Following an unprecedented pandemic year, the heightened visibility of health inequity throughout the nation has elevated concerns about mental and physical well-being, the industrialization of medical practices, disease, illness, and (dis)/ability.
Featuring multimedia artworks from 36 Gulf South artists, the CAC’s annual Open Call exhibition offers a deeply personal portrayal of artists’ experiences with health and illness, and the reverberating impact on the life, body, and psyche of the individual and their community.
Artemis Antippas was born in 1985 in New Orleans, Louisiana to an abstract painter mother and an art dealer father. Antippas attended American University, where she received her BA in Public Communications and Art History. She has shown her work in galleries and museums throughout the country including the Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts (Grand Rapids, MI), Treat Gallery (New York City), Katzen Arts Center (Washington, DC), and The Dairy Center of the Arts (Boulder, CO). Locally, Antippas has exhibited throughout Louisiana at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Contemporary Arts Center, McNeese State University, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, Barrister’s Gallery, LeMieux Gallery, and multiple Prospect satellite exhibitions. Being born in New Orleans and growing up in an art-centric family have both been strong influences in Antippas’ artistic approach and daily practice.
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Jan Arrigo is an award winning New Orleans area visual artist and writer exhibiting nationally at venues including Soho Photo (NYC), Center for Photography (Monterey, CA), The Griffin Museum of Photography, S.E. Center for Photography, (Greenville, S.C.), The Center for Fine Art Photography, (Ft.Collins, CO), South x Southeast Photo Gallery, (Molina, GA), Artworks Gallery, (Austin, TX), Brickworks Gallery, (Atlanta, GA), T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Museum, (Pensacola, FL) the CAC and The New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery. In 2019 she won 2nd place at the St. Tammany Art Association Gallery’s National Juried Artists Exhibition curated by LouAnne Greenwald, Executive Director of the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her Photo Nola show “Jan Arrigo: The Corpse is the Wax Museum” was held over from 2016 to 2017. Photo publications include: A Photo Editor, L’oeildelaphotographie, Country Roads and The Times Picayune. She received a BA in Communications from Loyola University, studied art history at CUNY, photography at ICP and painting at The Art Student’s League in New York. She’s authored several books about New Orleans and contributed to The American Art Book (Phaidon) and The Encyclopedia of Sculpture (Routledge), among others.
Abdul Aziz, a freelance New Orleans-based photojournalist brings a rich background of chronicling imagery of global communities, from the Middle East to Africa, Asia, and the United States to his work. He has worked in documentary filmmaking worldwide for over 2 decades chronicling social issues related to race, exploitation of indigenous cultures, and unfair labor practices. His most recent work has focused on the resurgence of White Supremacy in the United States and the Movement for Black Lives. He was recently named Documentary Photographer of the year by The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and is a contributor to publications such as the New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Micaela Rianne Cadungog is a multidisciplinary artist dissecting the dualities of the female body: the conflict between shame and sexualization, the separation of the physical and emotional self, and the association of violence and tenderness. Drawing from her personal experiences, she traces her history of intimacy, her relationships, and their emotional impact. She draws further inspiration from the physical spaces where these relationships develop, particularly the bedroom and other domestic spaces. Her work, consisting of photographs, fiber works, and personal artifacts, attempts to regain comfort within these spaces and to mend the gap between these dualities. Cadungog received her BFA in Photography/Digital Media from the University of Houston. Her thesis show, It Turns Into Memory, was exhibited at Flatland Gallery. In Summer 2019, she was a resident of Project Row House’s Summer Studios Program. She has also shown work in curated group shows with Art League Houston, FLATS, and Hardy & Nance Street Studios. In 2020, she had her first solo show with Alief Art House entitled Intimate Restlessness.
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Anita Cooke moved to New Orleans upon receiving her BFA at Kent State University in Ohio and later earned her MFA at Newcomb/Tulane University. She has taught Ceramics, Drawing and 3-D Design at Tulane University, Loyola, Delgado, Stephen F. Austin State, Western Michigan State, and ceramics out of her studio in New Orleans. Cooke’s 28-foot ceramic mural “LightSounds” can be seen at Western Michigan University. In 2005 Cooke was the recipient of a Louisiana Fellowship Award and in 2017 she was honored by the New Orleans Museum of Art. She has exhibited work extensively in Louisiana at The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the CAC, the New Orleans Art Center, Capitol Park Museum, Carroll Gallery of Tulane University, and the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Nationally she has shown at the Southern Ohio Museum of Art, The Greenwood Arts Center (SC), Reece Museum (TN), Sebastopol Center for the Arts (CA), Georgetown Arts Center (TX), Manifest Gallery (OH), Artfields in Lake City, SC, and the Virginia Quilt Museum (VA) among others. She is a member of the Renegade Artist Collective and Baton Rouge Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art. She is currently working with sewing and fabric, mixed media, drawing and collage.
