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ART EVENTS PROSPECT.2. Dan Cameron’s art biennial features works by more than 26 local, national and international artists on display in traditional and alternative venues. Visit www. prospectneworleans.org for details. Saturday, then daily through Jan. 29. ST. CLAUDE SATELLITES. St. Claude Avenue venues hosts music, performances and gallery exhibitions to correspond with Prospect.2. Venues include Good Children Gallery, The Front, Parse Gallery, Trouser House, Antenna Gallery, Byrdie’s Gallery, T-Lot, The McKenna Museum of African-American Art, Barrister’s Gallery, Staple Goods and others. Email st.claudesatellites@gmail.com for details. 6 p.m. to midnight Saturday.
OPENING 1850 HOUSE. 523 St. Ann St., 5686968 — Works by Sophie Calle for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
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ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 957-4255; www.pressstreet.com — “The Response,”
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an installation by gallery artists in response to the previous gallery show “The Instructions.” Opening reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday. CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER. 900 Camp St., 528-3800; www. cacno.org — Prospect.2 show featuring Jonas Dahlberg, George Dunbar, Karl Haendel and others, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday. COUP D’OEIL ART CONSORTIUM. 2033 Magazine St., 722-0876; www.coupdoeilartconsortium. com — “The Whelming, Part
1,” paintings and drawings by Blaine Capone, through Nov. 26. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday.
GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY. 4037 St. Claude Ave., 616-7427; www. goodchildrengallery.com — “Hit
Refresh Part 1,” an exhibition of gallery artists curated by Nick Stillman, through Dec. 4. Opening reception 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday.
HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION. 533 Royal St., 523-4662; www.hnoc.org — Works by
Dawn Dedeaux for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
ISAAC DELGADO FINE ARTS GALLERY. Delgado Community College, Isaac Delgado Hall, third floor, 615 City Park Ave., 361-6620 — Works by Pawel Wojtasik
for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29.
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET ers curated by Slow Southern Style; both through Nov. 5.
Opening Saturday. LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS. 7 Bamboo Road, 488-5488; www.longuevue. com — “Audubon’s Absence,”
ecological artworks by Brandon Ballengee, through January. Opening Sunday.
NEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM. 1418 Gov. Nicholls St., 566-1136; www.noaam.com — Works by Lorraine O’Grady
for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
NEW ORLEANS HEALING CENTER. 2372 St. Claude Ave., 948-9961; www.neworleanshealingcenter. org — Works by Keith Duncan
for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART. City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org — Works by Bruce Davenport
Jr., Nicole Eisenman, An-My Le and Jennifer Steinkamp for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
NEWCOMB ART GALLERY. Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University, 865-5328; www.newcombartgallery.tulane.edu — Works by Nick Cave and Joyce Scott for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday. OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART. 925 Camp St., 539-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org —
Works by Ashton Ramsay for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
OLD U.S. MINT. 400 Esplanade Ave., 568-6990; lsm.crt.state. la.us/site/mintex.htm — Works by William Eggleston and Ragnar Kjartansson for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday. REYNOLDS-RYAN ART GALLERY. Isidore Newman School, 5333 Danneel St., 896-6369; www. newmanschool.org — “United
We Stand: American Propaganda Posters of WWII,” 44 propaganda posters used by the U.S. and other Allied Forces during World War II, through Nov. 17. Opening reception 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS GALLERY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St., third floor, 523-7945; www.rhinocrafts. com — “Muses: Art Inspired
by Artists,” works by Rhino artists, through Nov. 19. Opening reception 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday.
SLIDELL CULTURAL CENTER. 444 Erlanger St., (985) 646-4375 —
“Andy Warhol: Celebrities,” 15 silkscreened works by the artist, through Dec. 16. Opening reception 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.
TAYLOR/BERCIER FINE ART. 233 Chartres St., 527-0072 —
“Wanderlust,” paintings and drawings by Michele Muennig, through Nov. 26. Opening Thursday.
