Performing Group: FREEFALL
From: New York City
Genre: Dance-Theater

Darkly comic, extravagantly physical, rumination on the themes of love, war and justice.  "The New York-based troupe follows in the absurdist footsteps of Beckett and Weill by employing a menacing vaudevillian style…urgent in a rambunctious-sad way. Performers are lovely and engaging even as frightening truths brew underneath." —Chicago Tribune. All ages.

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 9:00 pm, 11/12 7:00 pm, 11/13 7:00 pm

Performing Group: Moose Jackson
Performing Group City: New Orleans
Genre: Rock cabaret

Poet Rev. Moose Jackson presents the tale of a down-and-out punk who finds rock and roll salvation on the dark carnival streets of New Orleans.  A home-brewed rock cabaret.

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/11 7:00 pm, 11/14 9:00 pm, 11/15 5:00 pm

This year's Fringe will be a extraordinary week of theater of all types, featuring over 45 groups and over 100 shows from New Orleans and around the country. Opera buffa, drama, cryptic revival, physical clown-theater, dark comedy, cabaret, romance noir, overhead projector shadow puppetry, butoh, hip hop, dance theater, environmental performance, puppet aerial musical....and many other innovative, original, provocative, beautiful shows. There is something for everyone. Set aside November 11-15 to catch as many as you can.

Check out the shows here!!

Or check out the show schedule, listed by time and venue, here!

Performing Group: Adam Falik
From: New Orleans
Genre: Drama

Five characters testify their part in a conspiracy to perform a play in which a woman carries a human head down a flight of stairs. Five separate monologues conjoin into a panoramic narrative in which the workings of artistic ambition, politics, sexual blackmail, and inner-city survival are woven.

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/12 9:00 pm, 11/14 5:00 pm, 11/15 9:00 pm

Come and help raise money for our non-profit gallery Antenna by re-drawing sections of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights on Thursday the 12th. Beer and snacks provided. 6:00 - 10:00.

The 8' x 12' drawing will be sold by the inch during Antenna's drawing show/fundraiser on Saturday November 14th 6:00 - 9:00.  See the flyer for the event below!

Show Runs 11-9-2009 to 11-12-2009

Performing Group: The Academy Theatre Featuring Sharon Mathis
From: Avondale Estates, Georgia

When her soul mate Sam becomes Sheila, Pat asks "Does his soul live in his penis? Is there ever a good day to leave your marriage?" Pat tries tap dancing, Buddhism, and shopping to find out. Audiences call this one woman drama/comedy "marvelous" and "essential".

Venue: Sidearm Gallery
Shows: 11/13 11:00 pm, 11/14 7:00 pm, 11/15 3:00 pm

Mixed Media & Performance

Opening on Saturday November 14, 6-9pm

November 14 thru December 5, 2009

November 14- December 6
Opening reception: Saturday November 14th, 6-10pm

Room 1
Mark Porter: Replication Machines, Territorial Markers, and Preliminary Drawings

The Front presents Replication Machines, Territorial Markers and Preliminary Drawings, an exhibition of recent works by Chicago based visual artist Mark Porter featuring kinetic sculptures and mixed media drawings.  Through the fusion of found and custom-made objects, Porter creates mechanical prototypes, which mimic human and animal behavior as well as natural phenomenon. Emphasizing the quality of the hand made object, Porter’s sculptures serve as performative prototypes, which embrace experimentation and the relationship between inventor/invention, invention/user.

Room 2
Andrea Ferguson: Disjecta Membra and Intersteller Dust

A mixed-media installation of new work exploring the frontiers of outer space, black holes, and pre-synthetic imagination.

Rooms 3 & 4
Jenny LeBlanc: Hot Tamales

New works and performance concerning the culture, economics, and aesthetics of familial production of "New Orleans Style" hot tamales.

A free screening of the documentary BETWEEN THE FOLDS By Vanessa Gould Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:00PM ANTENNA 3161 Burgundy Street New Orleans, LA 70117   Think origami is just paper planes and cranes? Meet a determined group of theoretical scientists and fine artists who have abandoned careers and scoffed at graduate degrees to forge new lives as modern-day paper folders.

COME LEARN ABOUT AN IMPORTANT NEW RESOURCE FOR LOCAL ARTISTS   Postmedium Demo Party at Antenna Gallery | Dec 11th   We are having a Postmedium demo party at Antenna Gallery on Friday, December 11th at 8pm.

In December, Antenna celebrates PhotoNOLA with the color photo series "Cruise" by William Greiner.

