@DIVINE Community Altar 1228 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. (504) 239-4784 sarahndpiti@gmail.com www.at-divine.tumblr.com Open all of P.3: Sat-Thurs 10am-3pm, Fri 10am-7pm and by appointment. @Divine is an interactive grouping of new installation works and collaborative design by 10 local artists of widely varying backgrounds, disciplines and techniques. The artists have taken an overgrown lot of unused land with a view of Downtown New Orleans and have created an altar of the elements, an amalgam of personal treasures and venerated imagery. The installation will host a variety of events throughout its run, including fundraisers for local arts programs, children's workshops and a late evening opening celebration. The exhibition will feature work by artists Rahn Broady, Erika & Nicho Busciglio, Elizabeth Eckman, Fat Kids, Brent Houzenga, MRSA, Sarah Rose, Adam Tourek, & Francis Wong. A.I.R. Pioneers: Portraits by Judy Cooper Newcomb Archives, Tulane University (504) 865-5234 susannah@tulane.edu www.tulane.edu/newcomb/tulane Open 10/23-12/31 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 2pm-5pm. This exhibition will feature portraits completed by internationally known photographer Judy Cooper. These portraits are of a group of women mostly in their late sixties, seventies and eighties who, in 1972 came together in New York to launch the first ever gallery of, by, and for women artists in the United States. In 2007, Cooper returned to photograph them and a few others who joined them shortly after the 1972 founding. The women called themselves the A.I. R. Pioneers and Cooper chose this name for this body of work. Cooper’s large format photographs reveal the strength and individuality of the women, as well as the collective spirit of the enterprise they began. The exhibition presents twenty-five images of such women as Nancy Spero, Louise Kramer, Howardena Pindell, and Dotty Attie. A small catalogue, which includes a brief history of the founding of A.I.R. and bios of each of the Pioneers, written in their own words, accompanies the exhibition. Above Canal: The Creative Alliance of New Orleans, (CANO)'s Creative Spaces in Central City- Group exhibition, “Rights and Revival” at the Myrtle Banks Building, 3rd Floor 1307 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. (504) 218-4807 nathan@cano-la.org www.cano-la.org Open all of P.3: Thurs-Sun 11-4pm Above Canal: Rights and Revival, an exhibition of works by creative artists and producers reflecting on the past and continuing struggle for civil rights and the contrasting celebratory spirit of New Orleans. The Creative Alliance of New Orleans reprises its “Studio at Colton”, presented on St. Claude Avenue during Prospect.1 that welcomed over 20,000 people to view the work of New Orleans area based artists, and helped stimulate the redevelopment of the downriver neighborhoods. The current exhibition explores the cultural legacy of Central City’s historic role in the civil rights movement, issues of race and culture in our city today, and showcases the work of a diverse spectrum of New Orleans based artists. American Alligator Automobile The Warehouse Grille, 869 Magazine St. (504) 3222188 lisaabanner@aol.com Public Sculptural Installation viewable on the patio for the duration of P.3: Daily Dusk-Midnight “The American Alligator Automobile” (AAA) is a public sculpture designed by artist Christopher Smith to engage and connect to the people of New Orleans. Installed on the patio of the Warehouse Grill for the duration of Prospect.3, “The American Alligator Automobile” will reveal video footage of ravenous alligators and wild animals native to New Orleans, inside the windshield of an older American vehicle. They will appear as if they are actually living inside the car, drawing people toward the work to experience something unexpected, funny, and educational. “AAA” exemplifies how normal everyday objects can be transformed into art. It presents art in a place that is neither sacred nor common, and creates a sense of pride and connectedness to the community. The project will re-purpose the windshield of a classic American vehicle with digital Rear Projection Screen customized to become the tableau for a 27:00 minute digitally projected video portraying alligators ferociously snapping at prey, behaving as they do in their natural habitat. The scene is special and specific to Louisiana and New Orleans’ wild environment. The project is designed to relate to everyone and to inspire the idea that there are endless possibilities to interpret the world around us. It reconsiders the means by which we travel, and integrates local wildlife into the community. Atemporal Macramé (Kitschy Kitschy Cuckoo) 723 Louisa Street Digest, 723 Louisa St. (504) 503-3862 digest@723Louisa.org www.digest.723Louisa.org Open all of P.3: Mondays 10am-12pm, coffee served Potluck Brunch Events 10/26, 11/9, 12/14, 1/11 11am-3pm 723 Louisa Street Digest is a potluck open studio event hosted in a shotgun apartment in the St. Claude Arts District. From 2010-2012 Digest presented openings of group shows on Second Saturdays, artist brunches, and Porch TV. Projects and events are currently presented on an organic schedule. For Atemporal Macramé (Kitschy Kitschy Cuckoo) We bring you: 3D Drawings (In the Studio.) Black Velvet Paintings (In the Den.) Black Light Art (In the Stairwell.) Tchotchkes (In the Kitschen.) The participating artists are the members of the newly formed (and soon to disband) collective, the Crypto-Data Actualists of the Amphibidiculous Dusk, a group of artists who have never previously shown work in this dimension. BAMBOULA / NOLA Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, 7001 Freret St. Satellite space at 2402 Royal St. (337) 280-3561 phil.a.landry@gmail.com www.bamboulanola.tumblr.com Open all of P.3 Main Space: Fri-Sun 12pm-6pm Satellite Space: Tues-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm, Sun 12-5pm Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University, the Newcomb Department of Music, and the May Space Gallery & Residency are co-hosting a series of sound art installations, round table discussions, and performances that will expose a world of composition and artistry born of Louisiana’s natural and cultural environment yet which exists largely off the grid of the popular and academic music industry. This exhibit will primarily exist across Tulane campus but also as a satellite space adjacent to the May Gallery so as to create a physical bridge between Tulane and May, uptown and downtown, academia and community. Artists include; Jane Cassidy, Matthew Thompson, Justin Peake, Peter Leonard, William Thompson IV, Generic Art Solutions, Rick Snow, Lotte Geeven, Thomas Grill, Philippe Landry, Spencer Topel, Christopher Trapani. Barrister's Gallery 2331 St Claude Ave (504) 710-4506 andy.antippas@gmail.com www.barristersgallery.com Open all of P.3: Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm Sun by appointment 2nd Saturday openings 10/11-11/1 Group Show: Jessica Goldfinch, Amy Guidry, Nikki Crook, Gin Taylor. 11/8-12/6 Group Show: Curated by Srdjan Loncar. And Beau Von Hoffacker “New Work” 12/13-1/2 Carol Leake “New Work” and J.Castillo Bambaren “Peruvin Metaphysicals” 1/10-1/31 Christopher Saucedo “New Work” and Meg Turner “Exploring Infinity as a Search for Utopia” Below Canal : CANO's Creative Space at St. Maurice Church in Holy Cross in Lower 9th Ward, “Reverberations”, Performances and exhibitions by New Orleans Airlift; Monique Moss and dancers; David Sullivan and Kent Wood, visual works. Sponsored in part by Blake Jones, the City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation605 St. Maurice Ave (504) 822-8281 Gaspard@cano-la.org www.canola.org Open all of P.3: Fri-Sun 11am-4pm St. Maurice Church on St. Maurice Street in the Lower 9th ward holds a special place in the hearts of area residents who have fought disinterest and disinvestment to bring their neighborhoods back. The Creative Alliance of New Orleans will respect that place through exhibitions, installations, and especially performances that will showcase the work of creative artists, producers and organizations “Below Canal”, in collaboration with creatives from elsewhere. The space, cleared of religious structures and materials, with few walls, and many windows, lends itself particularly to installations and performances. We will also address themes of neighborhood disaster and regeneration, both environmental and human. We will collaborate with other cultural and community entities in the area and throughout the city. We will work with a curatorial team of artists and cultural leaders, with whom we have had initial conversations, for the selection of works to be presented, as we did at the Studio at Colton. We expect most productions to be presented by independent entities. CANO’s role will be primarily to oversee the utilization of the space and to market events. We will be working with public relations partners who have agreed to support our initiative with this and other CANO initiatives for Prospect.3. Blank Canvas C3 Gallery, 526 Caffin Ave. (310) 779-0019 jane4c@aol.com Public Installation on view for all of P.3 Blank Canvas, public sculpture installation by Castillo Charles and Norah Lovell Open Studios 4116 Camp St. (504) 309-2640 charleslovellart@gmail.com nlovell@cox.net www.charleslovell.com www.norahlovell.com Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun 12-5pm Charles Lovell's "New Orleans Unseen" is recent work from the back streets of New Orleans, views that are not seen by the normal person in the urban centers and more tourist oriented settings. While wandering the many New Orleans neighborhoods and attending second line parades, he has produced a new series of photographs based on the skin of the city, the banal, and the largely unseen. Norah Lovell's "Battle of New Orleans" is an installation of paintings, objects and sculptures. Linear flow will be broken at intervals along the wall by vertical elements or other inclusions that create a disturbance of the narrative. The narrative includes details from the battle (1815) but also other conflicts, surreal passages, and the narrative of twins Ethel and Jeanne Magafon, obscure WPA muralists who painted a version of the Battle in 1943. Condensed