Art Openings and Shows in NOLA

Each week, NoDef brings you a comprehensive directory of visual arts
in the Crescent City from Julia to St. Claude

June 20-27

This week on the art beat, jazz takes many forms at NOMA, Stonehenge lands in New Orleans to help us celebrate the Solstice and the CAC shows off NOLA Now. Here's the full rundown of art openings, plus all of this month's new stuff you might have missed:

 

OPENINGS

 

New Orleans Museum of Art

Ralston Crawford and Jazz, opening June 22. Crawford’s collection of over 150 photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, and films explore the intersections of various art forms in New Orleans. On view through October 14.

 

Contemporary Arts Center

NOLA NOW, Part II: The Human Figure. Opening reception on June 23, 6-8pm. Closing Reception August 4, 6-11pm.

 

Corner of St. Claude and Bartholomew

On Wed., June 20,, celebrate the summer solstice at St. Claude and Bartholomew! Artist Dave Rhodes’ large scale Stonehenge replica is already up for everyone to see, with the party really getting going once summer officially begins at 6:09pm. Organizers encourage people to bring out their own instruments to celebrate the longest day of the year.  

 

 

ONGOING

 

Ariodante Gallery, 535 Julia St. Paintings by Bettina Miret; Jewelry by Kiki Hurston; New art from Phillip Lightweiss-Goff, Opening Reception is on June 2, 6-9 pm. The exhibitions will be on view through June 30.

 

Arthur Roger, 432 Julia St.

Rings of Granite, an exhibition from Jesus Morales. Opening June 2. Morales is recognized as one of the greatest sculptors working in granite today. The artist works with materials such as Texas Pink, Black, Dakota, and Fredericksburg to create his unique sculptures that will be on view through July 14.

 

Barrister’s Gallery,2331 St. Claude Ave

Vision of the Unnatural World. Painters Nikki Crook, Amy Guidry, and Monique Ligons. Opening reception May 12, 6-9pm. On view through June 23. 

 

The Big Top 3 Ring Circus Arts Education Center,1638 Clio St. 

Heather Weathers Presents her new installation, Maxi Paid Dress, as well as her XL Fem Capsule, a collection of percolated feminist ideas in a time capsule. Meet the Artist Reception June 8, 6-9pm. Spoken word by Kaitlyn Buchbaum, Live Performance by Alexandra Scott. On view through July 7.

 

Byrdie’s Gallery, 2422A St. Claude Ave

Hallie Marie Kuhn presents her Ceramics Exhibition, on view through July 10.

 

Callan Contemporary 240 Chartres St. 

Jose-Maria Cundin presents Opus Concava on June 1. Cundin has referred to his oil paintings on wood-panel as “portraits, pseudo-portraits, echograms, and ectoplasm imagery.” The artist’s work will be on view through July 25.

 

Carol Robinson Gallery 840 Napoleon Ave.

Artists Jere Allen, Noah Saterstrom, Beverly Dennis, Jean Geraci, David Goodman, and Doug Sweet present The Sixth Month. On view through June 2012.

 

Cole Pratt Gallery, 3800 Magazine St.

Artist Katie Rafferty presents, About a Line, on June 2. The opening reception will last from 5:30-8pm. Rafferty’s mixed media monotypes and canvas works explore the many manifestations of “the line.” The exhibition will be on view through the month of June.

 

 

Coup d’ Oeil, 2033 Magazine St.

Blaine Capone presents Ghosts of the Quarry, on view through July 21.

 

Guthrie Contemporary Gallery, 3815 Magazine St. 

DeeDee Morrison’s “Charmed” uses heavy industrial metals, laser get cutting methods and botanical inspired designs to create solar-powered, sustainable sculptures.  

 

The Front, 4100 St. Claude 

Jan Gilbert presents 30 Years/30 Blocks, an installation-book retrospective installation that explores three decades of place and public artwork. Gilbert and artist Babette Billbeau will also be introducing their Cajun Prayer Flags, a project that blends Tibetan, Japanese, and Cajun cultural traditions. Passersby will be able to write their own special intentions on the flags. Opening reception June 9, 6-10pm. On view through July 8.  

 

Good Children Gallery, 4037 St. Claude Ave.

Heat Wave:  Stephen Collier, T.J. Donovan, Aaron McNamee and Stephen G. Rhodes. Opening reception June 9, 6-10 p.m. On view through July 8.

 

Heriard-Cimino Gallery, 440 Julia St.

Fresh! New work and ongoing work from artists represented in the gallery. For information about artists displaying their work, visit http://www.heriardcimino.com/artsrepre.html. The new art will be on view through July 30.

 

HomeSpace Gallery,1128 St. Roch Ave 

Beheld, a photographic exhibition with work by Andy Cook, Muffin Bernstein, Gayle Stevens, Judy Sherrod, Meg Turner, and Louviere+Vanessa. Opening Reception June 9, 6pm.

 

Jean Bragg Gallery, 600 Julia St.

Cries of New Orleans is a group exhibition with Carol Hallock opening June 2. The paintings will be on view through July 7.

 

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400 Julia St.

