that has building fragments flying hither and yon.

Paul Villinski’s installation of birds made from shiny black LPs symbolize hope or links to the divine in many cultures.

Monica’s studio has high ceilings, large windows, and wood floors that don’t mind spilt paint.

The reflective aluminum surface of Margaret Evangeline’s “Sfumatoshinoclysm,” riddled with faux bullet holes, substantiates Sumrall’s claim that Evangeline is “one of the only artists who can get away with glitter.”

Gina Phillips grew up in Richmond, Kentucky, but has lived in the lower 9th Ward of New Orleans since 2004. Last summer, she was awarded a two-week artist residency in Briant, France. While painting en-plein-air, she was struck by the similarities of the Kentucky landscape to her new French environs.

The Ogden Museum sits down with Bonnie Maygarden to discuss her artwork and inspiration.

Photographic duo E2 presented several works designed to challenge the mind – modern reinterpretations of old master paintings replaced with new subject representations of race, sexual orientation, gender and age.

Anastasia Pelias' work featured in "The Whole Drum Will Sound" exhbition.

Artist Paul Villinski has been working with discarded debris for almost twenty years now. He began exploring waste as an artistic medium after seeking treatment for alcohol and drug addiction.

Marna Shopoff is a visual artist with an emphasis on abstract painting and intuitive drawing. Interested in the concepts of design and spatial relationships, her work explores the idea of perception, place identity, and visual memory.

Dirk Staschke discusses his work with Katie Kurtz.

If there were such a thing as the color “candy-apple yellow,” Peter Sarkisian nailed it in his blazing wall reproduction of a Ferrari roaring around, crashing and squealing with lots of noise and action.

In “Space as Narrative” at Concord Center for the Visual Arts, curator Joel Janowitz examines how artists imbue space with story and psychological charge.

I have known and loved Lisa Sanditz’s paintings for more than a dozen years, so their cadences and syncopations are familiar to my body. If you happen to be new to their magic, monitor your responses closely: their meanings and pleasures reveal themselves in waves.

Jenny Day's work featured in Galerie Protege.

An eclectic group show at Bellevue Arts Museum showcases cutout ingenuity in media ranging from paper to tires.

The Taubman Museum of Art is pleased to present two major projects by New York-based sculptor Paul Villinski (American, born 1960), an artist known for his site-specific installations and transformative use of found materials: the large-scale sculpture titled Passage and the solo retrospective Farther, highlighting several new works made specifically for the Taubman Museum of Art.

The New Orleans Art Review reviews Ruth Owens' "Conspiricies."

Paint is artist Bonnie Maygarden’s main medium.  Through paint, she also explores other media, such as digital photography and sculpture. Her vividly colored works look like they are generated digitally, but are completely handmade. Some have a trompe l’oeil three-dimensional quality, yet they are painted on a flat canvas.

Jenny Day's work featured in Superstition Review.

New Orleans plastic surgeon and artist Ruth Owens was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1959 to a young German woman and a black American GI, and her new paintings in the show Conspiracies at Barrister's Gallery were inspired by childhood memories and old photos.

The Lion's Roar reviews The Hammond Regional Arts Center's mixed media feature of narrative artist Gina Phillips in an exhibition titled “The Roots of Memory.”

Lisa Sanditz, whose palette is generally vibrant if not supersaturated, delivers a gem with “Cleared Lot” (2010), a 16 x 20 inch painting depicting a muddy-gray heap of earth and garbage out of which grows a spunky tree at an impossibly rakish angle. 

In his first New York solo since 2009, Mr. Green unveils the tumultuous baroque landscapes that have evolved from the painterly cartoon figures that once inhabited his canvases.

Jenny Day's work reviewed at Space 151.

A short artist video documenting painter Jered Sprecher's preparations for his first solo museum show, at the Knoxville Museum Art. Filmed and edited by Paul Harrill.

Photography and acting are kindred spirits in this ongoing series by E2 – Kleinveld & Julien. Entitled In Empathy We Trust, the project presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art.

Elliott Green’s show at Pierogi is an eye-opener. The dozen ambitious canvases exude enormous confidence and verve, and more than most contemporary abstract painting, bring the once-radical genre of abstract-expressionism back to its original roots.

Green has channeled the landscape paintings of the early Northern Song dynasty — when painters took to the mountains to escape the turmoil of a political order uneasily shifting from aristocracy to bureaucracy — along with the fantastical landscapes of the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.

Elliott Green’s paintings appear to be in continuous motion, the way animals, plants, and ultimately rocks and mountains are in continuous motion, even when our human vision fails to apprehend it.

The moon and its phases are the focus of the newest series, titled Absence and Presence, by New Orleans artist Monica Zeringue.

Laurence Ross writes about Anastasia Pelias’ abstract depictions of the female musicians who have influenced her.

