Altered Exposure - Post-Photographic Perspectives

(New Orleans, LA) FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY is pleased to announce Altered Exposure – Post-Photographic Perspectives featuring the work of: Tiffany Calvert, E2 – Kleinveld & Julien, Sarah Jacobs, Peter Olson, and Peter Sarkisian. This exhibition examines five gallery artists’ unique and innovative employment of photography as part of their respective, interdisciplinary artistic processes. Beyond the straightforward printing of the photographic image, artworks in the exhibition incorporate one or more additional media, including: painting, ceramic, video, installation, performance, and AI-technology. 

Tiffany Calvert collaborates with a dueling AI program in which she feeds a dataset of nearly 1000 images of Dutch and Flemish Old Masters still-life paintings before printing and re-interpreting herself in oil paint. Conversely, photography is at the center of E2 – Kleinveld & Julien’s work. The artist-duo identify sitters, source costumes, and create elaborate sets to stage a performance to produce photographs which reference iconic works of Art History – recontextualizing them with inclusivity and timely purpose. Also toiling with concepts of old and new through the employment of Art History is the work of Sarah Jacobs, who collages her y photography into her paintings which are further embellished and blended into the composition. In the center of the gallery appears several porcelain vessels by Peter Olson. At first seemingly historical objects, further investigation reveals a blend of European religious and architectural imagery combined with Olson’s own street photography, which he transfers from printed image into his clay forms. Finally, the video work of Peter Olson brings still image and installations to life. In his most recent body of work, REMOTE DRIVER, the artist has created a cutout of a photo which reveals a video element – bringing the photo to life.

Distorting, intervening, transferring, embellishing, even animated – these various modalities present the viewer with a harmonious visual intersection which oscillates between the real and the imagined. Just as artists grappled with the position of painting in the rise of the digital era, the post-photographic movement questions, experiments, and reinterprets the perception and use of an image.

The exhibition will be on view through 13 December is an official exhibition of the 19th annual PhotoNOLA festival (10-14 December). The gallery will hold an artist reception on 6 December from 5 – 9 PM in conjunction with the Arts District New Orleans’ monthly First Saturday Gallery Openings and special holiday-themed art walk event Holidays Cheers.

For more information, press or sales inquiries please contact Gallery Director Matthew Weldon Showman at 504.343.6827 or matthew@ferrarashowman.com. Please join the conversation with FSG on Instagram (@FerraraShowmanGallery) via the hashtags: #TiffanyCalvert, #E2, #SarahJacobs, #PeterOlson, #PeterSarkisian #FerraraShowmanGallery, and #ArtsDistrictNewOrleans.