Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase 2020 Catalog by SLU contemporary

Louisiana 14TH ANNUAL

FINE ARTS SHOWCASE

2020

CURATOR’S STATEMENT 2020

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Welcome to the Fourteenth presentation of the Annual Fine Arts Showcase at Southeastern Louisiana University, a tradition that is an integral part of the university’s mission to lead the educational, economic and cultural development of the region. The exhibition features painting, printmaking, photography, collage, sculpture, and ceramics by 49 artists who live and work in Louisiana, primarily from areas of the North Shore, as well as New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The landscape of Louisiana is a common theme among all the artworks in this year’s exhibit. We are grateful to the to the artists for sharing their creative talents with the Southeastern family and community. Please join me in expressing our deep appreciation for their generosity.

John L. Crain President, Southeastern Louisiana University

As the world shelters in place during this pandemic time the domestic sphere has taken on new meaning. In addition to being a place of domiciliary activity, shelter, and rest—our homes have become multifunctional work spaces, make-shift classrooms, and private sanctuaries. The lines between public and private are blurry and many of us spending more time at home may find ourselves longing for the emotional and intellectual stimulation that a world outside once provoked. In this light, I am thankful for the work of artists. Our earliest Art Historical records of painted cave walls demonstrate that artists have always managed to bring the outside world in. Artworks in the context of the home can be seen as a bridge that connects the most intimate of spaces with the world at large. The 49 artists represented in the 14th Annual Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase are no exception. Throughout this showcase we see a myriad of ways visual artists interpret the world around them to create works of art that are engaging and thought provoking. While viewing this exhibition one can note several common themes. Many of the artists reflect upon the natural world in a reverential manner. David Armentor, Craig Braquet, and Belinda Flores-Shinshillas present a sublime perspective of the landscape and make images that remind us of the awe and humility we can feel when immersed in nature’s beauty. Ethan Chavez, Denise Tullier Holly, Nurhan Gokturk, and Kaori Maeyama’s works propose an alternative from the classical notions of the Louisiana Landscape. Their artworks reveal a terrain shaped by urbanization, infrastructure, and human impact. More interpretive and analytical works by Ana Hernandez and Dale Newkirk convey map-like and abstracted representations of the land and the impact that industry extraction has upon it. Another recurring theme among the artworks is exhibited through playful abstraction. Jim Richard interrupts representational imagery with biomorphic shapes in his piece titled “Fun” which indeed provokes a joyful tone, while Jessica Vogel Brown, Ann Haley, Peter Hoffman, Rosemary Goodell and Shawn Hall integrate organic and geometric forms to explore the various formal possibilities of color, texture, movement, and planar relationships. Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, and Sara Madandar use cut and paste collage techniques to re-shape text and create new meaning in relation to history and identity, while Carlie Trosclair’s collages pull

directly from architectural elements of Southern domestic interiors. Reflecting the more quiet and contemplative moments that can occur in domestic spaces, Daniela Leal, Kelsey Mack, Nancy Stutes, and John Isiah Walton convey figures in various states of repose and introspection. Throughout the Showcase's 14 year history, President Crain’s residence has been a site for this exhibition and a celebration of contemporary artworks by artists residing in Louisiana. Although this year will provide its challenges I am confident that these artworks will bring inspiration to all who view them. My deepest gratitude goes to the 49 artists who participated in this exhibition, not only for their contributions, but for continuing their artistic practice at a time when we need this work the most. Continued thanks goes to President John L. Crain for graciously hosting this exhibition in his home and making it available to our community. Special gratitude goes to the selection committee Roy Blackwood, Melissa Griffin, and Dr. Irene Nero for their efforts in choosing the artworks to be displayed. Thank you to Ranetta Marshall, Sandra Showers and the staff at the President’s office who have been indispensable. I would also like to thank Professor Dale Newkirk, Head of the Department of Visual Art + Design, and my colleagues Lily Brooks and Thomas Walton for their expertise and advice on managing this exhibition. Without the support of Provost Dr. Tena Golding and Dean Dr. Karen Fontenot, and the Southeastern Foundation this exhibition would not be possible. As always, we are supported by the incredible student workers of the SLU Contemporary Art Gallery, in this case Colwyn Klemencic and Katherine Schepker who helped me install the show at lightning speed, and Kelly Parker who designed the exhibition catalog and promotional materials. I am thrilled for the opportunity to have worked with each of these artists and my colleagues at Southeastern and I look forward to sharing the 14th Annual Louisiana Showcase with our community at large.