Are there more coincidences in this city than elsewhere? It often seems that way, as evidenced by three abstract painting shows on Julia Street that remarkably, yet unintentionally, complement each other via surprising atmospheric and calligraphic synergies. In fact, Nola artist Anastasia Pelias' new Sisters oil stick paintings may be her most deftly atmospherically gestural works to date.

With “Dear President,” South Bay Contemporary sends a message to the White House, with artist Richelle Gribble.

Skylar Fein´s installation “Remember the Upstairs Lounge” walks visitors right through the swinging doors of the Upstairs Lounge, a popular gay bar in New Orleans’ French Quarter that burned down with everyone inside, killing 32 people and injuring dozens more in 1973.

The first exhibition in some years of Elliott Green’s recent paintings of infinite landscapes—or rather, mindscapes—was as visually stunning as it was intellectually rewarding.

When the vast majority of our information is endlessly transmitted to us from behind a glass or hard plastic screen, it’s easy to assume that this platform is the best and even the only way to view multimedia content. Peter Sarkisian’s recent video works at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, however, break through these flat, confining surfaces to which video seems so firmly attached, and cleverly jut out into a space—into real life—where they don’t usually belong.

Green is a wizard with paint – he applies it in different ways, scrapes and pulls it up, all seemingly without effort. He can have the grooved brushstroke hold two colors, become dry as it is pulled across the surface, or stay lush and yummy.

Jenny Day's work shown in an exhibition at the Elmhurst Art Museum.

Learn more about the threaded and sewn processes behind this artist's crafty textile installations and portraits -- as well as hear anecdotes about the individual sitters.

Birds, butterflies, flying machines, and a sinister, wickedly abstract belt made of empty liquor bottles -- Paul Villinski's works are one mechanized step away from chaotic, destructive motion

On Water Street, we wandered in through the open-doors of Studioworks one morning to find the current artist-in-residence, Richelle Gribble, an outgoing native Southern Californian in her mid-20s, newly arrived for her one-month residency.

In a collection of 18 ceramic and mixed media sculptures, Dirk Staschke explores the tradition of still life painting that emerged in Europe, specifically in Dutch “Vanitas” paintings, in the 17th Century.

Richelle Gribble creates mixed media paintings and drawings, prints, videos, puzzles and sculptures. Her artwork is inspired by concepts of virality, biology, networks, group dynamics, and social trends that connect us all.

Richelle Gribble's work included in a combination of science and art.

Green’s two paintings, both from 2008, are small, 12 x 18 inches, and, like his abstract landscapes, they hover tantalizing on the cusp of legibility without ever tilting into the pictorial.

With meticulous execution, Nikki Rosato's pieces are a testimonial to compulsive determination and facility; they are visually amazing and stunningly spectacular.

Fein talks about his work with Frank O'Hara's eulogy.

After this Sunday’s massacre of 50 LGBTQ people in Orlando, I flashed back to the day I wandered into Skylar Fein’s “Remember the UpStairs Lounge” (2008) at the Prospect.1 biennial in New Orleans. It was installed at the city’s Contemporary Arts Center and invited you down a long saloon-like hallway into a gallery of artifacts, black-and-white images, light boxes, and a black corner booth showing a video.

It could have been silly — art about art history has been the basis of too many trite exhibitions in recent years — but this tart expo curated by Matthew Weldon Showman is hysterical in the most catalytic sense of the word.

Lea Zeitman reviews and discusses Bonnie Maygarden's work.

Marna Shopoff included in a review of the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

The ceramic artist, Dirk Staschke, pays particular attention to detail, which requires more investigation. That’s true in his “Dirk Staschke: Nature Morte” exhibit now at The American Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Pomona.

Lisa Sanditz included in an article reviewing the Jim Richard exhibit.

Evangeline's cajun childhood inspired her work with bullet holes and oil paint.

Richelle Gribble‘s drawings are both informative and aesthetically impressive. Her use of colour draws immediate attention to the themes of each piece.

Richelle Gribble's artist statement in SciArt Initiative.

The emotions and "emotional culture" behind Paul Villinski's work.

Paul Villinski uses daily objects such as gloves and cans to create his delicate airy sculptures. With swirl of butterflies and wings sculptures, he expresses thematics like addiction, recovery and environment.

It is always around but you can't always see it. Its presence ebbs and flows; it can be big and bloody, or barely visible and pale as driven snow. The moon is linked to madness and witchcraft--as well as to women, so it fits neatly into Monica Zeringue's Goddesses and Monsters series where female figures mingle with lunar mysticism. 

The Hospital commissioned an art installation by New York sculptor Paul Villinski, whose soaring clusters of butterflies—forged from recycled cans—inspire feelings of beauty, hope, and renewal among those who view his work.

Ruth Owens art included in the Louisiana Contemporary exhibit.

Jenny Day interviewed about her work.

