LSU School of Art, other groups putting on Invisible events

• Advocate News Features staff
• Published: Nov 1, 2009

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The LSU School of Art is collaborating with the Capital Area United Way, LSU’s Readers and Writers series  and the LSU Student Union Art Gallery Committee in a series of exhibition events dealing with Invisible Populations Friday, Nov. 6-Dec. 4.

All shows are free and open to the public.

Invisible Populations in Art will show in two venues: the United Way Offices, 700 Laurel St.; and the Atrium in the Design Building on the LSU campus. United Way hours are 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Atrium hours are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Friday.

This two-part exhibition will feature 42 educational panels showing how visual artists from Renaissance Europe to present-day Baton Rouge have used their powers to make populations living on the fringes of society visible, to encourage social change and to inspire hope. A digital billboard installed along with the panels will provide audiences with the opportunity for multi-media interactivity.

These shows are curated by LSU art history students and Professor Darius Spieth.

Also, the LSU School of Art will be showing Notes from the Artistic Underground in Foster Hall Gallery on the LSU campus. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. There also will be a reception 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6.

The show is a survey of Louisiana “lowbrow,” street, or underground art, including painting, sculpture and fashion design, highlighting the diversity of influences on the genre ranging from cartoons, youth culture, graffiti and hot rods to surrealism. Participating artists include Charles Barbier, Matt Bourgeois, Patrick Brabham, Demond, Marc Fresh, Brad Jensen, Ryan Jetten, Jonathan “feral opossum” Mayers, Hunter Roth, Christopher Smith and Alan Watson. 

And in the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St., the exhibits Photographs by Deborah Luster with C.D. Wright, Featuring Works from One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana and Tooth for an Eye: A Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish will show Nov. 14-Dec. 13. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

As the Alfred C. Glassell Jr. School of Art Endowed Lecturer for 2009, C.D. Wright will give a reading of her poems at 5 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Old State Capitol Building.

Juxtaposing portraits of prisoners, urban landscapes and poetry, photographer Deborah Luster and writer C.D. Wright collaborated in this exhibition project to create awareness for the realities of incarceration and street violence. Their images and words reveal an aspect of existence on the fringes of society that is far removed from the distorted and often romanticized notions projected by the media.

With 13 collections under her belt, Wright is no lightweight in the poetry arena. Her latest collection, Rising, Falling, Hovering, was the international winner of the ninth annual Griffin Poetry Prize.

Wright is the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University.

Opening for Wright will be the 2009 All City All Star Poetry Slam Team of DeAndre Hill, Daniel Richard, Taylor James, Christin Rankins, Chase Chenevert and Myeshia Carter.