Milk The Aquarium Gallery, 934 Montegut St. (504) 701-0511 theaquariumgallerynstudio@gmail.com theaquariumstudios.wix.com/theaquariumstudios Open 10/25 6-10pm, 10/26 12-4pm and by appointment Condensed milk, you love it, you hate that it's so good and it’s so easy to overdose on, so we are serving it up to you. Artwork so sweet, so in your face you might need a towel. The Aquarium Studios has been an art collective for 3 years and as of late we are feeling the New Orleans summers. We work too hard and just want to have fun and what helps us through the day is pie. Many cold liquids and hot coffee too, but for sure that burst of sugar keeps us going. Featured Artists: Sadie Sheldon, Jacob Reptile, Jaime Bird, Felici Asteinza, Joey Fillastre, Mary Logan Rooney and Kayla Wroblewski. Convergence: JMC@Prospect.3 | Curated by Deborah Willis Joan Mitchell Center Studios, 1000 N Rampart St. (504) 355-3423, info@joanmitchellcenter.org http://joanmitchellfoundation.org/artist-programs/center Open all of P.3: Wed-Sun 11am-4pm. con-ver-gence (noun) “A coming together from different directions, especially a uniting or merging of groups or tendencies that were originally opposed or very different” New Orleans is a place where cultures merge and people from different backgrounds come together to make art, investigate history, create music, eat, and dance. The city is a roux: the rich, perfectly rendered foundation from which delicious results emerge. The ten artists, Katrina Andry, Aaron Collier, Jer’Lisa Devezin, Dave Greber, Norah Lovell, Mario Padilla, Brooke Pickett, Rontherin Ratliff, Ayo Scott, Carl Joe Williams, in this exhibition construct, paint, project, write, and research as they produce provocative, occasionally subtle imagery. Their content ranges from pleasure to politics, music, and new media, as well as the gendered body, memory, slavery, rebellion, and home. Abstraction is rooted in all of the works. Each of these artists successfully melds formal aesthetics and personal experiences with cultural production. The convergence of cultures within the work of each of these ten artists expands the notion of community and politics as they re-imagine spaces in which to tell their stories. The interdependence of artist and audience, the need for interaction and identification, the significance of a shared popular culture and historical references, and the necessity of a dynamic exchange are at the heart of each of these artists’ works, set the theme for this exhibition, and bode well for the future of visual art from New Orleans. Crevasse 22: “Surge”, a pop up Sculpture Garden presented by Creative Alliance of New Orleans, sponsored by Torres-Burns Trust, Sidney D. Torres III and Roberta Burns. 8122 Saro Lane, Poydras, LA (504) 218-4807 Gaspard@cano-la.org www.Canola.org Open all of P.3: Fri-Sun 11am-4pm Crevasse 22 is an outdoor sculpture exhibition, with related performances, special events and forums. It is related to first a natural crevasse, then a deliberate explosion to open a manmade break, or crevasse near-by, in the levee on the Mississippi river planned by New Orleans civic, business and political leaders. The leaders, over vehement opposition from St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parish leaders and citizens, aimed to achieve supposed relief from the 1927 flood that some believed threatened the city of New Orleans. As predicted by engineers, a break further upriver of New Orleans saved the city. The preemptive creation of a crevasse at Poydras, however, destroyed much of the infrastructure, farmlands, wildlife and human life in St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes in one of the nation’s worst disasters before Katrina. This event became the long-standing foundation of profound suspicion on the part of Louisianans about public decision-making regarding natural disasters and the management of their prevention and aftermath. This exhibition, sited at the exact location of the crevasse, and adjacent to the still remaining “blue hole”, or a residual bayou like waterway, explores the resonance of the dramatic events in 1927 with the planning and events surrounding recent natural disasters in Louisiana and elsewhere as global warming and other factors continue to erode coastal lands. D R E A M T H R O A T Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal St. (305) 282-3350 dreamthroatdream@gmail.com www.dreamthroat.com For exclusive showings and reservations on Saturday, October 25th, please call or email. D R E A M T H R O A T, a project of Michael Arcos and Marnie Ellen, is a video installation delving into the hauntings and history within rooms that once inhabited numerous tenants and experiences. D R E A M T H R O A T contains an 18-minute fictional video documentation dealing with four separate couples of assorted ethnicities and sexual orientations. This document focuses on the altercations, sexual experiences, and ambiguity within their relationships in one specific room. These occurrences stain the walls and seep into the floors, literally and metaphorically. D R E A M T H R O A T is an in depth and darkened view of a room dressed with red rose wallpaper and an exotic array of taxidermy. The still, spectral presence of this taxidermy, the ephemeral glances into human relationships, and the backdrop of a New Orleans hotel, rich in its own history, create an environment and experience that allows for a dark yet invigorating corner of Prospect.3. If these roses had eyes, they'd be telling lies. The thorns on its side have plenty to hide. There'd be nothing to contrive, if this taxidermy were alive. We will be conducting an installation screening of the video project titled “D R E A M T H R O A T” inside of a room in Hotel Monteleone during a one-night opening with four separate screenings of this 18- minute long production at maximum capacity. For exclusive showings and reservations on Saturday, October 25th, please call (305) 282-3350 or email dreamthroatdream@gmail.com. Exhibit BE The De Gaulle Manor Community, 3010 Sandra Dr. (504) 676-7512 ExhibitBeNOLA@gmail.com exhibitbe.com Please visit exhibitbe.com for opening times Exhibit BE proposes a project to shed light on the increasing movement of artistic practices out of the gallery and into the public domain. Art that exists in the streets and on the faces of architecture has the potential to highlight the myriad of issues plaguing New Orleans' communities. These issues include the prevalence of dilapidated properties, lack of housing, poverty, a failing educational system, and minimal exposure to the full array of artistic practices. Our aim is to reflect the community in a way that is empowering and will shatter the a priori assumptions of visitors by utilizing the unapologetic creativity of street art/graffiti. Graffiti is often viewed as complicit in the destruction of a property, but we aim to change that narrative by opening this space to creativity and activating it with dialogue about artistic production outside the sphere of commodification. Faster, With More Knowledge 1028 Port St. (646) 400-3869 newyorksaint@gmail.com www.brianstcyr.com Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun 12-5pm New large format drawings by Brian St Cyr. Five in Four Rabbit Ears, 8225 Oak St. (985) 212-0274) rabbitearsnola@gmail.com Open all of P.3: Tues-Sat 12-6pm John C. Thomson, my great-grandfather was an early commercial photographer; his friend Arthur Allie was a landscape painter. Arthur Allie married John Thomson’s daughter and started taking pictures of his family life and as studies for his paintings. My mother’s father, Glennon Argenbright documented life in WW1 boot camp, and around the family farm. My father, John Allie also documented home life and used photography as a tool in his commercial artwork. When I was 14 my father built a darkroom and taught me basic photography; I have used it as my primary art form ever since. Over the years I collected the negatives from the photographers that came before me; I have printed and framed the best of these negatives and present them with some of my own in a way that they relate to each other, and tell a story about the history of my family and the times in which we’ve lived. - Renee Allie Foodways presented by Pelican Bomb, 725 Howard Ave. (504) 252-0136 events@pelicanbomb.com www.pelicanbomb.com Open all of P.3: Wed-Sun 11am-4pm How do we preserve our local and regional cultures in a country where defining interests are often pushing towards sameness? In spite of great demographic, economic, and environmental change, New Orleans has shown America that food is a powerful way to honor unique histories and heritage across generations. ‘Foodways’ unites contemporary artists whose work engages regional practices related to the growing, preparation, and sharing of food as a means to maintain and transfer traditions. Throughout its run, this thirteenweek exhibition pairs visual art with chef and community partners to create a multi-media, multi-sensory experience and dynamic roster of public programming. For When Goblins Sit Down Siberia, 2227 St. Claude Ave. (504) 265-8855 rhinestonerecords@hotmail.com panaceatheriac.com Open all of P.3: daily, 5pm-2am. "For When Goblins Sit Down" is an exhibition of large color photographs of anthropomorphic puppets and mini-magic landscapes by Panacea Theriac. There will be an addition spirit stick installation by Milagros Collective. The opening night (October 25th) will also be the dance party night "Disco Nouveaux" with DJ's Kelph and Rotten Milk and The Isa. Frahn Koerner Open Studio 7576 Pearl St. (504) 261-7227 frahnkoerner@gmail.com www.frahnkoerner.com Open all of P.3: Sun 11am-4pm and by appointment Frahn Koerner Studios will be open to the public. Solo show and work in progress will be on view for the duration of P.3. Good Children Gallery 4037 St. Claude Ave. (504) 975-1557 info@goodchildrengallery.com www.goodchildrengallery.com Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun 12-5pm. 2nd Saturday Openings “Crowning Glory” (10/24-1/4), is an exhibition conceptualized as a collective meditation of the members of the Good Children Gallery. The exhibition will focus on the psychogreography of the gallery, the topography, the building, and its past lives through exploring notions of memory, history, and