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

September 5-September 12

It’s the second Saturday of September, and all of New Orleans will be abuzz with art openings from Uptown, to Julia, and all the way down St. Claude. Start your artsy Saturday off with an outdoor party at the Big Top, then make your way downtown for a Bike Art Party with Katrina Brees. Stroll around the city to catch exhibitions from performance artists, sculptors, painters, and more.   

 

Openings:      

 

Antieau Gallery, 927 Royal St.

Katrina Brees’ Bike Art Party is this weekend, and the local artist and founder of the Bearded Oysters and Krewe of Kolossus will be hosting a reception from 5-8pm to showcase her bike sculptures. The party will include cocktails and refreshments. Two of Brees’ sculptures will be in the gallery until the end of the month.                    

 

Ariodante Gallery, 535 Julia St.

Opening September 1: Paintings by Taft McWhorter, metal sculptures by Hernan Caro, and jewelry by Betsy Meyers Green. Lagniappe show: Bob Rue. On View through September 30.

 

 

Barrister’s Gallery,2331 St. Claude Ave

This is How We Roll, a survey of the UNO Graduate Students, curated by Dan Tague and Tony Campbell and featuring artists Corbin R. Wayne Covher, Vanessa Centeno, Ryn Wilson, Valerie Corradetti, Wendell Brunious, Kevin Baer, and David Hassell. Pop-Up exhibit by Sallie Ann Glassman. Opening September 8, on view through October 6.

 

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

Free Street B-Q and Art Opening of Open Call, 3-6pm. The Big Top 3 Ring Circus’ new Director Nicole B-Z welcomes all to the party.

 

Don’t miss the Big Top’s “Sketchy Saturday’s,” where they’ll highlight visual artists alongside music.

 

Byrdie’s Gallery, 2422A St. Claude

Pop Art by Sarah Amacker, opening September 8, reception from 6-10pm. Amacker’s pop art style gives simple photographs a pulse, bringing to life the beauty and complexity of the ordinary through bright and bold expression. On view through October 9.  

 

 

Coup d’ Oeil, 2033 Magazine St.

Opening September 1: Paintings by New Orleans-based artist Meghan Methe. Methe’s work will be on view through the end of the month. 

 

The Front, 4100 St. Claude 

Andrew Miller’s exhibit explores branding, Rachel Amanda Jones exhibits new painting and installation work, Phillip Berezney blends sculpture and performance, and Ryan Watkins-Hughes curates Fair and Used. Open from 12pm-5pm on Saturday and Sunday, exhibition opening September 8. On view through October 7.

 

 

Good Children Gallery, 4037 St. Claude Ave.

GC New Member Exhibition, featuring Siobhan Feehan, Jayme Kalal, Tameka Jenean Norris, and Nina Schwanse. Opening reception September 8, 6-10pm. On view through September 16.

 

Jean Bragg Gallery, 600 Julia St.

Opening September 1: Oscar Quesada, Q the Cloud, Personal Haunts and Delta Marvels. On view through October 6.

 

 

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400 Julia St.

Sidonie Villere and Jonathan Ferrara will present their exhibitions, Villere’s Adjust, and Ferrara’s, Correlation, at Isidore Newman’s Reynolds Ryan Art Gallery (5333 Danneel Street). Reception September 5, on view through September 28.

 

Soren Christensen Gallery, 400 Julia St.

Wind by Ann Schwab. New mixed media, sculpture, installation, and works on paper. Opening reception September 8, on view through September 29.

 

Staple Goods, 1340 St. Roch Ave.

Carried, New Works from Robyn Denny. Denny’s work uses figures to illustrate tension by illustrating their movements from catastrophic events. The exhibition will continue on Saturday’s and Sundays through October 7.

 

 

Ten Gallery at the Salon Studios 4432 Magazine St.

Jeff Rinehart’s exhibition Falling Down, opened September 1, and will be on view until September 30.

 

 

NOMA’s Where Y’Art?! This Friday night NOMA will feature music from John Doheny. The museum team up with the New Orleans Film Society for an outdoor screening of Disney’s The Princess and the Frog in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden. NOMA is screening the film in honor of Leah Chase, the inspiration for Princess Tiana. Free for children under 17 (accompanied by an adult) and $6 for adults. Food from Crepes a la Cart, Woody’s Fish Tacos, and Green to Go NOLA. If you come dressed as your favorite character from the movie, get a free NOMA poster!

