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Are people becoming more generic? Like it or not, we are increasingly wired into an invisible world of electronic networks that know way too much about us. How long before they take over and turn us into hi-def replicas of ourselves? Such are the thoughts inspired by Sarah Amacker’s graphically modified photos that stylishly flatten her subjects into two dimensions. Some even have bar codes. Self Check Out: Who Am I? (pictured) is emblematic, a geometrically exaggerated high-fashion babe no doubt with perfect teeth somewhere behind the big tHRU Pop Art: Mixed-media graphics by bar code that displays her Sarah Amacker oct identity as a commodity. Even Byrdie’s Gallery, 2422A St. Claude the ones without bar codes Ave., (504) 656-6794; are flat and geometric. Yet www.byrdiesgallery.com as commodities in their own right, Amacker’s photographthrough Oct. 6 ic concoctions are shockingly This is How We Roll: UNO graduinexpensive. What gives? It ate student work curated by Dan seems that in real life she’s a tague and tony Campbell Baton Rouge biologist who does art on the side. Perhaps Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. she is an evolutionary bioloClaude Ave., (504) 710-4506; gist, a savant warning us of www.barristersgallery.com what we may all become in the not so distant future. More graphical extrapolations appear at Barrister’s Gallery, in Wendell Brunious’ Buried Alive painterly pop collages of comic strip characters interwoven with visions of black female stardom, most pointedly in the form of Whitney Houston. Something about the way this is layered is both musical and wavelike, suggesting a visual dirge for the drowned diva. the mood turns ambiguous in Vanessa Centeno’s abstract compositions, where viscous reds vie with more bilious shades in works mingling saturated sensuality with creepy science fiction overtones. If this sounds noir, it is. Ryn Wilson’s large pseudo film stills of elegant women carrying valises deep into foggy forests, or appearing only as a pair of shapely lifeless legs under a blue velvet dress, convey a darkly atmospheric romanticism, a hint of looming oblivion accompanied, implicitly, by an elegant soundtrack. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDt
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STELLA JONES GALLERY. Place St. Charles, 201 St. Charles Ave., Suite 132, 5689050; www.stellajonesgallery. com — “the Indomitable Spirit of Mr. I,” three-dimensional works by Mr. Imagination, through Sunday. TEN GALLERY IN THE SALON STUDIO. 4432 Magazine St., 333-1414 — “Falling Down,” works by Jeff Rinehart, through Sunday. UNO-ST. CLAUDE GALLERY. 2429 St. Claude Ave. — “Flourish,” mixed-media and
site-specific installations by Christine Sauer, through Oct. 6.
cano-la.org for details. Application deadline is Friday.
VIEUX CARRE GALLERY. 507 St. Ann St., 522-2900; www.vieuxcarregallery.com — “Portraits of the South,” works by Sarah Stiehl, through tuesday.
FRINGE FESTIVAL YARD ART TOUR. Byrdie’s Gallery, 2422 A St. Claude Ave., www. byrdiesgallery.com — Submissions are needed for the fest’s neighborhood walking tour. Art must be visible from the street or accessible to pedestrians in the Marigny, St. Roch, St. Claude or Bywater areas, maintained through the Fringe Festival, installed with permission of the property owner and free to visit. Email heather@
call for artists ART HOME NEW ORLEANS. the annual self-guided tour of home art collections and artists’ studios seek artists and art collectors for the event. Visit www.