amnesia. The term ‘crowning glory’ evokes a triumphant resolution, a climax, a gathering of energy. The artists will respond to the topic with newly produced work stemming from their individual practices. "The Pigeons in This Town Taste Like Shit" (1/10-2/8) A solo exhibition by Stephen Collier, the exhibition will include paintings, drawings, sculptures, and video that hover around the rituals of revelry, debauchery, masking, and the fete of the leisure class. The installation will delve into issues of authenticity, empowerment, individualism verses collectivity, psychological barriers, and escapism. Guns in The Hands of Artists Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400a Julia St. (504) 522-5471 matthew@jonathanferraragallery.com www.jonathanferraragallery.com Open all of P.3: Mon-Sat 10am-5pm and by appointment. Since 1996, gun violence in New Orleans and America has continued to be a major issue that affects the very fabric of our culture. Guns permeate the American landscape and the numbers of shootings continue to rise, with deadly violence a daily occurrence in our society. From the kid on the street corner killed by a stray bullet to the mass murders at Columbine and Sandy Hook, guns and the people that use them are wreaking havoc on America. With the recent mass shootings of the past years and the still-high murder rate in New Orleans, Artist/ gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara, the producer of the original Guns in The Hands of Artists project has been compelled to revisit the exhibition and reopen the dialogue that was started many years ago. By taking guns off the streets and channeling them to artists to use in their art, Guns In The Hands of Artists is a way of having a conversation about guns in our society without the often partisan and fever pitched politics around the issue. By the very nature of the project, the conversation is brought into the realm of art...art as the language for a dialogue... about the issue of guns in our culture. Artists will transform these once deadly weapons into works of art. Art can comment, very poignantly, about a subject and make people think in a totally different way. In the 19th century, artists would paint the objects that would inhabit their immediate world, a bowl of fruit, or a glass on the night table... today that object on the bedside table may likely to be gun. Now is the time to continue this conversation anew. Jonathan Ferrara is working with the City of New Orleans/ NOPD and has secured 186 guns taken off the streets by way of the existing NOPD gun buy back program. The guns are decommissioned and then will be distributed to artists to use as the raw materials in their art. The resulting artworks will be exhibited for three months at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in the New Orleans Arts District. The exhibition will take place from October through January 2015 to coincide with Prospect.3 New Orleans, the largest biennial of contemporary art in the US, which draws national and international art media, curators and collectors to New Orleans. With the exhibition on view at the gallery, it will be a perfect backdrop for frank dialogue, panel discussions and public engagement around the topic, stimulated by the creative transformations of the guns by the artists. As a successful national gallerist for over 17 years, Jonathan Ferrara has produced over 150 exhibitions in New Orleans, across the United States and Europe. With a history of community activism, public service, engagement on a local and national level and having produced the first Guns In The Hands of Artists, Ferrara is uniquely positioned to make the 2014 exhibition another stimulating, thought provoking and highly successful exhibition with quality works of art by professional artists from New Orleans and across the US. This project presents a unique opportunity for New Orleans to be positioned at the forefront of this issue, which plagues the city and country, and to benefit from positive press and public relations on a national level. In addition, New Orleans has become a national destination for contemporary art and a leader in the production of contemporary art. This exhibition taking place in New Orleans will further spotlight the creative forces at work in our city and showcase the creative partnerships that arise from the public and private sectors working together. With the national connections of Jonathan Ferrara and his gallery, the intention is that the exhibition will travel the country to museums, art centers and the like, furthering the conversation about guns in our society and the impact of the exhibition. A select list of artists have been invited to participate in this project and exhibition. The exhibition is being curated by Jonathan Ferrara, with recommendations from well-known curators and artists. This exhibition will garner both art press and mainstream media coverage as well while furthering the dialogue on this critical topic in hopes to change the dynamic around this issue. Artists: Neil Alexander, MK Guth, Katrina Andry, Generic Art Solutions, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Heathcliffe Hailey, John Barnes, Marcus Kenney, Ron Bechet, Deborah Luster, Brian Borrello, Bradley McCallum, Mel Chin, Adam Mysock, Andrei Codrescu, Sybille Perreti, Michael Combs, Ted Riederer, Stephen Paul Day, Peter Sarkisian, Michel De Broin, Dan Tague, Luke DuBois, Bob Tannen, George Dureau, Nicholas Varney, Margaret Evangeline, William Villalongo, Skylar Fein, Sidonie Villere, Jonathan Ferrara, Paul Villinski, Rico Gatson. Hairs and Tears Swan River Yoga, 2940 Canal St. 3rd Floor (504) 931-6425 corradettimartin@gmail.com http://postmedium.com/martincorradetti 10/26 and 1/25 11am-4pm HOW DO YOU GIVE SOMEONE NOTHING? We all have a story that we tell ourselves: This is who I am, this is how I look, this is what I believe in, and this is what I do. They are stories that we create or fabricate about who we are. Can that story be rewritten? Can we ever really start over? Can you sit next to someone and let part of who they are seep into your pores? The collaborative works of Ariya Martin and Valerie Corradetti use visual signifiers as a means of exploring human perception. Martin and Corradetti play with the balance and tension that exists in the actions as well as the stillness that we believe makes up who we are. But what happens if that is stripped away? What are we left with? Does the truth lie within us or does it get reflected back by another? In the video “hairs & tears,” the viewer is asked to engage with the work using a different kind of consciousness. The video separates the viewer from excessive distractions of the environment and the overactive mind and attempts to lure the viewer into a meditative state. In a space that creates stillness, the flow of the piece is layered with icons of feminism and moments of self-reflection. As a single moment carried out in repetition through the medium of video, emphasized by the audible meditation bells, the artists offer the viewer isolated psychological space with which to do nothing. I Am Not Garbage St. Alphonsus Art and Cultural Center, 2025 Constance St. (504) 524-8116 maniak_mik@hotmail.com www.stalphonsusneworleans.org Open all of P.3: Tues, Thurs, Sat 10am-2pm I Am Not Garbage presents Mike Kilgore's new body of mixed media compositions made with salvaged, discarded, and repurposed materials. By using these materials the artist seeks to challenge the audience to reconsider the culture of wastefulness and disposability that contributes to need, greed, and environmental degradation. Instead, he seeks to demonstrate conversation and resourcefulness. In this body of works, the artist takes discarded materials and allows them to be repurposed as part of an artistically relevant work and in doing so, makes an analogy to the dignity and value of all human beings. This exhibition will contain original works by the artist as well as those made collaboratively as part of an outreach project to those which society has discarded, allowing them to demonstrate their value to the world and document the process. IMPERMANENCE 2930 Burgundy St. (504) 231-7875 inkwellpress@gmail.com http://postmedium.com/floresolution Public Installation on view for all of P.3 At the intersection of Burgundy and Press streets by the tracks in the heart of the Bywater, there is a wall that stands as one of the only updated public murals in the city. We call it the 9 wall. It has showcased graffiti murals since the early nineties, and possibly longer. For Prospect.3 the wall will be curated to exhibit a generational span of artists who have graced it from the past to the present. The murals will be painted in conjunction with other openings during the duration of P.3. There will be multiple artists who paint during Prospect and a time-lapse video capture of their work. The video will illustrate a brief look into the history of New Orleans graffiti as well as an evolution of style. It will also shed light on the notion that graffiti is the freest expression of an American art form that exists. Artists paint not for resale or personal recognition, but purely for technique and peer appreciation, despite knowing that the artwork is not permanent and is subject to removal or censorship at any moment. We also hope to highlight the similarities and differences between what is known as street art and graffiti. Best of all, this exhibit is free and open to the public, and will continue to evolve longer after the P.3 event is over. In Empathy We Trust New Orleans City Hall, 1300 Perdido St. (504) 309-4249 emily@octaviaartgallery.com www.e2empathy.com Open all of P.3: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm New Orleans artists Epaul Julien and Elizabeth Kleinveld (E2) will stage a photography exhibition at City Hall from October 15, 2014 to January 30, 2015. The photographs are from a body of work, In Empathy We Trust, that takes iconic images from paintings, photography, film and literature and remakes them with a twist. Beginning with Flemish Primitives and spanning almost 600 years of art history, this series of work strives to capture and re-present carefully selected masterpieces through a new lens, in so doing challenging stereotypes. Highlights of the series