New And Current Exhibitions
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¡Si Cuba!
As part of the citywide presentation "¡Si Cuba!", the Ogden Museum will feature the works of 3 Cuban artists working in the American South. Exhibitions featuring Mario Petrirena, clay (Soul House), José Bedia, mixed media (gallery installation), and Jorge Otero, photographs (Un-restored Miami) will
opened January 14, 2010.
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Andrews - Humphrey Gallery
This exhibition features the work of two generations beginning with the partriarch George Andrews,and includes his son Benny Andrews and wife, Nene Humphrey
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New Southern Photography
A survey of recent acquisitions by the Museum. Artists include: Michael Meads, Will Steacy, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Sye Williams, Deborah Willis, Mary Tortorici, Leslie Addison and others. The photographs in this exhibition showcase the diversity and wealth of talent in Southern CTD. photography. Images of architecture, landscapes and portraits are graphic, dreamy or documentary, all imbued with a sense of place.
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Billie Ruth Sudduth
A master basketmaker from North Carolina, Billie Ruth Sudduths baskets are made of reed splints, split oak, round reed, henna, and iron oxide, and inspired by Shaker and Appalachian baskets, as well as the Fibonacci sequence (in which the same proportions occur throughout nature, with the distance between the numbers in the proportion theory approximating the golden mean). The detail of her work makes her baskets sinuously sculptural, incorporating a sophisticated color palette.
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Bo Bartlett: Paintings 1984-2000
Bo Bartlett, of Columbus, Ga., is one of the leaders of the new American realist movement. In the tradition of Thomas Eakins and Andrew Wyeth, of whom he was a protege, Bartlett's large canvases (such as "The Good Old Days," 2000, right), capture the spirit and beauty of the everyday and the extraordinary, often with a hint of mystery and fantasy. This exhibition is open through March 28, 2010.
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Selections from the Ogden Museum's Permanent Collection
The Ogden Museum is showcasing an outstanding selection from its permanent collection, as well sharing its most recent aquisitions. Works by Douglas Bourgeois, Jeffrey Cook, Jaqueline Humphries, Clyde Broadway, Clementine Hunter (pictured) and Richard Wilt are joined by more current additions to the collection, including pieces by David Bates and Shawn Hall.
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Walter Anderson Gallery
Walter Anderson (1903 - 1965) met Archie Bonge (1901 - 1936) while attending the Pennsylvania Acadamy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1928. Archie, a 6'7" cowboy from Nebraska, spent a single semester at the acadamy before moving to New York. There, he found some success as a painter (selling a nude for $1000) and fell in love with Dusti Swetman, a young actress from Biloxi, Mississippi. In 1927, Archie and Dusti were married. Walter Anderson was the best man at their wedding, wearing a suit and tie with sneakers. The Shearwater vase pictured above was created by Walter and given as a wedding gift to the young couple.
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Where They At
Where They At? New Orleans Bounce and Hip-Hop in Words and Pictures by Photographer Aubrey Edwards and journalist Alison Fensterstock
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Open April 22, 2010
Give My Poor Heart Ease by Bill Ferris, also included is his extensive Self Taught Art Collection
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Southern Modernism
Abstract expressionistic paintings from the mid-1950s by Dusti Bonge. From Mississippi, Bonge was the rare woman whose work showed alongside Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko and others at the influential Betty Parsons Gallery during this period in New York City. Open through January 10, 2010.
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Stanley Staniski: On the Road with Benny Andrews
Photographs by filmmaker and photographer Stanley Staniski of his and artist Benny Andrews’ journeys along Route 66 and the Cherokee Trail of Tears, and other parts of the American South.
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Jonathan Traviesa's "Portraits: Photographs in New Orleans 1998 - 2009"
Jonathan Traviesa is a photographer and artist living in New Orleans since the late 1990s. Since graduating from the University of New Orleans in 2001, he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Chicago. In 2005, the Times Picayune voted his Katrina photo-sign installation best art show of 2005. Traviesa is a founding member of The Front Gallery. His work is collected privately around the United States and publicly in New Orleans by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art. This exhibition is open through Sunday Jan 24, 2010.
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Jack Niven's Universal Mule
Universal Mule was created for the American Beauty, South project, on Highway 61. In the same way that
mules once served as the engine of a rural economy, their character as a quotidian symbol is a potent one to invoke on many levels. Hence, the Universal Mule I have called upon here is the everyman among us."