 In Marna Shopoff's paintings and drawings at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, the mysterious interaction of light and space creates an architectural quality that is inviting yet elusive, as if dwellinglike spaces appeared within mirages of colliding rays of refracted light that Shopoff had flash-frozen.

The Lynnwood Arts Commission presents contemporary collage artist Richelle Gribble at the Lynnwood Library Gallery.

“The idea that somebody decided her life was over seemed like the ultimate last judgment,” says Adam Mysock, in an artist video. “As the shooter, you are ultimately taking on a godlike role determining when somebody is good or bad. For me, the first phenomenon I had experiencing such an event was actually watching ‘Bambi’ when Bambi’s mother gets shot."

The title of Margaret Evangeline’s show was An Injured Armory. In this body of work, the artist, whose son served in the Iraq War, has turned to allegorical protest rather than specify the particulars of an actual historical conflict.

This is Dirk Staschke’s second exhibition with Winston Wachter Gallery in Seattle (the gallery also has a space in New York). Executing Merit (March 3 – April 15, 2105), a paean to the craftsmanship and recognition of death as part of life from the vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries, could easily have been consigned to “so what category.”

Jenny Day is a young artist who investigates human depredations upon the land. Her medium is paint, not digital prints, and she's closer to abstract than realist.

Kelley Crawford interviews Gina Phillips about her life and work.

Ruth Owens art included in a Baby Doll-inspired contemporary art exhibit.

The Portland artist is showing nine works, all in the elaborate style of still-life paintings, complete with ornate frames. The backs of the works reveal the more workmanlike structure beneath the finery.

Dirk Staschke (b. 1971) touched clay for the first time in the second grade, while attending an art school class in Huntsville, Alabama. The Earth didn't shake, nor did he find his peace. For the young Staschke, clay was nothing special -- yet. 

Rosato creates intimate portraits by mining the world of maps and superimposing the network of blood and nervous vessels within the human with the urban arteries of traffic systems.

The South is every bit as much a part of Margaret Evangeline's work as, say, a rifle or sheet metal, but the Baton Rouge native is inexplicably unknown in her hometown.

Travel and place have long factored into the narrative paintings, prints, and sculptures of St. Louis-born, New York-based artist Lisa Sanditz. In recent years, she has turned her attention in large part to the globalized landscape. From urban Chinese factories and American Midwestern crop circles to her parents’ suburban community in St. Louis and her own backyard in upstate New York, the artist explores the astonishing and often compromised relationship between the built environment and the natural world. 

Leone chose a 2012 piece by Baton Rouge-born artist Margaret Evangeline, captivated by the way the artist took something from everyday experience and transformed it into art.

Elliott Green’s abstractions, smeared with shale-like layers of paint, offer a dizzying response: paintings that remediate computer graphics that remediates painting.

Throughout her career, Evangeline has always been more focused on the process than on the end product. In her paintings — whose networks of individual brushstrokes give the impression of watery currents, or cellular matrixes, or bursting camellias — she applies each line a step at a time, without forethought or correction.

Shopoff included in a review of multiple artists in NOAR magazine.

ArtSlant reviews VOLTA's featured aritst, Nikki Rosato.

Lisa Sanditz interviewed by Ashley Garrett.

The work of Peter Sarkisian, a multimedia and video artist based in Santa Fe, was clearly seen as a highlight of Art SV/SF. “Robot”, (2013) a steel and aluminium, 3D-printed robot that displays a film on its belly, was featured on the the fair's website.

Paul Villinksi's gurgling "Butterfly Machine" steals the show inside the Morgan Lehman Gallery.

Day paints recognizable trees and skies and hills in her northerly landscapes but she simplifies them into geometries. In "Strike Anywhere," the biggest of her acrylics on canvas in the "Four to Watch" exhibition at Davis Dominguez, her pines are scrappy green triangles on sticks. 

A rising star in the art world has transformed maps of Cape Ann into silhouettes of two residents. Nikki Rosato, a recent graduate with a master’s degree from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, will premier her works at an upcoming watershed show in Rockport.

Even by the standards of large institutional survey exhibitions, the Contemporary Arts Center's Mark of the Feminine expo of works by local women artists covers a wide range of styles and visions. 

For all of its tactile qualities, the art of Gina Phillips can sometimes be hard to get a handle on.

Bonnie Maygarden's work included in the New Orleans Art Review.

Bonnie Maygarden’s canvases look like they’ve come right out of the digital printer, but in fact are all meticulous hand-painted abstract representations. As a recent gradate of Tulane’s MFA in studio art, Maygarden earned her bachelor’s degree at Pratt Institute in New York, and was classically trained in photorealism before extending this technique to mimic “reality” in less traditional ways.

Bonnie Maygarden included in "Staring in the Sun."

Bonnie Maygarden as one of the artists included in "Staring in the Sun."

