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l'art noir new orleans presents Saturday, June 14th, 2008 5-10pm: Opening Reception Saturday,
June 21st, 2008 5-10pm 4108 St. Claude Ave between Mazant & France additional off-street lighted parking available compliments of Lacoste Gentle Dental Center in their parking lot one block past the gallery at 4232 st. claude cash bar. bywater prices. |
David Allison David Allison is a former resident of Chalmette, awaiting return from his post-Katrina exile. |
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| Angie Hard/Soft is the newest group of Sour Girl works from local New Orleans' artist, Angie. Working to marry her love of sewing and painting, Hard/Soft is the result of her two different mediums coming together. The pillow pieces have music boxes in them, so turn them over to play their songs. Angie is a self taught artist, seamstress, and packrat who currently lives in Gentilly with her menagerie of animals and collectibles. |
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Eric Lee Buchanan Eric Buchanan is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and the classic New Orleans Denizen of Art -amazingly talented and wonderfully quirky. |
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| Ciglio
- CiglioArt.com This current work has been an evolution inspired by my new life here in New Orleans. It is entitled "Blessed be the Reconstruction" and is centered in creating blessings for New Orleans on found materials. Ciglio came to New Orleans, called by the sirens of Katrina. He entered with a paintbrush in one hand and a video camera in the other. When he first arrived in New Orleans, in June of 2006, Ciglio's rite of passage was initiated with his gift to Frenchmen Street. There, on the plywood covering the Blue Nile, he painted a tribute to a beloved local drummer named Kufaru Aaron Muton. Art, to Ciglio, has always been a personal healing process. It wasn't until after his public art display on Frenchmen Street was completed that he realized its affect on all things. Art is playing a critical role in the reconstruction of New Orleans and is vital to the city's foundational health. Blessed be the reconstruction. Ciglio is currently working at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology in the Lower 9th Ward. For the past two years he has worked there with a wonderful arts program Mos Chukma Institute and is currently working at the same school for PlayPower based out of the Children's Museum of New Orleans. Ciglio loves actively engaging the children through the power of art, giving them the opportunity to express their deepest selves. These kids have had a profound effect on his life. The children are our greatest teachers. Ciglio has committed himself to this work for many years to come. |
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Amie Davis Amie's first camera was a Fisher-Price, complete with a color transparency wheel, picturesque barnyard, happy family scenes and a flashcube that rotated when the shutter button was snapped. Photography was all Amie ever wanted to do, as long as she can remember. She anxiously awaited the ability to study photography in the school system. There, she was lucky enough to meet and work with people like Ralph Gibson, Oscar Bailey, Arnold Newman, Jerry Uelsmann, Valerie Vetter and Evon Streetman. She also worked with Ann Tomcazk, who taught and inspired her love for hand coloring black and white images. In 1985, Amie started work on the series "Grave Discoveries', shooting cemeteries throughout the United States and England. Her choice of subject matter has enabled her to face life through death and the changes in new beginnings and constant endings. While walking through cemeteries shooting, she feels the remorse of those who have lost loved ones and their tributes to them. She has experienced the caring, longing and remorse through the beauty of icons,monuments, and effigies to God. She has observed through years of traveling to the same places, the slow separation from the dead, as everyday life duties make the physical visit and flowers slowly wane. Amie has witnessed a total apathy and disrespect for the dead when no personal association exists. She has also observed gruesome attacks and vandalism by people who think it is a curious game and grave robbers that consider human remains as trophies. Caretakers throughout time have neglected, forgotten and misplaced actual gravesites because the loved ones are gone of families have all died out. In comparison, Amie has seen respect for the dead in cities like New Orleans that were built and surrounded by their dead as part of eveyday life. She constantly questions a culture and society so set on growth it actually builds parking lots and business complexes on what was once was considered sacred ground. The technique used in this series in greatly inspired by glass plate black and whites of the first female nineteenth century photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron. Through hand coloring with oils and pencils in select areas, she controls, highlight, enhances, and creates a mood within the image, while the black and whites retain the pure, natural tones of the print. Amie feels that photography is an art form of documentation. These are a series of photographs that document the absence of the physical being and our culture in relation to death. |
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| Michael Dingler
- MichaelDingler.com