include works based on: van Eyck. Rafael, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Fragonard, David, and Manet. Intimate Immensity Rocheblave and Orleans (917) 848-4762 silviemargot@gmail.com or kiraperry8@gmail.com www.silviedeutsch.com www.kiraperryakerman.tumblr.com Open 10/25-11/25, 7 days, 7-10pm Intimate Immensity is an installation, an otherworldly landscape. Projections of stop motion animation will create a fluent, fluid world that brings to life the history, labor and potential of place, and makes place indistinguishable from people— the viewers— who are asked just to be themselves. It may be seen as a sort of prayer: an experience of being together with the environment. Work by Silvie Deutsch and Kira Akerman. Jimmy Mac Studios Open House Events 2139 Dauphine St. (504) 301-1614 jimmymacinnola@gmail.com www.jimmymacstudios.com Open studio events on 10/25, 11/8, 12/13, and 1/10 from 6-10pm Open studio featuring recent work and works in progress with artist present La Oruga y La Mariposa Café Istanbul, 2372 St. Claude Ave. 504-301-7668 wsofilm@gmail.com Screening on 11/10, 6-8pm. Screening and Q&A- Twelve minutes excerpts of a documentary by Afro-Cuban filmmaker William Sabourin O'Reilly "La Oruga y La Mariposa" (The Caterpillar and The Butterfly). Using Santiago de Cuba and its vibrant carnival competition as a dramatic backdrop, La Oruga y La Mariposa exposes the complex realities of the Cuban underground through the generational conflicts and power struggles that permeate the island’s most musical city. Documenting the daily lives of five men devoted to a struggling tradition, the film takes a close look at the dynamics of power within Cuban society. Focusing on the fierce rivalries among the Conga Groups, the perennial survival mode in which they prepare for the annual contest, and the complexity of the state-run competition, the film takes us into the eventful life of these characters, presenting a stunning portrait of today’s Cuba. Through the colorful trajectory of some of these men, the film also explores the historical and cultural connections between Haiti, Santiago de Cuba and New Orleans. La Petite Mort 2033 Magazine St. (504) 919-9949 info@besotoro.net www.besotoro.net Open all of P.3: Mon, Wed, Fri-Sun 2-6pm Group Exhibition featuring work by James Taylor Bonds, Blaine Capone, and M. Silver Smith. Le Adoración de MAXIMON Barrister's Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave (540) 710-4506 andy.antippas@gmail.com barristersgallery.com 10/28, one night only event, 6pm-12am David Ford presents "LA Adoración de MAXIMON", a passion play dedicated to the patron saint of bad habits, an interdisciplinary civic performance held annually on October 28th. MAXIMON sits immobilized in an altar receiving offerings of vice from the community, drawing hundreds yearly to expose their weaknesses to a stranger in a cross-cultural spiritual setting. Actors create a framing device for "the saint", blurring the art contact point to activate this performance. Ford seeks to implicate the viewer in a collective search for meaning, initiating collaborations with clergy, exotic dancers, second line bands and Mayan Indians. MAXIMON, highlights the backwards days in the Mayan calendar and finds a place for dark activities without judgment. Vices and vocations associated with them are an aspect of the human condition. Through acknowledging the incongruities that this poses in a socially responsible society and placing them within devotional parameters the performance alleviates the ostracization of individuals within such a society. Linked 2118 St. Claude Ave. (504) 975-2185 sal502@cox.net sallyheller.com Public Mural on view for all of P.3. LINKED, ink jet print mounted to plaster wall, 20 x 60 feet by Sally Heller. Material donated by FloorSignage, LLC. MAGDALENA International House Hotel, 221 Camp St. (504) 462-0911 britneyp@ekistics.net whoismagdalena.com Open 12/12-1/11, 7 days, 24 hrs (hotel lobby) No one in the Christian pantheon except Jesus, Mary his mother or perhaps John the Baptist has inspired artists more than Mary Magdalene. Her themes remain remarkably vivid today in a global conversation about women, female power, participation, and sexuality. She is currently at the epicenter of a cultural movement, and as always, art finds itself at the leading edge, the prism through which one sees what popular culture believes about a person at particular moments in time. We know her as Mapia. Maria. Miriam. Mandala. Migdal. Magdala. Magdalena, Mary of Magdala and Mary Magdalene. But, people are asking: Who was she? Why was she? Among the most wronged women in human history. Her identity purposely reshaped. Rewritten and diminished. Bad girl of the Bible. Christianity's most notorious sinner. Repentant prostitute. Demon-possessed crazy woman. Her gospel said not to exist. Her truth suppressed for 2000 years, with roughly 91 generations misled. With recent relief, her whisper harkening through the ages, dusted digs and clouded pages of history. Like a tuning fork, they say her truth resonates through a fabricated storyline. Evidence in Leonardo's tantalizing clues. In Rilke's poems. Pagels' scholarship. The Gnostic Gospels. The Gospel of Magdala revealed and an inspirational woman rediscovered. And this view is converts. With it generally accepted that in deed Magdalena was Jesus' closest confident and trusted apostle, by far, the most influential among them. Was she this pivotal leader? His lover? Secret wife? Even some say the mother of their child? Partner in a shared vocation that shook the world? Join us for the second annual Magdalena show, a juried art exhibition inviting photographers and mixed media artists to re-imagine this complex, enigmatic icon. A portion of all art sales will be donated to KIVA, empowering female entrepreneurs. Messiahs of Vulgarity- The After Party 225 N. Peters St 4th floor (510) 390-0804 beanblackett@gmail.com 10/25 one night only event 9:30pm-1am Bean Blackett and Tokyo Stone will exhibit individual and collaborative works including paintings, photographs, and video. There will also be a trap/bounce/r&b DJ. Mexican Consulate Gallery 901 Convention Center Blvd. Suite 118 (504) 528-3722 ext. 2105 bfloress@sre.gob.mx Open 10/2-10/30 and 11/6-11/30 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. (10/2-10/30) "Shooting from the hip: Mexico" by Michael Alford. Michael Alford is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist. His work ranges from documentary photography to large-scale public sculpture to Land Art. “My work often explores and challenges the conventional ideas of Art and what can be used to create it.” Michael spent the first half of his life as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces Special Operations. He eared his B.F.A. from Baylor University while on active duty and recently an M.F.A. for Louisiana State University. His work has been exhibited in several corporate and private collections, both nationally and internationally. In his artist statement Michael Alford explains: “On a recent trip to Mexico City, I decided to take a different approach. In a more conceptual attitude, a plan was formulated and the project began. The images would be captured in a more “street/gorilla” fashion. My camera was concealed in a shoulder bag and images were taken using a remote control. The images were not be manipulated post process and are presented as such. I did however use different lenses and filters according to lighting and weather conditions. What you see is what I got. I did not attempt to take or make a perfect photograph. For this project, I worked intuitively with the camera yet allowed it to find its own composition. These images represent a real, raw, and non-manipulated moment in time. It is a unique flash of life that can’t and won’t ever be replicated. More than 200 images were captured but these are some of my favorites." (11/6-11/30) "Citizens" by Tony Makhlouf. MirrorFugue The Historic New Orleans Collection, 410 Chartres St. (504) 481-4713 sharon@nolavie.com Open 12/10-12/20, Tues-Sat, 9:30am-4:30pm MirrorFugue will take place in the Historic New Orleans Collection at 410 Chartres Street in the heart of the French Quarter. MirrorFugue is the creation of Xiao Xiao, a doctoral student in the MIT Media Lab. It uses a player piano augmented with life-sized projection that triggers the illusion that a virtual "reflection" is playing the physically moving keys. The piece will feature performances recorded by Allen Toussaint, Jon Cleary, Ellis Marsalis and Nick Sanders in this unique installation for player piano that conjures the presence of four pianists, each playing his own style of New Orleans music. It will serve as an opportunity to precipitate a dialogue on the interaction between technology and the arts within the creative community of New Orleans, building a bridge between the innovation culture of the MIT MediaLab and the artistic culture of the artist's hometown. MotherShip II: Dreaming of a Future Past and MotherShip III: The Station Tulane University School of Public Health, 1440 Canal St. and 1024 Elysian Fields Ave (504) 392-4460 dawndedeaux1@aol.com www.dawndedeaux.net and www.dawndedeaux.com Open all of P.3 MotherShip II (Canal St.): Fri-Sun, 12-5pm. Closed for holidays; 11/27, 11/28, 12/24, 12/25, 12/31 and 1/1. MotherShip III (Elysian Fields): Thurs-Sun 2-5pm. Closed for holidays. MotherShip by Prospect veteran artist Dawn DeDeaux is a composite of art installations that examine future challenges. Presented are both postulations of myth and math that foretell a future not dissimilar. The exhibition offers key focus on the crisis in Louisiana where a football field of land is lost every 35 seconds. Selected works were realized in collaboration with Tulane University Center of Bioenvironmental Research during her residency at Tulane affiliate A Studio in the Woods. New Orleans Community Printshop 1201 Mazant St. (504) 975-1484 communityprintshop@gmail.com www.nolacommunityprintshop.wordpress.com Open all of P.3: Tues/Thurs 6-10pm, Sat 10am-2pm and by appointment. 