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The Front, 4100 St Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA (2026)

04/13/2023

✨ARTIST TALK THIS SATURDAY✨

Join us for this very special Artist Talk from our exhibiting April artists & .dejamojo! These exhibitions are so gorgeous wild and wonderful, learn more about the creative practices and stories behind the work!

2 PM // Saturday April 15th // See you there!

04/06/2023

SATURDAY! Join us from 6-10 for ’s exhibition “Fu$* You, The Kids Are Alright”

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Descendant of a long lineage of New Orleanian teachers, artisans, and carpenters, Déja Jones, uses their ancestral gifts to create whimsical multi-media artworks that invite the viewer into the perspective of working-class POC to communicate, advocate, and educate on the behalf of community’s needs and preserve their great cultural legacies. They combine found objects, bright colors, and bold designs to tell stories of disenfranchised communities across nations- highlighting their similarities and ultimately their unity. Their work is used as a catalyst to encourage progressive conversation and dedicated organization towards intersectional equity.

04/05/2023

Join us this Saturday for the “Future Shock” exhibition from and ❤️‍🔥6-10 PM in Room 3, don’t miss out!

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"Future Shock” places the viewer behind a satirical lens aimed at our concerns and anxieties regarding the logarithmic rate of the ‘new’ - technology, AI, industry, products, cultural norms and mores, etc - and the stress, paralysis, and existential issues that it induces in us, which is then compounded by the increasing control that corporations hold over technology, housing, living beings, and the world at large.

It is difficult to accurately convey impending doom, especially within the confines of an art gallery during a Saturday night opening. It is difficult to accurately convey a feeling of “this could happen in fifty years if we aren’t careful,” because the world we live in is changing so rapidly that any type of ‘near-future’ scenario is already too close to our present reality.

So, with that in mind, we offer you “Future Shock.” We tease ourselves about our fears by manifesting them ourselves. And in turn, we offer you a sly grin and a temporal glimpse into a parallel world where the prescriptive niceties of intentionally soft language and Bernaysian propaganda are still being used to sell an ugly, inhuman dream to a world that has visibly lost its final human thread. We hope that you simultaneously love and hate it.

Note:

“Future shock” is a term coined by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book of the same title. “(He) argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a ""super-industrial society"". This change overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from ""shattering stress and disorientation""—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock he popularized the term "information overload."

04/05/2023

Join us this Saturday for the “Future Shock” exhibition from and ❤️‍🔥6-10 PM in Room 3, don’t miss out!

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"Future Shock” places the viewer behind a satirical lens aimed at our concerns and anxieties regarding the logarithmic rate of the ‘new’ - technology, AI, industry, products, cultural norms and mores, etc - and the stress, paralysis, and existential issues that it induces in us, which is then compounded by the increasing control that corporations hold over technology, housing, living beings, and the world at large.

It is difficult to accurately convey impending doom, especially within the confines of an art gallery during a Saturday night opening. It is difficult to accurately convey a feeling of “this could happen in fifty years if we aren’t careful,” because the world we live in is changing so rapidly that any type of ‘near-future’ scenario is already too close to our present reality.

So, with that in mind, we offer you “Future Shock.” We tease ourselves about our fears by manifesting them ourselves. And in turn, we offer you a sly grin and a temporal glimpse into a parallel world where the prescriptive niceties of intentionally soft language and Bernaysian propaganda are still being used to sell an ugly, inhuman dream to a world that has visibly lost its final human thread. We hope that you simultaneously love and hate it.

Note:

“Future shock” is a term coined by Alvin Toffler in his 1970 book of the same title. “(He) argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a ""super-industrial society"". This change overwhelms people. He argues that the accelerated rate of technological and social change leaves people disconnected and suffering from ""shattering stress and disorientation""—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In his discussion of the components of such shock he popularized the term "information overload."

04/04/2023

Our exhibition in Room 2 this Saturday will be ’s “Seasick”

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With rapidly accelerating economic anxiety, mounting environmental degradation, and climate change, the uncertainty of tomorrow weighs heavy. The collective fight or flight response has forced society to develop resiliency, but what if we can no longer handle what comes next? How do we function in a constant state of trepidation?