Dingler is a pluralist when it comes to the nature of our government; a deist when it comes to matters of faith; a loyalist when it comes to matters of family, and views the world with an existential bias. He questions every mindset and feels that when there's something to be shared with someone, he's at his best. He likes the color purple. Home is New Orleans. Dingler has traveled the world and two of the seven seas, though there's arguably five. He likes to view the world with gentle eyes, but the world won't always allow it. He dislikes the way the national media portrays the stories they report. He believes in balance. He rarely see balance in existance...balance in action. He paints. He writes. He draws. He dreams. He takes snaps. Today is the first day of the rest of his life. He's caught sunshine rainbows radiating godliness from behind torpid clouds. They've made him smile. Sometimes they were so beautiful, they've made him cry. Home is New Orleans. He was on the verge of leaving. He even left, but wasn't gone long enough for it to qualify as leaving. He was eating at Honey LeMoyne's LeMoyne Landing in Santa Fe when he realized, for true, that he had to get his derriere back to decent kitchens Dingler would move to Mars, but the environment there is less friendly than the people here. Care packages with the right seasonings would probably take too long. He loves being the messenger of good news and loves sharing the concept of brotherhood with someone who wants to understand and needs to know. He'll do anything for his friends and likes Thai food, among others. He think tangential thoughts are okay if you're making a point. Did he mention his favorite color was purple? |
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Robin Durand - RobinDurand.com Robin Durand is the son and grandson of painters and learned to paint from his father while growing up in Hawaii. He became seriously interested in painting when introduced to specialized color principles by George T. Thurmond and, later, Sammy Britt, Gerald Deloach and others. He gained a BFA from Delta State University in 1997 and an MFA from Louisiana State University in 2000. He also studied Traditional Chinese painting while in graduate school and at the Xian Institute of Art, China. He established himself in New Orleans through affiliation with Cole Pratt Gallery and Jenkins Connelly Gallery. He is in numerous collections including the Masur Museum in Monroe, LA and the LSU Medical School collection. |
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"Malakai" Rob Edwards "Malakai" Rob Edwards is a 12 year resident of New Orleans, originally from Atlanta, GA. He began painting five years ago after a prolonged illness. His work includes bright floral themes as well as spiritual and occult themes. |
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Caesar Meadows - jigsawjct.com Caesar Meadows was born in 1968 and grew up in New Orleans. In his early years he was an avid reader of comic strip paperbacks that he would buy at various (though now sadly defunct) K&B drugstores around town. These paperbacks would prove to be a great source of inspiration in his later creative endeavors as a self-taught cartoonist. Meadows currently creates a couple of monthly comic strips for two local periodicals. Where Y'at Magazine has published Mumbeaux Gumbo since August 2001 and Antigravity Magazine has published Qomix since 2003. The comic strips are reformed and self-published as micro-comics and then sold in capsule vending machines around New Orleans. Meadows also sells comics in unique handcrafted paper packages shaped like pyramids, robots, TV sets and microbuses, among other things. For several years now, Meadows has participated in the Babylon Lexicon ArtBook exhibits at Barristers Gallery. Since its inception in 1998, he has been one of the hosts of the underground comic book jam “dafa FUNGUS” on Wednesday nights in New Orleans. He currently resides about 35 miles upriver from New Orleans in the sleepy little hamlet of Reserve, LA., where he works out of his Jigsaw Junction Studio Archive. |
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| Michael
Fedor - MichaelFedor.com
New Orleans' artist/photographer Micheal Fedor was born in 1959 in Bayonne, New Jersey. He has been residing in the Crescent City since 1984. Fedor studied at the New Orleans' Academy of Fine Art with Dell Weller and Auseklis Ozols from 1986-87 for advanced figure drawing and painting, landscapes and portraiture. He studied extensively under Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Student League of New York in 1979-80, along with Nelson Shanks for drawing and Ronnie Landfield for painting. Fedor holds a BFA from New Jersey City University (1983) where he studied photography with Lois Conner. Michael Fedor began exhibiting in 1978 and has won numerous awards since 1980. His work is in collections in the United States and Europe. |
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Daniel Finnigan - DanielFinnigan.com Born in Sacramento in 1972, Daniel spent his childhood climbing Idaho water towers. After brief sojourn-stays in Salt Lake City and San Francisco, Daniel calls New Orleans home. His paintings are sleek, hypnotic, and dangerous. The work, in every way, is heir apparent to an invisible bird gesture. |
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Andrea Garland - LartNoir.com Largely self-taught, Andrea Garland has explored many artistic mediums and enjoys combining elements not usually found together and creating her own techniques. Her current focus blends together elements of photography, digital design, lightbox techniques, multi-layered images and stained glass with found objects thrown in for good measure. A New Orleans transplant who arrived from the cold North over sixteen years ago, Andrea currently makes a living as a graphic artist and website designer and co-runs l'art Noir with Master Jeffrey. In her spare time she is a community and political activist and attempts to keep the six household cats happy. |
