Aaron Collier: "What Stands Behind"

Aaron Collier, Assistant Professor of Painting at the Newcomb Art Department, spent the month of June in residency in New York. He will be showing new work at the Staple Goods Gallery this month in an exhibit titled, "What Stands Behind."

Aaron's paintings in this exhibition, which overlaps with the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s passage through New Orleans and the Gulf South, aim to picture the interplay of order and disarray that accompany not only major upheavals but also those more modest in scale or frequent in cycle.

The exhibition opens Saturday, August 8 from 6-9 and continues Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5, through September 6.

Ronna Harris: "The Water Will Rise"

Professor Ronna Harris’ painting, “The Water Will Rise” is included in the 2015 Louisiana Contemporary exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Art. The exhibition opened August 1, White Linen Night, and will be on view until September 20, 2015.

Her work is also featured in a special issue of Art & Beyond,  Nude and Figurative Art: “The Body Beautiful” which may be viewed online.

This summer Prof. Harris also exhibited in “Strange Paradise,”  a national juried exhibition at the First Street Gallery in New York.

Prof. Harris states that her work is rooted in the American Realist tradition. "However, my paintings communicate a state of controlled chaos as I combine two divergent forces and approaches into my art: realism and abstract expression. By a proficient handling of light, a mastery of images, and a skillful mark-making method, my paintings confer an illusion of reality to something that's not real."

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Teresa Cole at Callan Contemporary

TERESA COLE 

CLOSING RECEPTION with the ARTIST 

THURSDAY JULY 23rd  6-8 pm 

EXHIBITION ON VIEW UNTIL July 26th, 2015 

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Seamless Belonging

Language is the inherent but ultimately partial material of our lived experience. Every traveler knows this, but is reminded afresh when confronted with a dialect beyond her own understanding. In an absence of linguistic comprehension, one's remaining capacities of sensation and understanding are amplified: the traveler moves through foreign lands composed entirely of sight, sound, and scent in a physicality of knowing made manifest through an incapacity for words.

Seamless Belonging, an exhibition by New Orleans-based artist Teresa Cole, explores this phenomenon through installation projects as well as ongoing contributions to this internationally respected artist's growing body of work in handmade paper. Cole, a full professor of printmaking in the art department of Tulane University, has for several years made pattern a subject of her sustained visual scrutiny. Her investigations have lead her research around the globe: to South Africa, Belgium, India, and most recently Japan, where the artist explored traditional papermaking techniques at the Awagami Factory.

Seep, Cole's large-format installation piece, represents not only a culmination of this immersion in a traditional Japanese craft, but explores indigo dye as tool of mark-making and meaning: "My investigation of traditional handicrafts and the impeccable skill in which they are executed exposed me to a grammar of care, expertise, and perfection," Cole writes. "The repetition of an activity until it is second nature but never taken for granted, until it is expected yet novel each time: a meditation, a prayer and a practice all at once." Cole's description of her process could just as easily be applied to the adoption of a new language, a reality that lies at the core of her practice. The patterns, materials, techniques and methods that compose each of her works - in paper, in dye, in ink - function as a visual grammar for the artist, who endlessly recombines her materials to form the utterance of the outsider with the introspection of the solo traveler. "The very task of language," Barthes tells us, "is to give one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new."

These inflections are further developed in Cole's handmade paper pieces, which draw from her extensive catalogue of collected and manipulated patterns, a language the artist has consistently added to for years. Created at the Dieu Donné papermaking studio in New York City, each work combines pigmented cotton and abaca pulps to extract a unique image from a larger field, crafting an occasion for deep scrutiny and meditation on meaning. The intimacy, transparency and controlled elegance of these works contrasts sharply with the measured intensity of Seep, creating a range of emotional resonances not unlike those of a stranger in a strange land

AnnieLaurie Erickson exhibits at Higher Pictures in New York

AnnieLaurie Erickson

Professor AnnieLaurie Erickson will be exhibiting in Photography Sees the Surface a group exhibition organized by the artist Aspen Mays. The exhibition opens Wednesday, July 1 at Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Avenue in New York. Mays presents an idiosyncratic selection of work by contemporary photographers who are also teachers, as well as historic material, including a 19th century heliogravure of the moon's surface, and a photogram from a Man Ray teaching portfolio. The works on view weave together investigations of photography's ability to isolate detail, abstract form, and obscure and defamiliarize vision, with conceptual and physical references to pedagogy.

In addition, in May The Huffington Post featured the Radical Color show that Erickson was in at Newspace Center for Photography.

Ogden exhibition features photography by Tulane Faculty and Alumni

Sophie T. Lvoff

Photography Professor AnnieLaurie Erickson, and alumni Sophie Lvoff (MFA 2013) and Jonathan Traviesa (MFA 2014) have work up at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art this summer as part of "The Rising" exhibition. 

"The Rising" celebrates the renewal and re-birth of the City of New Orleans ten years after one of the worst disasters in American history, and examines how art and photography was central to the revitalization of New Orleans. Spearheaded by the Ogden Museum (the first arts institution in New Orleans to open after the storm), the New Orleans Photo Alliance (formed in 2006), and Prospect.1 (organized in 2008), a collective arts exhibition throughout the city which fostered a creative outlet that helped enable a community to recover and begin the process of healing, and attracted by the lure of what is frequently called the most unique city in America, young photographers flocked to New Orleans and infused their creativity and vision into a city already known for its incomparable culture.  >The exhibition opened May 23 and will be on view until September 20, 2015.

BA Exhibition Class of 2015

The Newcomb Art Department is pleased to announce the the Class of 2015 BA Exhibition.

The exhibition features the work of Kristina Bjornson, Rachel Brown, Nicole Fisher, Bari-Lynn Friedlander, Jessie Gomez, Margaret Lukens, Caroline Orsi, Ryan Pepe, CoCo Schramel, and Christie Swinson.

The exhibition will be on view in the Carroll Gallery from May 7-15. A closing reception will be held on Friday, May 15 from noon - 2pm.

The student exhibition can also be viewed online at tulaneart2015.weebly.com.