The Society for
Decoration and Sacrifice Presents:
Zradab:
A “Legend” Unearthed
Now on view: newly excavated artifacts of Zradab

Performance Artist Caron Geary in "FERAL"

Exhibition runs Dec. 12 – Jan 3rd

Barrister’s Gallery presents an ambitious group show assembled by international installation artist Delaney Martin with works from New York, London and locally based artists with a series of musical performances by New Orleans talents Noise, C-Section 8, The MicroShards, Walt of Big Ship and Sissy Bounce queen Big Freedia and DJ Rusty Lazer.

The Society for Decoration and Sacrifice invites visitors into a parallel world where day swiftly becomes night, furniture moves, and nothing is quite what it seems. In this interactive environment viewers will encounter artifacts from a fake civilization, inventive mechanical wonders, a Victorian parlor room transported from a far away galaxy, invasive species topiaries, multiple fountains and glorified doorknockers.

The works of the 17 different artists are seamlessly incorporated into a labyrinth of experiences for visitors to play, explore, climb, and crawl through. Installations from artists like Jennifer Odem, who recently had a solo show at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Kim and Scott Pterodactyls, whose epic tree house on Esplanade is fast becoming a New Orleans destination, Drew Zeigler, of the hallucinatory local puppet troupe Scary Toesies, and New York artist Ben Wolf, whose inventive landscapes have been turning up on international art circuit, will be on view with art works from the locals like inventor and mechanist Taylor Lee Shepherd, metal workers Rachel David, Melissa Stryker, and Eric Smith, the painter Myrtle Von Damitz III, and the renowned and recently deceased New Orleans sculptor Jeffery Cook. The show also features several high profile artists from out of town like the headline making jeweler and sculptor Arielle De Pinto (New York) and the brash performance artist Caron Geary (London) making this an exciting multimedia exhibition a must-see event.

A series of experimental musical events will also be staged within the installation including the premiere of a drone opera presented by the band Noise, the soundscape of C-Section 8, the mind slicing trio Microshards, the new one man band of Walt for Big Ship fame, and New Orleans Sissy Bounce star Big Freedia along with everyone’s favorite DJ Rusty Lazer.


Artists

Delaney Martin in collaboration with Taylor Lee Shepherd (NOLA), Andrew Zeigler (NOLA), Luke Brennan (London), Kim and Scott Pterodactyl(NOLA), Jennifer Odem(NOLA), Myrtle Von Damitz III (NOLA), Luke Barber-Smith (NY), Rachel David (NOLA), Eric Smith (NOLA), Caron Geary (London), Frank Deleon-Jones (NY), Arielle De Pinto (NY), Randi Mates (NY), Ben Wolf (NY), Melissa Stryker (NOLA) Joy Patterson (NOLA) and Jeffery Cook  (NOLA)

Musicians and Schedule:

Dec. 12th @  the opening 6-9 pm
Noise
C –Section 8

Dec. 16th ~ TBA

Dec. 19th
Microshards @9pm
And special guest

Jan. 3rd
Big Freedia & DJ Rusty Lazer @9pm

The Flag

Opening: Saturday Dec. 12, 6- 10:30 pm
Exhibition Dates: Dec. 12- Jan. 10

Works by: Z Behl, Derek Boshier, Mel Chin, Siobhan Feehan, Generic Art Solutions, Robert Hannant, Srdjan Loncar, Adrian Price, Rajko Radovanovic, Lala Rascic, Christy Rupp, Christopher Saucedo, Minka Stoyanova, Bojan Sumonja and Dan Tague.

Curated by Rajko Radovanovic

December 12- January 3
Opening reception: Saturday December 12th, 6-10pm

.Rooms 1 & 2
Roadhouse

Roadhouse is a collection of artists from here in New Orleans as well as visiting artist Thomas Riess from Vienna, Austria.  The show is made up of paintings and mixed media prints with works from Kathy Rodriguez, Matthew Kirscht, Jeff Rinehart and Natalie Sciortino.

Rooms 3 & 4
Maria Lovullo

This show highlights the life and work of Maria Lovullo (1961 – 2009). A tremendously talented and prolific artist, this exhibition of past and recent work includes a rich array of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and footage from her performance pieces. Her most recent body of work will be exhibited for the first time here. Also available at the gallery will be a comprehensive catalog of her life's work.

Born in Buffalo, NY, on June 24, 1961, Maria earned a bachelor’s degree at the State University of New York College at Purchase and a Master of Fine Arts degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was an exhibiting artist who had worked as a gallery director and a film–set decorator when she moved to Louisiana in 1990. While in Lafayette, she was a director at the Lafayette Art Gallery, a board member of the Artist Alliance, and continued to exhibit her work.

In New Orleans, Ms. LoVullo was the print shop director for Young Artists/Young Aspirations, (YA/YA), and an instructor for the Contemporary Arts Center.  She led workshops at the children’s “hands–on” tent at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival for many years. In 1999, she taught printmaking to Mid–City children and their parents by having them turn discarded paper products into works of art.  “By looking at a specific –a piece of trash– and transforming it into a useful or beautiful thing, the individual builds self–esteem,” she said at the time.  “It is also an exercise in responsibility, thoughtfulness and patience.”