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| Joy Gauss
I get an idea and it becomes a series as I work out my thoughts using earth's clay, my hands and heart. Surfaces are enhanced with print, sprigs, drawings, carvings, textures and under glazes then dried and bisque fired. Glazes are hand painted on select areas. You will find crackle glazes of pink, greens, yellows, oranges, reds, the blue... Plus matt black (smoked) areas. Next, the art is taken to the studio garden RAKU fired, then rinsed and polished. All "Story Pottery" is one of a kind and can not be duplicated. The function is - sharing the story. "Bone Gang You Next" - The Story: On the Bayou, the crowd circled as the head bones man shook a tambourine. A whirling straw haired man with blackened face, traced skeletal in white, pounded on a drum. Women known as the "Baby Dolls" gyrated under and around the stilt man. His butcher apron flapped and the scrawled messages "You Next", "Come to Hell with Me" mixed with the drum beat, lent a surreal primal feeling. The Bone Gang moved on down the Bayou. Mardi Gras Indians dressed head to foot in screaming yellow, engine red, blue or green feathers and sparkling hand sewn beads began to line up for mock battle. |
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| Claudia "Mardi Claw" Gherke
- myspace.com/misclawclaw
Claudia Gherke is Day of the Dead and paper maiche artist from Portland, Oregon. After two years at the University of Oregon, she moved to Seattle, where she graduated from the Art Institute. Claudia then moved back to Portland, enrolled in the Portland Art Museum Program, then moved on to Prescott, Arizona. Since arriving in New Orleans six years ago, she has let herself steep in the city's one of a kind culture and was finally inspired to paint after nearly loosing the city in the recent War of Ocean Aggression. She is inspired by the link between New Orleans' carefree Jazz Funeral tradition and the joyful way Central American's portray death. Since the Hurricane, the influx of Hispanic culture has brought Dia De Los Muertos to the forefront of Claudia's artistic inspiration. |
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Allison Gordin - AllisonGordin.com 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. Painting is much like these things to me. I paint from photographs. I like to interpret the moment captured in the seconds with a camera and then... after sharing this intensity of communication with another. The solitary confinement of the studio, just the painting and the artist. Can I capture the emotion, the intimacy of that moment, just what it is that makes that person so intriguing. I will try. Oils seem to offer the most flexibility. They seem the most malleable to my abilities. Oils are sensual in a way that most mediums are not, the scent of linseed oil, turpentine and the various glazes. Say so much to us, our eyes, nose, touching. Yes, the touch of the paint on the skin. It can be so reminiscent of the organic humanity of the person being painted. |
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Master Jeffrey Holmes - LartNoir.com Master Jeffrey is a photographer, artist and the founder of l'art Noir. His photography career began as a photojournalist for Southern Star Boating magazine in South Florida, covering the offshore powerboat racing circuit. In 1989, Southern Star and Jeffrey won three awards due to his coverage. Master Jeffrey eventually left the boating and advertising world to focus more on his fine art and gallery aspirations. Former clients and publications include: Hot Boat magazine, Century Boats, Revlon, Jazz Iz magazine, and Diamond Advertising & Publishing. Master Jeffrey closed shop in South Florida in 2001 and moved the project to New Orleans. After a brief run at the Mazant Guest House during which he married Andrea Garland, Jeffrey and Andrea found a permanent location on St. Claude Avenue and have successfully helped create the new St. Claude Arts District. |
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| Raymond "Moose" Jackson
- myspace.com/illusionfields Soulseeker, drifter, poet, painter, musician and community volunteer |
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Herbert Kearney Originated in a stone egg of Irish parents, Herbert Kearney - world traveler, poet, painter and sculptor. An orator, ranter, and an all around bemused humanitarian. From the Crawford School of Art in Cork Ireland to the infamous halls of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, reclaiming the ancient almost forgotten art of bone carving. From the wild mountain valleys of southern Italy to the frozen wastes of the Bearing Sea, from 'Studio 2' Melbourne, Australia to the 'Tiny Bubbles Studio' San Francisco, and finally to where he has now resided for the past tow and a half years, 'The Ark' New Orleans, kicking through the rubble of the sphincter of an incontinent continent where artist's leap like dogs eating their own shit with which to grow roses. |
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Alexis Linde - myspace.com/lexilindephotography Alexis Linde is a photographer currently living
in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Originally from the midwest,
Alexis studied the arts at Columbia College Chicago, where she
earned a degree in fine art. Her focus was mainly in the traditional
printing process of silver gelatin prints and large format cameras. |