Monica Zeringue is a New Orleans-based artist who has a knack for combining the weird and the wonderful. Her drawings contains images of nature, mythology, and human anomalies.

Monica Zeringue’s entire body of work within the show, five astoundingly intricate works in graphite pencil, four on primed linen and one on paper, boldly and successfully broaches the subject of female identity. 

For some of the artists participating, gun violence is more than an abstract social issue, such as Deborah Luster whose mother was shot five times, and Adam Mysock, who, in 2004, witnessed through the window of his Central City home, the murder of an unarmed 16-year-old.

Painter Bonnie Maygarden wants viewers to question their perceptions and expectations. The New Orleans-born artist uses paint to create illusions, approaching the medium as “both light and mirror,” according to her artist statement.

Study after study warns that television warps the brain, zaps our attention spans, makes us fat and turns children into violent, brand-obsessed zombies. Peter Sarkisian notices the effects of screen time whenever his 8-year-old son returns home after watching a three-hour Nickelodeon marathon at a sleepover with his friends. "He speaks and acts differently," Sarkisian says. "It somehow affects his aptitude for everything else."

Inspired by memories of her childhood, Gina Phillips makes artwork that is autobiographical. 

In her latest exhibition, “Surplus,” Lisa Sanditz equates gestural landscape paintings with a series of quirky ceramic cacti. This particular dialogue highlights the materials of both practices, emphasizing hierarchies between art and craft.

Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien's photographic versions of paintings from art history reflect their concerns about ethnic stereotyping seen in some news reports after Hurricane Katrina, but they lend themselves to a variety of interpretations.

Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien are undertaking their own method of time travel.  The two artists, working together under the moniker E2, have been reproducing iconic paintings from history photographically with not-so-slight alterations.

Enter Skylar Fein, an ideal artist for the Internet age, who gleefully nabs a fact here and a rumor there to create quasi-nonfictional environments. For “The Lincoln Bedroom” he has built, right inside the gallery, a facsimile of the Springfield, Illinois, general store run by Joshua Speed, the scion of a wealthy Kentucky plantation family. 

The sexuality of America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, has been scrutinized by historians for years. Now, artist Sklyar Fein is delving even deeper into the possible queer identity of the late political figure through a large-scale art installation.

So much of color field painting—the work of Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Mark Rothko—has been read in terms of purity of expression, an attempt to grasp sublimity through color.  Despite its critics past and present, the aesthetic ideals continue to resonate today, as seen in Anastasia Pelias’ show “Ritual Devotion” on view at Octavia Art Gallery.

The Gambit reviews Nikki Rosato's work in "The Solar Anus" exhibit.

Nikki Rosato crafts delicate figures from the webs of incised maps. Made by painstakingly cutting away landmasses from between skeins of roads and waterways, Rosato’s fragile portraits echo the body’s circulatory systems but also the airy intricacy of paper lace. 

Gina Phillips' show, “I Was Trying Hard to Think About Sweet Things,” is just as charming as its title. A tall, impressive tapestry framed in vintage floral bed sheets signed “Frau Johnson” sits at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art's entrance, serving as a gateway to the exhibit.

In Bonnie Maygarden's Virtuous Realityshow at the Front, the ephemeral aura of techno culture is recreated in painterly abstractions that serve as meditations on the collision between art history's traditional hand crafted values and the weird new world of synthetic imagery that exists all around us.

Bonnie Maygarden's new work “Virtuous Reality” is the kind of collection that will keep the conversation going long after Filthy Linen Night has faded into Sunday morning.

Paul Villinski's "Air Chair," a fantastic flying wheelchair maching made to uplift spirit and interest, hangs above viewers' heads at MIA.

Paul Villinski transformed his favorite vintage records into a flock of vinyl birds taking flight from an old turntable sitting on a stack of other lps.

Certainly humans serve as witnesses, but in her artistic work, Jenny Day questions the vitality of a place serving as a witness.

Jennifer Day's large landscape acrylic, "Time is Nested and Layered" is shown at the TMA Bienniel exhibit. Day's painting depicts the memories that belong to a piece of land.

Julien and Kleinveld explain the inspiration behind their Ode to Manet.

Neurotic map-rollers and Nikki Rosato would not get along. While some people cringe at the thought of a creased map, Rosato takes pleasure in dissecting the maps, carefully cutting away the meat of the map until just the skeleton remains.

Jenny Day's energetic paintings excavate meaning and memory in the Alaskan wilderness.

Sanditz’s paintings offer a subjective view of cultural and economic situations in the United States and abroad. She has shown work at solo exhibitions at ACME Gallery in Los Angeles, Rodolphe Janssen Gallery in Brussels, Belgium, and CRG Gallery in New York.

Bonnie Maygarden, a first year MFA student at Tulane, is a trickster- a breaker of rules. Her art intentionally leads the viewer astray through tromp l’oeil and illusion, sometimes obscuring flatness and other times confusing texture.

