Gulf Coast Artists at La Napoule
Selected Artist Overviews
Session I : February 6 – April 4, 2007
Artists’ bios
Elizabeth Bick
Elizabeth Bick is a conceptual documentary photographer. 'The Sacred', completed in New Orleans in 2005, is a noted body of work surrounding themes of divine intervention and possession. 'The Sacred' has been on exhibit at national galleries, including Soren Christensen, New Orleans, Gallery 0506, Miami, Museum of Cultural Art, Houston, and The Hewitt Gallery, New York. Her work also received media attention from The Gambit, Miami Herald, New Orleans Magazine, Gallery Insider Magazine and Artnews. Her current body of work juxtaposes photographic narratives of taxi drivers and street prostitutes in New York.
Website : www.elizabethbick.com
Shawn Hall
Shawn Hall received her MFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she was a Patricia Harris Fellow. She was awarded a studio residency at School 33 in Baltimore. Exhibitions include the Contemporary Art Center, Barrister’s and Jonathan Ferrara in New Orleans, Wolfson Gallery at Miami Dade, N.A.M.E. and Christopher Stokes in Chicago. Her work has been reviewed in Art Papers, New Art Examiner, and Dialogue. She is a frequent collaborator, most recently as a set designer of the Obie award winning “Nita and Zita”.
Website : www.shawnhall.org
Chris Jahncke
Chris Jahncke was born in New Orleans 1972, he studied at the Atlanta College of Art for his BFA and then went on to recieve a Louisiana State Fellowship to study at the University of New Orleans where he recieved his Masters. This year, he was selected for two Biennials both the Louisiana Biennial and Homegrown, a biennial of the entire southeast at SouthEastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). He also was included in American Obsessive Drawing, an exhibit in Berlin at Volcker and Freunde.
Website : www.lmcc.net
Christopher Saucedo
Christopher Saucedo was born in Brooklyn, New York where he grew up. He received his BFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts and his MFA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. After Attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture he did post-graduate work at the Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Saucedo has exhibited his artwork throughout the United States and abroad, with recent exhibitions at the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast, The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Missouri and the New Orleans Museum Of art. He has been on the faculty of the University Of New Orleans since 1992 where he heads the sculpture program. Christopher has been awarded access to Johnson Atelier, one of the foremost sculpture studios in the country. Christopher is using this opportunity to recover and restore water-damaged work.
Website : www.saucedostudio.com
Dona Simons
Dona Simons was born and grew up in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. She completed her first oil painting at the age of six. She graduated from Penn Center Academy and went to paint in France. After her first one person exhibition in Boston she attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. There she won juried scholarships, advanced standing and completed all classes in Painting. With the exception of six years spent living on the Caribbean island of Curaçao, Dona Simons has lived and exhibited her work in New Orleans since 1979. She has exhibited and is included in public and private collections in the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. She has done commissions ranging from a portrait of the national hero for the government of Curaçao to undersea paintings for Shell Offshore Inc. in New Orleans. Dona will be included in the next edition of “Who’s Who in American Art”.
