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OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART

What a Night!

O What An Auction!

Live Auction

SponSored by Thibodaux regional healTh SySTem

ron becheT

debbie Fleming caFFery

michael J. deaS

dawn dedeaux

renée allie

david armenTor

Jourdan barneS

megan barra

kadeShia bellard

Thom benneTT

mark bercier

SeSThaSak boonchai

chuck brouSSard

TiFFany calverT

JameS conSTanTine

ginger williamS cook

darTanya croFT

kara crowley

curio

Jenny day

STephen paul day

liSa di STeFano

william dunlap

brandon Felix

ida Floreak

chriSTian Đinh

david harouni

evan hendrickS

andrew lamar hopkinS

kaori maeyama

Silent Auction

O What an Auction!

The live and silent artwork auctions at the O What A Night! Gala are the highlight of the evening, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art is grateful to the artists for sharing their creativity and generosity in support of the Museum.

The silent auction is on view in the historic Patrick F. Taylor Library, and mobile bidding is open to all at onecau.se/owhatanight. The silent auction will close at 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 19.

The live auction will start at approximately 9 p.m. in the tent adjacent to Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street.

Please note that the Museum reserves the right to postpone the auction due to unforeseen circumstances, and that some items in the catalog have approximate sizes. Winners of the silent auction will be notified via email of their results and will receive information regarding pick up of auction items at the Museum the following week. Absentee bidding available upon request. For questions, please contact owan@ogdenmuseum.org or

Click here to place view items and bid in the silent auction.

L ive Auction Lot 1

Evan Hendricks

Evan Hendricks’ (b. 2000 in New Orleans, Louisiana) mother began teaching him art and encouraged him to start drawing with pencils and markers at a young age. Drawing quickly became Hendricks’ favorite way to explore his creativity.

Hendricks shares, “My mother is the best art teacher I could have ever hoped for and she is an amazing painter. I still ask her for insight and advice while working on paintings today. I started creating my first paintings during holiday and summer breaks in college and fell in love with the process of using acrylics.”

Hendricks moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2024 and is proud to call the city his home. He’s been happily surprised by how vibrant and artsy St. Petersburg is, with its galleries, museums and year-round art festivals. He shares, “The creative culture here inspires and motivates me. I feel that I am in the perfect place to continue growing and sharing my art journey.”

Working with acrylic paint, Hendricks’ paintings unite classical realism with contemporary design. Whether capturing the quiet strength of wildlife, the elegance of human form or the motion of race cars, aircrafts and abstract elements, his work invites viewers to take a closer look. He strives to celebrate both the strength and the beauty of the natural and mechanical worlds.

Audubon Beauty, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, Courtesy of the artist

L ive Auction Lot 2

K aori Maeyama

Boil Water Advisory, 2024, Oil on panel, 30 x 40 x 1.5 inches, Courtesy of the artist and LeMieux Galleries

Kaori Maeyama is a Japanese urban landscape painter based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Focusing on decay and isolation of the mundane as the primary subject matter, she uses a tonal palette and visual noise to amplify the passage of time and the atmosphere of ordinary landscapes. O’Kane Gallery at the University of Houston-Downtown held a solo exhibition of her work in 2023, and LeMieux Galleries and Staple Goods in New Orleans regularly host her solo exhibitions. She is a recipient of residencies and grants from Joan Mitchell Center, Vermont Studio Center and National Performance Network, and periodicals such as “Louisiana Life Magazine,” “Gambit Weekly” and “Pelican Bomb” have reviewed her work. Most recently, “Southern Cultures’” 2025 Katrina Anniversary issue featured images of her nocturnes. Maeyama holds a B.A. in film production from the University of New Orleans and an M.F.A. in painting from Tulane University.

L ive Auction Lot 3

Debbie Fleming Caffery

Jupiter, Fontainebleau Forest, France, December 2019, 2019, Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Gitterman Gallery, New York

Debbie Fleming Caffery is highly regarded for her work in documentary photography and as a freelance teacher. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Katrina Media Fellowship, Open Society Institute, New York, Lou Stoumen Award, San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts, Michael P Smith Documentary Photography Award, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and a “Picturing the South” commission from the High Museum (Atlanta, GA).

