January 10, 2026-February 8, 2026
Opening reception on Second Saturday, January 10th 6-10pm
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm. & by appointment (reach out to an artist)
Programming This Month
Saturday January 10th, 6-10pm
Opening Reception, Second Saturdays
Room 1
anderson funk, __________mental___________ flyer
anderson funk, you kwon hawt you’re looking rof, notebook, 2015
anderson funk, cling let go, Book, 120 pages, 2026
anderson funk, manic Painting, Mixest Media, 2013
__________ mental __________
anderson funk
__________ mental __________ is my way of processing the events and aftermath of my being hospitalized involuntarily for manic behavior in 2013. For the longest time, I have felt a pressure to hold these facts of my life back, to hold myself back, and through this show, I am beginning to lay down my burden, my mask, my shame, my shy, and let you see me. Let myself feel allowed, accepted and seen.
Artists make things, I have gone through many making cycles, I learned almost two years ago, that i could use "my practice" as we artists love to say, to change my habits, i.e. to change my life. I had a tea room in the gallery, every day for a month i would open it for 90min or two hours and drink tea. Often I was the only attendee, and there were some very sweet visitors too. At the end of the month, I was no longer drinking coffee. So im like huh? I can make my art, which i hold in such high esteem, a way to help myself.
For some reason, this was a revolution for me, I had thought my artist's job was making outside of myself, making things, making feelings, making thoughts, making others, making the world, i hadn't really thought "what if i'm making myself" what does my life show of my intentions, priorities and passion.
The Stafford Beers' thing, just assume that what ever a system is producing, that is it's goal. There is no striving towards goals, there is only arriving where you've headed.
So i'm using my art to go into this place in me i've kind of kept down in the deep of me, in a shell, hiding. I for so long felt that if anyone found out I was in the psych ward, my credibility and their trust in me would be compromised. Now i feel differently. As Audre Lorde prays “Black mother goddess… hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away” I bring it up and let it go, shine the light, end the hiding. My own personal apocalypse.
as ever… you are encouraged to join me. I love being joined by you…. wel(l...)come(!) -and fun
anderson funk is an artist and poet interested in unfurling and embracing truths of all kinds, even as he stumbles and furls, fidgets and winces, ducks and dodges. anderson has studied in art and engineering in universities, and presently studies writing and dancing at the drop of a hat. He has a weekly radio show on WTUL 91.5, drinks tea incessantly, and sponsors his life and art practices with money he receives pedicabbing.
andersonfunk.com @andfunandfun Room 2
Danielle Fauth, Seed, steel, 2025
Perennial
Danielle Fauth
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 2023 Redline Satellite Studio Artist in Denver, CO & a Volland Foundation 2023 AIR in Alma, KS, where she will return in 2026 for an alumni residency. Fauth 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.
room 3
Farah Billah, ADORN, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 60x55 inches, 2023
Farah Billah, CATFISH, Oil on Canvas, 16x20 inches, 2025
Farah Billah, NOT HERE, 55x55 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2025
small memory
Farah Billah
I like to romanticize the small things, especially in relation to adornment. Handmade earrings, the embroidery patterns on old loveseats, the cracks in those pretty painted floor tiles. I believe the act of decorating our bodies and our lives with little pieces of joy, culture, and remembrance is an act of creating a home. My work is a product of dreaming and nostalgia for that home
Farah Billah is a painter, muralist, and tattoo artist from Northern California. She has been scraping out her brain in New Orleans for 7 years now.
farahbillah.com @paintguavaROOM 4
Angela Lynn Tucker, Barbara Jordan: Red, White + Blue, video, 3 mins, 2024
Angela Lynn Tucker, My Patriotism Ain’t Yours, mixed media collage on paper, 2025
Angela Lynn Tucker, The Middle Passage, 24x36, mixed media, acrylic paint, salt, coffee, paper, 2026
More Is Required
Angela Lynn Tucker
For the past five years, I have been working on The Inquisitor, a documentary about Congresswoman Barbara Jordan—the first Black woman in the Texas State Senate and the first Black Congresswoman from the South which will be available on PBS’ Independent Lens a and online on February 23, 2026. When I began the film, her words were important. As the world changed, they became crucial. Her ideas about ethics and holding politicians accountable inspired not only the film, but this body of visual work.
My collages began as a way to think through the visual language of the documentary, but they evolved into an experimental space to express what I could not articulate in film alone. The larger abstract paintings tease out themes that emerged along the way: patriotism, hypocrisy, and the questions that continue to haunt me. Can I, as a Black person, be patriotic? Does this country even want me to be?
Drawing from Adinkra symbols, including abstracted references to Dwennimmen, bronze circulates across the painted surface as both material and metaphor. It stands in for my people—persistent, embodied, and negotiating visibility within a fractured American field.
Alongside these works are small wooden paintings that function as visual journal entries. Making these works are part of what kept me sane while floundering in an authoritarian regime. Using text and fragments of my internal monologue, these pieces register moments of doubt, anger, observation, and resolve. They operate as intimate counterpoints to the larger abstractions.
The exhibition also includes Barbara Jordan: Red, White + Blue, a two-minute experimental video that juxtaposes Jordan’s voice from her 1972 Democratic National Convention speech with images of flags and photos drawn from multiple iconographic traditions. The work uses video not as historical explanation, but as disruption, offering a condensed, symbolic counterpoint to the feature length documentary which unfolds through a more traditional documentary structure.
Making The Inquisitor led me to ponder deeply about revolutionary Black figures—Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Fred Hampton—and the texts that shape our understanding of liberation. Revolutionary literature has long been part of my practice, whether through collage or the physical presence of books themselves.
The materials I use—paint, human hair, burned wood, everyday objects—are tied to Black female identity. Hair carries the weight of labor and what Black women’s bodies are required to hold together. A burned map, sealed in varnish, speaks to violence preserved and prettified. Flags function as symbols of belonging, but symbols are not innocent; they can unify or exclude depending on who wields them.
More Is Required takes its title from Barbara Jordan’s 1972 Democratic National Convention speech—a call to action that echoes forward, demanding accountability, vigilance, and the ongoing labor of sustaining a democracy that has never fully included us.
Angela Lynn Tucker is an Emmy- and Webby-winning filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the trauma and beauty of living in a Black body in America. Her documentary The Inquisitor premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and will air on PBS Independent Lens on February 23, 2026, completing her trilogy on Black women and political power in the American South. Her films have aired on NBC, Showtime, PBS, Netflix, and Lifetime, and her visual art has been exhibited at Vassar College, the Lawrence Arts Center, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the True/False Film Festival; she was an Artist in Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and lives between New Orleans and Mississippi, where she is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Mississippi.
angelalynntucker.com inquisitorfilm.com @tuckergurl