2nd Saturday opening receptions “PROSPECT 3-D - Sculptural Prints by The New Orleans Community Printshop” (10/25-11/29) presents new work by printshop members: Kiernan Dunn, Vanessa Adams, Sarah Ball, Natalie Woodlock, Pippin Frisbie-Calder, Rachel Speck, Sophie Radl, Julian Wellisz and Alisha Ray. Pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking, this show of new work includes installation, video, relief, and sculpture from a print origin. Objects made and assembled by hand through both painstaking and automated methods blur the boundaries between digital and analogue, printed object and precious artifact, 3-d printing and printing in more than two dimensions. “Are We there Yet” (12/13-1/3) approaches to portraiture by Breonne DeDecker, Colin Roberson, and Meg Turner. - I primarily photograph landscapes impacted by human development- rural areas encroached upon by industrial development, urban environments affected by disinvestment, slowly decaying suburban landscapes designed as a liminal space between these two poles. These spaces, though seemingly abandoned, are not devoid of people. The people I encounter may not have constructed these landscapes, but they depend on these spaces for their livelihoods and sense of identity; Observation is an intimate act. A momentary glance decides how much, or little, we wish to know. We construct our audiences through self-definition. Without words, can we arrive at mutual understanding? As I observe I persistently wonder, "what truth can be gained from a look?"; Since 2001 I have used vintage photo booths to capture and reinforce my sense of self when it felt threatened or in doubt. Presented as 8x10 tintypes, my photo booth group and auto portraits, capture a self-awareness that encompasses doubt, defiance, cringing awkwardness and a stumble through adolescence and adulthood. “What Editions” (1/10-1/25) This show includes the work of three artists in collaboration with printmakers Julian Wellisz and Cora Lautze. Cora and Julian work with the artist to develop a series of images and then together decide on the best processes to use. The processes used include screenprinting, etching, woodcut and collagraph. The collaboration results in a series of editioned prints each signed by the artist. Cora and Julian are excited to work with nontraditional printmakers to further explore the limits of printmaking. P.3+ at the Parlor 3913 St. Claude Ave. (504) 723-6593 klc@karenlouisecrain.com karenlouisecrain.com Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun, 12-5pm. 2nd Saturday opening receptions Fine art and local color presented by Oliver Manhattan and Karen Louise Crain. Group exhibition featuring new work by New Orleans artists Oliver Manhattan, Alex Podesta, Laurel Porcari, and Epaul Julien PAPER/WEIGHT Chateau Curioso, 641 Caffin Ave. (718) 757-8119 msmaria@earthlink.net www.chateaucurioso.com Open all of P.3: Fri and Sat 12pm-4pm PAPER/WEIGHT will be a three-person exhibit of artists who are using the materiality of paper and its printed surface to create works that belie the thinness and fragility of its construction. The three artists, Stacy Greene, Jill Stoll and Maria Levitsky, all have backgrounds in photography. This exhibit will present work that is extending the medium of photography to include found printed matter, handmade paper, hand and computer-assisted laser cutting as well as traditional photographic prints. Stacy Greene has developed an ongoing series of city portraits using collected ephemera and her own original images from worldwide travels. Entitled "Searching for Pierre Loti", the series is an elegant collection of collage-based pieces anchored by the circular mandala shape. The work references pop and op art, mid-century design and 1960s advertisements, with echoes of the Bauhaus and Yayoi Kusama, yet exude a unique handmade esthetic while creating intimate evocations of place and circumstance. This series has been featured a number of times at the DieuDonne annual hand made paper show fundraiser in New York. Jill Stoll's artful handmade mail-art postcards are available through a subscription-only process, and are fabricated out of recycled photographic prints, found magazine imagery and laser-cut paper shapes with over-lays of hand-typed text, all beautifully packaged in a vintage paper envelope. The edges interrupt the cutouts, with polka dot excerpts of vintage silver gelatin prints containing miniature slices of landscapes, like quotations from lines of poetry. The pieces are displayed in hanging grids of transparent pockets, making both sides visible. The work is both intimate and universal, small enough to hold yet reaching as far as the post office will reach. Maria Levitsky's black and white photo collages are reimagined architectural fantasies made from photographs of buildings in transitional states, which are then cut out by hand and built newly out of paper. The re-configured architectural images began as a reaction to the shifting landscape of the New Orleans built environment after Katrina and the artist's observations of ubiquitous demolition and reconstruction in the city. The exhibit will take place in the newly renovated Chateau Curioso in the Holy Cross neighborhood of the 9th ward of New Orleans. During the length of the exhibit there will be three community events related to the show- a collage workshop, a mail art presentation and a photography workshop. PARSE 134 Carondelet St. (262) 60-PARSE parsegallery@gmail.com www.parsenola.com 10/21 6:30pm visiting curator Geir Haraldseth Lecture at Loyola University, Miller 114 Late November/early December TBD The launch of a new initiative that will operate in tandem with PARSE called niños malos on the third floor of the space at 134 Carondelet Street. niños malos supports experimental sound, music, theater, dance, performance, video, film, and fashion. Veronica Hunsinger-Loe and Nat Kusinitz of Skin Horse Theater will present a new experiential work through this program. They will present a series of performances that utilizes the third floor of PARSE and the surrounding area to investigate the possibility of applying the Dadaist "readymade" format to theater. Passing It On: Tribute to John T. Scott The McKenna Museum, 2003 Carondelet St. (504) 586-7432 jwilliams@themckennamuseum.com http://www.themckennamuseum.com/ Open all of P.3: Wed-Sun 11am-4pm John T. Scott adopted the phrase “Pass it On” as an affirmation and a personal duty to extend knowledge, wisdom and passion for the process of creating art to everyone that knew him. In Mr. Scott's 40 plus years as a professor at Xavier University in New Orleans, he was able to live this ideal through countless young people in New Orleans, many of which are still practicing art today. Artists in this exhibition have experienced John Scott as a teacher, mentor, father figure and friend. This exhibition examines a personal approach to John T. Scott’s life’s work featuring rarely seen pieces in his home and personal collection, including John T. Scott’s first painting of a dog completed circa 1954, a silver point drawing of his wife Anna Rita Scott and several other works from different periods of his career including a few of his sketch books. This exhibition attempts to illustrate Scott's work through several different mediums, accompanied by the work of artists whom he directly influenced as teacher, colleague, and friend. Curated by N.O.N. Gallery: Ayo Scott, Carl Joe Williams, and Gian Smith. Featuring work by John T Scott, Ron Bechet, Lin Emery, Carl Joe Williams, Martin Payton, Ayo Scott, Augustus Jenkins, David Geary, Steve Prince, Cecilia Givens, Irving Johnson III, and Jeffrey Cook. Peep This! L9, 539 Caffin St. (504) 941-5159 L9arts@gmail.com L9artcenter.org Open all of P.3, Wed-Sun 11am-5pm Peep This! is a group exhibition of contemporary multidisciplinary artists who represent the current state of the art in African American culture. The title Peep This! is a colloquialism that invites viewers to actively look at and engage with investigations of beauty, self-representation, power, and history. These accomplished artists, whose works encompass photography, performance, painting, textile art, sculpture, installation, and graphic design, are a multigenerational group whose work has been exhibited and published locally and internationally. The Peep This! artists are: Keith Calhoun, Chandra McCormick, Maurice M. Martinez, Marilyn Nance, Martin Payton, Rafia Santana, Vitus Shell, and Deborah Willis. A panel discussion featuring a group of the participating artists and moderated by curator Carla Williams will provide a candid, lively discussion on self-representation, technology, and new media in contemporary creative practice. Date and time TBD. Press Street's Antenna Gallery 3718 St. Claude Ave. (504) 298-3161 info@pressstreet.org, www.press-street.org Open all of P.3: Tues-Sun, 12-5pm- weekdays call ahead. “Buick on Fire” (10/11-11/2) is a group show featuring work created by the members of Press Street's Antenna Collective- Amanda Cassingham-Bardwell, Angel Perdomo, Angela Driscoll, Ashley Teamer, Ben Fox McCord, Bob Snead, Bottletree, Brad Benischek, Carl Joe Williams Courtney Egan, Ernest Littles, Gretchen Faust, James Goedert, Laura Gipson, Natalie McLaurin, Robin Levy, Shawn Hall, and Susan Gisleson- that focuses on the idea of tributes and memorials. “Nocturnal Emissions” (11/8-12/7) highlights the work of New Orleans artist Brad Benischek. Benischeck will create apocalyptic paintings on paper. “Team Draw Activate!” (12/13-1/4) An exhibition focused on collaborative projects that center on drawing. These projects include drawings that have traveled around the country being embellished by a variety of artists, a joint video installation, large-scale exquisite corpses, and some mixed-media sculpture. Artists include Collen Dubose, Craig Branum, Ben Fox-McCord, Caesar Meadows, Issac Lyons, Jane Cassidy, Dan Alley, Caleb Henderson, Patrick Coll, and Devin Reynolds "Welcome to My Homepage!"