Past
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Dickie Landry
9 Aug - 29 Sep 2024 In the music of Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Dickie Landry, the simplest musical phrases become incredibly emotional. These composers spin up a short, pleasing, easily digestible melodic line, then repeat it. Then repeat it again. Then repeat it again. They shift the context surrounding the phrase, or... Read more -
Ron Bechet & Hannah Chalew: You Can't Hide the Sun
12 Apr - 9 Jun 2024 Driving down to St. Bernard Parish and passing by a corridor of refineries recently, I noticed idyllic pastoral landscapes with docile, grazing cows right before a beautiful patch of shade provided by a canopy of oak trees. The refreshing, delicious air of an early March spring buoyantly lifted a blackbird... Read more -
Ana Hernandez: Color of Clouds
12 Jan - 10 Mar 2024 In her new exhibition Color of Clouds, Ana Hernandez delves into a deep examination of language. From one object to the next, Hernandez continues to unearth the intersections among culture, power, and the shapes and sounds of our environment—seen and unseen, heard and unheard—and how these intersections contribute to our... Read more -
Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: Break Stuff
12 Jan - 10 Mar 2024 No materials are off-limits for the conceptual sound artist Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Whether using iron pots to transmit Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s mystic chord frequencies or incorporating the circulation of water from the James River in a sound-based installation, Toussaint-Baptiste pushes us to pay attention to “low-end” frequencies and their diasporic... Read more