Her work has been published by the Smithsonian Press, “Carry Me Home,” with a one person show at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian (Washington DC).

Other books are: “Polly” and “The Shadows” (published by Twin Palm Press, Santa Fe, NM, Collection); “L’Oiseau Rare” (Filigranes Edition, Paris, France); “The Spirit and The Flesh’’ and ‘’In Light of Everything’’ (published by Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM); and “Alphabet” (Fall Line Press, Atlanta, GA).

Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum, the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, National Museum of American History, Elton John Collection, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France and many more.

Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and represented by Gitterman Gallery (New York, NY), Obscura Gallery (Santa Fe, NM) and Camera Obscura Gallery (Paris, France).

L ive Auction Lot 4

Ron Bechet

Everything is a Lot to Consider, 2025, White chalk, Conte’ and pastel on Black Fabriano Paper, 60 x 56 inches, Photo by Eric Waters, Courtesy of the artist

Ron Bechet, born in New Orleans, is a visual artist whose practice and critical engagement in the arts spans over 40 years. Best known for his large-scale black and white drawings and large colorful paintings, Bechet’s improvisational approach and mark-making aesthetic are grounded in experiences and cultural practices of the African diaspora and New Orleans’ unique traditions.

His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and internationally and held in many public and private collections, including Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Museum and the University Manitoba Museum, among a few. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work and was recently celebrated as a Prospect 6 Gala Honoree and featured in “BOMB” as part of their Oral History Project in 2024.

Working within, beneath and alongside the underlying layers of his experiences and the consequences of systemic confrontation, Bechet challenges assumptions of what art can be while pushing the boundaries of his creative approach.

Bechet earned a B.A. degree from the University of New Orleans, and an M.F.A. degree from Yale School of Art, Yale University. In addition to his studio practice, he is the Victor H. Labat Professor of Art at Xavier University of Louisiana where he has taught for over 20 years.

L ive Auction Lot 5

Christian Đinh

Nine Sacred Lamps of Lotus, 2025, Porcelain and silk, 13 x 13 x 7 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Born in 1992, Christian Đinh is a VietnameseAmerican artist from St. Petersburg, Florida. Relocating to New Orleans in 2018, Đinh received his M.F.A. from Tulane University. His work has been featured in publications such as “The New York Times,” “The Times-Picayune,” “Frieze Magazine,” “Burnway,” “Ceramic Monthly” and “Adore Magazine.” In 2023, Đinh was a recipient of the Take Notice Fund from the National Performance Network, a grant awarded to BIPOC artists living and working in Louisiana.

In 2024, Đinh’s solo exhibition, Trường Ca Mười Ngàn Năm, at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art (Biloxi, MS) was featured on PBS Newshour and gained national recognition. His work has been included in numerous other exhibitions, including Focus Spotlight: Nail Salon, Hoa Tay and Knowing Who We Are: The Contemporary Dialogue at Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA); Delta Triennial Exhibition at Arkansas Museum of Fine Art (Little Rock, AR); Legacy Traces: Recent Additions to the Museum Collection at the Newcomb Art Museum (New Orleans, LA); The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home: Selections from Prospect.6 New Orleans at MCA Denver (Denver, CO); Blue Norther Exhibition at the Silos at Sawyer Yards (Houston, TX); GBA House Party Vol. 1 at 3.1 Phillip Lim (New York, NY); and the New Orleans Triennial, Prospect 6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home

Đinh shares, “My work centers on the Vietnamese culture that emerged in the United States after the Vietnam War and on the vibrant communities built by refugees and immigrants across the country. As a second-generation Vietnamese-American, I see it as my responsibility to tell this often-overlooked part of the story. I use my practice as a visual record of Vietnamese-American culture, capturing the nuances of home, community and identity to build a living archive of what defines the Vietnamese-American aesthetic. To explore this aesthetic, I rely on iconic imagery to tell stories. I work with a visual language that feels familiar and accessible across cultures, weaving in symbols rooted in my own Vietnamese-American experience. This allows viewers to enter the work while grounding it in a specific cultural context. I treat universality as a core part of my practice—an approach shaped equally by American and Vietnamese influences. By drawing parallels between cultures, I aim to highlight the connections that bind them.”

