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Another snippet from join him for his solo show ARCHIVES opens tomorrow 6-9

This Saturday night! 6-9pm with with his solo show ARCHIVES!

Here are some views of Darlene Marcello’s solo exhibition HONOR at The Second Story Gallery. As you can see, one of the pieces - a photo grid - was being installed at the time these photos were taken. Thank you to Ron Bennett for your installation expertise. It takes a village!
This exhibition is open to the public daily through December 3rd. Join us for the opening reception this Saturday 6-9pm.

Join us for our next exhibition, HONOR, featuring works by Darlene Marcello -

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 7, 2022
Darlene Marcello, HONOR, at The Second Story Gallery in New Orleans, LA

Opening Reception: November 12th, 2022, 6-9PM, the artist will be in attendance and the
event is open to the public. This exhibition is on view from November 7th through December 3rd, 2022.

Darlene Marcello works with portraiture, either directly or metaphorically, to express appreciation and mark key relationships. Titled Honor, the collected works employ photographic, painting, mixed media, and fiber art traditions such as rug hooking. The artist describes the exhibition title as a “tribute of honor to those people, places, and things that have blessed this Earth journey with a fingerprint on my soul.

Contact: Darlene Marcello, [email protected]
The Second Story Gallery

Located in The New Orleans Healing Center
2372 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
https://www.secondstorygallerynola.org/
Gallery hours: 9AM – 6PM, daily

Next up at Second Story Gallery - Darlene Marcello's solo show, info to follow!

Member spotlight : Charles Lovell!

Charles Muir Lovell Photographer | All About Photo All About Charles Muir Lovell, photographer spotlight on All About Photo: Charles Muir Lovell life and work, current exhibitions, publications, agencies and galleries.

OPENING TONIGHT 6-9PM
The Rabbit Show : A Collection of Hares

A group exhibition featuring : Christopher Brumfield, Jason Chaffin, Dan Charbonnet, Jeannie Detweiler, Julie Korte, Bryce Rabbits, Kathy Rodriguez, Hazel Weathers and Heather Weathers -

The Rabbit Show : A Collection of Hares was installed last night and features artwork from Christopher Brumfield, Jason Chaffin, Dan Charbonnet, Jeannie Detweiler, Julie Korte, Bryce Rabbits, Kathy Rodriguez, Hazel Weathers and Heather Weathers. Here are some views from the gallery:

Join us for our next exhibition -

The Rabbit Show : A Collection of Hares

A group exhibition featuring : Christopher Brumfield, Jason Chaffin, Dan Charbonnet, Jeannie Detweiler, Julie Korte, Bryce Rabbits, Kathy Rodriguez, Hazel Weathers and Heather Weathers

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October 8, 2022 - November 5, 2022 . Opening Reception Saturday, October 8, 6pm-9pm
Second Story Gallery
New Orleans Healing Center
2372 St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70117
Hours: Monday - Sunday 5am-6pm
For information please contact Heather Weathers [ [email protected] ] 504-233-0084
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This exhibition features artists utilizing the persistent symbolism of the rabbit.

We use the rabbit to describe internal and external forces, known and unknown, to describe ourselves and describe our social and cultural prescriptions for our own conduct and consequence. Where we feel l***y, tactile, rebellious, when we realize our nearness to fragility and potentiality as prey, when we are in our summer or winter forms, when we lash out with energy or flop with laze, when our spots stand out or we blend in, when we revere our immortality in aspect or reduce ourselves to mortal, fleeting immaterial memory … the rabbit describes us.

The Rabbit Show : A Collection of Hares........A group exhibition featuring : Christopher Brumfield, Jason Chaffin, Dan Charbonnet, Jeannie Detweiler, Julie Korte, Bryce Rabbits, Kathy Rodriguez, Hazel Weathers and Heather Weathers. October 8, 2022 - November 5, 2022. Opening Reception Saturday, October 8, 6pm-9pm Second Story Gallery, New Orleans Healing Center 2372 St. Claude Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117

Last days to see SOLAR, an exhibition by Jeffrey Rinehart and Kathy Rodriguez -

October 1 is the last day to see Jeffrey Rinehart + Kathy Rodriguez : SOLAR at the Second Story Gallery SOLAR Jeffrey Rinehart and Kathy Rodriguez Second Story Gallery at The New Orleans Healing Center September 10 – October 1, 2022 https://jeffreyrinehart.com/ / https://www.kathyrodriguez.info/ SATURDAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VIEW THIS SHOW Artists’ Statement Jeffrey Rinehart and Kathy Rodriguez’s ...

