Upcoming Exhibitions:
Fierté de la Louisiane
Group Exhibition at Creative Exchange
Jun 2024 Ruston, LA
Creative Exchange’s annual pride show this year is Fierté de la Louisiana (Louisiana Pride).
On display from June 1st through June 28th, this exhibit is open to LGBTQIA+ artists and allies currently living in Louisiana and those who grew up in Louisiana.
On view from June 1, 2024 to June 28, 2024.
Reception: June 22nd, 12pm – 2pm
Recent Exhibitions:
61st Annual Juried Competition
Juried Group Exhibition at the Masur Museum
Mar 2024 Monroe, LA
The Masur Museum of Art’s Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. First started in 1964, the Annual Juried Competition is the Masur Museum’s longest-running tradition and one of its best-reviewed exhibitions each year. Annually, 700-1000 recent artworks are submitted by artists all over the nation, in all styles and media. The Masur Museum is proud to offer cash awards totaling $3,200.
Sponsored by The Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
Juror: Kerry Inman, Inman Gallery of Houston, TX
Wildflowers
Solo Exhibition at the Alamo Artist Studios
Nov 2023 Lafayette, LA
WILDFLOWERS is an ArtSpark grant project by Lex R. Thomas. This exhibition features live models from within the local LGBT+ community and anonymous responses from attendees during 2023 Pride Acadiana. With their steadfast perseverance, Acadiana queer individuals exemplify a unique beauty that could not have arisen without this combination of their marginalized identities and their heritage. Hopefully this exhibition instills in the viewer an appreciation for this distinctly Acadian subculture at a time when it is actively being repressed.
Sponsored by Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority
Lex R. Thomas and Scott Finch
Duo Exhibition at Frameworks Gallery
Sep 2023 Baton rouge, LA
Duo Exhibition featuring visual artists Lex R. Thomas and Scott Finch.
Scott Finch graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1994 and received his Master of Fine Arts for Painting and Drawing from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in 1996. He regularly exhibits his drawings, collages, and paintings, and is currently completing his third graphic novel, The Domesticated Afterlife, which will be published by Antenna later this year.
Linkrot x LOUDHOUSE
Premiere Group Exhibition & Experimental Performance
Sep 2023 Lafayette, LA
LOUDHOUSE’s debut group exhibition, Link Rot, was held in a private home on University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s campus. Multidisciplinary artists collaborated to transform the house into an immersive walk-through gallery, complete with performance art, sculpture, music, paintings, and culinary attractions which took place over a 5 hour period.
Cur Non
Juried Group Exhibition at the Acadiana Center for the Arts
Jun 2023 Lafayette, LA
AcA has invited artists to respond to the theme of “Cur Non” in order to envision what may come in the next 200 years here in Lafayette Parish and the City of Lafayette. In this phrase AcA invites artists to expand their personal practices to be as audacious as the Marquis.
“Cur Non” will resonate as a statement of the artworks being made at this contemporary moment within the practices of artists in our community. With this prompt, AcA has invited artists to challenge themselves in their craft, to take chances within what they imagine for themselves, and to dwell on the intersection of the many cultures and histories that make up contemporary Lafayette.
Juror: French-Algerian artist & curator Camille Farrah Lenain.
Assez / Enough
Group Exhibition at Basin Arts
Jan 2023 Lafayette, LA
The Human Condition
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Russo
Jan 2023 Lafayette, LA
I investigate the stories of humanity via brushstrokes on canvas – but not the ones which we share with anyone outside our own minds. My figurative paintings inspired by nature echo the emotions that we experience in solitude. By mixing one color at a time and layering them into human forms, creatures, and landscapes, I reveal moments of intimacy, reflection, tragedy, and grief – the human condition.
Eye of the Beholder
Juried Group Exhibition at the Lafayette Art Association Gallery
OCT 2022 Lafayette, LA
From watercolors, to pen and ink, to pottery, to sculpture, and beyond––works of many of Lafayette’s most talented visual artists will be on display for the Lafayette Art Association’s annual open competition and awards.