Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
| Occupation | Gallery |
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| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is a collective environment of creative visions; a commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur Jonathan Ferrara opened the gallery in 1998 to give artists a voice. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local, national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message. In recent years, it has gained a national reputation and increasingly presents artists and exhibitions in cities across the US and in Europe including the Miami Project in Miami, the VOLTA Fair in New York City and Basel, Switzerland, artMRKT Houston and San Francisco, as well as, working with museums and institutions. |
| Interests | Kim Alsbrooks, Kathleen Ariatti Banton, Damian Aquiles, Brian Borello, David Buckingham, Hannah Chalew, Mel Chin, Sandy Chism, Michael Combs, Anita Cooke, Matthew Cox, Skylar Fein, Generic Art Solutions (G.A.S.), Bonnie Maygarden, Margaret Munz-Losch, Krista Jurisich, Adam Mysock, Michael Pajon, Gina Phillips, Nikki Rosato, Bob Snead, Dan Rule, Daisuke Shintani, Dan Tague, Sidonie Villere, Paul Villinski, Monica Zeringue, Justin Forbes, Thornton Dial, Jonathan Ferrara, Rieko Fujinami, Diane Hanson, Marcus Kenney, Drew Leshko, Kevin Levine, Ken Matsubara, Ted Riederer, Charlie Varley |
| Favorite Movies | The gallery is known for its stimulating and provocative exhibitions in a wide variety of media. Painting, sculpture, mixed media and installation are the current focus of the gallery's exhibitions. As a curator, producer and promoter, Ferrara has had much success with exhibitions being featured in The New York Times, Time magazine, Art In America, ARTPAPERS, ART News, The Associated Press, ELLE Magazine, NPR and on ABC’s Good Morning America and in numerous other local, national and international publications. Based in New Orleans, the gallery owes its creative stimulus to its environment, but ever strives to spread its message across the country and the world. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery regularly produces traveling exhibitions and brings its unique brand of creative talent on the road. The gallery has produced exhibitions Hungary, New York, Atlanta, Miami, Los Angeles, Wisconsin and St. Louis. In 1996, Jonathan Ferrara and artist Brian Borrello conceived the Guns in the Hands of Artists exhibition in response to the crisis of gun violence in New Orleans. Since 1996, gun violence in New Orleans and America has continued to be a major issue that affects the very fabric of our culture, and in order to to continue the conversation anew, Jonathan Ferrara has worked with the City of New Orleans and has secured 186 guns, taken off the streets by the NOPD gun buy-back program. The guns have been decommissioned and have been distributed to artists to use as the raw materials in their art. The resulting artworks will be exhibited at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in the New Orleans Arts District from October 3, 2014 through January 2015 to coincide with Prospect.3 New Orleans Biennial, the largest biennial of contemporary art in the US, which draws national and international art media, curators and collectors to New Orleans. |
| Favorite Music | The gallery is well known numerous community based projects, including the Annual No Dead Artists juried exhibition, and ARTDOCS, a non-profit program that provides health care to artists. Having started his career at Positive Space The Gallery in 1995, Ferrara has moved into the establishment of New Orleans gallery's and become a fixture on Julia Street's gallery row. The gallery has always been a popular opening night gathering place for artists, collectors and curators alike with thousands attending the monthly openings on the first Saturday of each month. |