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Storming the Ramparts: Objects of Evidence
This exhibition, curated by artist and writer William Dunlap in collaboration with the Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Memorial Hall, is centered around a painting, "Storming the Ramparts," by Gilbert Gaul, a late 19th-century artist known for his depiction of military subjects, particularly those of the Civil War. Many of the objects shown in the painting's well as those that could have been found at the battlefield will be on loan from the collection of the Louisiana's Civil War Museum at Memorial Hall. This exhibition was on view Oct 2009 - January 3, 2010.
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New Orleans Free People of Color & Their Legacy: The Artwork of Jose Torres-Tama
To coincide with the release of Torres-Tama's book of the same title, pastel portraits of New Orleans les gens de couleur libres, such as Marie Laveau and Edmond Dede.
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Looking to Learn: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
An exhibition showcasing the photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media pieces created by the visual arts students at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA). "Looking to Learn" an art education series curated by the Ogden features, throughout the year, artwork by students in area schools. Previous schools have included the Louise S. McGehee School and Jefferson Parish Public School System Talented Visual Arts Program. This exhibition is open through mid September 2009.
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Selections from the Collection of Donna and William Hines
Paintings from the late 19th to mid 20th centuries, featuring Alexander John Drysdale, Knute Heldner, William Woodward, George Henry Clements, and others.
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Nene Humphrey: Selections from the Andrews Humphrey Collection/Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Paintings, sculptures, mixed media, and prints by acclaimed artist Nene Humphrey. She is the wife of the late Benny Andrews, whose work, along with his father, George Andrews, are also part of the Andrews-Humphrey Collection.
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Benny Andrews: America/George Andrews:The Dot Man
This exhibition brings together iconic images and objects from this father/son duo.
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Arthur Q. Davis: Legacy of a Modern Architect
Throughout Davis' long and proloific career as an architect, he has been a pioneer inthe fields of modern architecture and design in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, building an international reputation while remaining rooted in the culture of his native city. This exhibition is a retrospective of his long career, featuring his papersm photographs and related archval materials.
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Electro-Sonic Painting: A Performance (One Night Only!) and Exhibition
A collaboration between artist Marcus Brown and musician Nathan Weidenhaft, this is the third White Linen Night exhibition of art and technology presented by the Ogden Museum's Kohlmeyer Circle.
For White Linen Night only, Brown and Weidenhaft will create an interactive performance from a layered collage of MIDI sounds/samples. In addition, artworks from an album artifact, Peinture Concrete, The first Electro-Sonic Painting,â "Sunday Visual Jazz" and "Prayer for Some" will be presented on the wall with video, which shows the process of Electro-Sonic paintings.
The exhibition, located on the 4th floor, showcases Electro-Sonic painting, a concept pioneered by Brown. This interactive exhibit will showcase the process of Electro-Sonic painting, which is the process of intertwining painting and electronic sound in the creation of a work of art and a sound collage soundscape
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Times All-Star Jazz Show 1958: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic
On April 20, 1958, Jerry Dantzix photographed one of the few studio sessions between jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton, who were rehearsing for the Timex All-Star Jazz Show at the CBS Studios in New York City. More than 30 photographs of this historic occasion, as well as a video of the show.
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Randy Shull
This North Carolina Artist pushes the limits of functional work and design in American Craft showcasing his 20 year retrospective of furniture, mixed media and paintings.
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Jack Stewart: From Atlanta to New York - A Life Survey
A look at the career of this mutli-talented artist. After growing up in Atlanta, GA, Jack Stewart left home to attend Yale University, where he studied with Josef Albers and Willem de Kooning among others. Upon moving to New York, Stewart became one of the leaders in the abstract movement, and was also known for his murals and photographs.
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North Carolina Living Treasures 2009: Ceramics by Norm Schulman and Cynthia Bringle
Art melds function and craft with these pieces created by master potters.
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Sally Mann: What Remains
Haunting imgs from renowned photographer Sally Mann's book, "What Remains," a five-part meditation on mortality. Challenging the notions of love, death and memory, Mann photographs are of the Antietam Battlefield, her children, and the process of decomposition, rendered in a 19th-century photographic process.
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