Second Saturday Openings & Events

Photographic Works by Barry Kaiser

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 7th, 7pm - 10pm

2nd Saturday Opening: Saturday, January 14th 'til Midnight

Exhibition Closing Date: February 4th

How can it be expressed, this moment! The erotic glance of a lover, the sadness of loss. Hands say so much, the way a person holds a cigarette; smoke curling into the blackness. At this moment she's so beautiful, but what lies in the shadows? Why does his arm reach into the void? Are hands as expressive as the eyes? I don't know, but I want to explore the idea. Hidden or in the foreground, in the shadows, or staring at you with a million possibilities. Inviting, expressing grief, remorse, or just plain self absorption. The human face and hands are so fascinating to me, compelling and irresistible.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14th, 6-9pm

Paintings, photographs, drawings, sculpture, writing, mixed media and video engulf gallery walls from top to bottom.

Curated by Luis Cruz Azaceta and Sharon Jacques, featuring:

Alejandro Aguilera * Luis Cruz Azaceta * Willie Birch * Mark Bercier * Kyle Bravo * Keith Calhoun * Teresa Cole * Stephen Paul Day * George Dureau * Courtney Egan * Carlos Estevez * Margaret Evangeline * Ming Fay * Gory * Jan Gilbert * Sharon Jacques * Kevin Kline * Robin Levy * Maria Lino * Deborah Luster * Shawne Major * Kevin McCaffrey * Chandra McCormick * Gary Oaks * Mary Jane Parker * Geandy Pavon * Sibylle Peretti * Peter Saul * Ann Schwab * Elizabeth Shannon * Mike Smith * David Sullivan * Victor Vazquez * Monica Zeringue

Opening Reception: January 14th, Saturday, 6pm

Gallery Hours: Saturdays 12-5, Sundays 12-3 (through February 5th)

Exhibition Closing Date: February 5th

Horse & Ruff, Horse & Rough is a multimedia art show in which Amy Jenkins and Owen Brightman explore the evolution of the horse and the impacts of the horse on our culture and the environment. This show will also feature work by artist Lydia Stein, whose work focuses on the escaped carousel horse, for her New Orleans debut. Please join these three artists for an evening in sculpture, paintings, diorama, fashion, performance art and for the not to be missed livestock auction.

Opening Reception: Saturday, Jan. 14th, 2012, 6pm - 9pm with performances throughout the evening

Exhibition Closing Date: Feb. 4th

A native of Atlanta, Freeman moved to New Orleans in 1958 and enthusiastically embraced the local art scene. Encouraged to pursue her own creativity, Freeman enrolled in art school at Newcomb College in 1970. She painted extensively until 1975, when she put her art career on hold to raise children. She ran Eclectics, a popular ethnic art gallery in the French Quarter.

In 1970, she began a long and influential association with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation – almost by happenstance. She was tending her gallery when Preservation Hall founder Allan Jaffe walked in and said, “Can you get out for a while? There’s something going at Congo Square I think you’d enjoy.” It was the first Jazz Fest. Freeman joined the board of the fledgling Foundation, serving as president from 1981 to 1984.

In the mid-1990s Freeman returned to Atlanta and resumed painting, amassing a large collection of works – all of which were destroyed in a catastrophic fire in her home studio in 2005. The works in the current exhibit – all acrylic on canvas – represent her output since the fire, and her response to it.

“It’s just a violent reaction to the devastation,” Freeman says of her recent work. “You just can’t get enough paint on the canvas. You have a lot of energy: ‘I’m just not going to let this fire burn me up. I’m not going to let it happen.... You create something, and then you see it vibrate and change and grow and explode and get back together,” she says. “The ‘end of the world’ doesn’t scare you. It’s not going to end. It’s going to keep on going, no matter what anybody does.”

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14th, 6 - 8pm

Closing Reception: Thursday, March 1, 5 - 8pm

Gallery Hours: 10am - 5pm. Monday - Friday

Room 1: Momento Mori - A new installation by artist Rachel Jones.

