Artist Info
Colin Roberson
Colin Roberson (b.1988 New Orleans) studied photography at Louisiana State University, BFA 2012. Most recently, his work has appeared in Picture Newspaper, Juxtapox Magazine, The FADER, and The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Roberson volunteers at the collectively run New Orleans Community Printshop, where screen printing and silver gelatin darkroom skills are taught to neighborhood youth and printing facilities are made available to the public. He became interested in the sex economy when his ex-lover returned from a summer in Provincetown with tales of life as a rent boy and a nascent craving for meth. To allay judgment and gain insight, Colin began performing as a go go dancer, seeking nocturnal passions in the French Quarter. In Fall 2017, Roberson begins MFA candidacy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Elena Ricci
Ricci is a photographer living and working in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work is based on achieving a sense of place, focusing on the interaction between spaces and objects, and the stories these relationships tell. Ricci’s work primarily spotlights the American south but she travels far and often for both commissioned and personal projects. Clients include Garden and gun Magazine, New Orleans Magazine, and New West Records of Burbank, California. Selections of her personal projects have most recently been displayed at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Louisiana State Museum.
Jono Goodman
Jono Goodman was born in Shreveport, LA and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (2005) from Louisiana State University. Thereafter, he was granted a Professional Printers Certificate (2006) from the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, NM and later went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts (2010) from the San Francisco Art Institute. Goodman’s use of layer and color arrangement, technique exploration, and constant reformatting of his work allows him to say engaged in a project while assisting in creating an image that is completely satisfying. These essentials along with other conventional elements are the leading vehicle for translating his inner vision and relating it to the viewer.
Richard McCabe
Richard McCabe was born in Mildenhall, England and grew up in the American South. He received an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University in 1998. That same year he received a fellowship to the American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar at New York University. Over the last 17 years he has lived and worked in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana. His art has been exhibited in numerous Galleries and Museum throughout the
United States. Mr. McCabe works primarily in photography, painting, and installation art. Currently, Mr. McCabe is the Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Christopher Johnson a.k.a SAME
Born and raised in Manhattan, NY, Christopher Johnson, aka SAME. Founder of the infamous Peter Pan Posse, and most recently known as the “Koons Vandal” for his performance at the Whitney Museum. Johnson had several solo fine art shows in NYC in the past year. His career is eclectic; from releasing a book of recent works with his art collective, “Support, Therapy, and Instability”, to painting the Metallica Stage and Hall of Fame and Ace Hotel, to rapping in the well known, hilarious group Team Facelift, to creating works for designers such as Juicy, Converse, and Hermes. Chris’ diverse background shows in the intensity and vibrancy of his paintings.