Prospect Everyone

10/30
Prospect Everyone
Location: New Orleans Arts District >> 300 - 600 Blocks of Julia Street
Time: 7pm - 10pm

As we all know, PROSPECT 1 begins this Saturday, but Shoot the Messsenger Productions with BIG collaborations with the New Orleans Arts District have put together a 5 block...block party with art,
music, and food by New Orleans folks..that could only deliver like New Orleans folks can.


To give you a feel for what we have cooking….

• We'll have second lines lead by Panorama Jazz Band
• You want some Big Easy Roller Girls?...got 'em!
• Pussyfooters?...coming right up!
• The Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Sumo Wrestling Ring...open and free to all who want to work those stock market crashing pre-election jitters! Featuring the most badass custom tricked out calliope that
plays off of vinyl (yup...VINYL!)...must see to believe! And Mondo Bizarro's Bruce France as your emcee!
• NOLA Rising's Jailhouse Rock
• From LeMieux Gallery, artist Jesse Poimboeuf's "Green Earth Man March"
• G.A.S.
's Art Cops on the beat
• Futureproof's "Field and Ensemble" featuring the Deisel Combustion Orchestra, Dusty Domino Projections and a 16 piece dance troupe.

• Stilt walking acrobats
• Laptop rockers Triple Delight
• ADHD's Heidi Domangue and Andrea's Travelling Body Sock!
• Lucky You! Popcorn booth, with homemade Eyeball Cupcakes!
• The Return of the Baby Pool Drive-in featuring none other than the Emperor of the Universe himself...the one, the only, (the waxy) Ernie K-Doe presiding alongside the ever lovely Miss Antoinette.

• Mr. Zack Smith's fantastic, interactively delicious Flavor Paper Photobooth with DJ Brice Nice spinning some booty shakin' good tunes.


AND -- Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes, and the West Banks own, Tikki Rockers
filling your ears..

There will be the best of the best in terms of the late night chuck wagons with Nate and Que Crawl, Praline Connection, Tee Eva, Papa Joe's BBQ and 3 Ring Circus will be running the bars that will have some delicious New Orleans signature cocktails along with beer, soft drinks, etc. We will also be rolling on over to the Big Top afterwards to get blown away by The Other Planets.




"Laughing Cavalier"

Works by Brandon Mansell
Opening November 1st, 6-10pm
(thru Dec.
4th)

"This body of work is comprised of three series... Americanas, Saints, and Chiaroscuros. The Americanas represent my exploration into what makes America tick, it's infatuation with sex, death, and politics. The Saints series revolves around portraits detailing New Orleans night life. The denizens of the lower garden district gave me Polaroids taken from a now defunct photo booth located at the Saint, and I used those as a starting point to create paintings that show the personality, and characters of New Orleans.
And finally,the Chiaroscuros are an investigation of past master techniques juxtaposed against modern
practices and colors.


The first two series were conceived before Katrina and completed in an empty city. These circumstances inevitably impacted the paintings.

The Chiaroscuros are a more direct critique on the present state of painting.
What was the function of painting in the past versus today? How can it be reconciled or at least stripped of the backlash brought about by the expressionists and their progeny?

As an artist we reference the past and take from it what seems relevant, and because of this, painting is not a linear history. I feel it is time for a renaissance in the most literal sense. Ideas have taken precedence over substance, which has led to an increasingly ephemeral body of modern art. This robs subsequent generations of tangible art and creates a disconnect between an artists intentions and the reality, which increasingly is merely documentation of an event.


I wish my work to be refined, pertinent, and tangible. It should touch the viewer and in turn should be able to be touched. It should live its own life.
"