Room 2: Interior Detrious - A collaborative multimedia installation by Front members Andrea Fergusun and Dave Greber.

Room 3: Nuclear Fusion - Rachel Avena Browns new installation is a depiction of fusion, a form of nuclear energy generated when lightweigh atoms fuse together.

Room 4: Upkeep - A multimedia installation by Stephanie Patton.

Opening Reception: Saturday January 14th 6-10 pm

Exhibition Closing Date: February 5th

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, Noon - 5pm

DePauw arranges sculptural ceramic elements into "still lives" along a linear axis roughly the length of his outstretched arms. The works ".... bring together fragments of culture, bits of abstract form, or other types of referential debris in order to establish relationships and to understand the potential meanings and communications of these relationships."

Learn more about William DePauw at williamdepauw.com.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14, 6-9 pm

Exhibition Closing Date: Sunday, February 5, 2012

Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5

Scotland based artist, Minka Stoyanova, creates an interactive and performative play space for the exploration of sexuality and social relations in a networked age.

Opening Reception: January 14th, 6p - 10p

Closing Date of Exhibition: February 9, 2012

Gallery Hours: 10am – 7pm daily, closed Tuesdays

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14, 6 - 9pm

Closing Date of Exhibition: February 4, 2012

A salon style group show curated by the members of Antenna and organized by James Goedert.

Opening Reception: Saturday, january 14th, 6 - 9pm

Closing Date of Exhibition: February 5th

Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12:00pm to 5:00pm, and by appointment

Photographs by Lucian Perkins
Curated by Lely Constantinople and Jayme McLellan
Made possible with generous support from Civilian Art Projects

Hard Art DC1979 is a forthcoming book and traveling exhibition of photographs by Lucian Perkins with writing by Alec MacKaye and a contribution by Henry Rollins. The exhibition is curated and edited by photographer and photo editor Lely Constantinople and Jayme McLellan, director of Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC. In 1979, a soon to erupt punk scene took hold in Washington, DC with the Bad Brains, Trenchmouth,Teen Idles,the Untouchables, and the Slickee Boys, among others, at the forefront. Lucian Perkins, later a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist for the Washington Post, was then a 26-year-old intern. He photographed several shows over a pivotal five month period.

Alec MacKaye, then 14, was at most of the shows and appears in Perkins' photographs. The exhibition offers an intimate snapshot of "the time before the time" that punk rock found firm footing in the U.S., including rare (some never before seen) photographs and show flyers. Through band performance shots, portraits and raucous crowds dancing, the images capture the cathartic, infectious energy and spirit of the time.

The text offers an intimate exploration of the moment from two perspectives: that of a fourteen-year-old experiencing music on his own terms for the first time, and a look again at a movement that fueled an underground generation musically and philosophically. This examination is not a nostalgic review of glory days gone, as much as a present conversation about the continuation of a way of thinking that still endures.

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24th, 6-9pm. After party event at Siberia Lounge, 2227 St. Claude Ave

Closing Date of Reception: February 5th

Closing reception for MUDCOLORS exhibition featuring Sarah Borealis, Dickie Landry and Jimmy Mac, curated by Richard Landry

Reception: Saturday, January 14th, 7pm - 10pm

In Martin McDonagh’s first American-set play, Carmichael has been searching for his missing left hand for almost half a century. Enter two bickering lovebirds with a hand to sell, and a hotel clerk with an aversion to gunfire, and we’re set for a hilarious roller coaster of love, hate, desperation and hope.

The NOLA Project, which has produced ‘The Cripple of Inishmaan’ and ‘The Lieutenant of Inishmore’ by McDonagh return once again to this favorite company playwright with a jet black comedy for the ages. Featuring the talents of John Grimsley, A.J. Allegra, Natalie Boyd, and James Bartelle, this is one regional premiere that you don’t want to miss!

Directed by Ashley Ricord

Tickets: nolabehanding.eventbrite.com

Show Dates: Saturday, January 14th, Sunday January 15th, Thursday January 19th, Friday, January 20th at 8pm