Marcela Correa Curatorial

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Marcela Correa Curatorial

I am an art enthusiast and independent curator looking to support artists by sharing information and photos about their work.

I'm always interested in connecting with artists (locally, nationally and internationally). Hope you learn about something new.

10/19/2024

Finally went to see the Sand, Ash, Heat: Glass at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Well done ! It’s a beautiful exhibition. If you haven’t already seen it, I recommend taking some time to go and learn a little bit about the history of glass and its evolution around the world. I particularly enjoyed the way it showed how glass became a part of the artistic culture and all of the local connections to New Orleans.

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11/16/2023

Radcliffe Bailey

You’ve left an indelible mark in the art world. I will cherish the moments we shared talking about art and life.

04/20/2023

Exciting News! I am thrilled to announce that I am a member of Ogden Museum’s Magnolia Ball Committee this year. Join us on June 10, 2023 to celebrate Knowing Who We Are: A 20th Anniversary Exhibition. This exciting annual event supports the Museum’s educational mission, including exhibitions and award-winning programming. Magnolia Ball is one of my favorite events of the year with after-hours gallery access, live entertainment, local cuisine and silent auction items from Southern artists and businesses. Don’t miss out on this festive evening!

Insider tip: Get 50% off Patron tickets for just $100 each on April 20th at Ogden After Hours or buy online that day. You’ll receive free admission to the concert that evening plus a free drink ticket too! Learn more and grab your tickets now!

01/17/2023

If you were unable to make the opening of the “Collective Thoughts” exhibition at .works, you have the rest of the month to go see it. This is a large juried group exhibition of 23 artists from in Austin, TX, which explores the different themes and mediums within this collective. I am going to do my best to post photos and videos of the work throughout the month. Thank you to Antenna and the team for asking me to be the juror and curator of these works and to the wonderful artists who participated.
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Tammie Rubin
“Always & Forever (forever, ever) No. 16”
pigmented porcelain, underglaze
2022

“Patterns, symbols, maps, and visual codes permeate the exhibition, carved and slip trailed onto Rubin’s conical sculptures of her Always & Forever (forever, ever) Series. The sculptures are conical groupings of power, fraternity, anonymity, pageantry, and belief. The sculptures are porcelain casts of recognizable consumer forms that reference hoods, headdresses, hats, and helmets. From the Ku Klux Klan and the Catholic Brothers of the Nazarene hoods, dunce caps, and wizard hats, to African masks, helmets, and the cone-wearing figures in Hieronymus Bosch's paintings, these intimate ensembles imbue familiarity, uncertainty, and foreboding. The surfaces denote maps, routes, and statistical data that are acts of autonomous movement, escape, and engineered containment of Black Americans.”

12/12/2022

If you’re free tomorrow evening, join and myself for the opening of “From Here and There: An Unbreakable Cultural Bond: 7 Artists from Mexico and the United States of America.”

In celebration of the 200 Anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States of America, the Consulate of Mexico and the Mexican Cultural Institute in collaboration with the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation are pleased to present the art exhibition From Here and There: An Unbreakable Cultural Bond: 7 Artists from Mexico and the United States of America. The opening reception will be held on December 13, 2022, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Art gallery of the Mexican Cultural Institute located at 901 Convention Center Blvd. Ste. 118 New Orleans, LA (entrance through Higgins Street).

The history of the diplomatic relationships between Mexico and the United States of America started in 1822 and has a long complex social, economic, and diplomatic context. Historically culture exchange as a universal language, has been one of the most effective diplomatic means to find common ground between nations. This phenomenon has been a continuing narrative that has shaped not only the present relationship between both countries but their perception of each other through the eyes of their most valuable asset, their artists.

The exhibition From Here and There: An Unbreakable Cultural Bond curated by Belinda Flores-Shinshillas MA Ed and Marcela Correa MA, will present the work of seven Mexican and American artists that share the indebtedness of their creative journey to Mexico. Each artist expresses their identity through diverse mediums and viewpoints finding common ground in a shatterproof ongoing cultural exchange. Charles Lovell (USA), Michael Alford (USA), Carmen Mariscal (Mexico-USA), Belinda Flores-Shinshillas (Mexico-USA), Hugo Crosthwaite (Mexico-USA), José Villalobos (Mexico-USA), and Enrique Alferez (Mexico-USA) exemplify the creative journey these artists from both countries share and how they look at Mexico for constant inspiration.