Cristina Molina Curator, 2020 Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase Associate Professor of New Media, Director + Curator SLU Contemporary Art Gallery

LUIS CRUZ AZACETA Metropolis Acrylic on canvas (2017)

DAN ALLEY Satellite 78" x 36" x 16", Aluminum (2019)

Luis Cruz Azaceta is a Cuban American Artist Living in New Orleans who shows at Arthur Roger Gallery. Azaceta is a devotee of visual experiment and often develops parallel series in several media at once, combining materials in totally unexpected ways. For Azaceta, art is a way of facing the world. He recognizes that change is inevitable, and that all of us are implicated by reality and time passing. Azaceta has exhibited extensively, nationally and internationally and has been awarded grants including The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. His work is in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of Art in New York, The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., Museo De Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, Marco, and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Mexico among others.

Dan Alley was born in Anchorage, Alaska. He received his BFA in ceramics from Washington State University in 2003 and his MFA in glass from Tulane University in 2014. Dan has taught and demonstrated for a number of college courses including glass, sculpture and digital fabrication. Now a resident of New Orleans, Dan exhibits frequently throughout the city and specializes in art fabrication for artists both locally and nationally. His playful yet intellectual mixed-media sculptures combine his knowledge of material processes with an interest in history and science. Dan is currently exhibiting at the New Orleans Museum of Modern Art as part of the Ear to the Ground exhibition.

DAVID ARMENTOR Patoutville Break Tree 32" x 40", Created and framed (2019) Gulf coast native David Armentor has been working in the photographic medium since 2002. He received a BA from Louisiana State University where he learned the craft of traditional photographic print making. After graduation he taught photography classes for the Baton Rouge Arts Council and worked as a freelance photographer until moving to Seattle, WA, where he continued his photographic endeavors with the Benham Gallery as the gallery manager and guest artist. He now resides in New Orleans, LA, and is the founder of St Veronica’s Photography, an art consulting firm which specializes in alternative photographic processes.

JOHN BARNES Urban Studies 18" x 18", Aromatic Cedar (2015) John Barnes was born in the community of Bogalusa, LA. in the month of December, 1971. He is a proud alum of Southern A&M University where he earned a B.S. degree in Art and Memphis College of Art where he was awarded an M.F.A. Barnes works in a variety of materials such as: wood- working, casting in metal and resin, as well as oil painting. Barnes' inspiration for new work is based on his surroundings in New Orleans and the delta region as a whole.

THERESA BEAUBOUEF How Beautiful Are All His Works 13.5" x 20", Watercolor (2019)

DAWN BLACK Summer of Love: Hunter’s Orange 14" x 14", Gouache, watercolor, & ink on paper (2019)

Theresa Beaubouef is originally from central Louisiana, and although much of her career involved science and technology, creativity and art have always been a driving force in her life. She seeks out a variety of interesting subjects for her art—often inspired by nature—and then decides which media will best express them. Acrylics, watercolors, oils, pencil, and pen and ink are used most often in her art. Theresa belongs to the Louisiana Watercolor Society, the Hammond Art Guild, and the Amite Art Club. Her art has appeared in numerous shows and exhibits and in private and public collections.

Dawn Black was born in Louisiana where she currently resides. She received a BFA in painting and drawing from Louisiana State University and an MFA focusing on painting and sculpture from the University of Iowa. Using a variety of collected source material, Black examines tentative systems of power and identity through various media (currently focusing on watercolor on paper) to visualize sociological narratives. Her work is internationally and domestically exhibited and has been reviewed by the Washington Post, Art Papers, and artinamerica.com. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Paper and Watermark Museum in Fabriano, Italy, the University of Iowa, and the Columbus Museum of Art. In 2012, she received a Career Advancement Grant from the state of Louisiana. Black has been to numerous artist residencies including Bemis, VCCA, and McColl Center for the Arts. She is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery and is currently represented by Curator’s Office in Washington DC.

SOPHIA BELKIN Storm Rise II 18" x 21", Assorted fabrics and embroidery on dyed denim (2020) Sophia Belkin (b. 1990, Moscow) currently lives and works in New Orleans, LA. She earned her BFA in drawing and printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012. She has participated in residency programs in Vermont, Norway, Russia, and most recently the Narva Art Residency in Estonia. In 2019 she presented a solo exhibition at The Front in New Orleans and a collaborative installation in Kosice, Slovakia. Other recent shows include Aurelia at Resort Gallery in Baltimore, In Styx Silt at Gern en Regalia in New York, and Stone Belly Dweller at Wildflower Baltimore. Her practice utilizes dye painting, embroidery and textile collage to dynamic compositions that reference biological structures and environments.

