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Here and now
June 14, 2020 — Blog

Here and now

Meg Turner

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Louisiana, USA November 2, 2019 – April 12, 2020

“Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is an ideality. We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potentiality. We have never been queer, yet queerness exists for us as an ideality that can be distilled from the past and used to imagine a future.” …

Meg Turner: Here and Now (2019). Installation view: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Photo: Jonathan Traviesa Meg Turner: Here and Now (2019). Installation view: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Photo: Jonathan Traviesa Meg Turner: Here and Now (2019). Installation view: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Photo: Jonathan Traviesa “Queerness is not yet here. Queerness is …

Femmes Noires Femmes Noires
June 2, 2020 — Blog

Femmes Noires

Mickalene Thomas

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Louisiana, USA November 2, 2019 – June 14, 2020

“To do the work that I do, I am asking of and looking to my sisters of the world.” —Mickalene Thomas Mickalene Thomas puts Black American women at the center of her practice. Her work celebrates the complexity and diversity of Black female agency as she tackles issues of inequality and representation, filtered through a …

Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires (2019). Installation view: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Photo: Alex Marks Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires (2019). Installation view: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Photo: Alex Marks Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires (2019). Installation view: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Photo: Alex Marks “To do the work that I do, I am asking …

The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA
July 28, 2018 — Reviews

The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA

by Lee Escobedo New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 03/22/2018 – 07/22/2018

As US American men were funneled into the European theatre during WWII to breathe their last breathes, the sounds of drums rolled through the homes and factories back home. It was a calling by a country for its women to fill roles once excluded to them by society. Churning at a brutally slow pace for …

Exhibition view. The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 2018. Image courtesy of Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The Whole Drum Will Sound: Women in Southern Abstraction en Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Nueva Orleans, EUA  Mientras los hombres estadounidenses eran canalizados al teatro europeo durante la Segunda …

About to Happen About to Happen
June 14, 2017 — Blog

About to Happen

Cecilia Vicuña

Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 03/16/2017 – 06/18/2017

Cecilia Vicuña: About to Happen traces the artist’s long career to stage a conversation about discarded and displaced people, places, and things in a time of global climate change. The first major U.S. solo exhibition of the influential Chilean-born artist is comprised of Vicuña’s multidisciplinary work in performance, sculpture, drawing, video, text, and site-specific installations over the course of the …

Selection of Precarios, 1966-2017. Site-specific installation. 110 found-object sculptures: stone, shells, glass, wood, plastic, thread, net, seeds, paper, cloth, detritus, sand. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans. Alex Marks Photography. Quipus Visceral, 2017. Site-specific wool installation. Colors: adobe, aster, chianti, fleshtone, lilac, magenta, periwinkle, plum, sand, waterlily. Dimensions variable. Courtesy of Contemporary …

Mutual Support Mutual Support
April 8, 2017 — Blog

Mutual Support

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Saul Robbins, Rachel Wallis, and more...

Pelican Bomb New Orleans, Louisiana 03/10/2017 – 04/23/2017

Artists: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh; Saul Robbins; Rachel Wallis; Evan Falbaum; and Residents of Shreveport, Louisiana, under the Direction of Nick Cave Pelican Bomb presents Mutual Support, a group exhibition highlighting artists whose practices engage issues of mental health and wellness. Whether in a doctor’s office, at home, or in public spaces, these artists center the process of …

A still from director Evan Falbaum’s AS IS by Nick Cave, 2016. Single-channel video. Courtesy the director and the Shreveport Regional Arts Council. Installation view of Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s A Solace with My Mama, 2017, at Pelican Bomb Gallery X, New Orleans. Six graphite-on-paper drawings and an audio file. Courtesy the artist and Pelican Bomb, New …

False Flags False Flags
June 2, 2016 — Blog

False Flags

Curated by Noah Simblist

Pelican Bomb New Orleans, USA 04/01/2016 – 05/29/2016

Artists: William Binnie, Ariel Reichman, Rona Yefman, Nicolás Guagnini, Exterritory Project, Tania Bruguera, Minerva Cuevas, Public Movement and Jamal Cyrus In his 1983 book, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, political scientist Benedict Anderson famously called a nation an “imagined community,” a group of people who most probably will never meet but imagine themselves as a part of one …

Artists: William Binnie, Ariel Reichman, Rona Yefman, Nicolás Guagnini, Exterritory Project, Tania Bruguera, Minerva Cuevas, Public Movement and Jamal Cyrus In his 1983 book, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, political scientist Benedict Anderson famously called a nation an “imagined community,” a group of people who most probably will never meet but imagine themselves as a part of one …

Prospect 3 : Notes for Now Prospect 3 : Notes for Now
January 3, 2015

Prospect 3 : Notes for Now

Curated by Franklin Sirmans

Prospect New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 10/23/2014 – 01/25/2015

With Terry Adkins, Manal AlDowayan, Tarsila do Amaral, Shigeru Ban, Shigeru Ban, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Zarina Bhimji, McArthur Binion, Douglas Bourgeois, Huguette Caland, Mary Ellen Carroll, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Charles Gaines, Jeffrey Gibson, Pieter Hugo, Hew Locke, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni, Will Ryman, Lucien Smith, Agus Suwage, Antonio Vega Macotela, ​Carrie Mae Weems, …

With Terry Adkins, Manal AlDowayan, Tarsila do Amaral, Shigeru Ban, Shigeru Ban, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Zarina Bhimji, McArthur Binion, Douglas Bourgeois, Huguette Caland, Mary Ellen Carroll, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Charles Gaines, Jeffrey Gibson, Pieter Hugo, Hew Locke, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Pushpamala N. and Clare Arni, Will Ryman, Lucien Smith, Agus Suwage, Antonio Vega Macotela, ​Carrie Mae Weems, …

Cities of Ys Cities of Ys
December 12, 2013 — Blog

Cities of Ys

Camille Henrot

New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 10/11/2013 – 03/02/2014

Curator : Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at NOMA The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to debut the first U.S. solo exhibition this fall by French artist Camille Henrot (born 1978, lives in New York), recipient of the 2013 Venice Biennale Silver Lion for promising young artist. The exhibition Camille …

Curator : Miranda Lash, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at NOMA The New Orleans Museum of Art is pleased to debut the first U.S. solo exhibition this fall by French artist Camille Henrot (born 1978, lives in New York), recipient of the 2013 Venice Biennale Silver Lion for promising young artist. The exhibition Camille …