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New Orleans-native Leah Meltzer is a performance artist who recently moved to Austin. She is currently one of the performers re-creating Joan Jonas’ Mirror Check on Saturdays throughout the months of May and June at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Glasstire recently interviewed Leah. You can read more here.
Leah Meltzer in documentation of Marina Abramović The Artist is Present, Day 39, Portrait 12.
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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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A difficulty lies in conveying the essence of a place that at once aches to show itself as full of allure, yet only reveals the depth of its beauty to those who reside within it. Hell’s Bells / Sulfur / Honey is a body of color photographs that serves as a testament to New Orleans’ radiance and darkness as well as an allusion to the tension between beauty and hardship inherent in the city.
The title of this project comes from elements in a Louisiana Voodoo “cure-all” spell that can solve all one’s problems. Hell’s Bells are poisonous (aka Datura or Jimson weed) and are commonly found in New Orleans.
Sophie T. Lvoff’s new iteration of Hell’s Bells / Sulfur / Honey opens on Saturday, May 11, 6-10pm, at Good Children Gallery. 4037 St. Claude Ave. // For the New Yorkers: Sophie T. Lvoff is included in a group show at Howard Greenberg Gallery entitled “Scenes From the South,” opening Thursday, May 9, 6-8pm at 41 E. 57 St, Suite 1406 (at Madison Avenue).
above: Reynes Street at the Levee, 2012; Delachaise Street, 2012.
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NY-native and New Orleans based artist Erik Winkowski creates wonderfully warm and humourous collage-based illustrations as well as printed works. See more of his animated works on High-Cool.
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NY-based Triple Canopy has been a wonderful player in the discussion of the future of publication, whether in print or online.
Refresh is Triple Canopy’s capital campaign to raise money in support of TC 3.0—their new publication platform that spans time and media, using the Internet to enrich the work of artists and writers and genuinely engage audiences locally and globally.
Please support Triple Canopy editors and designers to fully devote themselves to the task of revolutionizing the arts publication for the digital age.
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Hannah Whitaker is an artist and photographer based in New York. Much of the work takes visual cues from pioneering formalists, but does so at a critical distance.
Most recently, Whitaker created a program called Lines of Sight at Triple Canopy, in which contemporary photographers give public reading of passages from fiction that describe photography explicitly, as a subject, or adopt photographic strategies of framing, staging, or manipulation.
Whitaker will give a lecture at Freeman Auditorium, Tulane University on January 23rd at 6pm, sponsored by the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
above: Blue Beauty, 2011 and Untitled, 2012
