The Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery is devoted to the presentation of national and regional exhibitions of contemporary art, lectures and workshops. The gallery is part of the Visual Art + Design Department and as such provides a forum for contemporary art for students, the city of Hammond and residents of the North Shore.
April 28th – May 14th, 2022
The SLU Contemporary is proud to present works by the Spring 2022 graduating senior class in the Department of Visual Art + Design. The exhibition features multimedia artworks by students Olivia Allen, Delaney Bright, Kaiser Brown, Isabel Costa, Gabrielle Debarbieris, Jared Eaglin, Raiden Ford, Gabrielle Gaspard, Trinity Gibson, Sabrina Gil, Gill Grance, Catherine Hamilton, Evan Hartmann, Karianne Henkel, Devin Meadows, Stephanie Melerine, Nohemi Montelongo, Enrique Monzon, Sabrina Pagoaga, Breanna Parfait, Amanda Payne, Tanner Rapier, Destiny Richardson, Maggie Ritchie, Cedryana Robinson, Khira Rudolph, Briana Sylve, Brittani Thomas, Seth Timmerman, Bailey Weiss, and Hunter Welch. On view is each artist’s capstone project which unfolded over the course of their time as students at Southeastern.
2:00 PM in gallery lecture, ES 100
The SLU Contemporary welcomes Blas Isasi featured artist of “Ecstatic Objects” who will discuss his process behind the intricate works in the exhibition.
4:00 PM, gallery lecture area, ES 100
In the wake of our year(+) of lockdown and of telepresence, Roger Beebe returns to the road with a program of 16mm multi-projector performances. The program features several newer works (Lineage (for Norman McLaren) (2019, 4 x 16mm), de rerum natura (2019, 3 x 16mm + video), Home Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (2021, 4 x 16mm), alongside some of his best-known projector performances (including the seven-projector show-stopping Last Light of a Dying Star (2008/2011)). He will also include a sampling of recent essayistic videos, presented as live-narrated documentaries. These works take on a range of topics from the forbidden pleasures of men crying (Historia Calamitatum (The Story of My Misfortunes)) to the racial politics of font choices (The Comic Sans Video) and the real spaces of the virtual economy (Amazonia).
Contemporary Art Gallery
411 Ned McGehee Drive
Hammond, LA 70402
On campus: East Stadium 100
Tel: (985) 549-5080