CRAIG BRAQUET Bayou Mirror 20" x 30", Photo on canvas (2019) Since retiring from a lengthy career in the internet industry, Craig Braquet has been actively creating art since 2017. His work comes from a process of photographing a subject from multiple viewpoints, sitting with it, and allowing it to speak and express itself to him in its own time. Sometimes that expression remains in the immediacy of photography. Sometimes the piece speaks to Braquet as a slower expression in a painting and sometimes as a need to be reworked in cut paper, decoupage or collage. Each work has its own personality, and his goal as an artist is to follow those unexplored paths.

ETHAN CHAVEZ Lost Power 30" x 20", Photo on metal (2020) Ethan Chavez, 25 years old, brings a different perspective to nature photography that the average person rarely notices. Whether that’s getting his elbows and knees muddy to get the shot from an ant’s eye view, or noticing the beauty found in the reflection of a water droplet. He sees the world very differently from the average person and through his photography, shares that view with you.

ANITA COOKE Strata/Infinity 24" x 48" x 2", Canvas, thread mounted on backing (2016) Anita Cooke has lived and worked as an artist and teacher in New Orleans since 1980. She received her BFA in Ceramics from Kent State University in Ohio in 1978 and her MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture at Newcomb College/Tulane University in 1984. She has taught ceramics at Tulane University, Loyola University (New Orleans), Stephen F. Austin State University, Western Michigan University, and out of her studio in New Orleans. Her twentyeight foot long ceramic mural entitled “LightSounds” can be seen on the campus of Western Michigan University. In 2005 Anita was a recipient of a Louisiana Fellowship Award and in 2017 she was honored by the New Orleans Museum of Art at the Love in the Garden patron benefit. Anita is currently working with sewing and fabric, mixed media and collage. Her work has been shown nationally and is in numerous collections throughout the United States.

SEAN CLARK Meeting Notes #130 8" x 24", Mixed media on paper (2019)

PHILLIP COLWART Antsy Summit 16" x 24", Infrared digital photography (2020)

Sean Gerard Clark is a native of Chattanooga, TN who has lived and worked in New Orleans for the past eight years. Before coming to New Orleans, Sean graduated from Morehouse College with a BS in Biology with a concentration in Public Health and African-American Studies. Sean has always found art as a tool for navigating life throughout his work and academic career. He began his artistic practice as a landscape painter and over the years has transitioned into a variety of subjects that investigate the human condition.

Phillip Colwart is a professional photographer with a broadcasting background who grew up in New Orleans, and has lived in Hammond, LA since 1986. Colwart spent fourteen years as audio visual producer for Neill Corporation, where his talent for photography was developed. He opened his studio in 2003, became a Certified Professional Photographer in 2007 and received his Craftsman of Photography degree in 2013. He has contributed photography to the Richard Murphy Hospice Foundation, Southeastern Louisiana University, Crimestoppers of Tangipahoa/St. Helena, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep and other worthy causes. Colwart is a member of the Professional Photographers of America, Professional Photographers of Louisiana, Greater New Orleans Professional Photographers Guild, Greater Hammond Chamber of Commerce and has served as Secretary and President of the Board of Directors of the Hammond Regional Arts Center.

BEN DILLER & CYNDY GIACHETTI Reliquary Box with Oval Panels Dimensions variable (box: 14" x 17" x 8", panels: 9 1/2" x 12 1/2"), Graphite, ink wash, micron pen, gesso, wood, fabric, metal hardware (2012-13) Ben Diller draws upon his experiences as a carpenter, painter, printmaker, sculptor, scenic artist and art installer, in his artistic practice. He captures moments to distill references through observational drawings from the natural and industrial environments. New entities are created through a synthesis of material exploration, abstraction and assemblage. These blended forms hover between built structures and illusions of depth and narrative. The nature of craft, systems, networks and individual strength is continually explored as these works evolve. A key image through an architectural fragment, industrial or plant form peeking out between the layers, allows the work to be accessible to the viewer. In these works, Diller is presenting finely wrought objects that can be perceived for their aesthetic or implied functional elegance.

BELINDA FLORES-SHINSHILLAS Movement I 16" x 20", Framed etching on archival paper (2020) Belinda Flores-Shinshillas is a visual artist born in Mexico City and a resident of New Orleans. Her artwork has been of a contemporary nature using the figure and representational elements as an important component in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through space. All the elements become a metaphoric voice, capturing the balance between intimacy and distance. Her drawings, prints, and paintings are an extension of her identity and culture, using form and color as an idea, an attitude, and interpretation that questions the permanence of the world surrounding her. Flores-Shinshillas has exhibited her work internationally in Mexico and Ecuador. She has had solo and group shows in El Paso, Texas; Santa Fe, Taos and Las Cruces in New Mexico; New Haven in Connecticut; North and South Carolina; Pomona in California; Covington and New Orleans in Louisiana.