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Travis Linde - RustyPelicanArt.com Travis Linde is an artist from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The sculptures he creates are constructed out of found materials and debris from his home and neighborhood post Katrina. Aside from building sculptures, painting, and tattooing, Travis also restores vintage motorcycles, which is very apparent in several of the pieces. Many of the gas tanks, gears, and tools that he has used were from his shop which got 4 feet of water. Originally the birds were all pelicans, which is the state bird of Louisiana. He has since went on to making flamingos, ostriches, vultures, crows, and so on. The original gas tank men are a tribute to the workers that go in and out of the lower Ninth Ward every day. There are several out on St. Claude Ave, waving to the trucks as they pass by, which is the main drag that is used for construction traffic to the most devastated areas of the city. |
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Epi Lopez For the thirteen years that Epi Lopez was locked up for drug smuggling, art was his window on the world beyond prison walls. |
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Maggie Mae - MaggieMaeProductions.com Maggie Mae is a talented New Orleans artist, specializing in custom-painted furniture, clothing, and cartoons. Her work is featured at Margaritaville Cafe New Orleans, and was sponsored by the Sheraton Hotel of New Orleans in the New Orleans Festival of Fins. |
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Marrus - MarrusArt.com Three
weeks after receiving her BFA, Marrus caught a one-way Greyhound
bus to New York City. Despite an extraordinarily
successful (but thankfully short) stint selling animation to some
of the world's top advertising agencies, she began illustrating comics
for Valiant, DC & ElfQuest, painting book & album covers,
and creating interior illustrations for various magazines and entertainment
companies. Marrus has also done a spot of storyboarding for the
movie industry. |
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Sontina Reid-Hall Sontina Reid- Hall has been called a lot of things and has a lot of reputations. |
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Corey Sanders The visionary art of Corey Sanders is an exploration of the unconscious through image and patterns, reflections of the archetypal symbols formed in the collective unconscious, embodied in our myths and manifested in the natural world around us. Like dreams, the symbols, when brought to consciousness, act as keys to our individual and collective psychic evolution. Corey Sanders is a local artist who has produced and been shown at a number of multimedia art shows in New Orleans and the Northshore over the past 10 years in Louisiana. |
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Samantha Sanders Samantha Alexis Sanders is a Pennsylvania native and Moore College of Art 2000 Graduate with a BFA and art education certification degree with an emphasis in 3 dimensional design. Currently, she is teaching Talented Visual Art and resides in Covington, La. Her artistic focus is on the process of making art through the exploitation of materials. Working with natural materials, I focused on the subject of time through a series of linear aging breasts from adolescence to adulthood. The pen and conte' drawing emphasizes expressive line qualities through the depiction of the female form, conveying the energy of sensuality. |
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| Taylor Lee Shepherd works in an old, dusty stable. | |
| Allison
Termine - flickr.com/photos/termine
Allison Termine has been a fine art oil painter for over 13 years. She aims to fulfill the desire to take a second look at the painting, only to find more than what you saw the first time. |
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Colin Wadsworth With
over ten years experience in shooting on film, photography is
an art Colin has always been passionate about. He carries out
each shoot creatively, with a unique and artistic method. Colin
desires variety in every aspect of life, and his practice of photography
is no different. Technique, equipment, location, subjects
- he wants to be excited and interested during the shoot
and during the processing, so he always utilizes a varying approach
to all facets of his profession. In
this digital age, he remains as pure as possible in regards to
everything he shoots. All images seen are actual digital
images, with modification limited to cropping. Colin is not a graphic
artist, and not an ounce of manipulation is performed on any of
his photos. There is something surreal about shooting on and the
processing of film. Colin maintains this as well as he can
in this age of instant gratification. |
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Joshua Walsh - JoshuaWalsh.com For nearly two decades, Walsh has been seduced by New Orleans in all her splendor. His work dispels the "party" myth of New Orleans and brings one much closer to the truth, his truth: a family portrait. Identifiable through the human experience, Walsh creates through life's emotions, keeping him captive in a world of expression and self identification. |
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Jack Wittenbrink - JackWittenbrink.com Jack Wittenbrink is a paper cutter who sells his cuttings and prints of his cuttings, which he creates exclusively out of found paper from the trash and in the street. It has been his only occupation for the past six years. Jack has no formal art training besides school classes as a child. He lives in the Treme and his themes are usually spiritual or folkloric. |
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