Nadar’s Balloon, or: Modernism Inside-Out

A lecture by Carol Armstrong, Professor of the History of Art, Yale University
Monday, March 9, 2009
6:00 pm
Stone Auditorium [Room 210], Woldenberg Art Center
Tulane University

Reception following in Woodward Way.

This event is partially funded by the Center for Scholars of the School of Liberal Arts.

Lisa Yuskavage: A Lecture

Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 7:00 pm, 2009 Sandra Garrard Memorial Lecture
Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University
Reception immediately following in Woodward Way.

Moving between the triad of the female body, the gaze and the female soul, Ms. Yuskavage has cultivated a terrain of rich and disturbing ambiguities, making works that can be both tender and astoundingly harsh. She has been aided in this endeavor by her devotion to a second triad, that of light, color and flesh as they can be conveyed by the plasticity of oil paint.
--Roberta Smith, The New York Times, 2001

While working, I allow all kinds of things to run through my head: dirty little songs, the passage about peeing in the bed in James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist, corny moments from a Shirley Temple movie, or the light in a Giovanni Bellini painting. Some of it’s base, some of it’s elegant. It’s a Frankensteinian way of putting a painting together. The parts of the corpse come from different bodies.
-- Lisa Yuskavage, “Chuck Close Talks With Lisa Yuskavage,” 1996

For more information, see her gallery's website or contact:
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Laura Richens,Curator, Carroll Gallery
Newcomb Art Department, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
phone: 504.314.2228

Carroll Gallery presents

Tulane MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Jane Fox Hipple and Bruce M. Mackh
"Are We Nature?" [paintings by Jane Fox Hipple]
oil paintings on canvas and panel - of abstracted natural
forms inspired by the jungles of Latin America and the wetlands of Louisiana
and
"No Direction Home: Images of New Orleans" [photographs by Bruce M. Mackh]
black and white photographs of New Orleans

Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University
504.314.2228
April 9, 2008 - April 18, 2008
Reception: Friday, April 18, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
9 am - 4 pm, Mon - Fri.

Carroll Gallery presents

Tulane MFA Thesis Exhibitions:
"SKIN/show\SKIN," digital work by David E. Robinson (pictured on left) - large-scale digital prints on canvas
and
"Living in Shadow," installation and sculpture by Cynthia Scott (pictured on right) - site-specific sculptural installations utilizing found and natural materials
Exhibition runs March 25, 2008 - April 3, 2008
Reception: Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
for more information and artists statements, click here.
Gallery hours 9 am - 4 pm, Mon - Fri. Saturday hours by the artists, 12-5pm, Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University
504.314.2228

The Carroll Gallery presents:

Newcomb Art Department/Tulane University
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions

John Oles
Five + 1: New Work

Blake Sanders
Gone the Way of the Dinosaurs

exhibition dates: February 27 – March 7, 2008
reception: Thursday, March 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Gallery hours: M – F, 9 am – 4 pm
For more information, please contact:
Laura Richens, Curator, Carroll Gallery
Newcomb Art Department
Woldenberg Art Center, Tulane University
phone: 504.314.2228

Southern Belles from Hell: The Impact of Feminism on Contemporary Art in Louisiana, Part 1

The legacy of feminism might not be the first thing coming to mind when considering contemporary art in Louisiana. An outgrowth of the civil rights and anti-war movements characterizing the American 1960s, the feminist art agenda exposes gender-based obstacles and seeks to dismantle hierarchy.

This past Sunday, P.S.1/MoMA opened “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution”, featuring more than 400 artworks created between 1965-80 by 120 artists, mostly in the Western hemisphere. Among these celebrated by the extensive exhibit is Lynda Benglis (b.1941) from Lake Charles, Louisiana, who received a BFA from Newcomb College at Tulane in 1964. That same year she moved to New York: one step closer to becoming the legendary the sculptor and video artist who posed nude- with a huge dildo and terrible tan- inside the pages of an Artforum advertisement ten years later.

Included in the survey at P.S.1 through May 12 are Female Sensibility, 1973; Mumble,1972; and Odalisque (Hey, Hey Frankenthaler),1969. Even today, these pieces by Lynda Benglis feel provocative. In fact, her work may still be very ahead of its time. As of yet there are no regional events from LA, MS or ALA participating in the Feminist Art Project at Rutgers.

Posted by Laura Blereau

The Carroll Gallery presents:

Newcomb Art Department/Tulane University MFA Thesis Exhibitions

Megan Hillerud: Even Odds
Barbie L’Hoste: Expecting Rain

exhibition dates: February 13 – 22, 2008
reception: Friday, Feb. 22, 6:30 – 8:30 pm