art LIStINGS page 47
NOBA presents
Single TickeTS On SAle nOw!
rEVIEW
AmericanMoves 2012-13
tHRU
Pilobolus
page 51
October 20, 8 p.m. – Mahalia Jackson Theater
Ballet Hispanico & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
December 8, 7:30 p.m. – Mahalia Jackson Theater
Jessica Lang Dance
January 18 & 19, 8 p.m. | January 20, 2 p.m. Freda Lupin Memorial Hall, NOCCA Co-presented with The NOCCA Institute
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
February 23, 8 p.m. – Mahalia Jackson Theater
Martha Graham Dance Company March 23, 8 p.m. – Mahalia Jackson Theater
FOr Single TickeTS Only, 800.745.3000 TickeTmASTer.cOm
Subscriptions & Single Tickets, 5 0 call or visit nobadance.com 4 Official Hotel
522.0996
Official Airline
NIRVANA PRESENTS
“COME AS YOU ARE”
$
5
COMEDY SHOW
FEATURING
VINCENT ZAMBON CASSIDY HENEHAN JOE CARDOSI ANDREW POLK WILL POZNANSKY
4308 Magazine St. · 894-9797
AY RSD TH U T H T. 13 SEP 9PM
Gambit > bestofneworleans.com > september 11 > 2012
One of the more interesting things sEpt about the annual No Dead Artists 28 show is how it sometimes reflects the subcurrents roiling through society at large that may not show up quite as clearly in mainstream culture — at least yet. If this show is any gauge, the evolving role of the individual in an increasingly complicated world of giant global corporations provides an increasingly stark contrast to the American myth of the rugged individualist hero, an ethos that now seems as creaky as Clint Eastwood’s semi-coherent conversation with an empty chair at the Republican National Convention. It may be that today’s rugged individualists are more likely to be found on the margins of society, or such is the implicit message of Ira Upin’s dramatic magic realist paintings such as Fat Cat (pictured), in which an aging mobster in sunglasses puffs on a cheroot and reclines in his easy chair as a torched building goes up in flames in the background. In Jeff Pastorek’s paintings, the individual subjects appear as tiny portraits arranged in grids where the emphasis is on how people express their emotions or desires in relation to each other, transforming portraiture into a painterly social network. In Nikki Rosato’s figure studies like Connections No. 1, male and female silhouettes cobbled from road maps face each other as psychic connections represented by interstate highway systems connect the heart, mind and private parts in an endocrine superhighway of tentative longing. But nature is the ultimate arbiter of human events, as we see in Ayano Hisa’s haunting photos of Japanese schools devastated by an earthquake. Here destroyed classrooms evoke the presence of students by their absence as rows of ruined desks stand shrouded in dust. Nature’s healing role is reflected in Abhidnya Ghuge’s hive-like installation of handmade paper plates, recalling the cellular systems of the natural world and how all creatures must situate themselves within their environment — as well as within themselves — in an age in which change is the only constant. — D. ERIC BOOkHARDt No Dead Artists 2012 Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, 400A Julia St., 504-522-5471; www.jonathanferraragallery.com
Photos by John Kane, Eduardo Patino, Satoshi Motoda, Sharen Bradford, John Deane
No Dead Artists
49