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I was afresh told that any day an artisan is arrive to appearance his or her assignment in a architecture is a acceptable day. That acceptable day has appear for four North Shore artists, whose assignment anon will be on affectation at The Ogden Architecture of Southern Art.
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Their pieces were accustomed into the "Louisiana Abreast Presented by The Helis Foundation." The anniversary juried exhibition will accessible during Whitney's White Linen Night Aug. 5 from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at The Ogden, 925 Camp St., New Orleans.
Two - Dale Newkirk and Luba Zygarewicz - are adept exhibitors, while two others - Trent Pechon and Robert Santopadre - are first-timers in the acclaimed statewide exhibition. It was accustomed in 2012 to advance abreast art practices in Louisiana, to accommodate exhibition amplitude for the account of active artists' work, and to appoint a abreast admirers that recognizes the active beheld ability of Louisiana and the role of New Orleans as a rising, all-embracing art center, according to the Ogden Museum's Web site. This year's juror is Shantrelle P. Lewis.
"This was a architecture affection judge," said Santopadre, who will appearance an oil painting advantaged "Reflection Parlor at Preservation Hall."
"This actually validates my paintings," he added. "The added artists accustomed are either above alleged artists or advisers or both. The nod from the Ogden agency that I'm not crumbling my time hunting for my masterpieces....An artisan sometimes feels the charge for validation. It gives them aplomb that what bodies are seeing is actuality liked. Validation helps the artisan accept aplomb to advance to the abutting akin and agreement added to analysis the viewer's eye again."
Santopadre's paintings mix accuracy and Impressionism.
"My admired spots in my paintings are the ones that aren't so perfect. Lots of times I beam at them. Back that abracadabra happens, I leave it in, acquisitive that the eyewitness will see it too," he said, abacus that pieces may attending anarchic up abutting but added astute from a added distance.
"Most of my paintings are so agreeable to me that I alcohol my coffee in the morning and am about absorption to the point that I can't leave the chair. I would like to anticipate that others would adore this as well," Santopadre added.
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While Santopadre's allotment was afflicted by the celebrated ambience of Preservation Hall in New Orleans, Newkirk's artwork, advantaged "Trumped - Two," was aggressive by "weathered billboards that acknowledge layers of aimless argument from accomplished advertisements," he said.
The non-representational agenda book on rag cardboard with acrylic painting army to a lath "explores a geometric beheld language, utilizing avant-garde and post-minimalist beheld constructs in an automatic methodology," said Newkirk, who has a Masters of Accomplished Arts amount from Ohio State University and confused to the North Shore to booty teaching position at Southeastern Louisiana University. He currently is an Associate Professor of Art Design and the Director of the Southeastern Abreast Art Gallery, area he has curated 100 exhibitions.
As a artist, Newkirk as been allotment of 22 one-person exhibitions, four two-person exhibitions, and 75 accumulation exhibitions. His artwork additionally was accustomed into the Louisiana Abreast two years ago.
"Trumped - Two" comes from a alternation area Newkirk starts "with the argument of a chat or accumulation of words that are currently in the media," he said. "Using the chantry and the appearance of the alone belletrist as a point of abandonment for creating the artwork. This artwork started with the chat TRUMP; added works in the alternation accept been acclimated accept been SYRIA and CUBA."
The pieces by Pechon and Zygarewicz, a built-in of Chile who has alleged the North Shore home for 20 years, use accustomed items to analyze beyond concepts.
"Double Standards," Pechon's alloyed media allotment that combines a besom and newspaper, "questions the complete standards attributed to gender roles as apparent through American history. By adding the average of the 'housewife' in two parts, I intend to analyze adequation in gender roles, analytic the abstraction of the 'ideal woman.' In accomplishing so, it exposes the continued abiding aftereffect of the architecture of the feminine gender role on women's identities, which is still accepting an appulse on the women of today," he said.
Pechon, who is currently advancing a Bachelor of Art amount at SLU, said "it is a abundant account and advantage to participate in the 'Louisiana Contemporary.'...I would like to acknowledge The Helis Foundation and everybody complex in acclimation this every important event."
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Zygarewicz, a Talented Arts teacher, will participate in the exhibition for the third time.
"I feel acutely accustomed that I accept been accepted. Given that there were 290 applicants and over 890 artworks submitted, it is a awful aggressive appearance to get into, so I am actually thrilled," she said.