In "Goddesses and Monsters," Monica Zeringue constructs her own visual legend using elements of Greek and Roman mythology—mostly the labors of Hercules—as departure points for her signature self-portraits.

Go to any major museum and you see art based on mythology, from the Renaissance to modern times. Nobody knows why. in Goddesses and Monsters at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Monica Zeringue’s spectacular graphite drawings - nude self portraits of the artist in various mythic guises - may offer some clues even as they evoke contemporary performance art.

Art21 Magazine interviews Lisa Sanditz about her process and inspiration as an artist.

'Remember the Upstairs Lounge' a large-scale installation by New Orleans artist Skylar Fein has been acquired by the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery announced that the New Orleans Museum of Art has acquired the major installation Remember The Upstairs Lounge by gallery artist Skylar Fein. 
 

Paul Villinski's wall-mounted installation is made from vinyl records by musicians including the Gary, Indiana native, Michael Jackson. 

The Underline Gallery in Manhattan features Margaret Evangeline's dramatic piece: a square of metal pocked with bullet holes.

This elegant, spare art book pairs black-and-white plates of two recent sculptural works with poems about grief, faith, and doubt during wartime. In 2011, Evangeline sent 20 aluminum bars to her son, who was completing his deployment in Iraq.

Shopoff often starts with a photo reference, but that starting point is just as often rendered unrecognizable in the finished project.

In the fifth interview in the “Survival Guide” series, Raina Benoit talks with artist and educator Gina Phillips. Phillips creates detailed fabric and thread constructions that toggle between the fantastical and the everyday, embracing the historical and narrative potential of Southern textile traditions such as quilting and embroidery.

Anastasia Pelias featured in New Orleans Art Insider.

W interviews Skylar Fein about his work.

Villinski, who is from New York, brought his partner and three studio assistants to install nine pieces in the space, she said. With 100 to 200 butterflies per sculpture — including one that is 8 feet tall — there are 1,500 to 2,000 butterflies now inhabiting Tayloe Piggott, Ripps said. 

They start as trash. Discarded cans, littering the streets of New York City. Paul Villinski collects them. And then he transforms them.

Peter Sarkisian's work reviewed by The Phoenix New Times.

Marna Shopoff is moving in an increasingly abstract direction these days, at least in comparison to the work she had on display back in April at the Harrison Center for the Arts’ Gallery #2, which focused on architectural subject matter.

Nikki Rosato holds onto the interconnection of lines and structure within the map that define the form.

Louisiana artist Anastasia Pelias exhibited her artwork in 2006 at the Eichold Gallery at Spring Hill College, and also in the “Catalyst” show at Space 301 in the aftermath of the BP Gulf oil spill. 

"We take comfort in the strength of architecture from the anxieties created by a continuous stream of information," reads Marna Shopoff's artist statement to her new show, and in her painting, "Street Scene," you can speculate on how this idea applies to her work.

HI FRUCTOSE reviews Dirk Staschke's artwork for volume 23 of HI FRUCTOSE Magazine. "In his sculptures of overwhelming material excess, Vancouver-based ceramicist Dirk Staschke explores the mechanisms that underlie human desire."

Think of Margaret Evangeline as the Annie Oakley of the art world. The New York City-based artist creates her trademark abstractions by shooting stainless steel panels with handguns, shotguns and rifles of various makes and calibers.

Judy Seckler reviews Dirk Staschke's artwork for Cermaics: Art and Perception Magazine.

Winner of the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence of the BAM Biennial 2010: Clay Throwdown!, ceramic sculptor Dirk Staschke returns to BAM with his first museum solo exhibition, Falling Feels a Lot Like Flying.

IN MARCH OF 2010, Rian Kerrane, Anastasia Pelias, and Melissa Borman collaborated in a three-person exhibition at the Edge Gallery in Denver. This was the first in what would be three exhibitions titled mara/thalassa/kai: the SEA, on the same theme: the artists’ relationships with water and the sea, and the narratives that link their careers and personal histories.

Monica Zeringue included in the list of 100 "new superstars of southern art."

While it's not quite its final weekend, "Constant Abrasive Irritation Produces the Pearl: A Disease of the Oyster" at The Pearl will too soon be coming to a close. Before it goes, Wesley Stokes chimes in on curating video and the future of art in New Orleans.

Invade Magazine reviews Bonnie Maygarden.

Something of this sentiment is expressed in a body of artwork currently being exhibited at Heriard-Cimino Gallery in New Orleans.  Artist Anastasia Pelias has installed a suite of paintings titled “Washed (to the Sea and Other Waters)” there. The exhibition is a visual love poem to the sea in general, along with some of her favorite bodies of water around the planet.

Through her lacy hand-cut maps, master’s candidate Rosato explores how people’s identities are intertwined with places.

