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GALLERIES A Gallery For Fine Photography. 241 Chartres St., (504) 568-1313; www.agallery.com — “Beyond Thought: Homage to Clarice Lispector,” photogravures by Josephine Sacabo, through December. Photographs and photo books from all eras by various photographers, ongoing. AKG Presents the Art of Dr. Seuss. 716 Bienville St., (504) 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com/dr-seuss — Works by Dr. Seuss, ongoing. Alex Beard Studio. 712 Royal St., (504) 309-0394; www.alexbeardstudio. com — Drawings and paintings by Alex Beard, ongoing. Anton Haardt Gallery. 2858 Magazine St., (504) 309-4249; www.antonart.com — “Deep Blues,” Southern folk art group exhibition, ongoing. Ariodante Gallery. 535 Julia St., (504) 5243233; www.ariodantegallery.com — Group craft exhibition, through December.
Barrister’s Gallery. 2331 St. Claude Ave., (504) 525-2767; www.barristersgallery. com — Group photography exhibition, through Jan. 4. Beneito’s Art. 3618 Magazine St., (504) 891-9170; www.bernardbeneito.com — Oil paintings by Beneito Bernard, ongoing. Benjamin Franklin High School. 2001 Leon C. Simon Drive, (504) 286-2600; www. benfranklinhighschool.org — “The Franklin Collection: Volume 2,” alumni mixed media exhibition, through January. Boyd | Satellite. 440 Julia St., (504) 581-2440; www.boydsatellitegallery. com — “Celebrity,” photographs of celebrities and entertainers by Steven Forster, through December. Byrdie’s Gallery. 2422 St. Claude Ave., (504) 656-6794; www.byrdiesgallery.com — “Streets Not to Cross,” cyanotype-based mixed media exploration into the demographics of New Orleans by Philip Roderic Yiannopoulos, through Jan. 7. Callan Contemporary. 518 Julia St., (504) 525-0518; www.callancontemporary. com — “We Thought We Were Drowning But It Was Only Love,” paintings by Margaret Evangeline, through December. Carol Robinson Gallery. 840 Napoleon Ave., (504) 895-6130; www.carolrobinson-
Artist Spaces: Close to Home and The Art of Empathy
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Artist Spaces: Close to Home: photographs by Tina Freeman The Art of Empathy: Photographs by E2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien) Octavia Art Gallery, 454 Julia St. (504) 309-4249 www.octaviaartgallery.com
Artists’ studios have long inspired a certain fascination among the general population, as well as other artists. Like historic house tours, they often are organized into a kind of pilgrimage, but unlike the work spaces of writers or musicians, art studios tell us much about a visual artist’s creative process and can be very personal, even psychological. Tina Freeman’s photograph of George Dureau’s studio (pictured), is both poetic and poignant. Gorgeously cluttered with symbolic, if often prosaic, objects that in his hands became magical, it no longer exists because Dureau, 82, is in a nursing facility. Ersy’s studio similarly resembles a workshop where elves assemble magical dreams, and proto-postmodernist Robert Tannen’s repurposed manufactured objects and natural forms take over his living and work spaces like mushrooms after a rain. Freeman’s photographs are lovingly crafted art objects that also contribute to our community’s collective memory. Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien’s photographic versions of paintings from art history reflect their concerns about ethnic stereotyping seen in some news reports after Hurricane Katrina, but they lend themselves to a variety of interpretations. Here all races and orientations are reflected in remakes of European masterpieces — including Manet’s The Luncheon on the Grass, David’s The Death of Marat and Velazquez’s Venus at Her Mirror — in images that avoid trite multicultural moralizing by being so beautifully and wittily crafted that they invite us to see the world anew, without the stereotypical expectations that often attend notions of race, gender or ethnicity — concepts already put through the Creole blender that is Julien and Kleinveld’s native New Orleans. Other mind-bending works in this year’s PhotoNOLA expos include Wallace Merritt’s meditative views of Paris made even more timeless by the absence of people or automobiles, being shown at Cole Pratt Gallery, and Brooke Shaden’s buoyantly otherworldly series of female figures seemingly transported into a realm of daydreams made real, which is on display at Soren Christensen Gallery. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDT
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Arthur Roger Gallery. 432 Julia St., (504) 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery. com — “Chromaccumulations,” minimalist art by Pard Morrison; “Still Life / Nightscape,” exhibition of object scans on dye-infused aluminum by Kate Blacklock; “Threadbare,” collection of photography by David Halliday; All through Dec. 28.
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