Ten Gallery New Orleans

May 20 – July 8, 2017 Exhibitions Opening Reception, Saturday, May 20, 2017, 7 – 9 PM

Praying to the Giant Orange Head | TEN Gallery and Collective Downstairs Back BOX

Members of TEN Gallery and Collective are pleased to present Praying to the Giant Orange Head, at BOX 13 ArtSpace in Houston. Photographs, paintings, sculpture, and mixed media artworks in this group exhibition address issues related to the current cultural and political climate. Absurdity and humor match grievous consideration of a variety of concerns including governmental policy, racism, women’s rights, and attempts at serenity in an overwhelming world of words. The visual language is culled from artists as far ranging as Goya, Philip Guston, Jasper Johns, and others, who are at least in part known for making political and personal commentary through their artwork. Artists include Peter Barnitz, Dawn Black, Ida Floreak, Cheryl Hayes, David Rex Joyner, Sarah Marshall, Jonathan “feral opossum” Mayers, Jeffrey Rinehart, Kathy Rodriguez, Bryce Speed, and Heather Weathers.

Kelli Scott Kelley, Rampage, 35” x 29”, acrylic on re-purposed fabric, 2012

Amanda James, Family Tradition, 18” x 24”, pen on paper, 2017

Kel Stombaugh, Offerings to a Dead OpossumLinocut and Intaglio prints on paper, resin, cloth, copper and paper17” x 10" x 2.75”2016

Info for show:

Nos Histoires || Our Stories

A survey of women in art emphasizing their fonts of inspiration.

Curated by Jonathan “feral opossum” Mayers

Evermore important during this political climate, women in the arts such as Julie Mehretu, Faith Ringgold, Mika Rottenberg, Jenny Saville, Swoon, and Kara Walker have created some of the most engaging, thoughtful, and powerful works.  However, for some their works can be difficult to decipher without context.  Nos Histoires presents an array of visual art and commentary by women connected to the southern Louisiana art realm.  Their fonts of inspiration, displayed in both English and French texts, reveal the esoteric context behind these works in hopes of creating a multi-faceted connection with both informed and uninformed audiences.

Artists in Nos Histoires include: Danielle Burns, Dawn Black, Kathleen DeArmas, Amanda James, Nicole Johnson, Kelli Scott Kelley, Lee Randall, Emily Randall, Kelly Stombaugh, and Jane Tardo.

April 1st – 30th, 2017: Exhibition Duration

JONATHAN “FERAL OPOSSUM” MAYERS: L’ÉPARPILLAGE

The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present L’Éparpillage, an exhibition of paintings by Jonathan “feral opossum” Mayers. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger@434, located at 434 Julia Street, from March 4 – April 22, 2017. The gallery will host an opening, with the artist in attendance, on Saturday, March 4 from 6-8pm.

Exhibition Dates: March 4 – April 22, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday, March 4 from 6–8 pm Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm Contact Info: 504.522.1999; arthurrogergallery.com

L’Éparpillage is Jonathan “feral opossum” Mayers’ first exhibition with the gallery. Recent, small- to medium-scale, vibrant paintings depict metaphorical beasts amid meticulously rendered Louisiana landscapes.  The mysterious creatures – somewhat wicked, somewhat charming – were born of the artist’s familiarity with Louisiana folklore, and serve to illustrate his opinion pertaining to the reality we live in. The haunting, curious images also address the current fragility of our ecosystem, most specifically the southern region of Louisiana. One can imagine that these hulking, cartoonesque monsters roam about protecting the environment by destroying bridges, invasive species, or even by haunting the people who try to smother “la dame Nature.”

Mayers, whose artistic influences include Robert Williams, Max Ernst and Caravaggio, is inspired by being outside “with everything that has come, everything that has been, with everything that still exists.” His work connects with experiences redolent of adventure through visual, textual, and sometimes tactile means. He collects material – such as Jean Lafitte sediment – from each physical place he visits and considers the thoughtful implementation of these materials into his work essential. This is most evident in his colorful, embellished frames, which work to both corral and embrace his visual narratives.

TEN GALLERY is pleased to present, Nature of Daylight, an exhibition of New Orleans-based artist Peter Barnitz.  For his fourth solo exhibition at the gallery, Barnitz reveals his latest series of contemplative and Reductivist mixed media paintings.  The artist spins intricate webs of pattern and color, which harness a sense of space and dimension. Barnitz’s mixed media paintings on canvas encourage a dialogue between organic form, geometric structure and abstract landscape. 