UNO-ST. CLAUDE GALLERY. 2429 St. Claude Ave. — Works by Ivan
Vezzoli for Prospect.2, through Jan. 29. Opening Saturday.
review Wayne Gonzales paintings at NOMA
Wayne Gonzales is one of the more interesting artists working in New York today. Although his reputation has grown steadily over years of exhibitions at the Paula Cooper Gallery in Manhattan — and his work also appears in the collections of the Whitney, Guggenheim and Hirschhorn museums — his current New Orleans Museum of Art expo is his first museum solo show in the United States. Why here? Although he has been more of a presence in the New York and London art scenes, Gonzales is a New Orleans native who grew up in the 9th Ward and Arabi and graduated from UNO. Born in 1957, his early years were influenced by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent investigation by then district attorney Jim Garrison, in part because his extended family overlapped with some of its colorful cast of characters. News photos from the period inspired some of his earlier paintings, but today he is better known for monochromatic canvases of crowd scenes that read like grainy blow-ups of news photos. Gonzales has used computers to shape his imagery since the early 1990s, and in emblematic works like Seated Crowd (pictured), the shadowy forms of the spectators evoke those low-resolution digital images that devolve into muddy contours when enlarged. Seen from a distance, their abstract blurs come together to radiate the eerie unpredictability for which crowds have been known since the gladiatorial combats of ancient Rome. Here we sense the muted, if potentially explosive, emotions of the public spectacle as experienced at football games and political rallies, in images as ambiguous as Rorschach blots and just as open to interpretation. Rigolets is a coastal scene rendered in yellow and green halftone dots like a vastly enlarged newspaper photo, and it may elicit memories of happy days in fishing camps, or perhaps Jayne Mansfield’s gruesome death on that same stretch of road. Gonzales is a virtuoso visual poet who employs mass media imagery to personalize the hopes, fears and eerie uncertainties that characterize American life in the early 21st century. — D. Eric Bookhardt
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Wayne Gonzales: Light to Dark/Dark to Light New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, 658-4100; www.noma.org
FRAMIN’ PLACE & GALLERY. 3535 Severn Ave., Metairie, 885-3311; www.nolaframing.com — Prints
by Tommy Thompson, Phillip Sage, James Michalopoulos and others, ongoing. FREDRICK GUESS STUDIO. 910 Royal St., 581-4596; www.fredrickguessstudio.com — Paintings by
Fredrick Guess, ongoing.
THE FRONT. 4100 St. Claude Ave.; www.nolafront.org — “General
Hospital,” a multimedia installation by Stephanie Patton, through Nov. 6.
GALERIE D’ART FRANCAIS. 541 Royal St., 581-6925 — Works by
Todd White, ongoing.
GALERIE PORCHE WEST. 3201 Burgundy St., 947-3880 — Pho-
tography by Christopher Porche West, ongoing.
GALERIE ROYALE. 3648 Magazine St., 894-1588; www.galerieroyale. com — Works on metal by Mike
Klung, through October.
GALLERIA BELLA. 319 Royal St., 581-5881 — Works by gallery
artists, ongoing.
GALLERY BIENVENU. 518 Julia St., 525-0518; www.gallerybienvenu. com — “Boundary,” sculpture by Eva Hild, through Nov. 26. GALLERY VERIDITAS. 3822 Magazine St.; 267-5991 — “The Out of Towners,” paintings by Aaron Butler and Anna Kipervaser, sculpture by Donald Tully, works by Fortune Sitole and Patricia Wilson, through Nov. 6. THE GARDEN DISTRICT GALLERY. 1332 Washington Ave., 891-3032; www.gardendistrictgallery. com — “Louisiana Landscapes,”
a group exhibition, through Nov. 13.
GALLERIES 3 RING CIRCUS’ THE BIG TOP GALLERY. 1638 Clio St., 569-2700; www.3rcp.com — “Direct Sun-
light,” photographic collage and sculpture by Sara Essex Bradley and Joe Kight, through Oct. 29.
9TH STREET STUDIO. 1029 9th St., 899-6686; www.9th-street-studio. com — “One: A Collaboration Between Paint & Metal,” works by Alexis Walter and Rachael Adamiak, through Dec. 30. A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY. 241 Chartres St., 568-1313; www.agallery.com — Photo-
gravures by Josephine Sacabo, through December.
