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.

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

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