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If you have not seen the show, do yourself a favor and don't miss it. Rebecca you have not over promoted the show. It has not been promoted enough. Someone should write the show up or put it on the news before the sports and weather. Come on, people need to see this show.
The Unearthed show, Rebecca's first solo gallery show is a triumphant creative accomplishment. The breath and diversity of work is more like a mid-career museum retrospective than a first solo gallery show.

The show combines multiple mediums there are paintings large and small detailed and abstract, photographic collaborations, soft sculptures, fabric stitched pieces, video work and natural installations. The diverse work is hung beautifully and tied together with hand made frames and themes of the land and self-discovery.

If you have enjoyed following Rebecca’s career this far get ready because this show is a leap from the high board and anticipates the rise of an artist we will be privileged to follow for a long time to come. Go ahead, take a walk or a drive down Magazine Street stop your feet or car at Louisiana Avenue and feed your eyes and mind the Unearthed.

October 26, 2010 8:31 AM

Intermission

When you live in New Orleans, holidays that involve costumes come along often, and when they do... all normalcy goes on hold. This being Halloween weekend in New Orleans, I am saving the remainder of the "Slow Tour" until next week.

We had the closing reception at the gallery last night where I really enjoyed talking with a group of YaYa students about my career as a fine artist, from growing up in Metairie, to college at Louisiana Tech, to having my first solo show in New Orleans at 28 years old. They had so many good questions! We talked about diligence, precedent, Bill Traylor's horse, student loans, big ships and bold delusion. I look forward to doing that again sometime.

The gallery is open today and tomorrow from 11am-5pm, which are the last two days my show will be up. If you having any questions regarding a visit to the gallery, you can text me: 504-669-8667.
I'll be finishing my unicorn costume. ;)

See you here on the blog next week for Part 3. Or I'll see you out there on the street this weekend!

Slow Tour: Part 2

"Bird Island", 48" x 60", mixed media on canvas, $3200

"Rabbit Ranch", digital C-Print by Brady Fontenot, 11" x 14" plus frame, edition of 10, $700

"Scent Boxes" (4 in the show: eucalyptus, chocolate mint, sugar cane, lavender), 16" x 20" x 4", wood with cotton curtain, burlap, live or dried plants, $250 each (lavender sold)

"Ghost Tree", 48" x 72", mixed media on canvas, $3600

"Doomsday" (left), 18" x 24", mixed media on canvas, $850
"I Wanna Go Home", 11" x 12", $300

"Crying Honey", digital C-Print by Brady Fontenot, 30" x 36", edition of 10, $1250
"Pigeon Moon", 18" x 24", mixed media on canvas, $850

"Amen", 13" x 14", stitching on vintage linen, SOLD
"Thread Rain", 16" x 20", mixed media on canvas, $500
"Deep Breath", digital C-Print by Brady Fontenot, 30" x 36", edition of 10, $1250

"Roots Planter" (on mantle above and detail below), basil, soil, wood, plexi, 20" x 12" x 3", $250
constructed in New Orleans by Mowgli Pierlas

"HOME", 36" x 24", preserved moss sewn onto stretched raw canvas, $500

I used myself in this body of work, not only as the maker of the things, but sometimes as the subject, like a semi-autobiographical story telling universal truths and cyclical lessons. I was reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" and thinking about how we learn the same lessons as adults that we first did as children. How we seek the same comforts, waver in faith based on our feelings, and bury painful memories in hopes of killing them. I was also thinking a lot about phantom limbs, but in an emotional way... emotional phantom limbs that we extend, reaching for something with something that doesn't exist, banging our emotional phantom elbow on the table and feeling the sting with no evidence to show for the pain.

Last chance to see the earthly splendor

I hope I haven't over-promoted this show. It's just such a rare opportunity to see so much of my work (45 pieces), in an actual building with actual lighting (as opposed to the art market tent). Thank you to everyone who has come out to see it! It's been a dream come true. This closing reception will be the last opportunity to see all the work together before the sold pieces go to their new owners. Let's wish them well. Adieu.

(if you are out of the area, the online slow tour is still going: parts 2-5 to come. stay tuned :)

A Slow Tour

I would like to take you on a slow tour of my solo show, currently at Sibley Gallery in New Orleans. (through Oct. 30) Here on my blog, you can take a virtual walk-through the space with me as I show you the body of work called "Unearthed" - a journey from a remembered birth to an imagined death using all five senses. This slow tour will take place in 5 parts over the next 5 days.

3427 Magazine St. New Orleans 11am-5pm Tues. - Sat.

Looking to the right as you head up the stairs to enter the gallery, you can see the Beehive and the Cotton Dress through the window.

"Beehive"

crocheted fibers of alpaca, cotton, bamboo, poly, cotton and poly stuffing

made by hand in Covington and New Orleans, with help from my mother, Rita Rebouche
soft-sculpture hangs from ceiling, 16" x 16" x 24"
$450

"Cotton Dress"
19" x 24", mixed media on flat canvas with cotton and lace trim, sold

Panoramic view of right side of gallery, just upon entering.

"Lotus Tree"
48" x 72", mixed media on canvas, wood frame made in Covington by my father, Carl Rebouche
$3850

side view of wooden frame on "Lotus Tree", 2.5" depth

Left to Right:
"Moth and Acorn" sold
"Pomegranate Bee" sold
"Apple Feather" $250
"Moth Pear" $250

All four: 8" x 10", acrylic on canvas, frames made of reclaimed pine by Bergeron Woodworks. (frame size: 14" x 16")

Opening night was a beautiful experience that came together like a quilt of sensory moments. The Beehive piece was dripping real "Blood River Honey". (The photo above captures a moment when a young spectator (and star of my video piece in which she plays a younger version of myself) MJ was catching dripping honey on her tongue. Kevin Mixon, a local bee-keeper and honey farmer, came with his "Blood River Honey" bees in an observation hive, which sat on the table with the Honey Lemonade Rum Punch we were passing out, made with Blood River Honey and local New Orleans Rum. For a very short time we had hot biscuits to enjoy with raw spreadable honey. Local bluegrass band "The Ramblin Letters" were steady playing in the backyard sculpture garden, crowded around one mic singing and strumming, and at one point, even a song about biscuits!

A Good Word

Special Thanks to the Arts Council of New Orleans for naming my solo show "One of the most anticipated shows this season..."
Read the full article here.

Solo Show

UNEARTHED:
a journey from a remembered birth to an imagined death using all five senses

Art for Arts Sake
Oct. 2
6:00-9:00pm
Sibley Gallery
3427 Magazine St. (at Louisiana)

What to expect:
Magical tree paintings, stitched vernacular, living art, moving pictures, photographic storytelling, soft-sculpture, bluegrass in the backyard by the Ramblin' Letters, New Orleans rum, live bees and Blood River honey