I’m very pleased to have a piece included in the 7th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition, which is held at the School of Design at Louisiana Tech University. The exhibition, entitled Timelapse, will be on view January 16th–February 20, 2024 in the Visual Arts Center’s Bethea and Moffett Galleries. The 2024 Biennial features about 40 artists working in various media.
The statement of the juror, Laura Blereau, Curator of Exhibitions at Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, is as follows:
As juror for the 7th Louisiana Biennial, I felt drawn to artists expressing their temporal connections to landscape and people. These artists are taking on abstract subjects, such as natural phenomena and cultural identity, to address the real and shifting experiences of their daily lives. Several works in the exhibition explore displacement, environmental disaster, and personal relationships in transition. Other pieces focus on the dynamism of bodily presence, pattern, animals, food, decay, and new ways of seeing.
While the topics they address are wide ranging, these works share an intensity that is made evident by each artist’s dedication to their chosen craft and process. The show is organized around seven interrelated themes: life forms/forces, terrains of climate change, weaving, identity, geometric abstraction, architecture, and spaces of emotional care. As a group, the works highlight artistic practices that emphasize reclaimed materials and cyclical considerations of time.