Paul Villinski discusses his recycled butterfly installations.

With its wingspan of 33 feet, "Passage" is a nearly full-size glider plane fashioned entirely from discarded lumber Villinski salvaged from the streets of New York City.

Villinski’s installation is fabricated from recycled and repurposed wood that the artist salvaged from discarded shipping pallets, police line barriers, broken furniture, and construction sites around New York City. Enveloping the life-sized glider is a cloud of 1,000 black butterflies; a motif the artist is widely known for and which has been prominent in his work for over 15 years.

Hailing from Louisiana and now a resident New Yorker, Margaret Evangeline isn’t afraid to tackle an array of difficult subjects using “aesthetically resistant” materials. Her first monograph, Margaret Evangeline: Shooting Through the Looking Glass, demonstrates the breadth of her work and the various influences that inspired it.

Mr. Villinski, a glider pilot and record collector, explores themes from his life, including music and flight; and recycled materials, such as audio paraphernalia, musical instruments, discarded wood, and aluminum cans. 

American painter Margaret Evangeline (born 1943) is as likely to take a gun to stainless steel as a brush to canvas. She considers both acts part of her investigation of the medium, calling her bullet-hole works an attempt to understand “the sensation of painting without the paint.” This monograph surveys her expansion of the terms of painting.

NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presents Wrong Sounding Stories, New Paintings by Adam Mysock.This is Mysock's second solo show at the gallery, following his sold-out show Mythconception in April 2010. The exhibition is on view through July 20, 2011. 

Hyperallergic reviews Anastasia Pelias' video, "Alati."

Wrong Sounding Stories is a wacky show. Rounding out a season of history-based exhibits, Adam Mysock applies his own artistic equivalent of genetic engineering to some well-known history paintings reworked to feature Abraham Lincoln in a starring role.

Zeringue creates graphite drawings of her pubescent self multiplying across virginal, white pages like a cross between a Hindu goddess and the little demon girl from the horror movie “The Ring.”

Zeringue's drawings are all self-portraits. Using for reference photos of herself, often as a pre-teen, she renders multiple similar or identical figures in graphite in crisp detail.

ARTIST NIKKI ROSATO creates intricate portraits by cutting away at old maps, leaving only the roads and rivers behind like a network of blood vessels.

We might prefer it if our skin was smooth and wrinkle-proof, but Nikki Rosato celebrates the lines that mark us. In her work, the Boston-based artist, interested in portraiture and figurative work, draws parallels between the contours of our bodies and the lines on a map.

Artist Nikki Rosato, whose work we discovered thanks to Colossal, creates portraits out of an unlikely material — discarded street maps. 

“Think Lincoln.” That was the missive that Eugenie Tsai, contemporary-art curator at the Brooklyn Museum, sent out to her colleagues when the museum acquired a recent sculpture by Skylar Fein.

Paul Villinski's butterflies featured in Myra Hoeffer's interior design space.

In Black Lincoln for Dooky Chase, newly acquired by the Brooklyn Museum, Skylar Fein overlays a silhouette portrait of Abraham Lincoln on a panel made to resemble an old wall menu from Dooky Chase, a well-known Creole and soul food restaurant in New Orleans.

New Orleans-based artist Monica Zeringue makes beautiful and eerily dreamlike self-portraits of herself as a pre-pubescent girl, often in multiplicity and arranged in impossible and surreal formations. 

Villinski's piece featured in a Wall Street Journal article.

ina Phillips' obsessively stitched fabric paintings make up an impressionistic  slice of life in a region where the tides never rest.

Artist Skylar Fein was walking through New Orleans' French Quarter a few years ago when he passed by a plaque that read "On this spot these 32 people died when a gay bar was set on fire." "I looked up and felt a chill.... I wanted to know the story," Fein told us in a recent email interview about "Remember the UpStairs Lounge," his current No Longer Empty instillation about the gay bar destroyed by a 1973 arson fire.

The Sea, for which Edge member and well-known Denver artist Rian Kerrane invited two out-of-town friends, Melissa Borman and Anastasia Pelias, to join her.

On view in this two-person show are a dozen ceramic sculptures, by Brendan Tang of Kamloops and Dirk Staschke of Vancouver. And while preparing yourself for dazzlement, expect to discard any preconceived notions you might have about the nature of ceramics.

Paul Villinski featured in a New York Post article.

In its own way, tracing the origins of painter Margaret Evangeline’s current works at Elizabeth Moore Fine Art recapitulates the ontogeny of creole New Orleans. Last summer, the artist’s random discovery of an alleged image of Marie du Barry, consort to King Louis XV, led to a fascinating investigation of the tangled and wrought histories of three Maries: Anna Marie Tussaud, Marie Jeanne Becu du Barry, and Marie Laveau.

The Wall Street Journal reviews Paul Villinski's work in Manhattan. 