(1/10-1/28) Curated by Amanda CassinghamBardwell, will be inspired by animated GIF, MIDI and ASCII text art that adorned personal webpages on the 1990's and early 2000's. Public Practice The Embassy, 1342 Franklin Ave. (347) 784-5226 info@neworleansairlift.org www.neworleansairlift.org 10/25, 3-5pm New Orleans Airlift presents a one-night curated performance of New Orleans ceremonial practices entitled Public Practice. This project takes place along Franklin Avenue, the fractious border between the 8th and 9th wards. Public Practice seeks to counter prevalent representations of crime-ridden neighborhoods. This unfolding performance highlights community practices where pride, caring and nurturing weave through the daily displays of vernacular creativity. Centered around Ace’s Car Wash & Sweet Shop, Public Practice is the opening ceremony for partner project The Embassy, an historic gun buyback program organized by The Museum of Old and New Art, (Hobart, Tasmania), in collaboration with the New Orleans Jefferson Parish Gun Buy Back Committee. Public Practice explores the dual nature of the notion of practice in the context of a city where Mardi Gras/Black Indian practices, and other forms of contemporary vernacular and all out experimental artistic and performance practices, rival for daily visibility. Artists and community participants have worked with organizers to self-direct their roles within the choreographed unfolding of Public Practice. Maroon Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson’s delegation of black Carnival Queens shifts masculine paradigms and advances women’s voices within sacred traditions. The 504 Boys Horse Club, with an array of exotic animal walkers and dove bearers display idiosyncratic style and empathy in their relationships to their fellow creatures. City rappers, female motorbike riders Caramel Curves and a juvenile bicycle club assert freedom of expression and forms of mobility. Deborah Luster’s Passion Play photographs that depict inmates from Angola Penitentiary will be displayed publically for the first time ever on the outside of the Abiding Temple Ministries. These works combine to complicate notions of repentance, transformation and redemption. Unprecedented and potentially polemical, Public Practice seeks to reveal uncomfortable truths and foster uncommon associations stemming from coping mechanisms that constantly shift the boundaries of accepted representations within this most indomitable and unfathomable city. Public Practice is organized under the artistic direction of Delaney Martin and Claire Tancons for New Orleans Airlift as a partner project of The Embassy, conceived by Kirsha Kaechele for The Museum of Old and New Art. Reckon Liberty Lumber Yard, 5385 Tchoupitoulas (504) 899-6341 jyniven@gmail.com www.jackniven.com Mural on view for all of P.3. Reckon, a mural by artist Jack Niven installed at Liberty Lumber, investigates a type of calculation- an attempt to assess spatial relationships but without summation or judgment. A moment containing multiple points of view. The 8' x 24' mural has plywood build outs across the surface and a geometrically patterned background employing public advertising signage motifs. It is overlapped with an aggregation of circular figures, Panoptic Vortexes: mnemonic devices, which combine allusions to the atom, our solar system, and eyeballs. REPARATION: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans NOMA, 1 Collins Diboll Circle (504) 658-4100 www.noma.org Open all of P.3: Tues- Thurs 10-6pm, Fri 10-9pm, Sat and Sun 11-5pm. REPARATION: Contemporary Artists from New Orleans is an exhibition of 191 works by 186 New Orleans artists, young and old, and is part of a larger project which is less than 10 years old–Luciano Benetton’s Imago Mundi collection. Curated by Diego Cortez, hundreds of New Orleans artists were invited to create works utilizing the same format–a 4 x 4 3/4” canvas. These new works will join the larger Imago Mundi collection of tens of thousands of international artists. Imago Mundi embodies a visual tapestry of the human artistic condition. It focuses on the society as opposed to the individual artist or art star. It rejects the notion of a universal theory of art in order to embrace a more open theory of art predicated on diversities of expression. In REPARATION, we partake visual equations of our whole genetic being, illustrations of a bio-diversity, variations on a single theme–that of humanity. Instead of constructing a collective exhibition in search of common themes, common practices, similarities, trends, movements–consensus and aesthetic harmony, we can also take an opposite approach and emphasize disparity, dissent, rebellion, diversity, even politicallyincorrect stances. REPARATION breaks with the Imago Mundi practice to focus on national cultural identities to instead investigate the cultural identity of a city–New Orleans. Shotgun Cinema at the Marigny Opera House 725 St Ferdinand St. (504) 408-2032, shotguncinema@gmail.com, shotguncinema.org 11/12 and 12/3, 7p (doors at 6) Monthly screenings of new independent and repertory films programmed and presented by Shotgun Cinema. Titles TBD Show and Tell at Gallery Inferno- 6601 St Claude Ave. (504) 945-1878, mail@studioinferno.com. Open all of P.3: Mon-Sat 10am-4pm, 2nd Sat hours 10am-8pm. Opening of Arti(fiction) 1/8 Show and Tell is a group exhibition of mixed media, glass, metal, screen prints, woodcuts, and paintings from artists Mitchell Gaudet, Mary Jane Parker, Gary Oaks, Karen Edmunds, Erica Larkin, and JoLean Laborde. Artists' Lectures: 11/6 at 7:30pm- Mitchell Gaudet and Erica Larkin Gaudet 11/20 at 7:30pm- JoLean Laborde and Karen Edmunds 12/11 at 7:30pm- Mary Jane Parker and Gary Oaks 1/8- Opening Reception of Arti(fiction), and exhibition focusing on the 200th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans. Space Rites presented by New Orleans Airlift at CANO’s Below Canal Creative Space, St. Maurice Church, 605 St. Maurice Ave. (347) 784-5226 delaney@neworleansairlift.org www.neworleansairlift.org Open all of P.3: Fri-Sun 12pm-5pm. Events on 10/26, 11/22, 12/13, 1/7, 7pm New Orleans Airlift presents Space Rites an interactive installation and performance series at the deconsecrated St. Maurice Church in the Lower 9th Ward as part of “Below Canal”: CANO Creative Spaces. Footsteps, voices and specially conceived performances will use the natural acoustics of the space to see sound. New Orleans artist Taylor Lee Shepherd’s ingeniously rewired televisions act as oscilloscopes, creating responsive and diverse, light-filled visualizations of sound in the nave of the old church. An inaugural musical performance at 7pm on Sunday, October 26th brings the installation to life by uniting choirs from the Lower 9th Ward and beyond for a ceremonial performance experience. Earlier in the day, hear and see the booming voice of Reverend Duplessis, of Mt. Nebo Bible Baptist Church. As part of Airlift’s programming, the Reverend will conduct his services on select Sundays throughout the run of the project. His congregation continues rebuilding their church nearly ten years after the storm. More interactive performances occur monthly on Nov. 22nd, December 13th and January 7th in collaboration with guest musical curators like experimental guitarist Rob Cambre. Japanese percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani performs his participatory gong orchestra with local Lower 9th ward residents and musicians in November. Please continue to check Airlift’s website for all performance and community activity details. Staple Goods 1340 St Roch Ave. (504) 908-7331 staplegoodsnola@gmail.com postmedium.org/staplegoods Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun, 12-5pm. 2nd Saturday openings Check Out (10/11-11/2) The Staple Goods collective, located in a former corner grocery store, purveys an eclectic array of members’ mixed media works. Katrina Andry, Thomasine Bartlett, Elizabeth Chen, Aaron Collier, Robyn Denny, William DePauw, Anne Nelson, Jack Niven, Laura Richens, and Cynthia Scott. "Suspension of Disbelief" (11/8-12/7) Urban spelunking in a stalactite-studded cave questions human's interference with the planet- and each other. Work by Cynthia Scott. "Brothers x 2." (12/13-1/4) Two sets of brothers expand the dialogue on form/function/aesthetics. Abe and Andrew Geasland (SOS Design), metal. Clutch and Don Sims, wood. "YYNN" (1/10-2/8) YYNN is uncertain. It lacks conclusions. It is not celebratory. Materials are chosen for their ambiguous or impermanent properties and building techniques are generic, simple, and lack mystery. Work by Elizabeth Chen TEN Gallery 4432 Magazine St. (504) 214-3589 tengallery@gmail.com tengallerynola.com Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun, 12-5 and by appointment. Openings 11/1, 12/6, 1/3, 6-9pm 10/25-11/30: “New Works” by Matthew Kirscht and Kathy Rodriguez; "Where You Stay At?" presents a range of artists that each hold a relationship with the Southern region, a place full of triumphs and absurdities. This exhibit, curated by Jonathan Mayers, features thoughtful works which draw upon the idea of existing and engaging in this environment, an extension from Franklin Sirmans’ curatorial theme of Prospect.3, which references Southern Existentialism, but focuses more specifically on southern Louisiana. Works in the exhibit include installation, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, painting, collage, and photography. The artists curated into the exhibit are Simon Alleman, Carrie Ann Baade, Silas Breaux, Sarah House, Kelli Scott Kelly, Austyn-marie Mayers, Herb Roe, and Michael Williams. 