As a river leads to the ocean, a rivulet precedes the river. It is born from a cut place in the earth where water is collected and moves from land and roots to find other small streams and grow, into brook and stream, moving from high to low, gathering volume and force. From their own … Rivulet: Earth to stream to flood and back
“No Home for You Here/No hay hogar para ti” is a collection of work that explores the notion of loss and conflict by examining one’s hybrid identity – especially that of Latin Americans and how that has become defined by U.S. borders. Lauren is the recipient of the 2024 Louisiana Call for Exhibitions.
Curator In Residence In 2024, we are launching a Curatorial Fellowship to engage with national curators to facilitate connecting Louisiana artists to national art networks. This is an invitational curatorial residency. Over the course of two years, the invited curator will generate a curatorial statement for their residency and use this statement to guide the … Meet 2024 Curatorial Fellow: Niama Safia Sandy
“No Home for You Here/No hay hogar para ti” is a collection of work that explores the notion of loss and conflict by examining one’s hybrid identity – especially that of Latin Americans and how that has become defined by U.S. borders. In the politically divided, nationalist, and insular U. S., many blame the country’s … No Home for You Here
No Weak and Ordinary Voice links speeches by Reverdy C. Ransom, a pivotal civil rights activist and founding member of the Niagara Movement, to sites across America through sculptural forms. This exhibition presents the metaphorical act of putting a flower in the barrel of the continued assault on equal rights. By connecting plants to historical … No Weak and Ordinary Voice
Proximity and Touch: Louisiana Group Show Exhibition 2023Vernell Dunams, Ryan Leitner, Kelsey Scult, and Jill StollSeptember 9 – October 29, 2023 Louisiana Group Show Annually, Antenna Collective orchestrates the ‘Louisiana Call for Exhibitions’, which offers Louisiana artists the opportunity to have their artwork evaluated by a distinguished guest juror, who meticulously selects exhibiting artists from … Proximity and Touch
Every year, to provide the opportunity for Louisiana artists to have their work reviewed by curators from around the country, Antenna Gallery’s Louisiana call for exhibitions hosts a guest juror to choose the exhibition selection. For 2024 year, our juror is Risa Puleo based in Chicago, IL. Risa Puleo is an independent curator and one … Meet 2024 Louisiana Open Call Juror :: Risa Puleo
Antenna is thrilled to announce our recipients for 2024 (2023) National and Louisiana Open Call for Exhibitions. A big thank you to all the applicants. The Antenna Collective and Jurors were impressed by the brilliant creativity, and ingenuity in the submissions. National Open Call for Exhibitions 2024 Recipient: Jasmine Best Jasmine Best is a true … Announcing 2024 Open Call Winners!
Antenna is thrilled to announce our recipients for 2023 (2024) National and Louisiana Open Call for Exhibitions. A big thank you to all the applicants. The Antenna Collective and Jurors were impressed by the brilliant creativity, and ingenuity in the submissions. National Open Call for Exhibitions 2023 Recipient: Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo Sarah Elizabeth Cornejo is … Announcing the 2023 Open Call Winners!
Every year, to provide the opportunity for Louisiana artists to have their work reviewed by curators from around the country, Antenna Gallery’s Louisiana call for exhibitions hosts a guest juror to choose the exhibition selection. For 2023 year, our juror is Betsy Lohrer Hall based in Long Beach, California. Betsy Lohrer Hall is a visual … Meet 2023 Louisiana Call Juror :: Betsy Lohrer Hall
A catalog for Williams’ 2022 exhibit at Antenna, documenting the artist’s anthropomorphic sculptures. Lorna Williams was born in 1986 in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2010, she received a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited work at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Studio Museum Harlem, Montserrat College of Art, and University … Lorna Williams: Works 2011-2017
Exhibition Dates: September 10th – October 2nd 2022Opening Reception: Saturday September 10th 2022, 6pm – 10pm Union is an investigation of the unity of blackness beyond borders using paint. The idea that blackness exists in an infinite space operating outside of white supremacy is inferred through the painting by disregarding a typically western style of … Union
Exhibitions Dates: August 13th – September 4th 2022Opening Reception: Saturday August 13th 2022, 6pm-10pm “As the lukewarm hands of the godsCame down and gently picked my adrenalin pearlsPlaced them in their mouths and rinsed all the fear outNourished them with their saliva All rested As if the healthiest pastimeIs being in life-threatening circumstancesAnd once again be … Meta-Retrospect
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Opening Reception: Saturday June 11, 6pm-10pm
On view: March 12th – April 3rd , 2022Opening Reception: Saturday March 12th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM Daily hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 5:00 What’s Wrong Cowboy is a solo exhibition of paintings by Trenity Thomas. “Painting red cowboy hats has become a signature of mine. Seeing a blackperson as a cowboy is powerful, … What’s Wrong Cowboy?
The many stories of what happened after Hurricane Katrina have yet to be told. Instead of a swift rescue, people of New Orleans were abandoned in the sweltering heat for days without electricity, without food, without water and without hope. Left to fend for themselves, they were preyed on and killed by criminals, by white … New Orleans Katrina Holocaust :: Paintings by Beverly Kimble Davis
Closing Reception: Nov 7th WhatHappenWas invites the New Orleans Community to participate in one-on-one interviews in the installation with the artist, Marta Rodriguez Maleck, recounting any and everything that occurred post-Mardi Gras 2020. Sentences and phrases from each interview will be woven together in a sound collage, which will be presented at the exhibition’s closing. … WhatHappenWas
On view: Nov 9 – Dec 8, 2019 Opening Reception: Nov 9, 6-10pm Daily hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12-5 About the show: Juliana Kasumu is Antenna’s 2019 Local Open Call Winner. Selected by juror Jackie Clay, curator and executive director of the Coleman Center for the Arts. WHAT DOES THE WATER TASTE LIKE? is a … WHAT DOES THE WATER TASTE LIKE?
Touching Pictures On view: Sept 8 – Oct 7, 2018 Second Saturday Reception: Sept 8, 6-10pm Daily hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12-5 The exhibition Touching Pictures features recent photo-based work by Kristine Thompson that examines how images of death, violence, and mourning circulate publically. The works featured engage photographic imagery in a tactile manner in … Touching Pictures
On view: Oct 14- Nov 5, 2017 Opening Reception: Saturday Oct 14, 6-10pm Daily hours: Tuesday through Sunday 12-5 Pleasure, especially when performed or represented publicly, is always political. Selected from Antenna’s 2017 Louisiana Open Call, the eight artists featured in Pleasure, Performance, Politics utilize color, language, scale, and representational media like photography and video … Pleasure, Performance, Politics; Louisiana Open Call, Cycle 2
