February 8 - February 23, 2025
Opening reception on Second Saturday, February 8, 6-10pm.
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm. & by Appointment
Programming This Month
Opening Night 2/8
Bianca Walker Live Painting
Chad Serhal Noise, Idaho - Dance like the wind
Thursday 2/13
Taylor Balkissoon hosts FULL MOON RAGE ROOM featuring Gabriela, Aliyuhhh, Dime, Simone Maya
Room 1
Gabrielle Tolliver, Levis Jeans (Hope It Was Worth It), Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 48 inches, 2024
Gabrielle Tolliver, Meta, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, 2021
Gabrielle Tolliver, Shadow, Acrylic on Canvas, 38 x 35 inches, 2017
Luxury of Loneliness
Gabrielle Tolliver
Painting and installation piece
Luxury of Loneliness explores the paradox of loneliness—not as isolation, but as individuality. We exist in proximity, yet no two people can ever truly occupy the same space. This realization isn’t a burden; it’s a luxury. In a world that pushes us to fit molds, to follow blueprints, to be echoes of someone else, my art pushes back. It celebrates the unrepeatable—what it means to be singular, to be one of one.
These works investigate the tension between connection and selfhood, the space between belonging and being. They seek to highlight the beauty in standing alone—not as an outsider, but as an original. In a time when voices are being silenced, when the song of truth is stripped away, this work seeks to reclaim that melody. My art is a resistance, a recognition, and a reminder: being one of one is not isolation. It is power.
Gabrielle Tolliver is a visual artist from New Orleans, Louisiana, specializing in abstract expressionism. Her works explore the complexities of human emotions, resulting in labyrinthine intersections of color that mimic these emotions' intricate layering.
Using watercolor, acrylic paint, and ink as her primary mediums, Tolliver’s process involves building wash-like layers of paint through a call and response method, allowing each layer to interact freely with the canvas. The use of fluid mediums necessitates a relinquishing of control, emphasizing the importance of true deliberation into the artistic practices of the 21st century. This methodology allows the flow of each layer to be unknown until dried and builds upon the work’s narrative similar to the flow of our emotions. This method ensures that each artwork is a one-of-a-kind creation.
Tolliver’s work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Ogden Museum of Louisiana, CICA Museum, and Studio BE. She has received grants from the National Performance Network, Red Bull, and Art Council New Orleans to continue her artistic endeavors. Through her thoughtful and introspective art practice, Tolliver invites viewers to explore and reflect on the complexities of human emotions and their relationships.
Instagram: @gabbytolliverart
Website: https://www.gabrielletolliverart.com/Room 2
Art & Environment Team show poster
Luc Allain Change and Cherish
Ashton Howard Nothing Gold Can Stay
Micah Leverett Cypress Knee Princess
Somewhere In Time
Luc Allain Ginina Biondini Dez Breaux Luke Chastant Ashton Howard Micah Leverett Savannah Phillips
"Somewhere In Time” brings together seven artists who have participated in the newly-developed interdisciplinary course, Art & the Environment at Southeastern Louisiana University. Throughout our experience in the class, we gathered at Turtle Cove Environmental Research Center in the Manchac Swamp, immersing ourselves in the natural environment while learning about its rich history and fragile ecosystem.
This exhibition explores the intersection of time, memory, and our relationship with the environment. Featuring a variety of mediums, from painting and sculpture to textiles and photography, each work reflects the artists’ deep connection to both the natural world and the passage of time.
Luc Allain – Oil painter specializing in nature and fantasy scenes. @lgallain
Ginina Biondini – Multimedia fiber sculptor exploring themes of loss, memory, and identity. @ginninabiondini
Dez Breaux – Eccentric artist focused on the human condition and nature. @dez.breaux
Luke Chastant – Artist with a graffiti-inspired style in video, sculpture, and drawing. @trashylucky
Ashton Howard – Self-portraiture artist exploring evolving identity. @ashtonahoward
Micah Leverett – Process-oriented artist using paint and textiles to express hidden emotions. @angeldatenight
Savannah Phillips – Ceramic and photography artist exploring human-environment relationships. @savannah_rae_phillips
@art.enviro.slu @turtlecove_selu @slu_contemporary
Room 3
Bianca Walker Colored Water, paint on contractor bag w/ wood and eye hooks 65" x 60"
Bianca Walker Belle Glade, paint on contractor bag w/ wood and eye hooks 65" x 60"
Bianca Walker RIP Jim Crow, paint on contractor bag w/ wood and eye hooks 65" x 60"
CROW
Bianca Walker
paint on contractor bags w/ wood and eye hooks
Crow is a portrait of the revolution.
Bianca Walker is a 27-year-old, nonbinary painter from the Bay Area, California. Walker migrated to Louisiana and began their studies at Grambling State University, where they were submerged in painting and Black history. As their education continued, they quickly grew tired of traditional art methods and began to use a drip painting technique that reflects their street art roots. After developing the technique while receiving an MFA at the University of New Orleans, Walker now uses these drips as an integral part of their visual language while incorporating archival imagery of the African Diaspora.
ig: biancawalkerartRoom 4
444
Taylor Balkissoon
video installation, ephemera
444 is a collection of omens. There will be 3 projectors playing video pieces that are associated with air, water, earth and fire. Broadly the show is about love, my family, race, capitalism, grief, atonement, and revolution.
Taylor Balkissoon is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, organizer and spiritualist of Jamaican and French Canadian descent. They earned their BFA in Photography from University of Colorado Denver in 2014, and have lived in New Orleans since 2018. For the last four years they have been writing the horoscopes for Antigravity Magazine and providing tarot and astrology readings across the city and the country. They are the founder of the grassroots arts organization Uptown Laundry, a collective that platforms anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist artists, and provides logistical and material support for local and global causes as well as individuals.
www.taylorbalkissoon.com
@what_are_the_wild_waves_saying
@uptownlaundryyy