NURHAN GOKTURK Red’s 22" x 22", Ink and watercolor on paper (2020)

ROSEMARY GOODELL Beginningmiddleend 22" x 30", Print (2019)

Nurhan Gokturk is a multidisciplinary artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Nurhan immigrated with his parents to New York City. Raised in Queens and Brooklyn and educated in the public-school system, he went on to receive a master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute. His projects have been featured at the Venice Biennale, Aqua Art Fair, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans 40th Anniversary Show, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Governor’s Island Art Center (NYC), the New Institute in Rotterdam, and the Onsite Gallery in Toronto. He has been featured in Metropolis Magazine, Gambit’s Top 40 under 40, was Interviewed on NPR and awarded the Architizer A+ Award. He is the Collectors Club artist for the Contemporary Arts Center and a member of The Front artist collective. Nurhan coordinated the first major Habitat for Humanity Buckminster Fuller Design Science Exhibition in Istanbul.

The characteristics of Japanese art, line, flat color, pattern and asymmetrical balance are elements that inspire and complement Rosemary Goodell’s art. The subjects are personal expressions on current events, family relationships, reflections on nature and personal beliefs. Originally from California and now living in Louisiana, Goodell received a BA and MFA from University of California, Berkeley. She has been awarded fellowships from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Fulbright Memorial Fund, Skidmore College and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2016 she received a Joan Mitchell grant. Her paintings and prints are in public and private collections. She is represented by the Baton Rouge Gallery, Claire Elizabeth Gallery New Orleans and Bee Street Gallery Texas.

ROLAND GUIDRY Egrets’ Roost 12" x 16", Oil on canvas (2019) After a successful career as a costume and scenic designer for the performing arts and teaching at the university and conservatory level, Roland is exploring studio art as a retirement avocation. Enjoying the quest to communicate the beauty and intricacy of the surrounding world in terms of light, shadow, color and texture he seeks to reveal to others the joy and beauty of careful observation and artistic expression. It is most satisfying when someone remarks that they feel the moment or wish that they could inhabit the environment of the painting, just like when the performer puts on the costume and enters the set on stage and says they now feel they have a better understanding of the character and situation of the performance work. Mr. Guidry retired to Hammond and is an active member of the local arts community.

ANN HALEY Inner Void + Outer Void Oil on panel (2016) Ann Haley (United States, b. 1991) received a BFA in Painting with an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA in 2014. Her first solo exhibition was at the Smithgall Arts Center in Gainesville, GA in 2014. She has also exhibited her work internationally in group exhibitions in Lacoste, France, Savannah, GA, and New Orleans, LA. Currently, Haley is a gallery member at The Front and is a Teaching Artist in New Orleans, LA. Her recent work explores the cyclical processes of growth and decay. Using abstraction she confronts the realities of chronic injury while investigating the liminal space between one’s ability to cope and heal from trauma and one’s ability to accept and hold space for pain.

SHAWN HALL Transformational Associations 40" x 54" grid, Acrylic on (12) 12" x 12" clayboard panels (2020) As the late ecologist Barry Commoner put it ‘everything is connected to everything else’. I view my practice as an act of participation in the biological world through intuition and action, and work from the premise that everything is an event in nature. My lyrical abstract paintings are imaginary biological events, states of being, often expressions of the commonly unobservable and the pure interplay between abstraction and phenomenon. They reflect my deep engagement with the natural world. What is within and without us is teaming with biological drama that we are just a part of. To a large extent my work is a kind of homage to this fact.

ANDREA HANO Universal Development 14" x 17", Framed oil (2018) Inspired by the brilliant colors of Louisiana’s natural environment, Andrea Hano paints from a meditative process allowing freedom of the inner spirit to be expressed. Her abstract style emphasizes color and rhythm to express concepts and principles. Hano’s art is a passionate dance on canvas revealing images symbolic for growth and development. Her paintings evoke a sense of joy, peace, and freedom and are a therapeutic motivation in exhibitions, businesses, and fine art collections. A teaching career and studies in Mexico influenced her creative path. She earned an MA in education from United States International University in San Diego, and received teaching credentials and a BA in sociology and Spanish from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in New Mexico and raised in California, Andrea Hano resides in Loranger.

ANA HERNANDEZ The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale 14" x 20" x 2.5", Acrylic latex, gouache, charcoal, nails on wood panel (2017) The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale is a result of research into areas of human rights abuses that stem from the practices and production of the oil and gas industry; specifically, the exploration of select geographic locations and the subsequent extraction of the resources “discovered” within particular geological formations. This work is a visual interpretation of ecological trauma. It aims to highlight the dissection and destruction of a physical and psychological landscape, whose vulnerable and shifting body print can be traced and mapped by the scars of injury left on the environment and all who inhabit it.

