Focus: Noel Rockmore

Noel Rockmore was a regular patron of the cafes and bars of New Orleans’ French Quarter from the 1960s through the 1990s, and he held court with no less intrigue and charisma than his fellow bohemian, Tennessee Williams. Arriving in "the last frontier of Bohemia" in 1959, Rockmore discovered the place of his dreams, a place that allowed him to both portray the fantasy and decay so central to his personal aesthetic, and to do so by painting what was there, without embellishment.
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Artists & Sense of Place Residency Flying Horses

Teaching artist Jackie Inglefield spent 3 weeks with 2nd - 4th graders from Edward Hynes Charter School: Lakeview to collect discarded plastic bottles to reuse and recycle to create life sized horse armatures. They learned about the environmental impact of plastic waste and glass recycling and used various techniques, coloring, cutting and sewing to transform the bottles into works of art.
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Burke’s Delight The Stacey and Michael Burke Collection

Burke’s Delight: The Stacey and Michael Burke Collection, features a significant recent donation of more than 80 works by over 50 artists from across the American South. This donation not only expands the Museum’s already impressive collection in this genre but also highlights the profound contributions of self-taught and Visionary artists to the region’s cultural heritage. This exhibition presents work that challenges traditional notions of artistic values and aesthetics.
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Vicinal Visions Dusti Bongé, Ida Kohlmeyer & Dorothy Hood

Vicinal Visions presents the works of Dusti Bongé, Ida Kohlmeyer and Dorothy Hood from the collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, highlighting three visionary women who helped expand the boundaries of abstraction in the American South. Though each of these Southern artists developed their own distinct visual language, their work shares a spirit of experimentation and Modernist sensibilities, refracted through individual lenses of personal experience and place.
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In the Beloved A new body of work by Alexis McGrigg

Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents, In the Beloved, a new body of work by Alexis McGrigg, that merges fluid abstraction, spiritual inquiry and an exploration of Blackness as both a physical and metaphysical space. Influenced by dance, film, literature and spiritual philosophy, this series investigates the origin and transcendence of the soul from a third space McGrigg calls The Beloved. This realm is in constant metamorphosis, allowing Black souls to exist in continual transition and transformation.
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I Am the Face

Drawn exclusively from the permanent collection of Ogden Museum of Southern Art, I Am the Face is a meditation on the history of portraiture within Southern Photography. Beginning with the early twentieth century to the present, I Am The Face highlights ever-changing ideas, trends, methods and technologies that define the photographic portrait. Picturing the human condition, the relationship between photographer and subject, and the inherent power of perception that the camera possesses is addressed throughout the exhibition.
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