2019 exhibitions
Pictured: “Magic Seed”
Friendswithyou
Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III
In tandem with the Rainbow City installation in the newly completed Shreveport Common Park, the nationally acclaimed FriendsWithYou creative group will tell their story on the walls of artspace and give a behind the scenes look at what it takes to create large-scale installations like Rainbow City. FriendsWithYou are also the creators of the Netflix Orginal Series, Tru and the Rainbow Kingdom!
Pictured: “Purple Felton”
Still photography: 40 Years of personal works by neil johnson
Neil Johnson
Renowned local photographer and writer Neil Johnson takes over the coolspace gallery of artspace to showcase rarely seen images from his personal work, with accompanying essays, that narrate a story of his journey in photography.
Pictured: “The Wild One” by James Akers
Summer of GlasS: The texas contemporary glass show
Curated by Eric Hess
An installation of the Texas Contemporary Glass Exhibition comes to the mainspace gallery of artspace this summer! Works of over 40 artists, in a wide variety of glass sculpting techniques, will be on display. This exhibition is curated by Eric Hess, local glass artist and international Stanislav Libenský Award winner.
Pictured: work from the Family Portrait Series
As night spills into day
Nick Bustamante
Artist Nick Bustamante exhibits his surrealistic multimedia drawings and paintings in a 6 week long solo show. His work explores the spaces we know and love, and feel comfortable in, as well as the wild outdoor expanse.
Critical Mass 7
Ann Hackett - Visual Critic
Manuel Mendoza - Performance Critic
Lauren Smart - Performance Critic
David Ulin - Literary Critic
Robert Pincus - Curator of Critics
Our annual open-entry exhibition, showcasing a critical mass of local artistry.
Linda Dickson Moss - Visual Winner
Carolyn Breedlove - Literary Winner
Michael Futreal - Performance Winner
On the Margins: an on the wall experience
Jeormie Journell and Ben Moss
Northwest Louisiana artists Ben Moss and Jeromie Journell have been chosen to take on the walls of artspace in the second ever On The Wall exhibition.
Pictured: “Bouton”
Seizing the light
Tamara Robertson
Robertson’s most recent solo exhibiton features works made of a repetition of recognizable individual elements which result in an unfamiliar new object, ranging from discarded firecracker tubes to soda pop caps, to buttons, to scrap hardware.