Painter Sandy Chism presents her collection, In the Trying, on June 1. The artist’s oil on canvas paintings will be on view through July 21.

Thornton Dial’s Works on Paper will also be on view until July 21.

 

LeMieux Galleries, 332 Julia St. 

Group show entitled Man, Myth, Monster opens on June 2. Opening reception from 6-8pm. The show is curated by gallery co-director Christy Wood and will be on view through July 28.  

 

Martine Chaisson Gallery, 727 Camp St

In “Parallel,” JT Blatty’s photographs explore the symmetry between the fossil and the human form, by combining portions of the human figure juxtaposed with fossils she has collected over the years. The exhibition will also include a separate display of fossils from the images. Opening reception is on Saturday, May 5 from 6-9pm.

 

May Gallery, 2839 N. Robertson

The Bywater’s newest art space is launching June 8, at 7:30pm. Exhibition by Katie Lerin, sound by Kim Hebert, and video by Wesley Stokes.

 

Octavia Art Gallery, 4532 Magazine Street

Inside/Outside: Contemporary Cuban Art. Opening reception June 2, 6-8pm. On view through June 30. 

 

Soren Christensen, 400 Julia St.

Watershed by Gretchen Weller Howard. The popular New Orleans artist brings her new mixed media on canvas and panel. Rear Gallery: Traveling by Michael Marlowe. Smoky, atmospheric landscapes on panel. Opening reception June 2, 6-8pm. On view through June 30.

 

Stella Jones Gallery, 201 St. Charles Ave.

Abstract Expressionist Ed Clark presents Louisiana Roots: Ed Clark. On view through June 30.

 

UNO St. Claude Gallery, 2429 St. Claude Ave.

2-D 3-D, a group show of current and incoming MFA grad students. Opening reception June 9, 6-10 p.m.

 

 

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 

 

 New Orleans Museum of Art

 

• Dario Robleto’s The Prelives of the Blues, will be on view until September 16, 2012. Robleto’s exhibition is centered on the time he spent in New Orleans and his observations on the nature of the city’s musical culture.
• Self Taught Artists from NOMA’s Permanent Collectionwill be on view through June 10, 2012. The exhibition features the works of eleven auto didactic southern artists.
• What is a photograph? Opens April 20. On view through August 19 in the Templemen Galleries. Works dating back to the 1840’s from NOMA’s permanent collection explore the question in the exhibition’s title.
•  Leah Chase: Paintings by Gustave Blache III. The exhibition of Blache’s 20 paintings of the New Orleans icon will be on view April 24-September 9.
• Drawn to the Edge. Katie Holten debuts her site-specific, large-scale installations in NOMA's Great Hall Space. Holten's work explores Louisiana's relationship with her natural environment. On view through September 9. 

 

Contemporary Arts Center 900 Camp St. 

 

• NOLA NOW, Part II. Through August 5, 2012, First Floor Gallery. Curated by Don Marshall, Founding Executive Director of CAC.
• EXPOSE: Parse Gallery, Staple Goods Collective, T-LOT. On view until October 7, 2012 in the St. Joseph St. Windows.
• Elijah Burgher presents Notes on the Application of Magic to Visual Art on June 7 in conjunction with Press Street’s Antenna Gallery. Burgher’s art deals with queer identity and meaning.

 

 

 

 

Ogden Museum of Southern Art 925 Camp St.

 

• Sally Chandler: The Lost World. Chandler’s paintings attempt to break down boundaries of space and time and binaries like masculinity and femininity. Her 84 works will be on view through July 23.   
• Mark Messersmith: Maximalist and Naturalist. Messersmith’s paintings explore the flora and fauna of northern Florida and comment on the dangers facing the natural landscape in the area. On view through July 23. 
• Alexa Kleinbard: Remedies.  Kleinbard explores folk remedies as well as the balance humans must attempt with nature in her work. On view through July 23. 
• Artist Spotlight, Center for Southern Craft and Design: Forrest Bacigalupi.  http://www.ogdenmuseum.org/exhibitions/index.html
• William Adair: The Gilded Doors to Infinity Project. Adair’s exhibition of 31 total doors (3 at the Ogden) comments on the current battle between industry and  intellectual property rights. The artist surrenders his ownership by encouraging the public to alter the doors.
• Andrews-Humphrey Gallery: George “The Dot Man.”Andrews (1911-1996) was a self-taught artist from Plainview, Georgia. The exhibit also includes his son, the late Benny, who was a civil rights activist and proponent for change in the art world, where he faced discrimination as a multiracial artist. Nene Humphrey is a sculpture, drawer, and printmaker whose work draws from her Roman Catholic background.
• Walter Anderson Gallery. Anderson was born in New Orleans on 1903. He was a painter, potter, writer and naturalist. He spent the majority of his life working at his family’s pottery business and eventually moved to Horn Island, which became the main influence of his later works. 
• Shifting, Photographs by Michel Varisco. Opens April 19, reception at 6pm. Varisco’s work captures the beauty of the Louisiana Wetlands and the Gulf of Mexico while bringing attention to the major risks these areas face, both natural and manmade.

 

Artwork: "One-Eyed Monster," by Kate Samworth.