BARRISTER'S GALLERY PRESENTS:
ANTIABECEDARIANS, A GROUP SHOW OF TELEKINESIS PROXENATORS IN FRANCA LANGUA
Opens Saturday, January 10, 6-9pm
through February 8th
2331 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
(504) 525-2767
( http://www.barristersgallery.com/ )
curated by Myrtle von Damitz, III
FEATURING
Chesley Allen
Shannon Brinkman
John T. Burr Jr.
Aly Cat
Monica Chemay
Raven Creature
MLE Danger
Andrea Duhe'
James E.L. Elorriaga
Alleyn Evans
Pandora Andrea Gastelum
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
[More artists' images on Flikr]
Shannon Brinkman
Bipolar life: half spent photographing jumping horses around the globe, the other half of 11 years dedicated to life here in NOLA. Both have their ups and downs and ups. mostly ups.
http://www.shannonbrinkman.com/
Aly Cat
I wanted to isolate things that I love about New Orleans and present them in a candy-coated modular world. It never gets old for me how this swampy little village contains all of these dream like collages. Just when I think I'm jaded to the random happenings of such a festive place I pause in amazement of how lucky I am to live here.
Raven Creature
Spends her days writing fiction and her nights painting and getting ready for her next art showing. Her other interests include cooking, Japanese culture and reading. Her career goals include working as a full time artist and publishing her written work.
http://www.ravencreature.com/
Andrea Duhe'
Andrea Duhe', also known as Ooops the Clown, has been a painter all of her life. She has studied Fine Art at UNO, and the Sculpture Academy. Andrea's work is an imaginative look in the back of her brain by being inspired by windows of subconscious, dreams, visions, and morbid fairytales.
Alleyn Evans
Alleyn Evans transplanted herself to New Orleans from Brooklyn, New York in 2006. Living in Brooklyn ten years, six after receiving here BFA in photography from Pratt Art Institute. Her photography work is documentary-based, capturing her own life experiences. Through her lens, telling different stories of some of the eclectic sub-cultures she has lived in and been a part of, she reveals the intimacy between her and her subjects.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alleynevans/
Pandora Andrea Gastelum
Is a puppeteer, costume designer, writer and performer. She is co-founder/ co-artistic director of The Black Forest Fancies Non-profit Theatre Collective in her native New Orleans, Louisiana. She has written and performed with this troupe for three years, touring through venues across the continental U.S. The Spring semester will find the Black Forest Fancies teaching puppetry and parade arts, through a cooperation between Creative Alliance New Orleans and the Recovery School District, in the Ninth Ward's Colton Academy.
http://www.themudlarkconfectionary.com
Theodore Hildebrandt
Theodore Hildebrandt is an ordinary man. Outside of this, there is little that should be said.
http://www.nurtchle.com
Jayme Kalal
Jayme Kalal plasticizes "reality" with an analog (not computer-generated) process known as the "Kalal Effect". Fantasticizing the banal, revealing visual potential in movement, placing a thing out of the ordinary in the context of the ordinary: these are a few of the goals of the process. Not to mention just making things look creepy.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7667578@N06/http://www.scarytoesies.com
Kourtney Keller
A New Orleans-based experimental "4-D" artist drawing from the tactile world, Kourtney Keller has exhibited her work in film, video, painting, sculpture, and photography in New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Germany, and Switzerland. She counts the Eastman Kodak Student Filmmaker Award (2002) and a NextFrame Film Festival Prize (editing, 2003) among her official accolades. Keller's skills are consistently engaged in freelance projects in photography, sculpture, motion graphic design, illustration, and post-production. Mz. Keller is currently occupied as an MFA Fellow at The University of New Orleans.
Megan Lee-Hoelzle
Megan was raised by rats, thus explaining her penchant for eggs and her habit of hoarding small, shiny objects. She has made friends with chickens, eats cheese as often as it can be provided, and is expert at operating a device known as "the grabby claw." Ab ovus omnibus. She lives in New Orleans.
Monique Ligons
Is a Philadelphia based artist with a degree in Animation from the University of the Arts.
Paul Lingerfeldt
born: new orleans, louisiana, 1987
home: new orleans, louisiana
Paul's main influences are Degas, Manet, Turner, Klimt, and all fiddle music. He works in pencil, pen and ink, acrylic paint, and with various found objects. His paintings reflect the mystery and antiquity of New Orleans, and his main inspiration stems from lost photographs and distressed culture. He graduated from New Orleans Center for Creative Arts High School "NOCCA," 2005. Further education includes apprenticeship at Electric Ladyland tattoo parlor.
Delaney Martin
Makes installation art. She regularly shows with her frequent collaborator Luke Brennan in London.
http://www.lukeanddelaney.com
Nina C. Nichols
Is co-president of "The Black Forest Fancies" theater and parade arts not-for-profit organization, a thorough bred member of the Ladies Society of Alchemical Agriculture and a guest lecturer at the Science Nerds Apocalypse Guild.
http://www.sockmonsterforest.com
Bobby Panama
Is an artist living and working in New Orleans.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebobbypanama/
Angeliska Polacheck
"A pearl-pale, high-born lady, who rode
On a horse with bridle of findrinny;
And like a sunset were her lips,
A stormy sunset on doomed ships;
A citron colour gloomed in her hair"
~ Yeats
Anna H. Powell
Born: Charleston, SC
Current Residence: New Orleans, LA
I fell in love with houses growing up in an old city: surrounded by crooked buildings that seemed to wear the weight of time upon their roofs, seeping stories out through their missing bricks and weathered paint. When I first came to New Orleans, I found a familiarity in the architecture; that type of beauty only old cities hold, where each building seems to scream hundreds of untold tales. In drawing these buildings my hope is to give a voice to their stories.
Taylor Lee Shepherd
Works with found materials in an old, dusty stable.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/taylorleeshepherd/
Dana Sherwood
The scope of her artistic pursuit encompasses the vast territories between nature, desire and death. She is engaged in a deep investigation into the historic culture of sickness, death and mourning, and the paintings and sculptures created explore how these ideas are present in contemporary culture.
http://danasherwood.net/dana/index.html
Allison M. Termine
With all due respect, as an artist it's my job to want to capture the historic tradition of an artist, as well as the enlightenment of my imagination. To meld the old and the new in complementary didactic visual documentations of our world is my genuine intention.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/allisontermine/
Andrew Ziegler
Andrew Ziegler has been staging absurdist puppet shows and performances in basements and underground galleries for years. An expert garbage collector, Drew assembles his props, sets and puppets out of trash. Sometimes he aims for the delicate and beautiful- such as his meditative shadow puppet plays and mechanical puppet machines...and then turns 360 degrees to create crude and overwhelming messy masses of junk and shit. But Drew's Dada aesthetic is always apparent throughout every project as he creates post-apocalyptic nonsense worlds where trash rains down from the heavens to crush its malformed inhabitants that squirt viscous discharge at each other. -Gregory Jacobsen
http://www.myspace.com/scarytoesieshttp://www.scarytoesies.com