November 14 - December 6, 2026
Gallery open hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5pm & by appointment (reach out to an artist)
Programming This Month
Saturday November 14th, 6-10pm
Opening Reception, Second Saturday
Sunday November 15th, 1pm
Wound Work with Benjamin Miller — How can Chiron and tarot help us tend to our wounds?
In both astrology and mythology, Chiron invites us to enter into relationship with the unique pattern of wounding that each of us experiences throughout a lifetime. Benjamin Miller will be facilitating a workshop regarding the astrological symbolism of Chiron and its relation to our daily life. Tarot will also be utilized to support the interactive element of this workshop. Curiosity is suggested, but no prior knowledge of tarot or astrology is required.
Room 1
Benjamin Miller, Chiron's Song, mixed media on paper, 9 x 11 inches, 2026
Benjamin Miller, The Roar of KeeNing, mixed media on paper, 9 x 11 inches, 2026
Chiron’s Song
drawings by Benjamin Miller
I made these drawings while befriending the symbols of blood and Chiron, exploring their relation to the wounds that we all carry. What sounds are uttered by the song of blood? What is learned within the wound? If a wound will not go away, what is it like to be in relationship with it, to listen to it, and care for it? These are a few of the questions that have circulated the rivers of feeling from which these drawings flowed.
I utilize my creative practice as a way to create a space in which contradictions are sewn together. Beauty and disgust. Love and horror. Acceptance and rejection. Songs and screams. They use paints, pencils, poems, and performance to give voice to the heart, bones, blood, and emotional viscera of the human experience. Their creative play is often guided by the contemplation: "If you could ask the flesh a question, what would it say?"
Room 2
E Marshall, Soft Tick (detail), mixed media textile, 6 x 8 inches, 2026
E Marshall, Stomach (detail), soft sculpture, 12 x 12 inches, 2026
E Marshall, Tick (detail), mixed drawing materials on paper, 8 x 11 inches, 2026
E Marshall, Intermolecular, marker and pen on paper, 8 x 11 inches, 2025
HEADSHOT BY Tyler Russell
Intermolecular Forces
E Marshall
This show includes work from two years of traveling and road trips. I am exploring attraction and repulsion to bodies. Human, animal, insect and arachnid bodies.
E Marshall lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. They work across several mediums including drawing, painting, sewing and installations. Their work explores ideas of mental space-scapes and parallel universes using bold imagery and lots of color. Loves to scribble.
Rooms 3 & 4
BACKYARD
READY!UPICK!
Sage Franz
Sage Franz is a visual artist working primarily with latex paint on canvas and wood and creating mostly large-scale outdoor signage and murals over the last 5 years. Being self taught starting in summer 2017, her work with this medium has found a unique style in a concentrated color palette with minimal abstract expressionist compositions. Her large scale murals can be found in many public community garden sites around the city including Speakeasy farm, Okra Abbey, Paradigm gardens and at Common Ground Relief in the lower ninth ward. Previously she had show openings at NIKKI gallery in Arabi, and two locations of Hey Cafe. The work has centered around themes related to climate change, renewable energy, and the swamp landscapes of Southwest, LA. As a continuous resident of New Orleans since pre Katrina 2005, she is interested in the ways that public art and signage can contribute beauty to the neighborhoods in New Orleans and beyond most adversely impacted by climate change.
Portfolio of work can be found on instagram @_sage_franz
BUILDING EXTERIOR
Fully Dressed
Christine Crook & Pete Fields
So here we are again. This is a house, and these are its clothes. If you are reading this, maybe you‘re paying attention and you’ve noticed the second installment of our adornment to this building we call The Front, an art gallery, an artist collective, a home. This time around, we got louder, more riotous, and decided to offer a full-throttle celebration of this special house, a house that welcomes everyone and offers a place to show and see the art we create in New Orleans.
Or maybe you didn’t notice this building enough before. Maybe the paint color isn’t bright enough, or maybe you just didn’t see a sign letting you know that this is The Front. The old sign had faded and peeled, and the new sign got painted over, and we wanted to make sure you saw this building again. So we dressed it up. And when I say dressed, I mean Fully Dressed, like a New Orleans po-boy, with everything on it, slathered in Duke’s, piled high with lettuce, pickles, and tomatoes. Because the secret ingredient is always more.
