John Alleyne

Exhibitions

Group Exhibition, Clear Mirror, 2024

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Born in St. John, Barbados and living and working in New Orleans, LA—John Alleyne is an artist, independent curator, and Assistant Professor of Art at Southern University and A&M College. His practice and curatorial work is rooted in an exploration of freedom and sanctum, connecting his lived experience with an intuitive, experimental process of silkscreen mark-making. These marks reflect the complexities of Black life as they are perfectly imperfect. Through the exploration of Black nostalgic images which already exist in the world, Alleyne reimagines hauntingly new depictions that long for and reflect love, care, and a sanctuary for Black bodies.

He received his MFA from Louisiana State University, with a concentration in painting and drawing. He has been Artist-in-Residence at Ox-Bow, ACRE, and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He has exhibited work throughout various galleries and museums in the South, including Sulfur Studios in Savannah, GA, The Masur Museum in Monroe, LA, The LSU Museum in Baton Rouge, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and The Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans. He has also exhibited work in New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Ireland, and Barbados. His work is featured in New American Paintings (South Issue), Southern Cultures, The Offing, The Chicago Reader, Shepherd Express, Studio Visit Magazine, 225 Magazine, Savannah Now, and Issue #23 of The Hand Magazine.

Alleyne is an artist member of Baton Rouge Gallery and a member of Antenna Artist Collective in New Orleans. In the summer of 2023 he taught experimental silkscreen techniques at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.

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David Onri Anderson

Exhibitions

Group exhibition, The Sink, 2024
Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2022

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David Onri Anderson is a Tennessee-born French-Algerian Jewish artist, musician, and curator. He graduated from Watkins College of Art in Nashville with the Anny Gowa Purchase Award in 2016. He has had solo exhibitions at Patrick Painter Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, Blaa Galleri Copenhagen, DK (upcoming), Harpy Gallery in Rutherford, NJ, David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, TN, Atlanta Contemporary, amongst others. In 2020 he published a book of drawings with Zürich-based artist book company Nieves. His work has been reviewed, exhibited and collected internationally with works in permanent collections including the Soho House in Los Angeles, CA and Nashville, TN, The Joseph Hotel, and the Metro Arts Library in Nashville, TN, amongst others. Anderson is founder and curator of an artist-run space called Electric Shed Gallery in Nashville, TN (2018-present). His work has been reviewed in Art in America, Artnet, BURNAWAY, DailyLazy and more.
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Reed Anderson

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, Tender Garden, 2024
Group Exhibition, Tempter, 2022


Reed Anderson was born in New York City and has been exhibiting work nationally and internationally for over 25 years. He began school at the Cleveland Institute of Art wherehe studied under Julian Stanczak. After 3 years in Cleveland he transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute where he graduated with a BFA in Printmaking.

He attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and later Stanford University—graduating with an MFA in studio art in 2009. His work is in public collections that include MOMA, NYC; Albright-Knox, Buffalo; The West Collection, Philadelphia; The Olbricht collection, Esssen Germany and The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Austria among other private collections.


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Scott Andresen

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibition, Beyond Repair, 2022

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Scott Andresen is a visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans, LA. His collage and mixed-media based works explore the theme of repair by process of affixing translucent fabric to canvas, creating dimensionality and a subtle relief on the surface of the canvas. Andresen then employs a tedious process of stitching and tinsmithing. This creation and subsequent binding-of-wounds which occurs in each piece reflects the tragic beauty of the Sisyphean task of restoration in the face of entropy.

“My current work explores the nature of repair and other therapeutic actions; more specifically how such actions have consequences both intended and unintended. Using a variety of manually driven processes the work hovers between two-dimensional abstraction and physical representation. Each piece goes through the separate phases of construction, destruction and reparation. The resultant rapair process can become so physicallsy invasive and disruptive that the viewer may feel a mixture of empathy, unease, or even futility towards the actions taken.”

Andresen received his MFA from Yale University and BA from Hunter College. He has shown at Jack Tilton Gallery, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Exit Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, and The Bronx Museum. He has attended residencies at Black Rock Senegal, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council while also receiving fellowships from New York Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Andresen’s work can be found in the permanent collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art and Museum of Arts & Design in NYC. Scott is an Associate Professor at the LSU School of Art.


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Josh Azzarella

Exhibitions

Two-person Exhibition, S/ample Data, 2020

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Josh Azzarella interrogates the ways in which images shape collective memory. Through his multi-displinary practice spanning video, digital art, and installation, Azzarella arbitrates the relations between the signifier and the signified, the real and the representation (or re-presentation), by pointing reflexively to the arbitrary nature of media materials (and of language itself, by extension). Azzarella preserves the intrigue of the original and by virtue of technical genius yields a series of artifacts; a museum of our contemporary mythology. Yet, the contents of this museum are not mere pastiche or monument, but an altogether new vision, pieced together from the fragments of a shared mythos.

“We often note, in trying to understand our own history, that the photographs which signify the events we experience come to replace or complicate our own memories. In this way, I intend the works I produce to further alter those collective memories. Moreover, the works often seek a meditative or still moment during which the viewer can stand transfixed. This contemplative moment is an opportunity to introduce the larger context in which we collect and chronicle our communal history.”

-Josh Azzarella

Azzarella was the recipient of the 2006 Emerging Artist Award and related solo exhibition from The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (CT). He has previously shown at the California Museum of Photography (CA), University Art Museum, Long Beach (CA), Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada), Kavi Gupta Gallery (IL), Academie der Kunste (Berlin), Sean Kelly Gallery (NY), Catharine Clark Gallery (CA), Mississippi State University (MS), the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (CA) and DCKT Gallery (NY). His work is included in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PA), the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX), the San Diego Museum of Modern Art (CA), the Margulies Collection (FL), Western Bridge (WA) and JP Morgan Chase (NY).


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