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
The Dry Garden is a publication composed of vignettes and reimagined material from herbaria, where plants are dried and stored for scientific purposes. Created by Magali Duzant for her 2023 exhibition at Antenna, the publication reconsiders archival histories and explores how narrative can help us build more empathetic relationships with nature. Visually, the publication is … The Dry Garden
A Tree, A Garden reflects on the many ways in which trees manifest into other things, from memorials and myths to memes, markers, and meeting points.The exhibition brings together two research projects that explore the place of trees in our understanding of the world. Inspired by trees found both in old-growth forests and on city … A Tree, A Garden
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: November 5th 2022 – December 16th 2022Receptions: Saturday November 12th and Saturday December 10th 2022, 6pm – 10pm Open Mic Nights: Nov. 17th & Dec. 15th 6:30-8pm Named after the book “Bright Boy; the Art of Defined/Designed Black” by Mark T. Williams. Bright Boy; The Art of Defined/Designed Black is an anthology focused … Bright Boy; the Art of Defined/Designed Black
Exhibition Dates: September 3rd – October 30th 2022Receptions: Saturday September 10th and Saturday October 8th 6pm-10pm Anxious poems is a zine that was made after an anxiety outburst in Portugal. The poems and illustrations guide us through a journey that unfortunately is very familiar to queer people: fear of not being accepted, social anxiety, and … Anxious Poems
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
On view: July 9th – August 28thReceptions: Saturday, July 9th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM Saturday, August 13th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM “In order for me to speak a truer word concerning myself, I must strip down through layers of attenuated meanings, made an excess in time, over time, assigned by a particular historical order, and … “…marvels of my own inventiveness…”
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Proviso, a collaborative chapbook between poet Steve Bellin-Oka, and visual artist Kristen Tomecek confronts the inordinate hurdles binational LGBTQIA couples encounter when trying to obtain green cards for the immigrant partner. Steve Bellin-Oka’s poems are built around actual immigration interview questions, and Kristen Tomecek’s abstract paintings respond to the poems. Interrogating traditional symbols of freedom … Proviso
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?
On view: Saturday March 12th – Sunday April 24th, 2022Opening Reception: Saturday March 12th from 6:00 – 10:00 PMDaily hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 5:00 about flowers… is a poetry zine combining found and recycled words and images printed in woodcut relief and risograph prints. The zine was printed at Lucky Risograph Publications in … about flowers…
Installation by Elizabeth Withstandley featuring music by Francis Lung and a story by Brian Wilson On view: Friday Feb 11th – Sunday March 6th Opening Reception: FRIDAY Feb 11th from 6:00 – 10:00 PM Daily hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12:00 – 5:00 Getaway is a 10 channel video installation that explores various … GETAWAY
On view: Aug. 14th – Sep 5thOpening Reception: Saturday, Aug. 14th 6-9PM – Masks required by all visitors. Building off the uncanny religious terminology used in de-extinction science or “resurrection biology”, and its futuristic technologies aimed at returning to the past, this new project by Maria Lux explores extinction narratives and the cultural work they are doing … Maria Lux :: Point of No Return
Black Fusionist Society is an Afrosurrealist multimedia narrative exhibition about the Black descendants of survivors of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre who create a secret society that uses magic and fringe science to navigate systemic racism and migrate to a different dimension. This exhibition serves as contemporary Black folklore within a historical fiction narrative told through … Black Fusionist Society :: Antoine Williams