L ive Auction Lot 6

Gregory B. Saunders

Born in 1952 in Cold Spring, Kentucky, Gregory B. Saunders showed an eary interest in art, and began taking art classes in high school. He entered Morehead State University on scholarship, graduating in 1974 with a B.F.A. The day after graduation, he was sharpening a pencil when the graphite dust spilled onto a sheet of paper. Rubbing it into the paper with his fingers, a lifelong relationship with the medium was born.

Saunders’ process in powdered graphite was developed through years of experimentation and innovation. It is a process both additive and reductive, and involves drawing, brushing, masking, mapping, scraping and sanding.

Every composition begins with a contour drawing, and is developed through many hours of trapping graphite powder between layers of acrylic spray to create complicated values in grayscale. He uses a filet knife to cut the paper for each drawing, creating irregular edges that often inform the final composition. Scale is a conscious conceptual decision – creating large works that can’t be regarded as preparatory drawings for another medium, but must be viewed on equal footing with paintings and sculpture.

Saunders has lived, fished, taught and maintained a studio in Pensacola, Florida since 1988. His works are held in private and public collections including: The Federal Courthouse of Escambia County (Pensacola, FL); Goddard Art Center (Ardmore, OK); Hagiwara Cultural Center (Hagiwara, Japan); Arkansas Art Center (Little Rock, AK); Flint Institute of Arts (Flint, MI); Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University (New Orleans, LA); New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, LA); and Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans, LA). In 2022, Saunders was the subject of a major retrospective, Leaving Appalachia: The Art of Gregory B. Saunders, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

Early Morning MagNOLA, 2025, Powdered graphite on paper, 36 x 28 inches, Courtesy of the artist

L ive Auction Lot 7

K enny Nguyen

Kenny Nguyen (b. 1990, Ben Tre Province, Vietnam) creates expansive, dimensional, mixed-media paintings that center on ideas of cultural identity, displacement and integration. Nguyen grew up on a coconut farm in a rural area near the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam. Despite having an established career in fashion design, he decided to join his family when they moved to the United States in 2010.

Acclimating to an American way of life proved uneasy at first, especially with a language barrier that intensified feelings of alienation and isolation. Nguyen turned to art-making as a coping mechanism and as a means to express himself in a more universal language. The transition from design to art was a natural one and in 2015 Nguyen earned a B.F.A. in painting from the University of North Carolina Charlotte, and subsequently established a studio in Charlotte.

Drawing from his experience working with textiles, in particular, silk, a culturally significant material in Vietnam, Nguyen developed a distinctive technique to produce sensuous, three-dimensional works that he describes as “deconstructed paintings.” He begins by tearing swaths of silk fabric into hundreds of strips that he dips in acrylic paint and adheres to raw canvas. Methodically, almost meditatively, he repeats the process—tearing, painting, sanding, sewing, weaving, attaching, layering—until he has a structured but malleable medium, which he shapes into undulating, sculpted forms.

Nguyen’s paintings are often affixed to the wall with pushpins, allowing him the flexibility to rehang or adjust the composition as desired. The works can be stretched flat like a traditional canvas or gently draped, folded and creased into animated structures that unfurl along the wall and pool at the floor. Each installation is unique.

Silk Piece Series, Hand-cut silk fabric, acrylic paint, canvas, 2023, 55 x 35 x 5 inches, Courtesy of Kenny Nguyen Studio

L ive Auction Lot 8

H unt Slonem

Aviary Houston, 2023, Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Recognized for his distinct neo-expressionist style, Hunt Slonem’s works can be found in the permanent collections of 250 museums around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Miro Foundation, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Louisiana State Museum and Ogden Museum of Southern Art. His work has been chosen for solo and group exhibitions all over the world in cities such as Aspen, Boston, Dallas, Dubai, Miami, New Orleans, Washington D.C., San Francisco and St. Moritz, to name a few.

Slonem was born in Kittery, Maine in 1951. His fascination with exotica was imprinted during his childhood in Hawaii and as a foreign exchange student in Managua, Nicaragua. Slonem graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in painting in 1973 then attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and established a studio in New York City in the mid 1970’s. His New York loft gained a notoriety of its own and is one of the most photographed private spaces in the city.

