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the St. Claude Arts District often is considered a post-Hurricane Katrina phenomenon — and it is, mostly — but this show illustrates how deep the experimental Marigny/Bywater art scene’s roots really are. Curated by Beau tardy and Michael Fedor, both veterans of Fedor’s former (19871990) Marigny-based Galerie Avant Gout, it also includes works by Pati D’Amico and William Warren, whose Waiting Room Gallery in Bywater was active from 1997 to 2008. Both spaces catered to emerging artists, a focus that continues in this show. tardy, who worked for MtV in New York for years, was inspired by mass media’s fixation on erotic titillation as we see in GotCha (pictured), his manipulated image of a woman in a vortex of flashy graphics like tV ads that inspire salacious thoughts based on nothing more than subliminal suggestion. the paintings by his French counterpart, Louis Jean Gorry, are far more graphic, but his style is as raw as scrawled subway graffiti. Somehow slick is more insidious. Fedor’s intricately surreal collages look like something an absintheinspired French Quarter Max Ernst might have created, a sensibility complemented by D’Amico’s mystically tinged canvas The Medium, among others. In 2008, she and partner Warren moved to Water Valley, Miss., where the omnipresent kudzu inspired him to paint humanoid vine critters like Kudzu Blues Man, a wavy gravy exercise in animist pointillism in the form of a vinous Delta musician. throw in Margaret Meinzer’s adjacent expo of pop-expressionist dreamscapes and it’s a weirdly wonderful show in the grand St. Claude tradition of ad hoc epiphanies by artists with eternally youthful attitudes. It’s a sensibility that resonates neatly with French digital artist Nicolas Sassoon’s Green Waves, a vast surround-sound and light environment of choreographed pixels in motion at the May Gallery in Bywater, and Irish artist Jane Cassidy’s electronic music-video composition at Parse Gallery. Both of these sublimely ethereal shows at two of the newer art spaces in town extend a long local tradition of experimental art in unlikely places. — D. ERIC BOOKHARDt
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JEAN BRAGG GALLERY OF SOUTHERN ART. 600 Julia St., (504) 895-7375; www.jeanbragg.com — “Earth, Sea & Sky: Paintings of the Gulf Coast,” works by Christopher Inglis Stebly, Melissa Smith and Susie Ranager, through Friday. JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY. 400A Julia St., (504) 522-5471; www. jonathanferraragallery. com — “O Bury Me Not,” mixed-media collage and
drawings by Michael Pajon, through tuesday.
LEMIEUX GALLERIES. 332 Julia St., (504) 5225988; www.lemieuxgalleries. com — “Wisdom: a Book Art Exhibition,” a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s 30th anniversary, through July 27. LIVE ART STUDIO. 4207 Dumaine St., (504) 484-7245 — “Southern Fried Fractals,” paintings by Chris Clark; “Light & Atmosphere,” paintings by Sean
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LaPopSexTVArtShow: Group exhibition curated by Beau tardy and Michael Fedor Barrister’s Gallery 2331 St. Claude Ave (504) 710-4506 www.barristersgallery.com
Friloux; “Random Shots from My Camera,” photographs by Eliot Kamenitz, through Friday.
themayspace.com — “Green Waves,” moving image installation by Nicolas Sassoon, through Friday.
MARTIN LAWRENCE GALLERY NEW ORLEANS. 433 Royal St., (504) 299-9055; www. martinlawrence.com — Works by Rene Lalonde, through Friday.
NEW ORLEANS GLASSWORKS & PRINTMAKING STUDIO. 727 Magazine St., (504) 529-7277; www.neworleansglassworks.com — “Celebrations,” glass sculpture by Jonathan Christie, etchings by John Furchess and copper enameled jewelry by Cathy DeYoung, through Friday.
MAY GALLERY AND RESIDENCY. 2839 N. Robertson St., Suite 105, (504) 316-3474; www.
PARSE GALLERY. 134 Carondelet St.; www.parsegallery.com — “Swells for the Night Season,” multimedia works by Jane Cassidy, through June 14. POET’S GALLERY. 3113 Magazine St., (504) 899-4100 — “Mississippi Mermaids,” works by Sean Yseult, through Friday. RHINO CONTEMPORARY CRAFTS GALLERY. The Shops at Canal Place, 333 Canal St.,