Her piece, "Nesting Flight (a thousand wishes)," is "about my babe demography flight into womanhood-leaving my backup to accomplish her own," she said. "Comprised of hundreds of emptied tea accoutrements from tea I consumed, the appearance and breadth were advised to reflect the blush of her bells dress and the continued blind she wore. Anniversary tea bag, while appearance a moment in time, additionally symbolizes a wish. Wishes for her new activity - or for anyone - are accounting in white ink on clear-cut strips of affidavit that accompany the tea panels captivated calm with pins.... Because I alone use tea/teabags that I absorb in my artwork, I drank specific teas during this time to get teabags of the specific colors I needed."
"It was my way of ambidextrous with the adroitness of accident on one hand, and the adroitness of joy and anniversary I acquainted at the aforementioned time," added Zygarewicz, who has a Bachelor of Art from Loyola University and a Master of Accomplished Art from San Francisco Art Institute.
Zygarewicz collects what she calls the ephemera of accustomed life, such as acclimated teabags, alone twigs, lint and more. She will "meticulously assort and abundance these items, abundant like a documentarian. Through this action of collecting, I almanac both the access of time and the affectionate moments of circadian life," she said.
"From these collections, I actualize assignment and installations that use not alone material, but additionally ablaze and shadow. I tend to append elements in my assignment as a way of 'suspending a moment in time' while additionally exploring the abstraction of balance," Zygarewicz added. "I am about the process...and I acquisition means to distill that into a beheld acquaintance adorning the banal to a abode area the eyewitness can abeyance and see the abstracts and account in a way that creates new relationships."
While Newkirk and Zygarewicz accept careers in the art world, Santopadre is advancing his affection in his off time. A top-selling absolute acreage abettor who has formed for added than 25 years with Gardner Realtors in Mandeville, he began painting about four years ago. He's advised with Gretchen Armbruster of Armbruster Artworks in Covington and will affectation his latest pieces at the arcade during the Covington White Linen for Accessible Art accident Aug. 19.
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"I adulation my job and usually alpha my day at 3 a.m., so that I can acrylic for a few hours afore the phones alpha ringing," he said.
For added advice on Newkirk, appointment http://coleprattgallery.com/artist-biography.php?artistId=268452&artist=Dale Newkirk. For added advice on Pechon, appointment www.trentpechon.com. For added advice on Santopadre, appointment Robertsantopadre.com. For added advice on Zygarewicz, appointment https://lubazygarewiczdotcom.wordpress.com.
For added advice on Whitney White Linen Night, appointment http://cacno.org/wwln2017. The 2017 Louisiana Abreast Exhibition Presented by The Helis Foundation continues until Oct. 15. For added advice on its juror, Shantrelle P. Lewis, appointment shantrelleplewis.com.
The Ogden Museum's hours are Mondays to Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Thursday hours from 1o a.m. to 8 p.m. back the Ogden After Hours account ball alternation occurs from 6 to 8 p.m. Architecture acceptance on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. is chargeless for Louisiana residents, address of The Helis Foundation. For added information, appointment www.ogdenmuseum.org.
On the Horizon
* Mark your calendars for the aperture of "Healing Journey," the latest exhibition presented by the St. Tammany Hospital Foundation's Healing Arts Initiative. The juried exhibition, amid in appointed arcade spots in St. Tammany Parish Hospital, will affection pieces by Catherine Camp, Dolores Crain, Michaela Howell, Carolyn LeBlanc, Pio Lyons, Marianne Angeli Rodriguez, Glinda Schafer, Linda Shelton and Pam Soileau. It will accessible with a accession Aug. 3 from 4 to 6 p.m in the hospital's advanced antechamber and will accommodate a abbreviate affairs and artisan addition at 4:30 p.m., guided tours and refreshments. The exhibition will be on affectation until Sept. 26. For added information, appointment www.sthfoundation.org/healingarts. * The St. Tammany Art Association has appear new ceramics caster throwing classes for ages 18 and up with adviser Vanessa Hock at STAA's Art House, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington. Classes are offered Thursdays from 6 to 8:30 p.m and Saturdays from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday chic dates are: Aug. 3, 10, 17 and 24 and Sept. 14, 21, 28 and Oct. 5. Saturday chic sessions are Aug. 5, 12, 19 & 26 and Sept. 16, 23, 30 and Oct. 7. Alone six spots are accessible per session. Amount is $135 or $125 for STAA members, including supplies. For added advice or to register, appointment www.sttammanyartassociation.org.* "Four Corners," an invitational exhibition presented by Olde Towne Arts Center, will be on affectation until Aug. 4 at the Cultural Centermost at Slidell City Hall, 2055 Second St. Advised to accord admirers a new angle anniversary time they about-face the corner, the appearance will affection Slidell artists Keith Dellsperger, John Fridge, Corinne Capdepon Harbison and Candace Page. Arcade hours are Wednesdays and Fridays, from apex to 4 p.m. and Thursdays from apex to 6 p.m. For added information, email info@otacenter.com or appointment www.otacenter.com. * Abbey Art Works is accepting allotment for "Learn the Art of Illumination," area acceptance will apprentice the medieval techniques of arrangement painting and gold leafing on cardboard by selecting their own affair and images to aftermath a different adventure of their activity journey, airy adventure or admired poem. Classes will booty abode Aug. 5, 12, 19 and 26 at the art school's architecture on the St. Joseph Abbey campus. Tuition is $350. For added information, alarm 985.789.6889 or appointment paintpaletteandbrush.com.
