• BIOLOGY

    Louviere+Vanessa's work effectively combines the mediums and nuances of film, photography, painting and printmaking. They utilize Holgas, scanners, 8mm film, destroyed negatives, wax and blood. Since they began professionally showing in 2004, they have been in over 50 exhibits and film festivals in America and abroad. They are included in the collections of the Museum of Art | Houston, the Photomedia Center, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art as well as the film archive for Globians International Film in Potsdam Germany and Microcinema in San Francisco. Six images from the Creature series were acquired by the George Eastman House for an exhibit that traveled the world through 2010. They experiment in moving pictures and have created the first movie shot with a plastic Holga camera consisting of 1,944 frames. L+V were invited to exhibit for the Ballarat Photography Biennale. They had their first solo museum exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in October 2012, followed by a solo show at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida.

     

    Jeff Louviere is from New Orleans, Vanessa is from upstate New York and they met each other in Savannah, Georgia. Jeff graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design during which he and 3 other artists created the world’s largest painting, a 76,000 square foot image of Elvis which was included in the Guinness Book of World Records. Vanessa began photographing at age 12 and won a Kodak International Award of Excellence in Photography when she was 17. She almost became a pro race car driver but instead, she photographed through Italy and Greece before graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Photography.

     

    Louviere+Vanessa’s tableaux vivant series, Slumberland, began in 2003. It is a collection of separate narratives existing as dialogue between the couple. In 2005, they started on their Creature series, a singular story told through many faces and as such the opposite of the Slumberland series. They have a long fascination with themes of duality, and paradox: beauty as horror, creation as destruction, the personal as a universal. Craft and concept are the devices they use to explore the gray zone within those themes.

     

  • EXHIBITIONS

     

    SOLO SHOWS

     

    2016 Verve Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, September

            Resonantia, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, March

    2015 Resonantia, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, September–October

     

    2013 Oblivion Atlas, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, December

    Creatures, D.M. Allison Gallery, Houston, October

    Counterfeit, Candela Gallery, Richmond VA, May

    Coincidence, solo show + lecture, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland FL, January

     

     

    2012 Something Whispered, Something Sung, Art for Arts Sake, Ogden Museum, New Orleans LA, October

     

     

    2011 We’re Wolves, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA,November

    Exquisite Collaborations, Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July

    Counterfeit, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA, May

    As If…, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Melbourne, Australia, August

     

     

    2010 As If…, solo show + lecture, Spiva Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO, July

    Persistence of Vision, solo show + lecture, Washington & Lee University, VA, January

     

     

    2009 Folie á Deux, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA, December

     

     

    2008 Instinct/Extinct, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans Prospect 1, October

     

     

    2007 As If…, solo show, A Gallery for Fine Photography,October

     

     

    2006 Chloroform, Farrington Smith Gallery, New Orleans, LA, December

    Blood & Wonder, Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA

     

     

    GROUP SHOWS

     

    2016 B-Sides, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA, September

     

    2015 A Show of Hands, A1 LabArts, Knoxville, TN, March

     

    2014 Black Forest, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, November

     

    2014 Decisive Moments, Honolulu Museaum of Art, Hawaii

     

    2011 AIPAD Photography showA Gallery for Fine Photography, NYC, April

     

     

    2010 Lightbox Gallery-Portland,OR in conjunction with Diffusion Magazine-July

    AIPAD Photography showA Gallery for Fine Photography, NYC, March

     

     

    2009 AIPAD Photography showA Gallery for Fine Photography, NYC, March

    Carnival, Home Space Gallery, New Orleans

     

     

    2008 Heroes of Horticulture, exhibit at U.S. Botanical Gardens, Washington DC

    AlterNative, screening two recent films, Gallery 2514, New Orleans Prospect 1, October

    AIPAD Photography Show A Gallery for Fine Photography, NYC, April

     

     

    2007 Heroes of Horticulture, George Eastman House, Alison Nordstrom-curator

    Photography Now, 100 portfolios, group show, Wright State University, March

    Sun Pictures to Mega Pixels, group show, WAH Center, NY

    TRACE gallery UK, collectors portfolio, OVERAWE series, England

    Katrina Exposed, Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs

     

     

    2006 Why Look at Animals, George Eastman House, September 2006-2010, traveling

    Holga group show, Photomedia Center, Erie PA, December

    Vision/ReVision, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, Dec January

    Silver Eye Center for Photography, group show, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov February

    Katrina Exposed, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA MaySeptember

    Trace (Visions of Katrina) Houston Center for Photography, group show, Houston TX,September

    Hand in Hand, Minnesota Center for Photography

     

    FILM SCREENINGS

     

    2016 Skeletons, a dance for film, Fall Dance Festival, Ocean Springs, MS

     

    2013 Skeletons, a dance for film, Premiere at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans

     

    2012 Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Five Films

     

     

    2011 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, solo show, Ballarat Australia

     

    2010 Festival International de Vidéo Danse de Bourgogne, screening Dead Weight Night

     

     

    2008 AlterNative, screening two recent films, Gallery 2514, New Orleans — Prospect 1

    Globian International Film Festival, Dead Weight Night, Potsdam and Berlin, Germany

     

     

    2007 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Gravité screening, Montreal

    Passa Porta Festival, screening Repetition Compulsion, Bruxells, Belgium

    Independent Exposure, Screening of From Here On It Got Rough, traveling

    Flicker Festival, Screening of From Here On It Got Rough, NYC

     

     

    2006 filmstock, Gravité world premiere, Luton, England

    Tribeca Film Festival, Rosanne Cash video premiere (holga animation)

     

    2005 Halloweird, Repetition Compulsion screening, Porto, Portugal and San Francisco

    Potsdam International Film Festival, Germany, Repetition Compulsion

    Knitting Factory, NYC, screening of Repetition Compulsion

  • COLLECTIONS

    George Eastman House

     

    Ogden Museum of

    Southern Art

     

    New Orleans Museum of Art

     

    Museum of Fine Arts | Houston

     

    Ford Foundation

     

    Princeton University

     

    Washington & Lee University

     

    Globian International Film Archive, Berlin

     

    PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

     

    Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt

     

    Rosanne Cash

     

    The Benson Family

     

    Bob Villa

     

    Alton Brown

     

    Richard LaGravenese

     

    Dan Pritzker

     

    Andrew Spanswick

     

    Joseph Zammit-Lucia

     

    Julia J. Norrell

     

    James & Cherye Pierce

     

    Kent A. Schaffer