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OPENING 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com —
“Growth Patterns,” paintings, ceramics and installation by Morgana King, through April. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday.
ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 957-4255; www. antennagallery.org — “How To
Build A Forest,” installation/ performance by Shawn Hall, PearlDamour and others, through May 8. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery.com — “I Love You,
Goodnight,” folk tales written and illustrated by Cameo Olson, through May 11. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 7220876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium.com — “Petrichor,” oil
paintings by Erica Lambertson Philippe, through May 7. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — Hypotheti-
HOME SPACE GALLERY. 1128 St. Roch Ave. — “The Bride’s
Deadly Sins,” works by Cynthia Scott, through May 8. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday. NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www. noaam.com — “Dancing String
Bean,” paintings and drawings by Eugene Martin, through May 28. Opening Wednesday.
THE OLD IRONWORKS. 612 Piety St., 908-4741 — “Automata,” an exhibition of kinetic, robotic and mechanical sculpture, through Saturday. 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. daily, or by appointment, through Saturday. SLIDELL CULTURAL CENTER. 2055 Second St., Slidell, (985) 646-4375 — “Salad Days,” a
juried student art exhibition, through June 10. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. UNO-ST. CLAUDE GALLERY. 2429 St. Claude Ave. — MFA
Exhibitions: Paintings and drawings by Regina Scully, installations by Holis Hannan,
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Then and Now: 35th Anniversary Exhibition of Works by 14 Artists Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp St., 528-3805; www.cacno.org
through May 8. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
GALLERIES 1022 GALLERY. 1022 Lowerline St., 301-0679; www.1022gallery.blogspot.com — Paintings by Tim Trapolin, through April 18. 811 GALLERY. 811 Howard Ave., 524-3872; www.francoalessandrini.net — Photographs by Riccardo Lorenzi, through Sunday.
A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Photographs by Michael
Kenna; photographs by Sebastiao Salgado, through April 30.
ACADEMY GALLERY. 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 — Works by
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Tony Benjamin and R. Tucker Fitz-Hugh Jr., through May 12.
ANGELA KING GALLERY. 241 Royal St., 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — “The Art
of Dr. Seuss: Rare Editions Collections,” prints and sculpture by Dr. Seuss, through May 31. PAGE 47
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cal architectural renderings of under-used buildings by Hypothetical Development Organization, through May 7. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.
In the mid-1970s, a group of local artists had an idea: Why not stage an art show in an underutilized old building and throw a party with live music in the opening? So they did it and a grand time was had by all. One thing led to another and in 1976 the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) was born in a huge warehouse donated by Sydney Besthoff. Flash forward 35 years and much has changed. Most of the artists are still around, the warehouse is all spiffed up, and the CAC is part of the establishment. Then and Now, curated by Dan Cameron, explores what remains and what has changed in the art and artists that defined the center’s funky but fertile early years. CAC co-founder and proto-conceptual artist Robert Tannen’s new piece is an electric clothes dryer filled with houseshaped blocks of wood. Turn it on and it roars like a hurricane. His earlier work — a 54-foot-long hammock-like concoction made from steel and aluminum panels — was more hopeful, a bridge for spanning the imagination, but his modus operandi is much the same. Similarly, in Douglas Bourgeois’ recent work, his subjects are as exotic as they were in his funky Twilight High Yearbook, 1978, painting of students in an imaginary Cajun high school yearbook, only now they’re rendered in the dazzling style of a renaissance master on mushrooms. Robert Warrens, Jim Richard and Clifton Webb remain true to imagism, and in the work of Wayne Amedee, Dawn DeDeaux, George Dureau, Lin Emery, Gene Koss, Martin Payton and Elizabeth Shannon, evolutionary refinement amid continuity prevails. Lynda Benglis’ elegant knots are still elegantly knotty, and Keith Sonnier’s, circa 2009, Konsa (pictured) neon sculpture may be even more true to his baroque Louisiana roots than his work from the late 1960s, when he and Benglis helped to melt the hard edges off minimalism and launch postminimalism as an art movement. — D. Eric Bookhardt
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