 

Ogden After Hours this Thursday will feature musical stylings of Natalie Mae, singer and multi-instrumentalist who has been described as “inventive, detailed, emotionally straightforward, poetic, and plainspoken,” by Detroit Music Hall of Fame member Dick Siegel. Don’t miss the regular O Yum food from Miss Linda’s Soul Food Catering, O Fun Kids’ Art Activity, and the O Raffle. $10 general admission, free for members.

 

Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Art of the Cup: Functional Comfort, an exhibition featuring two functional cups from over 75 artists, each with a connection to the south. Opening reception September 6 from 6-10pm, on view through December 10.

 

 

Ongoing:

 

Arthur Roger Gallery, 432-434 Julia St. 

Paintings by Holton Rower from his exhibition, Love Heals. Video Installation by John Pilson—Altogether Elsewhere, and Quiver, objects from Rob Wynne. On view through September 15.

 

 

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

Circus. Circus. Circus. September at the Big Top will feature a number of events, so mark your calendars. Here’s a full roundup.

 

Callan Contemporary, 240 Chartres St.

Raine Bedsole presents her new body of work Dream Documents, inspired by the time she spent in Greece and Cuba. On view through September 28.

 

d. o. c. s., a studio gallery of contemporary art, 709 Camp St.

The Mystique, The Brilliance, paintings by Chic Connell. On view through September 27.

 

The Foundation Fine Art Gallery, 608 Julia St.

All Alive and Close Enough to Touch—Rob Stephens—printmaking. On view through November 3.

 

 

Guthrie Contemporary Gallery, 3815 Magazine St. 

Identity, an exhibition featuring the work of Carlos Villasante, Sharon Jacques, and Carlos Betancourt.

 

Heriard-Cimino Gallery, 440 Julia St.

Aaron McNamee presents his collection of original artwork Between the Pages. On view through September 24.

 

 

Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400 Julia St.

The 16th Annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition opened August 28. Exhibition will be on view until September 28.

 

 

Le Mieux Galleries, 332 Julia St.

They Were Hopelessly Outnumbered, ceramic sculptures and drawings by John Donovan. Opened August 4, on view through September 29.

 

M. Francis Gallery, 604 Julia St.

Evolution: The Spirit of an Artist, by Myesha Francis.

 

Mallory Page Studio Works, 641 Julia St.  

Recent work by Mallory Page, mixed media on canvas and wood panel.

 

Martine Chaisson Gallery,727 Camp St.

Infinite Flux, oil on canvas by Batya Kuncman. On view through September 29.

 

Octavia Art Gallery, 4532 Magazine Street

Living with Pop, Emerging Artists and Modern Masters. This overview of pop culture and pop art from the 1960’s to the present will include works by Haring, Lichtenstein, Wesselman, Warhol, and more. On view through September 29.

 

Salon Gallery, 4432 Magazine St.

The Franklin Collection. Alumni from Ben Franklin High School (1961-2012) share their work. On view through August 27. 

 

 

Stella Jones Gallery, 201 St. Charles Ave.

Mr. “I” The Bottle Cap Man—Mr. Imagination—bottle caps, found objects, mixed media.

 

Enduring Legacies, 7 Black Artists. On view through August 30.

 

 

Museum Exhibitions: 

 

New Orleans Museum of Art 

 

 Forever, a kaleidoscopic mural by Odili Donald Odita. First floor elevator lobby on view through October 7, 2013. 

 

Ralston Crawford and Jazz. 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.

 

Dario Robleto’s The Prelives of the Blues, will be on view until September 16, 2012. Robleto’s exhibitionis 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. 

 

Ogden Museum of Southern Art 925 Camp St.

 

• Louisiana Contemporary, juried exhibition of 45 Louisiana artists and 86 works, on view through September 24.

 

• New Southern Photography—Birney Imes, Kathleen Robbins, Bruce West, S. Gayle Stevens, Andrew Garn, Heidi Kirkpatrick, Alex Leme, and more--on view through September 23. 

 

• Louisiana Photographs from the Ogden Permanent Collection E.J. Bellocq, Clarence John Laughlin, Walker Evans, Elemore Morgan Sr., Alec Soth, and more. On view until September 23. 

 

• Historic Landscapes and Portraits--a visual journey through 18th and 19th century Louisiana, in celebration of our state's Bicentennial. Taken heavily from Roger H. Ogden's collection. 

 

• The Kohlmeyer Circle--H. Cole Wiley incorporates his gaming background into the exhibition as a statement on the viewer's relationship with art and technology. Lin Emery presents her installation of "theatrical auto-kinetic work." On view through September 23.  

 

• 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. 

 

Contemporary Arts Center: 

 

• NOLA NOW, Part II: The Human Figure. Closing Reception August 4, 6-11pm.

 

• 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. 

 

Art by Sarah Amacker