Slonem’s years at Tulane University created deep personal and spiritual ties to Louisiana, a bond which led him to purchase and restore a variety of Louisiana homes including, Albania (1842) near Jeanerette, Lakeside Mansion (1835) north of Baton Rouge and Madewood Mansion in Napoleonville (1846).

Slonem has received a number of prestigious awards including the Lifetime Cultural Achievement Award from the Louisiana State Arts Council, the Horticultural Society of New York Award of Excellence and the MacDowell Fellowship, as well as a National Endowment for the Arts award in 1991.

L ive Auction Lot 9

David Harouni

Untitled, 2025, Oil on canvas, 2025, 48 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist

David Harouni (b. 1962) is an Iranian-born artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for his powerful and emotive figurative painting. Born in Iran, Harouni spent part of his childhood in Israel during the 1960s before emigrating to the United States during the Iranian Revolution of 1978. He studied at the Art Students League of New York and also explored fashion illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology before fully committing to painting.

Harouni has lived and worked in New Orleans for many years, becoming a fixture of its vibrant art scene, though his style reflects a life shaped by migration and memory. His paintings often depict anonymous or partially obscured human figures, their features abstracted to evoke universality rather than specificity. He builds up surfaces with layers of paint, scraping and reworking them in a process that mirrors the tension between presence and absence. This technique reflects his interest in memory, instinct and emotion as central forces in art-making.

Recurring motifs, such as gold crowns, appear throughout his body of work, symbolizing identity and presence. His portraits convey a haunting intensity, even when much is left unsaid, inviting viewers to reflect on the human condition. Harouni’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and is held in private and corporate collections internationally.

L ive Auction Lot 10

Andrew LaMar Hopkins

Andrew LaMar Hopkins is a singular voice in contemporary American painting, renowned for his meticulously detailed depictions of 18th and 19th-century Southern interiors, architecture and daily life. Deeply rooted in historical research, his work reconstructs the largely erased histories of Free Creoles of Color, particularly in New Orleans, where he has lived for decades. Hopkins also maintains a studio space in Savannah, Georgia, and paints in Paris, France.

Born in Mobile, Alabama, Hopkins grew up captivated by the Southern Antebellum Creole culture to which his family is intrinsically tied—a lineage tracing back to Nicolas Baudin, a Frenchman who received a Louisiana land grant in 1710. A self-taught artist and expert antiquarian, Hopkins channels his extensive knowledge of Creole material culture, architecture and social history into paintings that are both historical documents and lyrical reimaginings. Visually, Hopkins’ compositions recall the folk traditions of Clementine Hunter, Grandma Moses and Horace Pippin, yet his technical precision and layered storytelling distinguish his oeuvre. His works often depict the elegant interiors and street scenes of 1830s Creole port cities, rendered with exquisite attention to period details. In a radical departure from romanticized antebellum narratives, Hopkins introduces overtly homosocial or queer-coded elements, excavating the often-repressed histories of LGBTQ figures in the 19th-century South. His artistic practice is mirrored in his parallel persona as Désirée Joséphine Duplantier, a 1950s grande dame alter ego who embodies the theatrical, gender-fluid history of New Orleans.

Hopkins’ work is internationally renowned, with features in”The New York Times,” “The Wall Street Journal,” “Garden & Gun” and “Architectural Digest.” His painting Self Portrait of the Artist as Désirée (2019) was acquired by the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., where the curator noted that it “significantly enhances our collection with its quality, rarity and importance.” He recently concluded a year-long solo museum exhibition, Creole New Orleans Honey: The Art of Andrew LaMar Hopkins, at the Louisiana State Museum at the Cabildo in Jackson Square, accompanied by a dedicated publication of his work.

The Evangeline Oak, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, Courtesy of the artist and Orleans Gallery

L ive Auction Lot 11

Mallory Page

SEARCHING THROUGH MANY LIVES, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Mallory Page (b. 1983) is a painter working between New Orleans and New York City. In addition to having a studio practice spanning two decades, Page completed a Masters of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2024.