In 2002, while teaching in St. Charles Parish, Ms. LoVullo was selected by the Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program for a study tour program in Japan.  In 2005, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita struck, she and her family evacuated to Lafayette, LA, where she helped to create the Talented Arts Program within the Lafayette Parish School System. Upon returning to returning to New Orleans, Ms. LoVullo joined the faculty at Ben Franklin High School and continued to exhibit her work, including her ceramic sculptures in 2008 at The Big Top gallery in New Orleans.

Backyard
Sesthasak Boonchai

In his essay: "How Little I Know," Buckminster Fuller states that: ... the human brain only waveringly Steers man through constant change. That we are all essential functions of the universe and live in an "exquisite syntropy" of actions and experiences that support as well as undermine each other. Using candies, food and other temporal substances, I've been exploring a slight paraphrase of Fuller's idea in a number of site specific installations each entitled This is All I Know. For the front I have placed on the grounds of the gallery chocolate letters that spell out the phrase. These letters are not meant for human consumption and will eventually dissolve and melt away until only a slight stain is left behind.

Live Jazz by Chrystal Skye and the Lost Souls Tavern

Featuring the work of:

Amie Davis - Hand painted photographs

Chris Slave - Pastel on canvas

Daniel Finnigan - Acrylic on canvas

Kelly Isreal - Found object mosaics

Lord David - Victorian Shadow Boxes - Found objects

Mattie Stillwell - Acrylic & oil on canvas and board

Veronica Leandrez - Oil on canvas

Exoskeletons is on view through July 11, 2010. 
The exhibition is open to the public on June 12 and July 10 from 6-10pm, and by appointment. To schedule an appointment email nolatrouserhouse@gmail.com.

KR Hanrahan’s Exoskeletons is an experiential environment, combining a fabric “womb,” figurative painting, and found-object-based sculpture. With this exhibition, the artist explores themes of life and death, and the power of nature.

The collages and figurative paintings in the exhibition pair powerful, yet wistful female forms with feline and avian imagery. The near-translucent application of paint and charcoal in Hanrahan’s Mardi Gras Princess portrait, results in a ghostly form—linking powerful cultural symbolism with the spirits of New Orleans’ past. Based on a contemporary Mardi Gras Princess, the portrait speaks to the inherent strength of the Mardi Gras Indian—a figure that bears the weight of ancestral slavery with solemn resolve.

On the northeast wall of the gallery, a mixed-media sculpture features a pair of legs emerging from worn leather boots. The legs, constructed from packing tape, appear to have been sloughed off, as if the traveler simply grew out of her skin. This ghostly combination is both eerie and comforting, perhaps referencing the growth of the traveler as she passes from place to place, leaving the detritus of her body behind.

Hanrahan’s use of reclaimed material ties directly to the theme of decay. By repurposing these materials, the artist references the cyclic nature of life, emphasizing both the deathly waste we create, and the life that emerges from these ruins.

Ultimately, Exoskeletons is alternately vapid and corporeal, seemingly bridging the gap between reality and dreamscape.

Open Studio - Works by Allison Gordin

Saturday June 12th 6-9PM

Allison Gordin Studio
1042 Mazant @ St. Claude

Junkfish Caviar - A piece of work by Susan Gisleson

June 12th- July 4th
Opening Reception: Saturday June 12th, 6:00-9:00PM

Antenna Gallery
3161 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA 70117 Tel: 504. 250-7975

Junkfish Caviar describes the possibility of finding treasure in the garbage or beauty in trauma: the ability to get something precious out of what is often considered worthless. 

Junkfish Caviar is a series of sculptures made from salvaged or redeemed materials as well as photographs and an installation that explore a personal mythology.

Junkfish Caviar will hold its Opening on Saturday June 12th from 6:00- 9:00 PM during the St. Claude Arts District second Saturday art openings.

For more information feel free to contact Susan Gisleson @ 504. 250-7975 or iamsusangisleson@yahoo.com or visit www.press-street.com.

For a Canvas of Skin featuring New Orleans Tattoo Artists

June 12th - July 6th
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 12th, 6:00PM

Byrdie’s Gallery
2422A St Claude Ave, Tel: 916-479-3317

Tattoo Sketches on Paper and Tracing Paper

Gallery Hours   Wed-Mon 10-7:30

Hurricanes, Handgrenades, and other Delights - New Paintings by Scott Guion

June 12th, 2010 - July 17th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 12th 6-9PM

Barrister's Gallery
2331 St. Claude Ave, Tel: 504-710-2506

Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat 11am - 5pm