December 11, 2021 - January 2, 2022
Opening reception Saturday, December 11, 2021, from 6 - 10pm. Masks required indoors.
Regular hours Saturday & Sunday, 12 - 5pm.
Closed 12/25/21 and 1/1/22.
Open 12/26/21, 12 - 5pm
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Sunday, Dec 19 Gallery is open 12 - 5pm
Shannon Stewart - river, river, river - looping study during gallery hours RSVP
Jeremy Guyton - a little bump in the road 3pm
Thursday Dec 30 - Sunday Jan 2
Ann Glaviano - RSVP
Shannon Stewart - RSVP
Room 1
Daniela Leal, Another day like this will come, Archival Pigment Print, 20x30, 2018.
Daniela Leal, Abuela Melo, Archival Pigment Print, 2019.
Daniela Leal, Mami walking the dog, Archival Pigment Print, 2020.
Home Sketch
Dani Leal
In her first solo exhibition in New Orleans, Leal meditates on home, and the ever-evolving relationship we have to it. Born into many of them as a second-generation immigrant to parents from Cuba and Argentina, home has always meant looking for evidence of one amongst the other, an ever-present allusion to a previous place and time. Having laid roots in New Orleans over the past eight years, creating a new meaning of home, Leal’s frequent returns to Miami reflect on the past while experiencing it anew, keeping track of what continues to be a fire burning passion for keeping tradition alive. Volatile, exhausting, and increasingly warm, “Home Sketch” emphasizes the impermanence of feeling, and the ability of our familial relationships to sustain us across borders.
Daniela Leal is a photographer living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana and on occasion Miami, Florida where she was born and raised. She has exhibited work at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work explores intergenerational narratives and Love as a notion and an act, and their connection to identity and place. Leal was the Artist-in-Residence at Mentoring Artists for Women's Art (MAWA) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and a Fall 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. She is currently a collective member of The Front, an artist-run space in Bywater, New Orleans.
Room 2
Ann Glaviano, an animal dance (2021), Twenty-minute live performance Dec 28-30 and Jan 2 at 7 p.m. RSVP HERE.
Jeremy Guyton, a little bump in the road (2021), Video, live performance Sunday Dec 19.
ryuta iwashita, 6がつのとおいからだ (Far Bodies in June) (2020), video, 12がつのちかいからだ (Close Bodies in December) (2021), Live performance Saturday Dec 11.
Meryl Murman and Yanina Orellana as part of CASSANDRA, murmuration (2021), video.
Shannon Stewart | Screaming Traps, river, river, river (looping study), audio + live performances during regular gallery hours dec 11, 12, 19, 26, and Jan 2.
re:FRAME Dance
Ann Glaviano, Jeremy Guyton, Ryuta Iwashita, Meryl Murman, Yanina Orellana, & Shannon Stewart
re:FRAME Dance exhibits the work and processes of six dance artists in solo dancemaking processes. Using Room 2 of the Front, the collective reframes the gallery experience by activating the space in different ways throughout the month-long exhibition while also sharing footage of their creative processes and outputs along the way. Each re:FRAME artist has been working across form, with inventive ways of collaborating across great distances, and through deep dives into personal and familial terrain.
Accompanying this exhibition, re:FRAME is hosting a weekend of workshops and community conversations at the Contemporary Arts Center and Beaubourg - EVERY BODY DANCE NOW. Information can be found here.
re:FRAME is movement-research collective of dance artists based in New Orleans--Ann Glaviano, Jeremy Guyton, Ryuta Iwashita, Meryl Murman, Yanina Orellana, and Shannon Stewart-- exploring alternative systems for artistic sustainability. re:FRAME artists formed a multi-year cohort for developing solo work and having been sharing their processes along the way.
Ann Glaviano is a native New Orleanian. Since 2013 she has directed a collaborative, cross-disciplinary performance project called Known Mass. She has studied extensively with Deborah Hay and performed with New Orleans Ballet Theatre, among others.
Jeremy Guyton is a Los Angeles native and a core artist with several New Orleans–based dance and theatre companies; his work has been presented at the Sydney Opera House with Solange, and in collaboration with CERN, the astrophysics lab at the Franco-Swiss border.
Ryuta Iwashita is a New Orleans–based queer Japanese visual and performance artist. They have facilitated workshops in Japan, China, and the US, including at Tulane University, WCCI Jam, and Earthdance.