PETER HOFFMAN Mooner 20" x 16", Oil on canvas (2011) Peter Hoffman is a painter, drawer, and occasional sculptor who lives and works in New Orleans, LA. Hoffman grew up in Milwaukee, WI and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he received his BFA in 2004. In 2014 he received his MFA from the University of New Orleans. Additional studies include the Marchutz School of Painting in Aix-en-Provence, France in 2008. His work has been shown in recent solo exhibitions at The Front, Good Children Gallery, and Boyd-Satellite Gallery (all New Orleans), as well as group exhibitions in Chicago, Innsbruck, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Milwaukee.

JERRY HYMEL Dave Brubeck 14" x 9" x 18", Glass on wooden base (2020)

DANIELA LEAL Braids 11" x 14", Archival pigment print (2018)

A former research scientist and college professor of anatomy and physiology, an accident led Jerry Hymel to choose a career as a stained-glass artist. Begun as a hobby following his retirement from teaching, the hobby blossomed into a 30-year business. From art shows throughout the South to commissions for private residences, corporations, and churches, Hymel’s love of glass continues to grow. His latest works show the influence that music and science, shown through the use of human anatomy, have on his life.

Daniela Leal (b. Miami, FL 1995) is a photographer living and working in New Orleans, LA. She has exhibited work at the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art with Photo Nola. Her images suggest that our ability to love and be loved is informed by our perceptions of the many relationships we hold, and defines how we move through space and time. Leal uses the camera to reveal the relationship place has to identity, and how their correlation affects feelings of acceptance, belonging and desire, through a Latin diasporic lens.

Hymel’s work is sought by private, corporate, domestic, and international collectors.

KELSEY MACK A History Remade 20" x 20", Gelatin silver scanned print (2020) Kelsey Mack is a photographer working in Southern Louisiana. She is working in Baton Rouge where she was born and raised. She is currently in her last semester at Southeastern Louisiana University and is set to graduate this Fall. Her work discusses the lack of depth in representation of black beauty, specifically, in the media and the history of art. Her work poses the question, “What does it mean to be a dark-skinned black woman in America?”. She utilizes black and white film, a medium historically dominated by white male artists, and creates larger than life scanned prints. Her work proves to those who are experiencing systematic oppression, herself included, that emotions, power, and self-confidence are not limited to one race or ethnicity.

DIANNE LEE AND ROBYN LEROY-EVANS Lady Lustre (II) 8" x 5.5" x 5.5" Stoneware, glazes, gold lustre decals (2019) Since 2012, Toronto-based ceramic artist Dianne Lee and New Orleans-based visual artist Robyn LeRoy-Evans have been exploring their shared fascination with the vessel and how it relates to the female form. Referencing domestic ceramics and ancient Grecian urns, the artists use personal histories and imagery to create a living archive of their processes. Lee and LeRoy-Evans create narratives using their bodies, while investigating their relationship as women artists working together, as well as their friendship (which has spanned 15 years, 3 continents, and many, many cups of coffee). Their most recent collaborative project, HEAVY SHINE, will be featured in the 2021 Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival and exhibited at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto.

NANCY O. LOWENTRITT Coastal Life 20" x 16" x 2", Mixed media (2019) Nancy O. Lowentritt, a New Orleans native, now splits her time in Ponchatoula and Bay St Louis, MS. The main focus of her paintings is coastal living, working, and playing. She started painting in watercolors in her 20s and 30s; then after 30 years selling real estate, Nancy rekindled her love of painting, this time working in acrylics, a more forgiving medium. She joined several art clubs across LA, most active with Hammond Art Guild since 2006, now serving on the Board as Publicity Director. Her award winning art is available locally and in the bay. Falling in love with the coast line all over again as an adult brings her so much joy, it’s obvious in her paintings.

SARA MADANDAR #3 12" x 12", Laser, textile and stitchery on hand made paper (2019) Sara Madandar is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist based in New Orleans. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her BA in painting from the Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. Through a range of media such as painting, video, installation, and performance—Madandar explores migration and the human experience of living inbetween cultures. Her work uses the aesthetics of language, clothing, and bodies to study the complexities of cross-cultural experiences from a unique perspective. The hand papers series are made out of recycled New York Times newspapers which are two weeks of news after Trump’s “Muslim ban” in 2017. The news is not readable due to process of paper making which is soaking and smashing papers which brings the function of memory to the piece. The design on the paper is the distortion of flowers on Persian rugs. Under the pile of these flowers are bodies which are from drawing of Madandar’s own body. The red plaid fabric is called Long which is a traditional fabric in Iran. At one time men used to use Long as a wrap in public baths in Iran. What Madandar likes about this fabric is the structure of the white line which brings rules or sense of measurements to the piece.