Margaret Evangeline has long experimented with aesthetically resistant materials, making work that deepens the immediacy of a moment. She is perhaps best known for her use of gunshot and mirror-polished stainless steel.

“Emergency Response Studio” is a conceptual project by the artist Paul Villinski, inspired by post-Katrina New Orleans. Visiting the hurricane-ravaged city in August 2006, the artist wished he could transport his studio down from New York to create work in response to the tragedy. Instead, he converted a 30-foot Gulf Stream Cavalier trailer into a mobile live-and-work studio space. 

Green’s current paintings supplant his earlier “limited animation” mock-mayhem with the saturated glazes and rendered anatomies of a Golden Age chipmunk fable.

A post-disaster trailer home can hardly be called a work of architecture. But Nikolaus Pevsner's well-known aphorism about Lincoln Cathedreal -- a bicycle shed is a building, but the cathedral is a piece of architecture -- might favorably apply to Paul Villinski's reinvention of a FEMA-style trailer as a genuine piece of design. 

The Times Picayune reviews Paul Villinski's orange butterfly installation at the UNO St. Claude Gallery.

Fall 2009, the New Orleans Museum of Art presented Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto, the first solo museum exhibition of work by the New Orleans-based artist Skylar Fein.

Villinski cast an eye on a mass-produced, widely hated symbol of failure, turning a 30-foot Gulfstream Cavalier trailer — much like the 50,000 built for the Federal Emergency Management Agency following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina — and turning it into an artistic survival headquarters. 

Flying can mean simply leaving the ground and flying up into the sky, but it can also denote the realization of our hopes and dreams. New York artist Paul Villinski is coming into the limelight with works that express this kind of meaning and feeling.

Paul Villinski contributes one of his solar-and-wind-powered repurposed FEMA trailers to New Orleans.

Paul Villinski takes discarded beer cans and turns them into wall displays of colorful butterflies; he takes work gloves left in the gutter and stitches them into giant wings, the gloves' fingers fluttering like feathers; and when he was in flood-ravaged New Orleans in 2006, he roamed the streets looking through the trash people carted out of ruined homes and collected their warped old records, then began working with those too.

Inspired by post-Katrina New Orleans, New Yorker Paul Villinski created Emergency Response Studio (ERS), a FEMA-style trailer transformed into a fully functional, sustainably built mobile artist studio.

Over seven months, Villinski transformed a salvaged FEMA-style trailer into a rolling, off-the-grid live/work space that could house displaced artists, or allow visiting artists to “embed” in post-disaster settings.

New York-based artist Paul Villinski has built a really impressive mobile art studio for "Paul Villinski — Emergency Response Studio." It's a 30-foot Gulf Stream Cavalier trailer that the artist essentially gutted and transformed into a solar-powered, off-the-grid workspace.

Rice Thresher reviews Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio.

New York artist Paul Villinski created his solar-powered, “green”-designed Emergency Response Studio from a used trailer similar to the ones issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agencyafter Hurricane Katrina.

Villinski, who has spent much time in New Orleans throughout his life, conceived the mobile live/work studio in response to the displacement of New Orleans artists after Katrina.

The effects of globalization may be everywhere, but that just makes them harder to depict. For her third solo exhibition at CRG, Lisa Sanditz presents an impressive suite of Large paintings based on a recent visit to China.

Artist Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio started out with a conversation between New Orleans arts community legend Jonathan Ferrara and Beth Galante, New Orleans Director of Global Green, in an example of cultural and environmental worlds meshing to great advantage. 

Emergency Response Studio, by Paul Villinski, is a solar-powered, mobile artist's studio, repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer. This sustainably re-built, off-the-grid living and work space is designed to enable artists to "embed" in post-disaster settings, and respond and contribute creatively. 

Participating New York artist Paul Villinski, who visited after the storm, unveiled his futuristic Emergency Reponse Studio, a FEMA-type trailer bought at a government auction and converted to a self-contained mobile studio complete with solar panels, a wind turbine, geodesic dome skylight and bamboo-based cabinetry.

Paul Villinski transformed a Fema-style trailer into a solar-powered artist studio that would allow artists to "embed" in post-disaster settings and "contribute creatively."

At once playful and grave, these juicy canvases escape with their lives from the populous genre of thick, colorful, cartoonish, faux-naïve painting through a coherence and an ambition that are new to Ms. Sanditz’s work.

The New Yorker includes Skylar Fein in their review of New Orleans artists.

Lisa Sanditz’s paintings, which explore the proliferation of single-industry towns in China, make up a study in cultural values that ultimately asks: Can something of beauty be recognized as such even when there’s a catch? What is right in a world where one person’s gain is clearly another’s loss?

It started as a FEMA trailer, but artist Paul Villinski added solar panels, a dome, a 40-foot wind turbine and lots of interior artists' amenities to turn it into an 'Emergency Response Studio.'

