400a Julia Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
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Inside Art at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
SUPERBOWL EDITION
February 1, 2013
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Dollar Bill Prints by Artist
DAN TAGUE
Currently on Display in the Middle Gallery
Artist Reception on Saturday, February 2, from 6-9 pm
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Artist Dan Tague
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Renowned artist Dan Tague's Dollar Bill works are currently on view in the middle gallery throughout Super Bowl and Mardi Gras.
T ague's career has been a a steep ascent over the past few years with exhibitions in Marfa, TX, art fairs in Miami, New York, Los Angeles and Houston and his inclusion in Prospect.2 International Biennial of Contemporary Art, curated by Dan Cameron. His work has been prominently featured in The New Yorker and other major publications.
He was recently interviewed by the BBC and below are two new international press pieces on his work~ a feature in S Moda Magazine (Spain) and British Vogue:
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The gallery is also very proud to announce that the
New Orleans Museum of Art has recently acquired another work by Dan Tague. The piece comes from Tague's solo exhibition May I Have a Revolution Please
(Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Spring 2011).
The piece acquired by NOMA is from Tague's series The Fashion Riots, which consists of three nail-studded baseball bats, each of which which has been branded with designer logos.
The individual "Louis Vuitton" bat has not only found a place in NOMA's permanent collection, but was also included in the recent book For Which it Stands: Americana in Contemporary Art .
This high-quality publication, produced by The Curated Collection, features a ten-page spread of Tague's work, among other luminaries including Ai Weiwei, Glenn Ligon, Maurizio Cattelan, Vik Muniz, and Shepard Fairey, among others.
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BETTER DEAD THAN RED
New Sculpture by David Buckingham
January 4- February 20, 2013
Closing Reception Saturday, January 5,
6-9 pm
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BETTER DEAD THAN RED, the second solo exhibition at the gallery by
David Buckingham, commenced the gallery's 2013 programming with an energetic Artist's Reception on January 5th.
Imbued with a sense of humor, Buckingham's brightly colored, sculptural works of contemporary speak, made from metal liberated from the detritus of America, reflect the effects of popular culture and their impact on the artist's psyche.
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Artist David Buckingham
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David Buckingham travels the High Deserts of Southern California in search of beautiful, battered metal that's had a previous life and the scars to prove it: old tractors, hay balers, cotton pickers, rice threshers, school buses, etc. With a huge rotary saw in hand, he frees the metal from its forgotten existence... cutting the raw metal to get to the pure color he desires. He drags these cherished pieces back to his studio in downtown L.A. to create works steeped in his memory, experiences, and things that have stuck in his creative mind: a song lyric, an album cover, an overheard remark, an episode of an old TV show...experiences of a man who has lived many lifetimes in one. . . each piece a bit of a self-excavation.
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DARK MATTER
New Botanical Drawings by Brian Borrello
February 20- March 30, 2013
Opening Reception Saturday, March 2, 6-9 pm
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Brian Borrello, Root Drawing, 2013.
charcoal, ink, motor oil on marble impregnated linen,
70" x 46"
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In March 2013, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery will unveil the latest series of botanical drawings on primed linen by artist Brian Borrello.
Borrello, who traditionally adheres to a black-and-white palette, has embarked upon an exploration incorporating color with these recent works. In addition to drawings on marble dust impregnated linen, the exhibition will also include multimedia sculpture incorporating manmade and organic materials.
Borrello says of these latest works:
I find inspiration in the nuances and subtleties of how living things present themselves, and my drawings are a constant thread of creative effort allowing me to refine my vision and worldview with each iteration.
I think of my drawings as "diagrams" for the way living things become, grow, mature, die, and "become" again. The hidden algorithms of life's patterns are revealed in a twig, or the solar-optimized silhouette of a leaf. Pulled from the underground, roots suggest a connection to the Earth, rhizomes suggest a connection among common entities.
My work expresses the awesome presence of life on earth, especially in the minute and often overlooked existences among us. These are diagrams for
finding my place among the living, connected with and part of the natural world. They are maps for working in a mindset of meditative presence, stopping time.
