Undergraduate Juried Exhibition

On Friday, November 11th, the Carroll Gallery hosted a walkthrough of the annual  Undergraduate Juried Exhibition with Juror Emily Wilkerson, Curatorial Associate at Prospect.New Orleans. Wilkerson discussed the selected works and the curatorial process.  She highlighted the award recipients and explained why each of those works appealed to her so directly, and how they fit into the larger context of contemporary art practices. Congratulations to the following artists, recipients of the 2016 Juror's Awards: Elizabeth Carey, Untitled, Emery Gluck, Potatoes No. 1, Malcolm Kriegel, Hanging Doodle #1 (shown at left), John Ludlam, Untitled, and Lucie Taylor, Perennial Observation.

The exhibition will be on view through November 22nd.

Arlene Shechet: Working Over Time

Arlene Shechet
Working Over Time : an artist’s talk
Thursday, November 17, 7 pm
Freeman Auditorium
205 Woldenberg Art Center
reception immediately following in Woodward Way

Please join the Newcomb Art Department for the 2016 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture, Working Over Time: an artist talk by Arlene Shechet.

Arlene Shechet is a sculptor living and working in New York City and the Hudson Valley. All at Once, a major, critically-acclaimed 20-year survey of Shechet’s work, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2015. Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe wrote: “It’s in the harmonies and tensions between these colors and textures, between suggestions of both order and anarchy, decay and blooming freshness, that these works cough, sputter, and sing. If they really are the great analogs to interior life that I feel them to be, it’s because Shechet knows that this life, expertly attended to, has its own folds and wrinkles, its own hollows and protuberances; that it is at once fugitive and monumental ... and ultimately unknowable.” All at Once was also hailed by The New York Times as “some of the most imaginative American sculpture of the past 20 years, and some of the most radically personal.” 

Shechet was featured in Season 7 of PBS’s ART21 in 2014 as well as Season 4 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Artist Project in 2016. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2016 CAA Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work, a John S. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow- ship Award in 2004, the Anonymous Was a Woman Artist Award, and the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2010, as well as several New York Foundation for the Arts awards. 

Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference

In the spirit of the tradition forged by the late Andrew Ladis and his colleagues at the University of Georgia, an international congress of Trecento specialists will congregate at Tulane University next week to share their research formally and informally. Scholars of all ages and stages will present specific art historical problems, issues, and ideas that focus on the arts of Italy during “the long fourteenth century” (late Dugento through early Quattrocento).

The keynote speaker at the Tulane conference will be Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Dr. Trachtenberg's keynote address, "Dante and the Moment of Florentine Art" will take place in Freeman Auditorium on Thursday, November 10 at 6:00pm. The keynote address is free and open to the public.

Tulane University's Newcomb Art Department is pleased to host the inaugural Andrew Ladis Memorial Trecento Conference with the generous support of the Kress Foundation, Villa i Tatti - The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the New Orleans Center for the Gulf South.

Spatial Grammars

Elizabeth Boone, Professor of Art History, gave the lecture “Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico” as the Distinguished Speaker in art history at the College of William & Mary, Oct. 13. She also presented a paper, “Layering Above and Below: What the Codex Ríos Says about the Aztec Cosmos at the Dawn of Creation,” at the symposium “As Above, So Below: Cosmic Roads to Mesoamerican Underworlds,” at Harvard University, Oct. 21-22.

AnnieLaurie Erickson at NOPA, ACA and NOAC

AnnieLaurie Erickson, the Ellsworth Woodward Junior Professor in Studio Art, has two exhibitions opening Saturday, October 8th and will be giving a talk at the New Orleans Photo Alliance on Tuesday, October 11th.  At the NOPA Gallery Erickson will discuss her creation of alternative modes of photographic production from interactive gallery installations using photography and eye tracking to the creation of images of radioactive residue from the first man-made nuclear reaction in 1942. This talk is in conjunction with NOPA's current exhibit MAXIMIZE WINDOW: The Expanded Photograph in Contemporary Art of New Orleans that includes works by recent alumni Sophie Lvoff, Brittan Rosendahl, and Jonathan Traviesa.

At the Acadiana Center for Arts in Lafayette the exhibition American Beauty explores the political climate of America and the many issues that fuel our current political, industrial, social and moral future. Curated by Brian Guidry and Mary Beyt, the exhibition features the work of Luis Cruz Azaceta, Heidi Cody, AnnieLaurie Erickson, Ernie L. Fournet, Sharon Jacques, Malcolm McClay, Maxx Sizeler, Dan Tague, John Isiah Walton, and Carl Joe Williams.

The Louisiana Photography Biennial at the New Orleans Arts Center features over 75 Louisiana photographers including internationally and nationally acclaimed artists. This exhibition was curated by Don Marshall former Director of the CAC and current Executive Director of the Jazz & Heritage Foundation.

Friday Life Drawing Sessions

The Newcomb Art Department is pleased to offer Open Model Sessions on Friday afternoons from 1-4pm. The drawing sessions began September 9th, and last until December 2nd.  There are two exceptions - Tulane is on Fall Break on October 14, and on Thanksgiving Break on November 25. There will NOT be sessions on those Fridays. The Open Model Sessions take place in room 216 of the Woldenberg Art Center and are free and open to the public.

Gene Koss and Skylar Fein to be honored at NOMA

NOMA’s annual fall soiree in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be held on Friday, September 23, 2016.

This year’s LOVE in the Garden honorees include Gene Koss, Professor of Glass at Tulane for nearly forty years, and incoming graduate student in Photography, Skylar Fein, as well as Eleanora Rukia Brown, Ashley Longshore, Alexa Pulitzer, and Josephine Sacabo.

The evening events will kick off with a Patron Party at 7 pm, Garden Party at 8pm, followed by a Late Night Party at 9pm. The New Orleans Museum of Art is located at 1 Collins Diboll Circle in City Park. For more information, see:
https://noma.org/event/love-garden-2016-presented-whitney-bank/.