This work celebrates The Front, celebrates local art, and celebrates community. It was created by me, Christine Crook, and my husband, Pete Fields. This house has nurtured our creativity and our friendships. It has been a place where we have made things, seen things, met people, laughed, gathered, and become part of something bigger. The Front is a part of our story, and we want to give something back to this house that gave to us.
So here it is, wilder and more untamed. Visibly, it looks like us...our hands, our ideas, our stuff, our particular brand of excess...but it is for you, and it is for The Front. I hope on a Tuesday afternoon the sun catches it just right, throws a little sparkle in your eyes, and makes you stop in your tracks and say, “Hello there, house. You’re looking pretty fine all dressed up like that.” And then I hope you get curious about what’s happening behind those walls and think to yourself, “I better go find out.”
You might also be thinking, “Where’d all this shit come from?”
Well, I gathered the piles. The costumes that have been worn and worn again. The piles of artwork from exhibitions past, some of it already transformed, recycled, resurrected, and turned into countless new versions of itself. The bits and bobs that get tucked away into plastic tubs because surely, someday, I will need them again, and then somehow “someday” becomes years. And you start thinking, fuck… I need to get these things out of my house! They need to get out, stretch their legs, breathe a little, and have another life. So I gathered them up and put them to work on this house. I reused the patchwork panels that adorned The Front last September, which had already been made from recycled materials themselves. Much of what you see here has had a life before this one. Nothing is really new. It has just been rearranged, remixed, dressed up, and given another chance to be seen.
And it’s a party. It’s a celebration.
The images and drawings are Pete’s. They come from the iconic figures that have populated his countless sketchbooks — characters that seem to live somewhere between his imagination, this neighborhood, this gallery, and the particular buzzard that lives somewhere within his soul. They are also about this place: The Front, the Bywater, New Orleans, the people who make this community what it is. And they are the sky, the sun, the moon, the stars, and all of it together on this house.
Everything has been gathered here for The Front to adorn it, to let it be seen, to let it shine and shout “I’m here! Come see me! Come gather. Come drink. Come sing. Come marvel at the work that pours off my walls. Come recognize that you need me. I am a house that celebrates art. A house that welcomes artists and people who love art and people who are just curious about what the hell is going on. I am unpretentious and unjudgmental. I am not concerned with price tags or prestige, with what is fashionable or marketable, or with making art behave. I am here for the making of it. The showing of it. The seeing of it. The talking about it. The drinking and gathering and arguing and laughing and making something new because somebody saw something here that made them want to make something, too. I am The Front. Come on in.”
Christine Crook is a costume, installation, and performance artist based in New Orleans. Her wildly strange creations emerge as she diverges from a long-established career in costume design for theatre, opera, and dance. Through this divergence, she experiments with abstract costumes, textures, structures, and installations that draw on and reimagine her practice in stage design and the world-building traditions of the theatre. Crook uses her art to offer poetic interpretations of emotion, story, and place through costume and other visual forms. Her studio work is inspired by traditions in drag, folk art, the occult, and global masquerade. These influences are often blended through an eccentric, campy visual language that playfully embraces transformation, theatricality, and the absurd. @christineandthecrook
Pete Fields is a musician, visual artist, and educator currently living in New Orleans, Louisiana. He considers himself a community-based artist, interpreting and recycling the sights and sounds of his environment through simple & cheap art forms such as comics, graffiti, and folk music. Growing up in San Francisco's Mission district neighborhood in the 80's and 90's Pete's world was shaped heavily by the vibrant street culture, ethnic diversity, and political action of his parents and friends. Most transformational to him at this time was the cross pollination of creative forces at play in the neighborhood around him. Punk rock music, soap box derbies, old time fiddle, underground comix, sign painting, latin jazz, bernal hill...all stimulated his artistic nature and showed him the possibilities of forming a strong community through art. Pete’s natural curiosity about people and the world around him continues to fuel his creative practice. Since making New Orleans his home, he has embraced the city and its communities, using music and art to connect with others, explore new ideas, and bring people together. @slowmocowboys