Opening April 19, 2012
Shifting: Photographs by Michel Varisco
Shifting is a photographic instlalation focusing on the Louisiana wetlands and the Gulf of Mexico. Often through aerial views, the artist explores both the beauty and degredation of this environment,  and chronicles the dynamic changes that are both natural and man-made. This body of work invites the audience to become invested in the fate of a threatened natural resource.
Michel Varisco is a native New Orleans artist. Her photographs, assemblages and site-specific installations explore loss and regeneration. She received her MFA from Tulane University and studied in France (LaCoste School of Art) and Italy (U.G.A) and is an artist/mentor at NOCCA|Riverfront in New Orleans. Varisco’s work is exhibited and published internationally and is included in public, private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Shifting is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the SURDNA Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
Sally Chandler: The Lost World
In Sally Chandler's immersive installation, all borders are down—between personal and universal, town and country, history and myth.
Including some 84 paintings and works on paper, The Lost World is a time capsule about a society on the edge. At once bracing and romantic, the exhibition enables viewers to journey through passages from innocence to experience. Chandler's tableaux of images—people, birds, animals, aristocratic estates, old libraries, and landscapes  elegantly tamed and gorgeously wild—crystallize an irretrievable past, both mysterious and unsettling. Her narratives are rooted in paradox: time and eternity; past and present; masculine and feminine; desire and despair—the unstated intuitions and connections that bind people together. Probing large mysteries and themes, they make us feel the preciousness of what would be lost in an as yet unimaginable future.
The Lost World evokes our longing for stories, connections, and sense of place. The exhibition dovetails with the New Orleans sense of tradition, ritual and preservation.
Chandler has a bachelor of arts degree in history from Rutgers University, and has studied international relations at the London School of Economics, as well as art at the Instituto Allende in Mexico, the San Francisco Art Institute and the Glassell School of Art in Houston. Her work has been shown in exhibitions throughout the U.S.
Guest curator: Susie Kalil
The Lost World is being generously supported by Lone Star Trans Global, Inc., Scriptura, Lucullus, Faulkner House Books, and Aidan Gill for Men.
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