KAORI MAEYAMA Brown Derby 36" x 48", Oil on panel (2019) Kaori Maeyama is an urban landscape painter from Fukuoka, Japan. Since arriving in New Orleans alone with one duffel bag in 1994, Kaori has been a focus puller, an audio editor, and a plein air painter. Focusing on decay and isolation of the mundane as the primary subject matter, she uses tonal palette and visual noise to amplify the passage of time and the atmosphere of ordinary landscapes. Her work has been shown at Staple Goods, The Front, LeMieux Galleries, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and reviewed in Gambit Weekly and Pelican Bomb. She holds a BA in film production from the University of New Orleans, and a MFA in painting from Tulane University where she learned to paint without paintbrushes.

DANIELA MARX Contemplation 10" x 10" x 3", Laser etching on wood and acrylic (2020) As part of her 2019-2020 sabbatical project, Daniela Marx has been creating daily typographic messages of mindfulness to help remind her of what is important in life. This golden word, contemplation, reminds us of the action to look thoughtfully at something for a long time. In our world, we are having to look within and around our communities to help us move forward. Contemplating our new roles in this new world needs thoughtful consideration.

JANEVA MORRIS Holy Grove 22" x 16", Photography and digital illustration (2020) Janeva Morris is a New Media and Animation graduate from Southeastern Louisiana University who was born and raised in New Orleans. She started her arts education at NOCCA before continuing to SLU for her bachelor’s degree. Currently, Janeva works predominately in digital illustration and photography. The work shown comes from her most recent body of work titled “Unconscious Mind”. This body of work was inspired by her continuous sleep paralysis and visual disturbances due to lack of sleep.

CHRISTIAN MOUNGER Jackson Combo 2 30" x 20", Piezo pigment print (2006) Growing up in the 1950s and 60s, Christian Mounger viewed the decorative arts, images from popular culture, and traditional painting as the same. That attitude continued throughout his professional career, where sources such as HGTV and art history influenced his artistic direction. He credits both the drawings of Sol Lewitt and the staged interiors found in House and Garden for a love of pattern and color. Mounger’s art celebrates and simultaneously critiques abundant living. Most works on paper measure the width of a standard wallpaper sample, and include textures appropriated from security envelope patterns. He inserts these familiar graphics into constructions based on works by mid-century abstract painters, transforming their art into design, and thereby making their grand compositions less heroic, and more conspicuously decorative.

JIM RICHARD Fun 12" x 23", Oil on paper (2011)

MARTIN NEEDOM Variation 10 6" x 9" x 23", Steel and wood (2018)

Jim Richard received his MFA from the University of Colorado and his BS degree from Lamar State College of Technology. He has exhibited at numerous institutions, including NOMA, the CAC and the Ogden Museum in New Orleans and the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Drawing Center in New York. He is represented in New Orleans by Arthur Roger Gallery and in Houston by Inman Gallery. He has exhibited with Jeff Bailey Gallery and Oliver Kamm Gallery in New York City and is currently represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery in Hudson, NY.

Martin Needom is a native of New Orleans, LA and has lived on the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain since 1969. A retired, social studies, and art teacher, he holds a BA in art from Southeastern Louisiana College (SLU). Working primarily as a three-dimensional artist, he also works in two-dimensional mixed media, and painting as well as print making and photography. His contemporary three dimensional works consist of a variety of materials such as paper, wood, stone, acrylic composite, plastics, steel, and bronze. Many of his three dimensional works are wall pieces of mixed media. His two dimensional work reflects his interest in coastal landscape and woodlands as well as abstract creations.

DALE NEWKIRK Mountains and Rivers Oil stick and coffee on paper (2009) Dale Newkirk received his MFA degree in 1984 from Ohio State University. His teaching career began at New Mexico State University in 1984, spanning 36 years as a professor at three universities. In addition to New Mexico State University, he has taught at Indiana University and Southeastern Louisiana University. Since 2003 he has been a professor of Visual Arts and Director of University Art Galleries at Southeastern. He is currently the Head of the Department of Visual Art + Design at Southeastern Louisiana University. Newkirk’s studio work has been in the areas of sculpture, public art, drawing, photography and painting. Since 1985 there have been numerous one-person exhibitions of his work in the United States and abroad, including exhibitions in major museums and galleries in New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, El Paso, Santa Fe, Chicago, Madrid, Mexico City, and New Delhi. His artwork is represented by Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans.

BARBARA SHAW Into The Woods 16" x 20", Acrylic (2020) Barbara Shaw was born in Chicago and raised all over the country and U.S. Territories. After her Dad retired from the Navy, she finished school in California, and has traveled around the world ever since. She settled in the New Orleans area in 1980. After dabbling in painting for a few years, she went back to college (even took a few classes with her daughter) and got her BA in Fine Arts/Painting. Her vigorously bold colors have been described as “awkwardly elegant”. She sees more color than most people are aware of and chooses to use that vision to investigate the experience of the interconnected web of all existence.