The exhibition opens March 4 and runs through March 26. An artist reception will be held from 6 - 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, 2017.

Inspired by nature, light and life, Barnitz creates visually complex, deeply meditative abstractions that combine the notion of movement with an appreciation of the schematic.  Delicately rendered, utilizing interwoven and playful geometric clusters, Barnitz’s paintings emphasize the passage of time, the mesh of nature and the poise of the human spirit.    

Transformed Visions

Artists: Jono Goodman and Aidi Kansas

June 4-30, 2016

Familiar Tensions

Fiber Art by Connie Shea May 1­-31

Opening Reception May 7th 6­-9

ten⠂sion

1. the state of being stretched tight

2. mental or emotional strain

Familiar Tensions,​a series of woven works inspired by an early weaving of mine, is an exploration of the physical and emotional ideas of tension. Through repeated form and process, I find:

⠂a taught warp released to breath ⠂a shape comfortable being strained

⠂a push and a pull

⠂a gather and a release

Connie Shea is a textile artist and painter working primarily in sculptural weaving and acrylic paint. Her woven works explore shape and space with wool, felt, stuffing, and wire. These works influence and are influenced by her abstract paintings of fish and underwater seascapes. In both mediums she speaks in related colors and forms to convey a sense of textured weight, tension and harmony. Shea is inspired by the energetic paintings of the abstract expressionists and the materials and techniques introduced by the soft sculpture artists of the 1960s.

Connie Shea was born in Clawson, Michigan in 1981. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana working in the film industry and also in her home studio in the Bywater. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2004 with a BFA focusing on sculptural weaving and abstract painting.

Congrats to Jeff Rinehart on a great show at Good Children Gallery! 

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out, it’s up until February 7th

Jeff Rinehart - SURROGATE

at Good Children Gallery

4037 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, LA 70117

Thank you to everyone who came out to the show on Saturday! It was a great success and a good time. 

If you missed the opening, the show will be up for the rest of the month at the TEN Gallery, 4432 Magazine Street. 

Ida Floreak is a New Orleans-based artist, originally from Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design where she studied painting and scientific illustration. Ida’s work is influenced by her studies in Rome with RISD’s European Honors Program and her work as an archaeological illustrator on the Poggio Civitate Archaeological Project in Vescovado di Murlo.

Raised outside of organized religion, Ida turned to science and the natural world to answer questions about our origins and purpose, finding meaning and beauty in the mathematical structure and symmetry of natural objects. Pulling from her personal collection, she paints bones, gems, leaves and insects in formations reminiscent of the Italian grotteschi and devotional art.  Painting in this over-large scale, Ida attempts to give these small and humble objects a treatment otherwise reserved for saints or deities.  

At this uncertain point in human history, with our environment in such turmoil, there is a need for reverence towards the natural world that is often missing from our everyday lives.

On display January 1-31

TEN Gallery, 4432 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70115

Peter Barnitz' artwork, Formation (Bed of Nails) was chosen from thousands of submissions to be part of 2015 Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series Finale - National Juried Exhibition and will be on view at SCOPE Miami International Contemporary Art Exhibition.  

The tiny ceramic paintings in this exhibit reference portrait miniatures from the 18th and 19th centuries that were sometimes used as jewelry and other decorative items, and Delft tiles from the 16thand 17th centuries. The historical context of these ceramic paintings invites a perspective in which they are regarded as objects, while the imagery painted on them plays with the interaction of the viewer with an object and what appears on its surface. The insects on the miniatures are painted to scale and, though they are part of the surface imagery, seem to occupy the same physical space as the viewer, rather than that of the scene depicted. This exhibit also features mixed-media paintings on paper that reference and expand on themes present in the smaller pieces. These pieces explore the permeable qualities of the surface of an image.

The ceramic miniatures in this exhibit have been painted with underglaze on greenware using a tiny brush, and have been reglazed and fired up to three times before reaching their current state. I studied these techniques with my dad, the ceramicist Doug Burbeck, whose own delft tile miniatures were an inspiration for some of the paintings in this exhibit.

Harriet Burbeck has been working on illustrations for a coloring book called Our Animal Friends. It is mostly about giant bugs! The book will be coming out this spring, and in the meantime some of the original drawings will be up at Bao & Noodle (on the corner of Chartres and Port) November 14- December 9.

These images can be printed out and colored in!

"Some animals are food."

"Some animals like to fly"