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New Orleans native Dawn DeDeaux invites viewers into a mysterious reality, examining the potential of an apocalyptic landscape through the lens of beauty, bringing into question the role of aesthetics in her new show Aboard the Mothership Part One: Postulations of Myth and Math in a larger exhibition that examines future possibilities for the Gulf Coast, at the Center for the Living Arts in Mobile, AL. On view until January 31st, 2014.
above: Escaping Upon the Dead Oak, 2013, digital drawing on metal, 76” x 12’
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William Widmer is a photographer and photojournalist based in New Orleans. His current series, entitled Mon Mississippi is on-going work in progress about his time in the Gulf Coast region.
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Letterproeftuin is a Rotterdam-based collective of designers that explore graphic techniques in site-specific self made laboratories created to challenge others and exchange expertise.
One of their recent projects entitled, Public Works, is a road workers spectacle in which residents of Hasselt are invited to view a large scale, exaggerated relief printing press, involving a steam roller.
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Scenes from the South is a show at NY’s Howard Greenberg Gallery, featuring seventy-five years of photographs / thirty images taken by prominent photographers below the Mason-Dixon line from 1936 to 2012, and will be on view until June 1st.
above: Caroline Allison, TVA Kingston Fossil Plant, Kingston, TN, 2011 / Walker Evans, Houses and Billboards in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936.
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Palefroi is an art-print collective initiated by Damien Tran and Marion Jdanoff with the support of Susann Poenisch. Based in Berlin, Germany, they focus mainly on silk screened art prints and music posters, as well as self-produced hand-crafted limited editions of books.
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Moderated by Miranda Lash, (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, NOMA), ArtSpeak is a series of discussions between artists and curators, taking place on May 21st at 7pm.
The CAC presents a panel discussion amongst experts in different areas of masking. NOMA Curator William Fagaly will discuss the significance of masking in various African cultures. LSM Curator Wayne Phillips will discuss the meaning of masking during New Orleans Mardi Gras, and Mardi Gras Indian Chief Victor Harris will discuss his own process of masking as Chief of the Mandingo Warriors and the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi.
above: Yinka Shonebare, Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) (video still), 32 min. 2004.