Villinski's "Beer-can Butterflies" featured in an article in Met magazine. 

The devastated Lower Ninth Ward will figure prominently as the location for several installations, including Paul Villinski's.

Lisa Sanditz is only 13 years out of Macalester College — seven if you count from the completion of her MFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn — but she has already had solo exhibits on both U.S. coasts as well as in Brussels, and was recently profiled in Smithsonian magazine.

Once known for things austere and esoteric, New Mexico artist Peter Sarkisian has of late created colorfully illuminated sculptural animations sometimes described as 'impossibly futuristic, brightly colored language machines."

PETER SARKISIAN This artist is best known for projecting videos of naked subjects onto the four sides of Minimalist Plexiglas boxes, with results that are mesmerizing as technology but thin and somewhat maudlin as art. In his current show at I-20, Mr. Sarkisian cuts to the chase.

Margaret Evangeline creates an art instillation out of abandoned New Orleans houses.

Paul Villinski's repurposed FEMA trailer is shown at the Contemporary Arts Center.

Paul Villinski's work featured at the MoMA.

Sarkisian uses technology to explore the concept of illusion. His work resembles that of a magician who transforms a tiger into a mouse in front of thousands of perplexed spectators.

New York-based sculptor Paul Villinski has transformed a standard metalskinned FEMA trailer in to "Emergency Response Studio"; he's added solar panels and a towering wind turbine, and proposes that artists occupy such mobile housing during emergencies.

A native of Missouri, Lisa Sanditz has trawled the American Midwest, painting scenes of bucolic oddities from a chapel made of car parts to spelunking caves. In her work there is no hierarchy of sites, no singular place that represents best the excesses of modern life.

With an eye for despoiled landscapes, Lisa Sanditz captures the sublime

Sailplane pilot Paul Villinski focuses his 'bird-brained' artistry on flight.

ARTnews speaks to Lisa Sanditz about her work.

While working together on the Before During After project (Louisiana Photographer’s Respond to Hurricane Katrina), photographers Kleinveld & Julien decided to embark on a new body of work in response to the inequalities that were exposed during Hurricane Katrina.

Paul Villinski, a 46 year-old New Yorker whose Airlift expo is on view at the Ferrara gallery, is also a flaneur of sorts, a connoisseur of some of the most prosaic and poignant trash the streets have to offer. He is also a pilot of sailplanes and gliders, and his artwork often alludes to ascendance, as experience and as metaphor.

Villinski's wheelchair glider is the centerpiece of "Airlift," his charming solo exhibit opening Saturday at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

In Lisa Sanditz’ ebullient, skewed landscapes, flatly painted in an array of punchy colours, the USA is a crazy quilt of oddities and conflicting fantasies. At their best, the paintings suggest a dizzyingly iridescent, ad hoc culture in which the artificial mixes with the natural like oil with water. 

Jennifer Samet explores how Villinski's past experience wtih flight inspires his work today.

Margaret Evangeline’s mark makers are bullets. Her pierced metal surfaces suggest a sort of universal reality that crosses all colors and classes. 

With her bullet sprays, Evangeline takes us through variations on asystematic patterns or simple, poetic configurations that comprise loose-knit, lyrical compositions.

Margaret Evangeline 15-foot painting, "New York Post Legal Notice," reproduces legal notices found in the New York Post. 

Margaret Evangeline artwork, Blue Chinoiserie, featured on the cover of Vogue Magazine.

Margaret Evangeline is among the New York artists with residensies at the Sante Fe Art Institute.

Palm Beach Daily News reviews Margaret Evangeline's mediums and process of creating art.

Margaret Evangeline's paintings seem to play off a corporeal connection between bodies and art works.

Paul Villinski's multimedia collaboration with Linn Meyers, Lumenroom, reviewed by the Pittsburg Post-Gazette. "Lumenroom," an installation exhibit at Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, is a fantastical medley of whimsical shapes and shadows created by local artist Linn Meyers and New York artist Paul Villinski.

The Pittsburgh Tribune reviews Paul Villinski's 'Lumenroom.' Article by Graham Shearing. 

A review of Margaret Evangeline's "hallucinatory abstractions" at Galerie Simonne Sterne.

The winter season takes off with fascinating offerings at Wood Street Galleries, where video artist Peter Sarkisian creates his own form of contemporary illusionism

"Lost Gloves," writes Paul Villinski. "The city is full of them. Having read this, you will see them everywhere."

While coming from two different worlds, those of avant-garde art and couture Margaret Evangeline and John Galliano's work find their place in this opened sensorium: the absent codex.

"On Air" is curated by Paul Villinski, whose own "Consolation (For My Father)," 1996, a sculpture suspended by 14 wire cords attached to a hundred leather gloves creating a ten foot span of wings, takes a shopworn theme and comes up with an affecting work which is a straightforward and elegiac and singularly affecting piece.