Meryl Murman and Yanina Orellana as part of CASSANDRA. Meryl Murman is an Arab-American dance-maker. Her work has been presented at the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. She’s received two fellowships from the US Embassy to create live art with refugee populations in Ukraine and Thessaloniki.
Yanina Orellana is a Mexican movement artist whose work examines Mexican traditions and ritual through a contemporary lens.
Shannon Stewart was born in the South and came of age as an artist in the Pacific Northwest, Bay Area, and Europe. Her work has been presented throughout the US and Europe, including Tulane University and DOCK 11 Berlin, and was slated to appear in 2020 at the Kennedy Center.
Room 3
Misato Pang, Tree, acrylic on paper, 15"x11", 2021.
Misato Pang, Wind is blowing, acrylic on paper, 15"x11", 2021.
Misato Pang, Fall, acrylic on paper, 15"x11", 2021.
Jacob Janes, Untitled, gouache on paper, 11" x 10, 2020.
Jacob Janes, Nightcrawler, gouache and crayon on paper, 10" x 10.5, 2020.
Jacob Janes, Andres' Cap, gouache, crayon, and ink on paper, 10" x 11, 2020.
Recent Works on Paper
Misato Pang and Jacob Janes
Leaning into abstraction as poetry, I seek to find beautiful ways to express my internalized restlessness and melancholy. Rhythm, temperature, picture plane, geometry, and colors all work together in creating drama and tension within each painting, and these formal concerns are also subject matters in and of themselves. Nature is a great teacher of abstraction and painting landscapes is my way of understanding the language.
Born and raised in Hong Kong to Japanese and Chinese parents, Misato migrated to the United States during late adolescence. Up until recently, she lived in New York City and relocated to St. Louis in the past year. Misato's works overlap personal narrative and cultural events, some of which allude to current social phenomena and political discourse in Asia. She has participated in various residencies and exhibitions in the United States and Japan. Her most recent solo exhibition, "Breakdown", was a two-part exhibition that guides viewers through phases of the artist's creative process using verbal and visual languages. The synthesis of visual and auditory cues recreate spaces and moments in time, hence inviting the viewers to reflect and enter these intimate spaces that happened in isolation and solitude.
Jacob Janes is a painter living in St. Louis. He is a lifelong wrestler, returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and mediocre skateboarder. Prior to earning his MFA from Marywood University, he also studied fine art at Lindenwood University and Mount Gretna School of Art. His paintings are figurative poems; playful, simplistic abstractions of common subjects, born from a sense of necessity.
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Room 4
Lily Brooks, Levee, Light from Dow Chemical and Western International Gas, Archival Pigment Print, 40x32", 2019.
Lily Brooks, Bonnet Carré Spillway, Archival Pigment Print, 32x40", 2020.
Lily Brooks, Torm Kansas, Video Still, 2020.
The Spillway
Lily Brooks
Since 2016 I have been working within the landscape of the Bonnet Carré Spillway, visualizing this local space as emblematic of global sites of extraction and environmental fragility. Constructed in 1929 by the Army Corps of Engineers, the 7000-foot flood control structure is activated only during extreme high-water conditions, effectively creating a temporary tributary of the river by flooding 12 square miles of adjacent public land. This outlet slows the flow of water and prevents failure by the lower Mississippi’s levee system, thereby protecting the city of New Orleans and the petrochemical corridor at the heart of our state’s economy.
In this ongoing body of photographs and time-based works, I consider the spillway's current state and layered history: its violent legacy as a sugar plantation, proximity to petrochemical industry, contemporary use as a site for recreation, and increased frequency of flooding due to climate change. I seek to examine the way capitalism shapes the landscape we inhabit, the histories we choose to tell amid institutional erasure, and the echoing visual language of our Anthropogenic landscape.
Lily Brooks holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art + Design. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and featured in publications such as the Oxford American, NPR’s Central Standard and the Los Angeles Times. Her recent collaborative project, Toward A Larger Freedom, documents the grassroots community organizers of Together Baton Rouge through photographs and oral histories. Brooks is the 2019 recipient of an Archive Documentation and Preservation Grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation. She works as an Assistant Professor of Photography at Southeastern Louisiana University and lives in Baton Rouge.