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New Orleans artist Maria Levitsky will have her MFA Thesis exhibition, Uncanny Mirror of Available Darkness at the UNO St Claude Gallery, opening on Saturday May 12 from 6 til 9p.
above: Collusion of Redundant Obstacles, 2012. Silver Gelatin Print. 30x55
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One of the finest architectural photographers in America, Robert W. Tebbs produced the first photographic survey of Louisiana’s plantations in 1926. These images are now housed at the Louisiana State Museum: Presbytere and are on display through September 2012.
above: Woodlawn Plantation, 1929. Terrebone Parish and Belle Chasse Plantation, 1929. Plaquemines Parish.
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If you are looking for rare, out-of-print art or 1st edition art, typography, design, and architecture publications — Modernism 101 has a wonderfully inspiring and well-documented collection for sale.
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New Orleans native Hannah Chalew is an artist and one of the founders of T-Lot, a studio and installation space on St. Claude.
Her work stems from direct observation, bringing the experience of place to the viewer, primarily examining the post-Katrina landscape emptied of human life.
See more of her work at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
above: Ghost House. 2011. pen & ink on paper, 19” x 26”
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DesCours is a free, public, ten-night, architecture and art event now in its fifth year, held the first week of December in New Orleans. This event invites internationally renowned architects and artists to create ten architecture installations within ‘hidden’ locations in the heart of New Orleans, including private courtyards, rooftops, abandoned buildings and walkways, all locations normally unseen, inaccessible or unused by the public.
DesCours takes place on the evenings of Dec-2nd - 11th. Always a treat.
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New Orleans by way of New York, Michael Robinson Cohen is a multi-discipline architect, wood worker and designer. He recently completed Earth Wall II, a rammed earth construction, comprised of pouring a moist earth soil mixture into a board form and continuously compressing the earth with a tampering device. Upon reaching a desired height, the board forms are removed and solid earth wall is exposed.
What we have is the beautiful finished product.
above: Earth Wall II, 2011. Pontchartrain Vineyards, Covington, Louisiana. [ in collaboration with Cody Campanie ].
