CANARY Gallery film screening

20 / 120 : An Evening With Connor Swegle at the CANARY Gallery. Saturday Nov. 15th.

Canary Gallery, 329 Julia Street

Doors 7pm. Film 8pm

Come check out the inaugural film series at the CANARY Gallery.

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.
"

Get Out The Vote!

Inaugural show for The CANARY Gallery

Opening reception for new photographic works by Zack Smith and Blake Haney.
Inaugural show for The CANARY Gallery.

For the inaugural opening of the Canary Collective Gallery, local photographer Zack Smith has selected from a series of portraits from ongoing projects and assignments. One image, "Preservation Hall - from Holy Cross to St. Peter, 2008" is a multi-exposed Holga photograph from a recent shoot for Preservation Hall Jazz Band staged at the levee near the Holy Cross neighborhood in the 9th Ward. From the ongoing series "People I Know" series, "Candy Store Grilla, 2008" is a portrait of writer Patrick Strange at a candy store, in a gorilla suit, flanked by two lovely women and a lot of candy. Come see the rest.

Blake Haney’s work stems from his work in New Orleans and New York from 2005 to 2007 using his Holga Camera. All works are digital C-Prints with Plexi Mount Frames. Each image is the first in limited series of 10. The works presented will be Preservation 13, Don’t Walk 11 to 12 and Light 11 through 14.


When:
Saturday, August 2nd, White Linen Night. 6-10pm.

Where:
The CANARY Gallery. 329 Julia Street, corner of Commerce and Julia.

About CANARY:
A collaborative multimedia studio and event space, CANARY was founded with the intention of bringing all forms of creative expression to the Arts District. Part working studio, part gallery, part event space, 329 Julia will mine the local community and collaborate with various organizations in the New Orleans community dedicated to different facets of the arts and media.