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review New works and a new gallery in the St. Claude Avenue arts district
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PROSPECT.2. Dan Cameron’s art biennial features works by 27 local, national and international artists on display in traditional and alternative venues. Visit www.prospectneworleans.org for details. Through Jan. 29.
OPENING 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 5692700; www.3rcp.com — “Taint
Modern,” a mixed-media exhibition by Critique Group, through Jan. 28. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — “True Blue,”
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photographs by Gary Perez; jewelry by Bonnie Miller; works by Pamela Marquis; all through Jan. 30. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
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ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Aspects of a New Kind of Realism,” a group exhibition curated by Michael Klein; “Shifting States,” paintings and drawings by Luis Cruz Azaceta; both through Feb. 18. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “Body,
Remember,” oil paintings by Denyce Celentano, through Jan. 28. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday.
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Works by Martin Welch, Hannah Cohen, Jane Brewster, Berhane Habtezion, Brian Bush and Shaun Aleman, through January. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday. HERIARD-CIMINO GALLERY. 440 Julia St., 525-7300; www. heriardcimino.com — “Elemental,” paintings by Regina Scully; “Minor Keys,” wall sculptures by Martin Payton; both through Feb. 19. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — Paintings by Adam Hall,
through January. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday.
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LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., 522-5988; www.lemieuxgalleries.com — “Mann’s Mind,”
In a recent interview, Prospect New Orleans founder Dan Cameron opined that New Orleans doesn’t do enough “to support its local visual artists, yet ... the St. Claude district now constitutes the critical mass of artist-run spaces for the entire country.” While his opinions are open to debate, his comment about St. Claude being a national epicenter for artist-run co-op galleries is hard to dispute; no other city has so many in such concentration. The newest is Staple Goods, a former corner grocery on St. Roch Avenue at Villere Street. Its current show features work by its member artists, and it’s surprisingly cohesive despite the diversity. Cynthia Scott’s Chandeleur (pictured) series of sculptures transform everyday manufactured items into airy, chandelier-like mobiles with a Zen-like delicacy that belies their prosaic origins while complementing Daniel Kelly’s grid drawings, in which loosely rendered lines and marks suggest a ghostly sort of architectural space, as if modernism had evolved directly from stone age cave paintings. A notable exception to the prevailing abstraction is Thomasine Bartlett’s Hot Mamas photo series of women in archaic Storyville attire lounging languidly in steamy summer torpor in a visual meditation on “the brutality of fashion and style” in a tropical environment. More Storyville-based imagery turns up in a series of tintype photographic portraits by Bruce Schultz at Homespace Gallery, another co-op down the street. In fact, the entire gallery is given over to the archaic 19th-century tintype process with additional portraits as well as abstract compositions by Euphus Ruth, Jenny Sampson and S. Gayle Stevens. Beyond novelty, these works take us to a parallel universe where technique becomes a ritual and the expressions of the sitters, extended over long exposure times, become windows into their souls. — D. Eric Bookhardt
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Fresh Produce: Works by Thomasine Bartlett, Aaron Collier, Robyn Denny, William DePauw, Daniel Kelly, Anne C. Nelson, Laura Richens and Cynthia Scott Saturday-Sunday Staple Goods, 1340 St. Roch Ave., 9087331; www.postmedium.org/staplegoods Tintype: Photographs by Euphus Ruth, Jenny Sampson, S. Gayle Stevens and Bruce Schultz Saturday-Sunday Homespace Gallery, 1128 St. Roch Ave., (917) 584-9867
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