Brian Borrello is a Portland, Oregon-based artist who was raised in New Orleans and is well known for his environmental works and public art projects. His two dimensional works are rendered in India ink, charcoal and motor oil on paper or linen. In Borrello's work, growth patterns, principles of biological organization and natural phenomena are magnified and expressed through the lyrical movement of a root, the curve and projection of a thorn or the sinuous tangle of mycelia.
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Artist Monica Zeringue, photo by Cheryl Gerber
-Curator Mark A. Tullos, Jr.
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(Country Roads Magazine, February, 2013)
Towleroad Blog Features NOMA's Acquisition of Skylar Fein's "Remember the Upstairs Lounge" (Towleroad, January 28, 2013)
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Marcus Kenney,
Tomoh Chee Chee, 2012
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Art by Choice 
Mississippi Museum of Art
February 2- February 24, 2013
Back by popular demand, the New Collectors Club and MMA present Art by Choice, an exhibition, sale, and auction of artworks to benefit MMA's acquisition of new art and MMA's operations. MMA has curated a selection of museum-quality works. Art in the sale will be available to purchase beginning on the evening of the live auction, February 2, and through February 24. Click here to purchase tickets to the live auction on Saturday, February 2nd.
This night presents a live art auction and the first opportunity to buy the art in the Art by Choice sale. The Museum has curated a selection of museum-quality works by artists associated with Mississippi as well as works from galleries in New York, Boston, Memphis, and New Orleans. Works will be available by JFG artists Hannah Chalew, Brian Borrello, Tony Fitzpatrick, Adam Mysock, Daisuke Shintani, and Dan Tague. The Museum is pleased to offer a selection of important artworks from the collection of Roy Wilkinson, a collector and art historian of Mississippi art.
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Upsodown 
New Art Center in Newton
January 14- February 22, 2013
Curated by AJ Liberto and Kate True, including the work of: Seth Alverson, Nick Cave, Robert Colescott, Marcus Kenney, Eli Kessler, AJ Liberto, Clifford Owens, Joyce Pensato, Tara Sellios, Summer Wheat.
Upsodown celebrates the transformative power of the carnival. People have always sought respite from the hierarchies of caste, race, and gender. Social convention, mass media, urban planning, and religious and political power structures reinforce restrictions on our behavior and attitudes. The carnival turns these restrictions inside out and upside down, encouraging rebirth and reinvention. Constricting forces are temporarily thrown over in a time of raucous celebration.
The artists of Upsodown employ the forces of playful mayhem, dark humor, grotesque exaggeration, and bright compassion to subvert the dynamics of power. Subversion, however, is only the beginning of the carnival rites. Fed by laughter, a new order and beauty, unimaginable in previous schemes, emerges and flourishes. Upsodown refers to that fleeting place where, by external situation or sheer will, we are boundless, timeless, and selfless.
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Upcoming: Love Me Tender 
Bellevue Arts Museum
February 22 - May 26, 2013
BELLEVUE, WA- This spring, Bellevue Arts Museum explores cultural history and current affairs through one of the most fetishized mediums in the world-money. Love Me Tender brings together the work of more than 24 contemporary artists from five countries using currency as an artistic form of expression to address complex social issues.
The 90+ pieces on exhibition tap into money's seductive allure-to which even the artists fall victim-as they are transformed into tapestries, paintings, photographs and sculptures. Featured artists include
Dan Tague, Banksy, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Yasumasa Morimura, Mark Wagner and many others. Although many of the works are approachable and playful in nature, artists in the exhibition are activists in their own right, addressing questions of 'value' and 'values' in modern society and reflecting upon a world ruled by its monetary system.
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CALL TO ARTISTS:
Announcing the
17th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS National Juried Exhibition
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Installation view, 16th Annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition, 2012.
Photo by Mike Smith.
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce the 17th Annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art. The exhibition will take place September 3rd - 28th, 2013 with an open call for artists' submissions from January 20th - June 15th.
The exhibition was created in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. Now in its 17th year, No Dead Artists has become an exhibition that has time and again discovered new and emerging talent and is one of the most celebrated art exhibitions in the South.