Don't absence "Hot Art in a Cool Space," the 15th anniversary accomplished art appearance and sale, Aug. 5 and 6 from apex to 6 p.m at the North Shore Unitarian Universalists, 28662 Krentel Road, Lacombe. The appearance featuring artwork by added than 30 award-winning artists will accommodate a accession Aug. 5 from 6 to 9 p.m.
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* The Slidell Art League will authority its abutting associates affair Aug. 8 at 7 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, 1534 7th St., Slidell. Artisan of the Month submissions charge be registered no after than 6:30 p.m. For added information, appointment slidellartleague.org.* The St. Tammany Photographic Society will authority its abutting associates affair Aug. 10 at STAA's Art House, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington. Memberships are $25 per being or $30 per brace annually. For added information, appointment www.stphotosociety.org. * STAA's 52nd Anniversary National Juried Exhibition continues until Aug. 19 at the Art House, 320 N. Columbia St., Covington. Featuring 34 pieces by artists from about the country, it will end with a closing reception, featuring talks with called artists, from 6 to 9 p.m. during Covington's White Linen Night. Arcade hours are Tuesdays to Fridays from 10 a.m to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Acceptance to the receptions and arcade is chargeless and accessible to the public. For added information, alarm 985.892.8650 or appointment www.sttammanyartassociation.org.* Abbey Art Works will present "Arts at the Abbey," a day-long airy and immersive art acquaintance Aug. 25 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the area of St. Joseph Abbey, 75376 River Road, Covington. The day will affection a talk, advantaged "Invisible Things Clearly Seen: The Airy Dimension of Art," by Prof. James Patrick Reid, M. Div., artisan and above adviser at the New York Academy of Art and the Art Acceptance League. Reid currently is a adroitness affiliate at the Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY. Added activities will accommodate a bout of the Abbey's beekeeping operation and a honey tasting, a hands-on art befalling at the Abbey Art Works building, cafeteria in the Student Refectory, a bout of the de Wit murals, and a reception. The amount is $25 including cafeteria or $15 for the address only. Allotment is recommended by visiting www.saintjosephabbey.com/arts-at-the-abbey. For added information, alarm 985.789.6889 or appointment www.paintpaletteandbrush.com. * Louisiana academy and aerial academy acceptance now can access their shorts films, which charge be 15 account or less, in the sixth anniversary Pontchartrain Blur Festival's Student Abbreviate Blur Showcase competition. The anniversary will present awards for best aerial academy film, best academy film, and an admirers accolade in the aerial academy and academy categories. Finalists will accept their blur buried at the anniversary Nov. 4 at 2 p.m at the Mandeville Trailhead Depot, 675 Lafitte St. at 2 p.m. Entries can be fabricated until Oct. 1. Filmmakers will be notified if their works will be buried for antagonism by Oct. 15. This year's antagonism will accommodate a $100 banknote award-winning for best films in both categories. Entries charge be fabricated online through Blur Freeway at filmfreeway.com/festival/PontchartrainFilmFestival-350581. For added information, email PFF Assistant Director Caterina Picone at caterinapicone.pff@gmail.com or appointment www.pontchartrainfilmfestival.com.
Sarah Bonnette is a freelance biographer on Louisiana arts and culture. She may be contacted at sgbonnette@gmail.com.
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