Life in Louisiana is a constant ebb and flow, a perpetual state of entropy. The water surrounding us provides fertile soil, promotes growth, and quenches our thirst, but also possesses the power to damage, devastate, and destroy. The Mississippi River hovers over New Orleans, a doomsday clock patiently ticking. When the deluge can no longer be kept at bay, everybody must ask the question, what if I can’t swim?

Seasick is a collection of artworks that all refer to moments in my life of alarm, anxiety, fright, dread, and apprehension. These artworks all stem from my relationship to Louisiana’s bodies of water, considering their healing nature and catastrophic potentialities. Consisting of paintings, drawings, objects, sculptures, and my first video, Seasick lingers on the fluidity of stability, the mornings after disaster, and the fear of being swept away.

04/01/2023

New article in by profiling our current exhibition!

Join us today at 3 for our Artist Walk Through to hear more from our new members.

Thank you Nora and for the beautiful article!

03/31/2023

Last weekend to catch our New Member Show! Join us tomorrow at 3 for an Artist Walk through to hear from our exhibiting artists, and afterwards enjoy a performance from our member .watts!

New Member Spotlight:

Ulrika Matthiessen is a visual artist born in Sweden, raised in the American Deep South, and currently living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her paintings, drawings, and mixed media works often center around the human figure, with all its implications, where multiple layers of imagery overlap and merge to weave a complex mixture of representation and abstraction. She discovers themes and meaning emerging throughout her working process, preferring the evocative over the literal. Matthiessen holds a MArch, a BArch, and a BFA in painting from Tulane University. She has artwork in the collections of Xavier University and the Whitney Plantation Museum.

03/29/2023

Join us this Saturday for an artist walk through of our new member show at 3 PM! Our new members will walk us through their work and share a bit about their creative practices. Following the walk through will be a performance from our member .watts! This will be the last weekend to see the exhibition. See you there!

03/25/2023

Some detail shots of ’s remarkable sculptures currently up at The Front! Come see them in person this weekend during our gallery hours, 12-5 today and tomorrow.

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03/17/2023

Thank you so much to everyone who came out to our opening last Saturday! If you missed it, we’ll be open tomorrow and Sunday from 12-5, come check out the New Member Show!

Experience the work of member Anderson Funk / in person along with our 11 other new members! Swipe through for some of Anderson’s innovative and singular work!

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Anderson lives in New Orleans Louisiana, where he hosts a radio show on WTUL, organizes impromptu theater, sings in a choir and sleeps. He attended graduate school at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

“My practice follows after influences such as June Jordan and Allan Kaprow. It blurs into my life. I strive to expand realms of possibility by making silly and inscrutable objects, writing through my understanding, and study of/with my surroundings.

I like to work on revealing frameworks, patterns of the “usual”, for two main reasons: a) transcending frameworks is a liberatory practice, in the act of investigating limits I have the chance to see from a broader perspective. b) frameworks function well to facilitate life and when they become visible it is easy to see how much we share and create with every other person, even our “enemy”"

03/09/2023

Join us this Saturday March 11th from 6-10 for our New Member Show! Featuring the gorgeous work of Summer White ( ) and 11 other new members! Swipe through to see more of Summer’s stunning work, and see you this Saturday!

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Summer White is a New Orleans based artist. Her work explores the relationships between memory, instinct, sexuality, plants, myth, and anatomy. Her creations are a place in which objects, people, patterns, flora and fruit become cultivated landscapes of metaphor that strive to reclaim and amplify sensual agency in the body. Though painting is her main medium, she also does photography and set design. Recently, Summer completed a 5 month residency at The Joan Mitchell Center. She procured a BA in Visual Art and Psychology from The Evergreen State College in 2015. In 2019 she participated in The Lucky Art Fair. She has worked as a set designer for a Huemid Haus production of “Getcha Sum'' and “Slice”, a film by Kelsey Scult. She was born and raised in Texas.

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