12/6-12/28: "Down the Hatch" a two-person exhibition by Wendell Brunious and Angel Perdomo, who synthesize pop culture using super flat painting, electric color and formal exploration. Also on view, "New Works by Jono Goodman" 1/3-1/31: "LOUISIANACORE" This newest series by Jonathan Mayers reveals comically charged works that draw from the artist’s exploration into his Cajun ancestry, its folklore, his imagination, and the comparable Kaiju from the ever popular Godzilla series. LOUISIANACORE will feature painting and installation by the artist. "Study", Recent works on paper by Natalie Sciortino Rinehart. This exhibit focuses on the relationship between drawing and painting while exploring themes of surreality and maternity. Terratour Dancing Grounds, 3705 St. Claude Ave. (504) 535-5791 nolaflyladies@gmail.com www.dancinggrounds.org Open all of P.3: Mon-Fri 6-9pm, Sat 9am-3pm. The New Orleans Society of Fly Ladies and Dancing Grounds present a collaborative, interactive public art installation that weaves together sculpture, painting, and movement to build a community space for healing, discovery, and collective problem solving. The installation is comprised of a series of large stackable building blocks. The environment will be designed cohesively, and each block will also carry its own aesthetic. New Orleans Society of Fly Ladies’ artists will craft the interior spaces, moments of assemblage and small sacred altars within the blocks. Combining several artists’ work, with different but complementary aesthetics, the installation builds strength through diversity. The blocks, which can be moved and rearranged, will serve as elements of an evolving landscape in a series of performances. Choreographers will create sitespecific movement that interacts and communicates with the physical architecture. This mobility will generate a variety of dimensions and outcomes for the installation. From afar, the installation can be seen as a large-scale sculptural monument. Viewers can observe the blocks individually with the help of ladders, stools, or staircases. The audience is invited to participate by moving the blocks themselves, using their own movement to affect the space. The physical act of rearranging individual blocks to create new outcomes will encourage creative problem-solving and spatial innovation. These themes reflect the continuing social and physical development of New Orleans. The installation will be located in the heart of the St. Claude Arts District, at the Pocket Park on the corner of St. Claude Avenue and Independence Street. Elements of the installation will also be displayed across the street at Dancing Grounds (3705 Saint Claude Avenue NOLA 70117). The core participants in this project are New Orleans-based artists: Monica Kelly, Anna Quinn, Caitlin Waugh, Kate Hanrahan, Eric Lind, Laura Stein and Dancing Grounds performers. Additional visual artists, dancers, and musicians will be invited to participate. The piece will be accessible to viewers for the duration of Prospect 3, with sitespecific performances staged for the opening and closing events, Second Saturdays and Fringe Festival. The New Orleans Society of Fly Ladies is a network of fierce female entrepreneurs, largely focused on the arts and cultural philanthropy. They collaboratively produce events to promote the work of local artists and raise funds for non-profit organizations. Dancing Grounds is a nonprofit community arts organization that provides high-quality, accessible dance education and performance by supporting a diverse community of dance students, teachers, artists and audiences. The Art House on the Levee 4725 Dauphine St. (917) 232-9034 rtannen@cox.net www.robertctannen.com Open All of P.3 Fri-Sat, 11-4pm The Art House on the Levee in the Lower 9th Ward is the studio of Robert C. Tannen. The Art House consists of interior and exterior spaces at the foot of the levee on the Mississippi river for exhibits, performances, community meetings and special events. The Art House includes the work of Robert. C. Tannen, the work of the Lower 9th Ward Vision Coalition, and an exhibit of work of Tannen and Rob Lempert, “The Cone of Uncertainty” that explores the profound uncertainty surrounding the impact of global warming and other environmental factors submerging the marshes of Louisiana, and documenting alternative environmental scenarios for New Orleans during the next 100, 200, and 300 years. The L9VC organized a planning process with assistance from the Tulane University City Center to generate alternative uses for the former Holy Cross School site and plans to work on land use issues in the Lower 9th Ward going forward. The Chapel of the Almighty Dollar 3919 St. Claude Ave (504) 522-5471 info@jonathanferraragallery.com www.jonathanferraragallery.com Open all of P.3 Wed-Sun, 11am-4pm and by appointment Money is the frontline of any topic for consideration for any administration including religious type chapels. The difference here is that the purpose is not to brainstorm on how to make more money, but the considerations are on its affect on society: social status, how its distributed, its effectiveness as a structure, dependency, relationship to success, etc. The structure of the chapel is based on the pyramid on the back of a one-dollar bill but with the peak missing. At the top of the structure there will be a statue dedicated to monetary pursuits. A reliquary that holding an actual folded bill reveals the message The Almighty Dollar. Filling the walls and encompassing the viewer there are largescale wheat pasted folded bill messages of The Almighty Dollar in the center, The Root Of All Evil on the left, and Pursuit of Happiness on the right. An original music score sampling a Gregorian chant referencing the end times, an African drum beat aimed at conjuring spirits of prosperity, and sounds of coins being poured down a tin roof plays throughout the chapel. In all I want to create a place to seriously reflect the associations of wealth and money on several levels. Sculpture by Dan Tague. The Embassy Ace's Car Wash and Sweet Shop, 1342 Franklin Ave. 1-855-GUN-BANK info@cash4guns.org www.cash4guns.org Open 10/25-11/21 Tues-Sat 11-6pm. People die young in New Orleans, caught in a tragic cycle of honor and revenge. At funerals pastors scream, “The killin’ has got to end!” Cash 4 Guns! Ace’s 8th Ward Car Wash & Sweet Shop is transformed into a neighborhood amnesty zone to host a gun buyback and recording studio. Imperceptible to the passerby, The Embassy is discovered through a 1-800 number, radio ads and billboards throughout the city, all works created by guest artists. The Embassy is also home to Gun Metal Records, a recording studio where local rap and bounce celebrities collaborate with neighborhood youth on an album denouncing further bloodshed. Sounds sampled from the breaking of guns by blacksmith’s anvil feature in its beats. The opening ceremony is presided over by local reverends with Public Practice by Delaney Martin and Claire Tancons for New Orleans Airlift, a choreographed ceremony celebrating New Orleans’ passionate vernacular creativity. The evening progresses into a mélange of mothers and rappers, youth and lavender, cars and hot plates, dancers and libations of style, soul and celebration. NBA + NFL Partners (On Billboards): Elfrid Payton Jr – Magic, Keenan Lewis, New Orleans Saints, Randy Livingston, President of LivOn Basketball. Most of what we call crime is, from the point of view of the perpetrator, the pursuit of justice. Most homicides are really instances of capital punishment, with a private citizen as judge, jury and executioner. –Steven Pinker. Gun Metal Records Musicians: Mr Serv On, Sess 4-5, DJ KLC (No Limit Records), Hot Boy Ronald, Ace. A Project by Kirsha Kaechele for Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), in partnership with Randy Livingston of LiveOn Basketball, featuring work by artists: Tora Lopez, Lisa Lozano, Meghan Boody, Randy Polumbo, Ben Beams, Benjamin Hancock. Gun Purchase Performed By: Reverend Norwood Thompson, New Orleans and Jefferson Parish Gun Buy Back Committee, New Orleans Police Department. The Eumenides UNO Campus Fine Art Gallery, 2000 Lakeshore Dr. lala.rascic@gmail.com Open 11/3-12/3, M-F, 8:30am-4pm. The Eumenides is a solo exhibition of Lala Rascic's new work based on J.P. Sartre's drama, The Flies. The project focuses on Act III of the play, in which the Furies, ancient goddesses of revenge torment Electra and Orestes, and on the base premise of play: Humanity is Free. The exhibition will feature new videos and an improvised stage set where visitors are invited to participate in experimental readings of the play, interact with the set design, and use the exhibition furniture. The Front 4100 St Claude Ave. (305) 898-8630, nolafront@gmail.com nolafront.org Open all of P.3: Sat and Sun, 12-5pm and by appointment. 2nd Sat openings 6-9pm The Front, an artist-run collective and not-for-profit gallery, fosters the development of contemporary art in the city of New Orleans through innovative exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, and other arts programming, all of which are free and open to the public. Founded by artists in 2008 amidst the post-Katrina resurgence of New Orleans and committed to a spirit of grassroots DIY determinism, The Front cultivates new and experimental work, in particular from emerging artists, but also from nationally and internationally known artists. During the months of Prospect.3, The Front will exhibit a variety of group shows including an exhibition featuring the works of all 18 members: Angela Berry, Kyle Bravo, H. Cole Wiley, Lee Deigaard, Imen Djouini, Morgana King, Edna Lanieri, Cristina Molina, Stephanie Patton, Brooke Pickett, Alex Podesta, Claire Rau, Megan Roniger, Jamie Solock, Jonathan Traviesa, Jessie Vogel, John Isiah Walton, and Ryn Wilson. In November The Front will host a group show in collaboration with Photo NOLA and will feature the work of Lee Deigaard, Edna Lanieri, Jonathan Traviesa, and Ryn Wilson. In December the exhibition program will focus on three solo shows by artist members Edna Lanieri, Cristina Molina, and Jessie Vogel. For January's exhibition The Front's collective exchange program will present Mass Art Gallery from Austin, Texas. The Goddess Revisited, Willendorf to Trucker Mudflaps Mural on view at 826 Gravier St. (504) 427-9746 angaries7@gmail.com. On view for all of P.3, Opening Night 10/25 7pm; Unveiling with performance, readings, music & video. All collaborators will be in attendance. Incantation and chanting by Sallie Ann Glassman & La Source Ancienne Ounfo and Sula Spirit & Zion Trinity among other surprise guests. Myths and stories of Goddesses are abundant and compelling. This monumental mixed media mural will weave the ancients; Aphrodite, Artemis, Athena, Eve, Isis, Mary and Willendorf with contemporary Goddesses; Lady GaGa, Madonna, Angelina, Marilyn, Barbie and trucker mud flaps. Mythology, symbolism, lore and exploitation, the evolutionary Divine Feminine path and the Goddess within will capture the imagination of the viewer. Steel, plastic, glass, rope, chain, silk, sisal, vessels, canvas, paint, stone, wood, language, film and music will illustrate a transformational and enlightened image of the Goddess. An ever-morphing amalgam of energy, imagination and spirit will be the collective creative force driving this heroic and ambitious installation. Artists: Angela King- Project Creator, Artistic Director, Diana Souza - Goddess Illustrator