JACQUES SOULAS Bowl of Grapes 16" x 20", Oil on linen (2020) Jacques Soulas was born in France and grew up in Paris, where he studied ceramics and graphic design. In 1980, Mr. Soulas came to New Orleans and began attending the John McCrady Art School followed by The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. In 1986, he opened Cafe Degas, a French restaurant which he still co-owns. Many of Mr. Soulas’ paintings are in corporate and private collections throughout America. He currently shows his work at the Degas gallery in the Arts District of New Orleans. “The still life is a genre that is very appealing to me. I find my inspiration in objects found around the house and my garden. I add various decorative elements and repetitive patterns which I embed in the backgrounds."

LEONA STRASSBERG STEINER Plum Tree 18" x 22", Framed cyanotype (2019) Leona Strassberg Steiner is a photographer, printmaker and former dancer. Her artwork centers on environmentalism, memories, political transgressions, transitions in life, and life’s beauty. “I enjoy doing projects that can help change the way people look at themselves and others. The end game is seeing how we are all connected on this planet, how we are all one.” Steiner has exhibited her photographs and prints extensively with solo exhibitions of her work at The Victory Hall Drawing Rooms of Jersey City and the New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Spain, California, Illinois, New Jersey, New Orleans, and New York. Leona has been curating PoliticoPopUp, for the past three years, in New Orleans. PoliticoPopUp is a one-night exhibition with works by artists from around the country. Three of her images from her project Swamp Rising were shown at the Ogden Museum, for Louisiana Contemporary.

NANCY STUTES Suddenly Yesterday 18" x 14", Pastel (2008) Nancy Stutes grew up in Rayne, LA and now lives in Hammond. She is a Contemporary Realist Painter with a foundation based upon Classical Art of the Old Masters, like Rembrandt and the French and American Impressionists. She starts with drawing and tries to capture the “Spirit and Beauty of Life and Share Love.” Nancy’s work focuses on commissioned portraiture, landscapes, and, still life. Her artwork has been recognized and honored with awards by national and local art associations. In a recent Degas Pastel Society Exhibition a portrait of hers was awarded a 1st Place Ribbon. Her work can be found in her home studio as well as many private collections. Nancy has participated in the Louisiana Fine Arts Showcase every year since 2007.

TASHEKA ARCENEAUX-SUTTON CONstructivismish 15.125" x 11", Mixed-media (2020) Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Southeastern Louisiana University and faculty in the MFA Program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Art. Tasheka is the principle designer of Blacvoice Design which specializes in book design, identity design, illustration, and publication design for small businesses, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations. Tasheka’s research focuses on the discovery of Black people whose work has been omitted from the graphic design history canon. She’s also interested in the visual representation of black people in the media and popular culture, especially through the lens of stereotypes. Tasheka holds an MFA from CalArts, where she also worked as a graphic designer in the office of Creative Services.

CARLIE TROSCLAIR Interiors II 8" x 10" x 1", Photo collage (2020) Carlie Trosclair (b. New Orleans, LA) is a sculptor who earned an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, and BFA from Loyola University New Orleans. Approached through a lens of reordering and discovery, Trosclair’s work explores the liminal space between development and deconstruction; contemplating the living and transitional components of home. Select residencies include: Joan Mitchell Center (LA), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (NE), MASS MoCA (MA), chashama (NY), Oxbow (MI), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and The Luminary Center for the Arts (MO). Trosclair’s work has been featured in Art in America, The New York Times, ArtFile Magazine, and Temporary Art Review, among others. She is the recipient of the Riverfront Time’s Mastermind Award, Creative Stimulus Award, Regional Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, and the Great Rivers Biennial Award.

DENISE TULLIER-HOLLY Textured Light 19 1/4" x 29 1/4", Photography (2009) A native of New Orleans, Denise Tullier-Holly is involved in the arts and arts education. She holds degrees from University of Maryland and Southeastern Louisiana University. Denise served as the art educator for the Southeastern’s Laboratory School, retiring in 2019 and also taught Art Education in LSU Department of Education. Her artwork focuses on digital photography, mixed media and sculpture. Her image, “Lakeview Belongings,” won a place in DEBRIS, the Gulf Coast Regional Juried Exhibition, Shaw Center for the Arts. Her works were featured in the premier Acadiana Arts’ Southern Biennial. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities presented her with Special Humanities Award for her passion and devotion to her community and the arts. She was named NAEA’s 2007 National Elementary Art Educator of the Year.