ACADEMY GALLERY. 5256 Magazine St., 899-8111 — “For Better
or For Worse,” works by Brent Barnidge; “Swamp Dance” by Katalin Gergo; both through Oct. 29.
ANGELA KING GALLERY. 241 Royal St., 524-8211; www.angelakinggallery.com — Sculpture by M.L.
gallery members writing and responding to written instructions, through Dec. 4.
Therefore Wise As Serpents And Harmless As Doves,” paintings by Bojan Sumonja, through Nov. 10.
ARIODANTE GALLERY. 535 Julia St., 524-3233 — Paintings by Isabelle
CAROL ROBINSON GALLERY. 840 Napoleon Ave., 895-6130; www. carolrobinsongallery.com — “Unfinished Stories,” paintings by Jere Allen, through Oct. 29.
ARTHUR ROGER GALLERY. 432 Julia St., 522-1999; www.arthurrogergallery.com — “Catholic
CARROLL GALLERY. Newcomb Art Department, Woldenberg Art Center, 314-2228; www.tulane. edu/~art/carrollgallery — “10
Dupuy; jewelry by Debbie Villa; works by Amy Archinal; all through Oct. 30.
Sin,” photographs and sculpture by John Waters; paintings by Richard Baker; “Red Drawings and White Cut-Outs,” mixed media by James Drake; “Peekaboo,” video installation by Dave Greber; all through Oct. 29.
BARRISTER’S GALLERY. 2331 St. Claude Ave., 525-2767; www.barristersgallery.com — “Retrospec-
tacle,” paintings by Scott Guion, through Dec. 3. BONJOUR GALLERY & MARKETPLACE. 421 N. Columbia St., Covington, (985) 635-7572 — “St.
Snowden, through October.
Louis Cathedral Series,” mixedmedia sculpture by John Marc Anderson, through Oct. 30.
ANTENNA GALLERY. 3161 Burgundy St., 957-4255; www. press-street.com — “Instruc-
BYRDIE’S GALLERY. 2422-A St. Claude Ave., www.byrdiesgallery. com — “Behold, I Send You As
tions,” a group show featuring
Sheep Among Wolves. Be Ye
Years and 47 Artists,” a retrospective exhibition celebrating A Studio in the Woods’ 10th anniversary, through Oct. 27.
COLE PRATT GALLERY. 3800 Magazine St., 891-6789; www. coleprattgallery.com — “Around
& About,” watercolors by Christine Cozic, through Oct. 29.
D.O.C.S. 709 Camp St., 524-3936 — “Small Creatures and Smaller
Worlds,” graphite on paper illustrations by Lacey Stinson, through Nov. 3.
DU MOIS GALLERY. 4921 Freret St., 818-6032 — “Fear is a Man’s
Best Friend,” paintings by Jeremy Willis; “Objects of Adornment: An Art Show for Fashion,” an exhibit featuring Louisiana clothing and accessory design-
GEORGE SCHMIDT GALLERY. 626 Julia St., 592-0206; www. georgeschmidt.com — Paintings by George Schmidt, ongoing. THE GEORGES GALLERY. Metairie Park Country Day School, 300 Park Road, Metairie, 837-5204; www.mpcds.com — “Life in Bal-
ance,” works by Connie Kittok, Pio Lyons, Ruth Owens and Max Ryan, through Oct. 28.
GRAPHITE GALLERIES. 936 Royal St., 565-3739 — “Sinners and
Saints,” works by Joe Hobbs; works by Christy Lee Rogers; both ongoing.
GUTHRIE CONTEMPORARY. 3815 Magazine St., 897-2688; www.guthriecontemporary. com — “The Space in Between,” paintings by Bernd Haussmann; glass sculpture by Kazuo Kadonaga, through November. “Schemata,” works by Susan Dory, ongoing. GUY LYMAN FINE ART. 3645 Magazine St., 899-4687; www. guylymanfineart.com — Mixed media with mechanical light sculptures by Jimmy Block, ongoing. HAROUNI GALLERY. 829 Royal St., 299-8900 — Paintings by David
Harouni, ongoing.
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