and Conceptual Collaborator, Elizabeth Conway - Writer and Artistic Collaborator, Sus Corez- Composer, Musician, Audio Artist, Janet Walker BausFilmmaker, Elena Reeves-Walker - Designer, Katrina Andry - Illustrator, Elizabeth Eckman - Fiber Artist, Carolina Gallop - Textile Artist, Steph Smith Documentarian/ Cinematographer, Project Assistants- Julie Jacobs, Nancy Gonsalves, Kaiya McCormick, Tiffany Salter, Sallie Ann Glassman & La Source Ancienne Ounfo - Incantation, Sula Spirit and Zion Trinity -Incantation The Lowndes County Idea / Deltaworkers Resident Artist Performance Program Chateau Curioso, 641 Caffin Ave. info@deltaworkers.org www.deltaworkers.org Events and programming TBD The Nature of Now 3308 Magazine Street (415) 987-6148 thenatureofnow@gmail.com Open all P.3, Sat 10am-2pm and by appointment The Nature of Now is a group exhibition, curated by Pamala Bishop. The collection of works serve as new tapestry; a multi-sensory experience of aesthetic thread woven together to create a lyrical story. Suspended between dissonant philosophical viewpoints, the show is a labyrinthian journey focused on the impasse of nature and man. The Nature of Now is a conversation with the environment; a dialogue that purposefully seeks to confound the authority of human thought. Each of the artists uses land and organic materials as partialmedium, positing a non-anthropomorphic viewpoint for self-inquiry and to prompt reevaluation of our own ecological stewardship within the natural environment. The show seeks to unhinge the rationality of the anthropologist and assimilate into such thought the wild chaos inherent to nature. The work probes at-risk culture and ecology, specifically that of Louisiana in connection to its own nativity, touching thematically on literary concepts such as eucatastrophe and dues ex machina. By examining the systemic order of nature and interpreting the implications of human modification, the work becomes a platform for discussing sustainable development and the threat it poses to a disappearing land. Featuring work by artists Angel Chen, Anne Senstad, Shana Robbins, Brandon Ballengee Performing Artists: Ellery Burton, Nicole Gruter, Alberto Roman, Marion Spencer, and Genevieve Belleveau. The Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition presented by the Helis Foundation 1001700 Poydras St. (361) 441-6527 info@sculptureforneworleans.org www.sculptureforneworleans.org Public sculptures on view for all of P.3 Sculpture for New Orleans began shortly after Hurricane Katrina with the mission of lifting the spirits of the people of New Orleans through public art and to provide local and regional artists the opportunity to show in a public venue. In partnership with the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The City of New Orleans Department of Parys and Parkways, the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition was launched in January 2013. The project is generously underwritten by The Diana Helis Henry and The Adrienne Helis Malvin Art Funds of The Helis Foundation. 16 sculpture have been installed on Poydras Street since 2013: John Henry, "Zach's Tower" Russell Whiting, "Man Defeats Chair" Ed Wilson, "Nethership", Jason Kimes, "Before" Jason Kimes, "At Rest" Enrique Alferez, "Gymnast" James Surls, "Vase with Flowers" David Borgerding, "Sassakasoon" Welsey Wofford, "Reawakening" Mia Kaplan, "Swamp Flower" Carlo Borer, "Number 386" Martin Payton, "Savoy" Rrica Larkin Gaudet, "Enchanting" Grendels's Mother (Trisha Kyner and David Friedheim), "PINK RABBIT" Chakaia Booker "Foci" Mark Di Suvery, "Stairway to the Stars" Treo 3835 Tulane Ave. (504) 304-4878 paulinepatterson@ymail.com www.treonola.com Open all of P.3: Daily, 11:30am-12am (10/25-11/20) "Vir Heroicus Sublimis" with work by Dan Tague, Bill McKenna, and Heathcliffe Hailey. "Rta Bound" by John Isiah Walton. "Synesthesia" by Carl Joe Williams: Music and visual art will always be linked together. Sound and Vision are how we perceive the world around us. Even as infants we learn to connect and associate distinctive sounds, such as voices, sounds from toys etc. We do all of this before we understand the meaning of words, written or spoken. In the human experience sound always precedes language. Language leads to our conscious and cognitive understanding of our visual world. Visual art reveals the importance of language, for instance ‘a picture is worth a thousand words” becomes a truism for the sounds that are associated with the visual. All throughout our history artists have explored the relationship between sound and vision. Some artists create from music through the process of working to music in there studios. Some artists explore the musical structure to create visual interpretations of musical ideas and concepts. Some artists create original music and incorporate it into art practice. Synesthesia is an attempt to explore that process through the work of four Louisiana artists who work with or from music. (11/25-12/20) joint show, "Insitu" and "Elan Vitale" by Charlie Hoffacker and Karen Ocker. Also on view will be "My New Orleans Neighborhood; a collection of Photography". (12/25-1/25) husband and wife artists Chicory Mules and Malcolm McClay's show "Draught". Also on view will be "Waxing Lyrical" Tulane Contemporary.3 Carroll Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University (504) 314-2228 LRichens@tulane.edu carrollgallery.tulane.edu. Open all of P.3: Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm Group Exhibition of tenured and tenure track faculty of the Newcomb Art Department of Tulane University; Teresa A. Cole, AnnieLaurie Erickson, Ronna S Harris, Jeremy Jernegan, Kevin H. Jones, and Gene Koss. United Bakery Gallery and Annexes 1325-1337 St. Bernard Ave. (504) 495-6863 benaleshire@gmail.com Open all P.3: Gallery- Sat and Sun 1-5pm: Annexes-Sat and Sun, 12-6pm Record parties 11/4, 12/9, 1/6 7pm-11pm Poetry Speakeasy 11/8 7-9pm Book and Bake Holiday Print Sale 12/13 and 12/14 1-5pm Closing Reception 1/24 and 1/25 1-7pm United Bakery Gallery- "The Stars Are Just Like Us: Portraits and Prints by Natalie Woodlock, Kate Kibby, and Ben Aleshire". Bakery Annex "A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats" group exhibition. 1337 St Bernard- "On Backs: What Have We Built?" solo exhibition by Tamar Taylor Urban Sidewalk/Installation Space 441 Gravier St. (504) 251-4968 info@thevestigeproject.org www.thevestigesproject.org/web/trinitas and www.bureauofchange.org. Open all of P.3: 7 days, 24 hours Urban Sidewalk/Installation Space (US/IS) is a hub to explore the purposeful and industrious undertakings of the New Orleans creative community engaged in art as a social practice. Conceived as a transdisciplinary center for growing ideas, US/IS is a collective space for the narration of principle and inspiration. Exhibitions on view: VESTIGES/trinitas brings together displaced New Orleans artists with members of their former community in a large-scale, wetlands-inspired wall installation configured by artists Jan Gilbert and Debra Howell of New Orleans-based The VESTIGES Project. Begun in 2011 to mark the sixth anniversary of the PostKatrina flood and the first anniversary of the BP oil spill, VESTIGES/trinitas is about coming to terms with what’s been lost on a personal and regional scale, possibly forever. Gilbert, Howell and the contributing artists embrace the slow fading effect they expect sunlight exposure at the site will have on their collective work, which will exhibit indefinitely at US/IS. BUREAU of CHANGE is an entity of artists that engages non-artists to reimagine institutional function and philosophy. BUREAU produces projects that acknowledge the transformative power of creative, collaborative communication in our networked global society, as well the vitality of personalized interventions. The exhibition BUREAU of CHANGE: Social Services presents a new interactive work by BUREAU founder Margot Herster that reframes internet-sourced imagery of current affairs and reflects rifts between what we are shown and what we see. A third exhibition presents assemblages by Jimmy Descant from his series The Shape of Louisiana Commenting on the Shape of Louisiana, first presented at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, with recent sculptural works by New Orleans artist Ross Lunz. Each in his own way, Descant and Lunz transform objects and materials they collect as detritus of commercial society to form meticulously crafted statements on social, technological and environmental conflicts that are simultaneously intensely particular to Southeast Louisiana and pervasively American. Artists: Monica Koechli Arpin, Jacques Arpin, Alex Baker, Dave Baker, Jacqueline Bishop, Barbara Brainard, Pearl Clarkm, Andrei Codrescu, Dylan Cruz, Luis CruzAzaceta, Jimmy Descant, Lee Deigaard, Karen Oser Edmunds, Michael Fedor, Alan Gerson, Jan Gilbert, Brandon Graving, Maggie Hadleigh-West, Shawn Hall, Rachel Harris-Beck, Margot Herster, Debra Howell, Elizabeth Howie, Sharon Jacques, Krista Jurisich, Lori A. Kent, Elizabeth Kleinveld, Mari Kornhauser, Crystal Kile, Frahn Koerner, Susan Loeb, Ross Lunz, Kevin J. McCaffrey, Page Moran, Darlene Olivo, Mary Jane Parker, Mary Perrin, Francine Prevost, Kathy Randels, Rontherin Ratliff, Laura Richens, Ama Rogan, Ben Schenk, Cynthia Scott, Caroline Senter, Mary Sherman, Maxx Sizeler, Jamuna Yvette Sirker, Susan Svendsen, Jan Villarrubia, Michele White, Nancy E. Wyllie, Alexis Wreden With Light, With Love The Tigermen Den, 3113 Royal St. (917) 414-3985 contact@thetigermenden.com www.thetigermenden.com Open all of P.3: Saturdays 1-5pm The Tigermen Den is a former corner store built in the 1830's, recently historically restored and converted to a Community Art & Performance Space. The building sits as an art piece in itself, representing the workmanship of New Orleans past. The Artists in this show represent a vibrant and talented selection of the present day and future of the New Orleans creative arts community. 10/23-12/6 Work by Veronica Cross, Caroline Yes, Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith, Gretchen Faust 10/13-1/25: outdoor installation by Lee Kyle, Marcella Singleton, and Joy Patterson 12/13-1/25: Work by Nina Nichols, Jade Brandt, Shawn Hall, Myrna L. Enamorado, Joy Patterson, and Magda Boreysza.