No Dead Artists The exhibition's name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve success until they are dead. No Dead Artists turns that notion on its head and gives emerging artists their first break in the art world. In the 90's, the exhibition was open only to New Orleans artists and subsequently grew to include artists of Louisiana. In 2010, the exhibition expanded to become a national juried exhibition open to artists from the entire United States.
Each year, hundreds of artists submit thousands of works with the hope of being in the select few to exhibit at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery each September. The exhibition is reviewed annually by D. Eric Bookhardt (Artpapers and Gambit Weekly). The opening reception marks the beginning of the arts season in New Orleans and is attended by thousands of art enthusiasts.
This year, one jury-winning artist will be awarded a solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in 2013 as the grand prize.
No Dead Artists is open to living artists working in the United States. All mediums are accepted including, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, design, glass, metalwork, photography, video, mixed media and installation art.
Now in its 17th edition, the exhibition has been a springboard for numerous artists leading to national press coverage, recognition, gallery representation and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections. Each year gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara invites a panel of renowned arts professional and collectors to select the newest creative talents. Past jurors have included Prospect.1 Founder and Curator Dan Cameron, Museum Director Billie Milam Weisman, Collector and Philanthropist Beth Rudin DeWoody, MacArthur Fellow John Scott, Whitney Trustee and Ballroom Marfa Co-founder Fairfax Dorn, NOMA Director Susan Taylor, artist Tony Fitzpatrick, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum Eric Shiner, Director of the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and Founder and Artistic Director of the VOLTA Fair Amanda Coulson.
For the 17th edition, three renowned arts professionals have been tapped for the No Dead Artists jury:
Lawrence Benenson is a art collector who serves on the Board of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In the Benenson family tradition of civic involvement, he is an active participant in several charitable and educational institutions. Benenson is also a Board Member of the American Folk Art Museum, Museum for African Art, Cooper Union, ART/OMI International Arts Center, The Center for Arts in Education. He curated Vote for Me and I'll Set you Free last Fall at Art/Omi and helped save the American Folk Art Museum. He was a sponsor of Century of the Child at MoMA and is a sponsor of Huma Bhabha at PS1 MoMA. He is a partner at Benenson Capital Partners, member of the Real Estate Board of New York, and Vice President of the Realty Foundation of New York.
Megan Koza Young is the Director of the Dishman Art Museum at Lamar University while also holding the position of Assistant Professor of Art. . Young also has served as Curatorial Assistant in European and American Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts at the Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS. She worked on several major exhibitions including: Mary Sibande and Sophie Ntombikayise Take Central Court (2012), Matthew Neil Gehring: Brilliant Corners (2013) and Modern and Surreal Impulses: National Contemporary Printmakers (2012/2013). She has both a Master's degree in art history and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Graphic Design from the University of Alabama and she will receive her PhD from the University of Kansas this Spring. Her dissertation: "After the Deluge: Contemporary Artists Engage Katrina," examines instances of contemporary art that investigates the ramifications of this catastrophic event in various ways. Megan is particularly interested in the way visual interpretations of trauma can create or recreate collective or cultural identity in the wake of catastrophe.
Jordana Zeldin is Director and curator at ArtBridge, the Chelsea-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing unprecedented exposure opportunities for the work of local emerging artists. In June of 2011, she spearheaded the transformation of the broom closet next to her office into The ArtBridge Drawing Room, a jewel-box gallery that has played host to six exhibitions including MsBehavior, a three-woman painting exhibition named a Top NYC Show by Saatchi Online Magazine and reviewed by Hyperallergic and Hi/Lo, a multi-level interactive light installation that transformed the gallery into what ArtInfo called a "topsy turvy - yet strangely tranquil - immersive environment. In Summer of 2012, her two-person exhibition, All The Boys and Girls, was selected by Amani Olu for inclusion in Young Curators, New Ideas IV at Meuelensteen in Chelsea. Her exhibitions have been featured online in The New York Observer, The Huffington Post, Whitewall Magazine and NY Arts Magazine, among other publications.
New Orleans New Orleans has become a destination for contemporary visual arts and is considered one of the hotbeds of creative talent in the US. With exhibitions like Prospect Biennial, the national and international focus on New Orleans and its arts scene has increased dramatically from both a critical and collector perspective. With its rich cultural heritage and its unique indigenous creativity, the city and its arts scene are poised for continued success.
