Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp St
New Orleans, LA 70130
504.539.9650 | HOURS
925 Camp St
New Orleans, LA 70130
504.539.9650 | HOURS
P.6 Artist Featured at Ogden Museum:
Ewan Atkinson Thomas Deaton L. Kasimu Harris Joan Jonas Brian Jungen Tessa Mars Ada M. Patterson Brooke Pickett Ashley TeamerFounded in 2007, Prospect New Orleans is a triennial citywide exhibition of contemporary art featuring artists from Louisiana and around the globe. For Prospect’s sixth iteration, co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson highlight New Orleans’ role as a global city situated in the future, where questions around survival, continuance and joy are being asked in advance of other places. New Orleans is also positioned as a city that reflects “the global majority,” a term used to describe the near eighty percent of the global population comprised of Indigenous, African, Asian, Latin American and mixed-heritage peoples. The exhibition’s fifty-one artists, presented across twenty-plus venues, honor this city’s history and offer opportunities for shared contemplation, discovery and a reimagining of possibilities.
A harbinger can be foreboding. The origins of this word, however, point towards a host, a harbor, or a scout who makes a safe space for others. Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home looks to New Orleans as a signal of the future, in conversation with regions of the world that have long experienced the effects of climate change, labor migration and histories of colonialism. Together these places offer sanctuaries and indicators of the yearnings and tensions that will define our collective future.
Since 2003, Ogden Museum of Southern Art has celebrated the diversity of visual art and culture of the American South. The P.6 artists at Ogden Museum situate New Orleans in an expanded conversation around home and the environment. Together, they connect the cultural vibrance and traditions of the city with other parts of the globe, provoking questions around the current state of gender inclusivity, acknowledgement of Indigenous peoples and care for nature in this region and beyond.
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Miranda LashMiranda Lash is the Ellen Bruss Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Lash has organized a wide range of museum exhibitions including Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lighting/ Rivalizando con el relampágo; Jason Moran: Bathing the Room with Blues; Keltie Ferris: *O*P*E*N*; the traveling retrospective Mel Chin: Rematch; Camille Henrot: Cities of Ys; Rashaad Newsome: King of Arms; Swoon: Thalassa; and Quintron and Miss Pussycat: Parallel Universe, Live at City Park. In 2016 Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker co-organized the acclaimed exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art. From 2008 to 2014, Lash was the founding Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her most recent projects include Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe, a traveling survey and monograph of Jackson’s work; and Cowboy, a large-scale traveling exhibition on the myths and realities associated with the American cowboy, co-curated with Nora Burnett Abrams, the Mark G. Falcone Director of MCA Denver.
Lash currently serves on the board of the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was a 2022 Fellow with the Center for Curatorial Leadership. She has been a Clark Fellow at the Clark Art Institute, a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a member of the artistic director’s Curatorial Council for Prospect.4. She holds a BA with honors from Harvard University in the History of Art and Architecture and an MA from Williams College from the Graduate Program in the History of Art.
Ebony G. PattersonEbony G. Patterson’s expansive practice addresses visibility and invisibility, through explorations of class, race, gender, youth culture, pageantry and acts of violence in the context of “postcolonial” spaces. With the strong sensibility of a painter, Patterson works across multiple media – including tapestry, photography, video, sculpture, drawing and installation – united by her consistent visual language and intention. Each work is intricately embellished and densely layered, in order to draw the viewer closer and to question how we engage in the act of looking. The idea of the garden, both real and imagined, has formed an essential arc of Patterson’s practice. Framing the garden as an active site of power, Patterson explores it as a metaphor for “postcolonial” space and an extension of the body.
Patterson received her BFA in painting from Edna Manley College of Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica in 2004. She received an MFA degree in 2006 in printmaking and drawing from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Patterson has taught at the University of Virginia, Edna Manley College School of Visual and Performing Arts, Associate Professor in Painting and Mixed Media at the University of Kentucky, and was the Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work is in the public collections of 21c Museum and Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. In 2021, Patterson was included in both the Liverpool and Athens Biennials. She lives and works in both Chicago, IL and Kingston, Jamaica and is co-represented by Monique Meloche Gallery, and Hales New York/ London, who will co-present Ebony’s monumental installation from the Liverpool Biennial at The Armory Show NY in Platform section curated by Tobias Ostrander.