From rural Alabama, self-taught artist Thornton Dial is a keen observer of the human spectacle and its narratives of corruption and moral strength, folly and triumph. He has spent the last two decades exploring the truths of American history and culture in all its complexities and contradictions.
Over 40 of Dial’s large-scale paintings, drawings and found-object sculptures, including 25 new works, opens February 24 at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Sean Cummings and artist Skylar Fein discuss a legal graffiti wall erected on the edge of the Rice Mill Lofts in the Bywater. When Cummings began renovating the old building on the New Orleans riverfront near the corner of Montegut and Chartres Streets, he chose to preserve much of the graffiti that marked the walls, allowing the tagging to become part of the apartment’s character. Continuing the street art motif, Cummings created a wall of steel shipping containers at the edge of the property that he envisioned as a legal graffiti haven.
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Constance is re-launching as a full service publishing, design, and event coordination hub for the New Orleans arts community in the Spring of 2012.
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Louisiana native, Stephen Collier is a multi-discipline artist living and working in New Orleans and member of Good Children Gallery. His work is equally humorous and absurd as it is disturbing, focusing on various false histories and pop-references.
above: Amalgamation from Helter Skelter and Dream Catcher series.
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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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Local photographer and educator, Aubrey Edwards, will be hosting the first of a series of community photography workshops at her studio in the Treme.
The upcoming series will focus on EXPOSURE, and will explain ISO, aperture, and shutter speed individually, as well as how to combine them. In addition to understanding the elements of exposure, students will also learn how to read their light meter; and will be shooting (semi) comfortably on manual mode by the workshop’s end.
Each EXPOSURE workshop will be capped at 10 students max, and each is donation-based and open to the public; all donations will be used directly for camera purchases for the Veterans Photo Project.
Please email Aubrey directly at aubreyedwards@gmail.com to secure a spot and await details for the EXPOSURE workshop, Saturday February 25th, 12pm-2pm.
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