KATHY RODRIGUEZ + JEFF RINEHART "SOLAR" opens tonight - 6-9PM
SOLAR
Jeffrey Rinehart and Kathy Rodriguez
Second Story Gallery at The New Orleans Healing Center
September 10 – October 1, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 10, 6-8 p.m.
https://jeffreyrinehart.com/ / https://www.kathyrodriguez.info/

"Artists’ Statement

Jeffrey Rinehart and Kathy Rodriguez’s paintings, cameraless photographs, and sculpture explore the familiar, observable world through a deceptively abstract to non-representational visual language. Both artists conceptually and technically approach the energy of light and the history of depicting landscape. Both artists also push and pull their materials with a painterly gesture, extracting from the weighted history of this medium a fresh experience of looking – the one human sense that relies on the element of light.

Rinehart drips, pools, and sands Flashe paint over sculptural surfaces that evoke the figure in small-scale, three-dimensional forms. These forms may inhabit the landscapes he imagines by oxidizing copper plates, resulting in imagery that suggests Superfund sites, places in the landscape that are permanently damaged by human abuse. The oxidized surface is forever entrapped and disallowed from spreading or changing because of the resin with which he coats it. Inevitably, this indicates climate change and its encroaching shadow over the landscape, enabling its metamorphosis. He refers to the traditional categorizations of the landscape as beautiful, picturesque, and sublime, but also invites the viewer to consider the ephemeral nature of landscape because of climate change as well as the mutable notion of beauty. In achromatic cameraless photographs, also named “rayograms” by their inventor, Man Ray, Rinehart depicts shredded filmstock which he placed over photo-sensitized paper and exposed to light. Rinehart questions what happens to photography by playing with its filmic surface, and further extends this process into the digital realm by scanning and printing the prints. He offers the terms “scanograms” or “scanography” to describe them. Warhol’s experimentation with copying the copy provides a framework for understanding how images, and therefore content, deteriorates or at least changes over time.

Rodriguez’s oil paintings on linen or canvas use glazed hues that allow light to pass through and from them, reflecting varied wavelengths of energy to the subjective eye and brain. More textured passages of impasto represent the three-dimensional forms that are fixed in the sky but appear to move across it, much like illusions made with paint. They depict abstractions of skies and landscapes illuminated with solar or lunar energy. In fact, the two are somewhat inseparable, as the sun lends a rosy tint to the Earth’s own rocky satellite, resulting in “blood moons,” and its bright lantern shining upon it in various moon phases. Both cast shadows over each other during eclipses. Rodriguez explores concepts and practices related to mindful awareness and moon- and sun-gazing. The former suggests meditation and contemplation as a healthy framework that tempers the danger of the latter, which is referent to the terrible way humans can tend to veer toward dangerous and unhealthy behaviors, even death, throughout mythology and reality. Suns depicted with solar flares echo the form of the coronavirus body, which is named for a solar phenomenon: the usually hidden, outermost layer of the sun’s atmosphere.

Both artists consider the concept of burning with light, which happens when we stare at the sun for too long. Some works also regard the formation of black holes, which are actually stars that implode upon themselves. The gravity of this natural process sucks all light away. The images convey ideas about these kinds of processes and changes that are inextricably linked to living in this world."

Image 1: Kathy Rodriguez, Staring at the Sun: Solar Flares, 2022, oil on canvas, 26 x 24 IN.
Image 2: Jeffrey Rinehart, The Reach #2, 2022, oxidized copper plate, 36 x 46 IN.

All are welcome, please join us tonight!