March 15 - April 6, 2025
Opening reception on Saturday, March 15th 6-10pm.
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm. & by Appointment
Programming This Month
Opening Night 3/15
Food offered by Queen Shereen
New Member Show in all four rooms
Riley Teahan, Cried My Eyes Out, 2023
Rachel Gorman, Alien Tourist T-shirt, 2024
Kyle Baxter Young, Exchanges, 2024
Jemima Joél Take Me To the River, 2024
is Wholing Center #1, 2021
Danielle Fauth, Untitled (The Truck Smells Like Sunblock), 2022
Angela Lynn Tucker, A Texas Jewel, 2024
The Front is excited to welcome nine new members. Each of these artists were selected to join our collective from 36 talented applicants. They will each have the opportunity to show work 4 times during the coming two years, and for now we will introduce them with a group show opening March 15th. Come see a little preview of the great art coming from our new members!
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
Riley Teahan is an interdisciplinary artist based in New Orleans. Her creative practice is rooted in nature, presence, and ritual. She is the co-director of Mortal Self; a multimedia production company to inspire healing with the land. Their project 6: An Unbirth won first place at the Ogden Museum’s Louisiana Contemporary show and their latest feature film Winter in Pluto, an experimental love myth, premiered in November 2022. Riley believes our creativity is our power; she loves to make clothes, ceramics and jewelry.
rileyteahan.com @rileyteahan
Rachel Gorman is an award-winning artist and speculative designer working between New Orleans and New York. Her practice explores the embodied experience of possible futures, blending research with imagination, living and sustainable materials, bodily sensations, and creative technology to create installations and artifacts that transport audiences and spark meaningful dialogue. She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design (2023) and is the co-founder of through studio, a design lab and consultancy that applies speculative frameworks and emerging biotechnology to address global environmental challenges and envision more sustainable futures. She is excited to present her work as a member of The Front and as a featured artist at the NYCxDesign Festival in Spring 2025.
Rachelgorman.online @RachelGMakes throughstudio.com
Kyle Baxter Young (b. 1998) is a painter from Dover, Delaware. He is based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Participating in the tradition of the tableau, his pieces stage unexpected interactions between characters, objects, and icons. Depicted scenes explore the relationship of humans and beings to one another, to their vices, and to the material world.
www.fakepaint.com @kyle.young @fakepaint
Jemima Joél is a singer and visual artist from Algiers in New Orleans, Louisiana. Joél works to integrate how the experience of seeing visual artists and hearing music co-exists. Joél is a black folk artist that uses her works to create conversations around how American history affects today’s social climate to promote healing and understanding. Her works are very imaginative and often a needed discomfort that allows people to connect with their emotions. She explores how the current black family unit is a product of a past. Her art style is most inspired by the works of Lina Iris Viktor, Kerry James Marshall, Andrew Lamar Hopkins, and John Holyfield. Her primary medium is acrylic paint on wood canvas, but she also enjoys jewelry making and digital art.
She began learning art in high school at Sophie B. Wright Charter School. She then went on to study Sociology and African American Studies at Loyola University, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science.
Joél discovered her love for singing growing up alongside her mother and sister singing at her childhood home Baptist church. She performs at local music venues in the city and writes her own song lyrics as well as records music. She has released over six original songs and has had her local TV debut on WWL-TV Morning News on Juneteenth of 2024.
www.thewomanwhosingsandpaints.com
is = curates connection to self, other and nature, through many different media, reflecting experience as an educator, performer, artist, and linguist. As a trained art director and aspiring cultural architect, big picture solutions are envisioned to address how we interact with the spaces around us, including the people within them and ourselves. Newfound approaches to conflict resolution, diplomacy, and expression lay at the heart of this work.
At this juncture, the bulk of this purposeful work centers around play activism, spatial alchemy and is encompassed by the theme of correspondence. Examining the relationship between “self” and “other” allows for a realization of sameness which reinforces the power we have as individuals over our own lives and the spaces we inhabit.
slomediagroup.com @is_ing @slomediagroup_com YT: @slomediagroup_com email: is@slomediagroup.com
Danielle Fauth is an interdisciplinary sculptor born and raised in Long Island, New York. She received an MFA in Sculpture from Tulane University in 2022. Fauth was a 2022 RedLine CAC Satellite Studio Artist in Denver, Colorado, a 2023 Volland Foundation Artist in Residence, and was selected as an AIR at Anderson Ranch in 2023. She currently lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. Using personal effects, found objects & patterns in the landscape as points of departure, Fauth aims to open a dialogue around the poetics of material by reinterpreting the ordinary & inanimate as resonant beings that constellate a map of human experience.
Carl Harrison Jr. is a filmmaker, multimedia artist, and dedicated beekeeper based in New Orleans. His work spans documentary and fiction shorts, as well as web series, often exploring themes of race, music, and southern cultural traditions. Known for his immersive storytelling and bold, socially conscious projects, Harrison brings a unique artistic vision to his work. His contributions to "The Sweetness Archive" exhibition reflect his passion for the intersection of art, ecology, and personal narrative, as well as his connection to the natural world through beekeeping. Through his art, Harrison encourages audiences to contemplate the delicate balance between nature and humanity.
www.carlharrisonjr.com
@carl_harrisonjr
Angela Lynn Tucker is an Emmy and Webby-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Fusing art and social justice, her work challenges the status quo by confronting both the trauma and beauty of living in a Black body in America. From documentaries interrogating the prison system to holiday films starring Patti LaBelle, her work spans genres while remaining deeply committed to truth-telling.
Her films have screened at Tribeca, BlackStar, and New Orleans Film Festival and aired on NBC and Netflix. Her first solo exhibition debuted at The Diboll Gallery at Tulane University, followed by an installation at True/False Film Festival, where she is an Artist in Residence.
Her latest documentary about political icon Barbara Jordan, The Inquisitor, will premiere in 2025. Angela is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA in Film from Columbia University. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in New Orleans, LA.
@tuckergurl
https://www.angelatuckerart.com
https://www.tuckergurl.com