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Constance recently had the honor to concept the look & feel and online presence for the all-female New Orleans photography ensemble, Southerly Gold. They are educators and travelers, artists and professionals. They formed with a desire to combine their diverse drive for the photographic medium and to foster a dialogue with other women in the field.
Their first collaborative project, each member chose a color from the CMYK spectrum to photograph as literally or figuratively as each saw fit, producing 40 photographic interpretations.
So please mark your calenders for the launch / exhibition Monday, April 9th at May Gallery located under the Claiborne bridge at 2839 N. Robertson St, Suite 105.
Visit the Southerly Gold site | Visit the Facebook Event page
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The Landscape of Spontaneous Urban Vegetation. Thursday March 29th, 6:30 pm at the Tulane School of Architecture in Richardson Memorial Hall.
In this slide lecture, Dr. Peter Del Tredici will explore the natural and cultural history of the plants that grow spontaneously in our cities. He will focus on the cosmopolitan nature of this flora and its ability to adapt to the stresses that dominate our urban ecosystems. In the speaker’s opinion, the spread of spontaneous vegetation in the modern world is a symptom of massive, on-going environmental degradation rather than its cause. Dr. Del Tredici articulates a forward-looking approach to the issue of spontaneous urban vegetation that focuses on rebuilding the ecological functionality rather than on the restoration of past ecosystems.
His ideas on the subject have been published in his book, “Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide” (2010, Cornell University Press).
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Inspired by the forms and forces of nature, Lin Emery’s undulating kinetic sculpture—constructed of highly polished abstract metal shapes—adorns museums and outdoor public spaces around the world. The flowing motion of her structures are also propelled by natural forces; she began using water to power her structures 30 years ago and later utilized wind to also generate movement in her creations. The resulting revolving, twirling, and linked elements evoke plants, trees, clouds, or water.
Her publication entitled Lin Emery, covers the life and majestic sculptures created during a career of nearly 60 years from her education working in clay under Ossip Zadkine in Paris, to her move in the 1950s to New Orleans and her explorations in bronze, aluminum, nickel, and other metals.
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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.
from nolanews
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Eco-artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée has work up alongside Prospect.2 at Longue Vue House and Gardens, with a show entitled Audubon’s Absence. Brandon has meticulously removed the depicted birds from actual historical John James Audubon prints, cut from original editions at the point in history when the species went extinct.
The show is free and open to the public.
above: RIP Carolina Parakeet. 2009.
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Berlin photographer, Tobias Zielony photographs young people in their given environments, usually in the fringe areas of urban reality. His photos are in the tradition of the picture story, something between intimate proximity and observing distance and capturing the “completely casual form of social life”.