10/13/2022

As the end of Hispanic Heritage Month approaches, I wanted to do another post to highlight the second exhibition I curated at the Mexican Cultural Institute of New Orleans.

"CALLADITA TE VES MÁS BONITA / BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP" works by CARMEN MARISCAL

Mexican Cultural Institute of New Orleans
901 Convention Center Blvd., Suite 118
March 21, 2019 - June 28, 2019

“Calladita te ves más bonita / Be Pretty and Shut Up” is an exhibition highlighting Carmen Mariscal’s new body of work, which brings to light the ongoing difficulties that women face or have faced in their lives by not being able to share their voice. Specifically, it showcases how society, either consciously or unconsciously, imposes silence or does not allow women to speak openly about certain things, like abortion, sexuality, political opinions, and more.

The body of works in this exhibition use a variety of mediums to address the gender inequality issues relevant today, as well as bringing an interactive component within the community of the exhibition’s location. In this case, a selection of five women dealing with social issues in New Orleans were brought in to participate in her ongoing series titled, Calladita te ves más bonita, comprised of impressions and statements from over eighty women around the world. Each woman was asked to put on their favorite shade of lipstick and create lip impressions on a piece of paper. The impressions were then sewn shut, reminding us that women’s voices, opinions and feelings are meant to be kept quiet. From the larger selection of eighty lip marks or “portraits”, as Mariscal states, she chose five lip marks to print in large format and “sew shut” to remind the viewer how the behaviors imposed on girls and women by society are omnipresent, consciously or unconsciously.

[Full press release and video interview of the artist will be available to view on my website.]

10/06/2022

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, I wanted to share a little post from the first exhibition I curated at the Mexican Cultural Institute in New Orleans.

“Hispanic Women Making Art: Creative Empowerment & Identity” was a group show of six artists originally or descended from Mexico, Chile, and Puerto Rico. This exhibition explored how six female artists view different themes and narratives related to identity and empowerment as Hispanic women. From exploring one’s heritage and sense of place, either through examining oneself, colonial past or through the similarities
between two very different “homes”; to the way in which one processes pain; to the exploration of the female body and gender constructs; to the uncertainty of safety as a woman and an immigrant in the current political climate. This exhibition sought to
give these artists a voice, even if on a micro level, to an ongoing gender inequality issue.

Thank you to the six wonderful artists (Verónica Bapé, Belinda Flores-Shinshillas, Anna Hernandez, Josephine Sacabo, Laura Velez, and Luba Zygarewicz), the Mexican Cultural Institute at the Mexican Consulate, and the New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation.

Swipe to view some of the works that were part of the exhibition.

09/24/2022

It’s the last day to view “Body Politics: Celebrating Ardeshir Mohasses’ Legacy in Art & Politics,”at .

Thank you to and for sharing this artist’s work with the New Orleans community.

“Ardeshir Mohassess (1938-2008) was a prolific, influential and internationally renowned Iranian artists. He graduated from the University of Tehran with a degree in Political Science in 1962 and soon became a full-time illustrator. Best known for his drawings, his cartoons and illustrations have appeared in various publications, including Keyhan-e Hafteh and Tehran Journal, as well as The New York Times and The Nation. Works of Ardeshir Mohassess have been shown in notable venues such as Musée d’Art Moderne and Asia Society Museum, they have been acquired by prestigious collections such as the Library of Congress and Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, and they have adorned the pages of more than ten books. Ardeshir Mohassess has influenced many Iranian cartoonists and illustrators, making it impossible to consider the tradition of drawing and figurative painting in Iran without him. His career spanned over half a century, a century with decisive turns in Iran’s socio-political environment.”

09/20/2022

Happy 95th birthday !! Thank you for being such a generous and inspiring artist. Your legacy is truly remarkable and I’m honored to have witnessed part of this first hand. Here is a blast from the past when I helped out in the studio in 2009. I hope that I continue to do something I truly love well into my 90s. 🎉🎈🎂

09/12/2022

Made it to some of the St. Claude galleries today. Here are some photos from a few of those exhibitions.

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