JENNA TURNER 4 Axes Porcelain and wood (2017) As a child growing up on the prairies, Jenna Turner was surrounded by farms, small towns, and working-class families such as her own. The familiar yet contrasting elements of both industrial and domestic spaces have had a lasting impact on Jenna and the sculptures she creates. By pairing durable mediums such as ceramics and steel, with less permanent ones such as bread and cloth, Jenna explores some of the more elusive issues that lie just under the surface of normality.

JESSICA VOGEL BROWN Love Object V 13.5" x 17", Collagraph (2014) Jessie Vogel Brown is a mixed media artist. She was born in New Orleans, LA and received her BFA in 2008 from Wake Forest University. In 2012, she received her MFA in sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She is interested in the tactile nature of material, often playing between the 3-dimensional and 2-dimensional optical illusion of space and pattern. Her objects, paintings, and installations fall in-between what we know and do not know. They can seem distorted and perhaps simplified visual worlds, but her goal is to have a new and longer introspective look at something we see every day or is familiar.

JOHN ISIAH WALTON Gaby Orange 48" x 36", Oil on canvas (2011) Walton was born in 1985 in New Orleans and still lives and works there. He attended St. Augustine H.S. (1999-2002) and graduated from Sarah T. Reed H.S. (2003). Walton received an AA degree in 2012 from Delgado College, New Orleans. He has had solo exhibitions at Identity Books, Graham, NC (2014),Gallery P339 (2015 & 2016), Brooklyn, NY and Ohr O’Keefe Museum, Biloxi, MS (2019). Selected group shows include: The Front, New Orleans (2014), New Orleans Museum of Art (2014), Art Lab Akiba, Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo (2014), Untitled Art Projects, L.A. (2013), Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta (2019), and Level Artist Collective, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. Walton is a founding member of the Second Story Gallery (2012-13), Level Artist Collective (2014-present), and the first African American member of The Front, New Orleans (2014-2017). He has lectured about his work to the graduate program at UNC, Chapel Hill (2014).

RYN WILSON Lacuna 11" x 17", Archival inkjet prints, silver gelatin prints, thread (2017) Ryn Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography and video installation, while incorporating performance, sound, collage, and sewing into her practice. Her work takes a cinematic approach to narratives with an emphasis on feminism, the environment, and mysticism. She often works with her collaborative group, the Crystal Efemmes (artists Vanessa Centeno, Robyn LeRoy-Evans, and Cristina Molina), creating multi-media interactive experiences focused on intersectional feminism and revisionist mythology. Ryn has exhibited her work at the Oslo Screen Festival (Norway); Kunsthall Stavanger (Norway); Digital Interactive Artspace (Vallensbæk, Denmark); The Acadiana Center for the Arts (Lafayette, LA), The Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans, LA); and the Newcomb Art Museum (New Orleans, LA). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Digital Interactive Artspace and Newcomb Museum. She has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and was an artist in residence at the New Orleans Arts Council’s SALON.

KIM HOWES ZABBIA ENCOUNTER 36" x 48" x 2", Acrylic on panel (2020) Kim Howes Zabbia, a lifelong resident of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, is an artist, author, and teacher. With a BA from Southeastern Louisiana University and an MFA in Studio Art from LSU, Kim retired in 2007 from Ponchatoula High to open The Art Station, a school and networking center for adult artists. Kim has had 24 solo exhibitions since 1990. Currently represented by Ariodante Gallery in New Orleans, she was honored with a 24-year retrospective at the Pensacola Museum of Art in 2014. Her works are in collections throughout the US. Author of Painted Diaries: A Mother and Daughter’s Experience through Alzheimer’s (1996) and Just Paint, It Ain’t: Demystifying the Complex Marriage of Artists and their Viewers (2019), Kim has delivered over 50 presentations around the country.

Dan Alley David Armentor Luis Cruz Azaceta John Barnes Theresa Beaubouef Sophia Belkin Dawn Black Craig Braquet Ethan Chavez Sean Clark Philip Colwart Anita Cooke Ben Diller & Cyndy Giachetti Belinda Flores-Shinshillas Nurhan Gokturk Rosemary Goodell Roland Guidry Ann Haley Shawn Hall Andrea Hano Ana Hernandez Peter Hoffman Jerry Hymel Daniela Leal

Dianne Lee Robyn LeRoy-Evans Nancy O. Lowentritt Kelsey Mack Sara Madandar Kaori Maeyama Daniela Marx Janeva Morris Christian Mounger Martin Needom Dale Newkirk Jim Richard Barbara Shaw Jacques Soulas Leona Strassberg Steiner Nancy Stutes Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton Carlie Trosclair Denise Tullier-Holly Jenna Turner Jessica Vogel Brown John Isiah Walton Ryn Wilson Kim Howes Zabbia

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