Stephen Paul Day, a committed modernist romantic, disillusioned with his provincial state of art, began his studies in lithography at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Longing for an existential experience, Stephen flourished in France. In 1985 he was awarded a residency at the Experimental Glass Workshop in New York City. His exhibitions, Kryptonite Lies and Robber Barons, cemented his position as an artist in the city where he remained for the next six years. He had his first solo show in New Orleans at the alternative Bienville Gallery. Since that time he has actively shown with the Arthur Roger Gallery. In 1990 he met his wife Sibylle Peretti and created the collaborative team, Club S+S. Their works together would bring them worldwide as resident artists and with exhibitions in Japan, France Germany and the United States and Mexico. These journeys included two residencies at Wheaton Arts, the Kohler Factory, and at the Freies Museum, Berlin. Their exhibitions included 1822 at the CAC in New Orleans, Diluvial Hood in Berlin , and an unofficial Souvenir Wagon for Prospect 1. They have been awarded many grants including a Joan Mitchell career grant, a Pollack Krasner grant, and a Wharhol Foundation grant.
Kabot + Desmarais is a contemporary art partnership between sculptor Sarah Kabot and artist/architect Marianne Desmarais. Kabot + Desmarais collaborate fully to make sculpture and environments that appear to change as a viewer’s point of view shifts. In previous projects, sources of inspiration included the geometry of knots, fluid dynamics and interference patterns. Their collaborative work is in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Clinic and Westin Hotel.
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As a studio artist, Sarah Kabot has exhibited nationally and abroad, including commissioned works for the Akron Museum of Art (OH), MOCA Cleveland (OH), the Peabody Essex Museum (MA), and the Drawing Center (NY). Kabot has developed site-specific artwork for the Cleveland Clinic (OH) and the West Collection (PA). Recent honors include an Ohio Arts Council Grant and a residency at The Hambidge Center (GA). She currently is the Chair of the Drawing Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. On the K+D team Kabot brings broad knowledge of the art field and administers concept representation and deliverables.
In her art practice, Marianne Desmarais has been invited to residencies at both the Joan Mitchell Center (LA) and the Banff Center, Alberta (CA). Her work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Pelican Bomb, with collaborative work in Azure and FiberArts. Recent solo shows include gather at Staple Goods (LA) and samples + patches, an exhibition at the CAC (LA). She has participated in the Atlanta Biennial (GA) and exhibitions at SCAD (GA), the CAC and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA). Her work has traveled with Imago Mundi for the Benetton Foundation and has been shown in New York (NY), Toronto (CA), Shanghai (CN), and Detroit (MI). At Tulane University Desmarais teaches design studio, prototyping, and technology courses.
Muse Dodd is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Curator and DJ from Severn, MD based in New Orleans. Their work centers on the questions, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse is a Source Studio Fellow and recipient of the Corrina Mehiel Grant. Muse is a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow . A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for
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As a studio artist, Sarah Kabot has exhibited nationally and abroad, including commissioned works for the Akron Museum of Art (OH), MOCA Cleveland (OH), the Peabody Essex Museum (MA), and the Drawing Center (NY). Kabot has developed site-specific artwork for the Cleveland Clinic (OH) and the West Collection (PA). Recent honors include an Ohio Arts Council Grant and a residency at The Hambidge Center (GA). She currently is the Chair of the Drawing Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. On the K+D team Kabot brings broad knowledge of the art field and administers concept representation and deliverables.
In her art practice, Marianne Desmarais has been invited to residencies at both the Joan Mitchell Center (LA) and the Banff Center, Alberta (CA). Her work has been featured in Ceramics Monthly and Pelican Bomb, with collaborative work in Azure and FiberArts. Recent solo shows include gather at Staple Goods (LA) and samples + patches, an exhibition at the CAC (LA). She has participated in the Atlanta Biennial (GA) and exhibitions at SCAD (GA), the CAC and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (LA). Her work has traveled with Imago Mundi for the Benetton Foundation and has been shown in New York (NY), Toronto (CA), Shanghai (CN), and Detroit (MI). At Tulane University Desmarais teaches design studio, prototyping, and technology courses.
Muse Dodd is a Multidisciplinary Artist, Curator and DJ from Severn, MD based in New Orleans. Their work centers on the questions, How do you remember and what do you choose to forget? Through the act of remembering, Muse uses their body to map the lived experience of Africans in America. Muse channels trauma to connect with, process and alchemize pain; both personal and collective through movement, ritual and collective dreaming. Muse holds a BA in Film Production from Howard University and studied at the Film Academy in Prague. Muse is a Source Studio Fellow and recipient of the Corrina Mehiel Grant. Muse is a 2019-2020 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellow and was the 2019 DCAC Curatorial Fellow . A former Artist-in-Residence at the Flux Factory, they were also a 2018 Artist-in-Residence at the ARoS Museum in Denmark. Muse video work has been commissioned for