Page has exhibited with Martine Chaisson Gallery (New Orleans, LA); Dimmitt Contemporary (Houston, TX); Guesthouse (Jackson, WY); Main Projects (Richmond, VA); Monica King Contemporary (New York, NY); Untitled Art Fair (Miami, FL); the Longview Museum of Fine Art (Longview, TX); and Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans.

Select publications include “Cultured,” “Whitewall,” “Domino,” “Vogue” and “Architectural Digest.” Awards include a Presidential Scholarship from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, and The New Orleans Advocate’s A-List: 2019’s Most Influential New Orleanians. Page’s work is included in the public collections of Tulane University, Roger Hadfield Ogden Honors College at Louisiana State University, Blackberry Farm and The Beverly Hilton Hotel, as well as a site-specific installation at Zasu, a restaurant owned and operated by Chef Sue Zemanick.

In recent exhibitions, Page extends her inquiry into painting as a psychological and atmospheric register. Works— created with thin, layered washes of acrylic—emanate rather than depict, becoming containers for sensation, memory and emotional residue. Describing her process as “psycho-atmospheric,” Page uses abstraction to trace an interior world: a nonlinear terrain shaped by intuition and shifting states of being.

L ive Auction Lot 12

Michael J. Deas

Michael J. Deas is a master realist painter and one of the nation’s premier illustrators. Working from his studio in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter, he creates paintings and drawings with an elegant eye and a mastery of oil unusual in a contemporary context.

Deas has painted six covers for “Time Magazine” and 25 postage stamps for the U.S. Postal Service. These include some of the most iconic stamps ever produced of icons such as Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis and Clark, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, George H.W. Bush and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In 1991, Deas was commissioned to paint the new logo for Columbia Pictures. His luminous redesign, referred to as “The Torch Lady,” has been used for over 25 years, making it one of the most recognizable images in contemporary popular culture. His portraits of Edgar Allan Poe and HP Lovecraft were included in the exhibition, Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2016. Forty of his original paintings and drawings were the subject of a solo exhibition at Ogden Museum of Southern Art. In 2024, his most recent masterwork, The Clearing, was unveiled at Ogden Museum.

Ophelia, 2025, Oil on panel, 40 x 25 inches, Courtesy of the artist

L ive Auction Lot 13

Dawn DeDeaux

Blades Day Dance II, 2019, Digital image on metal, 24 x 24 inches framed, Edition of 1/3, Courtesy of the artist and Arthur Roger Gallery

Dawn DeDeaux is an internationally acclaimed, New Orleans-based multi-media artist whose interdisciplinary practice draws upon art history, philosophy, anthropology, literature and science to comment upon the human condition and the future of our planet. Over the course of a career which spans five decades, in addition to exhibiting at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, her work has been shown in some of the world’s leading museums, including Whitney Museum of American Art, Mass MoCA, Hammer Museum, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, The Contemporary / Baltimore, Seattle Museum of Contemporary Art, Canadian Film Society of Toronto, Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, Houston, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Longhouse Reserve Sculpture Garden in East Hampton, NY and at The Shepherd Art Center in Detroit, MI, and a recent 50-year career retrospective, Dawn DeDeaux: The Space Between Worlds at the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Locally, her work has been featured in Prospect New Orleans and the Poydras Corridor Sculpture Exhibition in addition to her solo exhibitions at Arthur Roger Gallery. Her list of honors is lengthy, and includes the American Academy in Rome’s prestigious Prix de Rome, the 2012 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist in Residence, the 2014 Artist in Residence at Tulane University’s Center for Bioenvironmental Research and the Tulane School of Public Health, the 2014 Prospect Alumna of the Year and the 2021 Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist in Residence. She continues to push her studio practice and nurture important dialogues from her New Orleans studio, Camp Abundance - a residency compound for artists, animals, writers and filmmakers from around the world in association with the Mondrian Fund’s Deltaworkers and the international organization ArcAthens from Greece and New York City - and a host site for the City’s leading cultural institutions as special events and programming venue.

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I n support of the Randy K. Haynie Family Fund for the Future

Ogden Museum of Southern Art tells the story of the American South through permanent collections, changing exhibitions, educational programs and publications. By collecting, conserving, studying, and interpreting the art of the South within the context of the region’s history and culture, Ogden Museum broadens the appreciation and understanding of the visual arts for regional, national, and international audiences.

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