Important Dates February 1st - June 15th: Open National Call For Artists June 15th: Deadline for Submission July 15th: JURY SUBMIT RESULTS, WINNERS NOTIFIED September 3rd - 28th: Exhibition on display at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery September 7th: 17th Annual No Dead Artists Opening September 28th: Solo Exhibition Winner Announced Applying To apply, log on to www.jonathanferraragallery.com and click on the NDA 2013 Banner at the bottom of the homepage. If you do not already have one, create an entrythingy� account and begin uploading your resume, artist's statement and five images of your work which you would like to submit for the show. Good luck!  To apply, click on banner above or at www.jonathanferraragallery.com |
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Hannah Chalew, Shaped Land, 2011,
pen and ink on painted paper, thread, glue, wood
15" x 41"" x 14"
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Artist Hannah Chalew is gaining recognition for her unique artwork, with keen focus on New orleans relict spaces and post-Katrina landscape.
The work pictured above, Shaped Land, 2011, recently returned from the Asheville Art Museum where it was on view in the exhibition Art/Sewn.
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Shaped Land detail
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"Shaped Land" started as a collage with painted paper. I began working on it on site- an empty lot that backed into a row of abandoned structures that I encountered while biking through the Seventh Ward. The empty lot overgrown by high weeds was beginning to merge with the forgotten houses as vines grew over them, yet cared-for family homes were also situated all around this lot. I was intrigued by this quiet takeover by nature in the midst of the recovering neighborhood, and so, at the edge of the empty lot, I laid down up a small blanket to sit on and sketch. As I worked on the collage, I wanted to increase the depth of the landscape; once I had the environment "drawn" in cut paper, I returned to my studio and began to sew into the houses to mimic the vines growing. I then folded the paper roofs to give a further illusion of depth.
As I continued to build up the piece, I started incorporating basswood-architectural modeling material-to give structure to the landscape.
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When viewed from the front, "Shaped Land" looks like a traditional landscape, but as you move around the piece you can see that it is just a facade held up by a fragile structure, with trailing threads hanging below. The literal meaning of the word "landscape" is shaped land, which is a fitting title for this work that explores the push-pull between humans and nature to claim dominance over the city.
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Raised in the city of New Orleans, Hannah Chalew returned after graduating from Brandeis University with a B.A. in the Fine Arts. She is one of the founders of T-Lot, a studio and installation space for emerging artists in the St. Claude Arts District.
Chalew works from direct observation to bring the experience of place to the viewer, with a focus on the post-Katrina landscape emptied of human life.
My work explores the continual tension between humans and nature. Since moving back home to New Orleans after going away for college, I have been particularly struck by the open spaces left in transition that are so prevalent in the post-Katrina landscape. The number of blighted and abandoned spaces has increased exponentially since before the storm, and though these places seem to be frozen in time they actually display an incredible amount of change as they are being reclaimed by local flora. I work from direct observation to get the most truth and create a map of time as I document the experience of being in these environments. Emptied of human life, these vistas speak for their inhabitants or lack thereof. I invite the viewer to examine these sights that seem to exist outside the fast pace of contemporary living. Time beats differently in these zones as nature slowly creeps and begins to reclaim the human-made. Often overlooked, these environments become statements about the ever-evolving life of the city as it shifts between civilized and wild, entropy and order; the past, the present and inevitably the future.
Her work has been featured in Art Voices, The Oxford American, Pelican Bomb, Satellite Magazine, Designtripper, NOLA Defender, and the Times-Picayune.
Hannah has exhibited work at Octavia Gallery, the Acadiana Center for the Arts, T-Lot, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Contemporary Arts Center, among numerous others. Her work was recently on view in the exhibition Art/Sewn at the Asheville Art Museum through January 6th, 2013.
Click here to view more artwork by Hannah Chalew
Click here for Chalew's most recent Press
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JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY
400a Julia StreetNew Orleans, LA 70130
tel: 504.522.5471
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Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday 11am - 5pm and by appointment
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Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is a collective environment of creative visions. A commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur Jonathan Ferrara opened the gallery in 1998 to give artists a voice. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local, national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message.
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