Room for One
Room for One February 7 – February 28, 2020 Opening Reception: Friday February 7, 6:00pm-9:00pm NAPOLEON presents Room for One, an exhibition of small works curated by Collective member Daniel Oliva. We invite viewers to gaze into the worlds created by each artist, who bring a commitment to craft that is carried along … Continue reading
Group Text
Group Text January 10 -31, 2020 Opening reception: Friday January 10th 6-9pm When we group text, we speak to the whole gang at once, our comments sent like arrows into a post for all to see; then we wait for a response. We group text for parties, after work happy hours and now— … Continue reading
Good Bite: Good Children Gallery
Good Bite: Good Children Gallery Opening Reception: First Friday, November 1st, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: November 1- 30th, 2019 Established in 2008, Good Children Gallery is a founding collective in the St. Claude Arts District in New Orleans. Good Children’s monthly exhibitions showcase engaging work from local, national, and international artists. This exhibition will give … Continue reading
Spitting Distance: Kennan Bennett and Heather Raquel Phillips
Spitting Distance Collaborative & Individual new work by Kennan Bennett & Heather Raquel Phillips Opening Reception: First Friday, October 4th, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: October 4th – 26th, 2019 Through sites of intimate exchange, Spitting Distance examines the socio-politico-cultural salience of deviance as a mode for navigating the world. Keenan Bennett (he, they) … Continue reading
Time in the Codex: Tia-Simone Gardner & Rini Yun Keagy
Tia-Simone Gardner · Rini Yun Keagy Time in the Codex Opening Reception: First Friday, September 6th, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: September 6th -22nd The colonial archive is, emphatically, a series of omissions and erasures. Through their work with its images, documents and artifacts, Tia-Simone Gardner and Rini Yun Keagy gather the minor fragments … Continue reading
SO YEA: A Poem by Heather Raquel Phillips for GAG: Peggy and Emily Blei Hracho
GAG verb gagged; gagging 1. a: to restrict use of the mouth of by inserting something into it to prevent speech or outcry b: to prevent from exercising freedom of speech or expression c: to pry or hold open with a gag 2) to provide or write quips or pranks 3) to choke or cause … Continue reading
Emily & Peggy Blei Hracho: GAG
GAG Emily & Peggy Blei Hracho 7.5.19 – 8.25.19 NAPOLEON welcomes the forthcoming exhibition, GAG featuring the work of our 2019 Open Call honorees, Emily & Peggy Blei Hracho. The Blei Hracho’s have analogous bodies of work that employ process and materiality to subvert and challenge conventional craft based fabrications. They interrogate gender expectancy by appropriating derogatory … Continue reading
Rebecca Tennenbaum: Every Thing Has a Function
Rebecca Tennenbaum Every Thing Has a Function 6.7.19 – 6.23.19 What is gained by interfacing with an extension of yourself? What do you get from staring into a two way mirror knowing you are also on the other side? Every Thing Has a Function is a show title and a description. Rebecca … Continue reading
Lydia Rosenberg : The Complete Subject
Lydia Rosenberg The Complete Subject May 3rd – May 26th, 2019 The complete subject, is part of an ongoing project that considers the act of writing a fiction-novel-in-progress as a manual for exploring forms of representation as they transition from one state to another. In this exhibition, Lydia Rosenberg records the shifts from fruit to painting to text and back … Continue reading