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, blood, and various other mediums to patina their photographs. They experiment in moving pictures and created the first movie shot with a plastic Holga camera consisting of 1,944 frames. In addition, they have experimented with music and imagery with the series, Resonantia, which includes a vinyl album and imagery containing all 12 musical notes using a generator and spectrometer to visualize the images.
Since they began professionally showing in 2004, they have been in over 55 exhibitions 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 of their images were acquired by the George Eastman House for an exhibit that traveled the world through 2010. They had their first solo museum exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans 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.
SOLO SHOWS
2019 RetroActive, Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, March
2018 Heretic, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, December
2016 Resonantia, A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, March
Untitled, Verve Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, September
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
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
2018 New Southern Photography, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, October
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
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
PRESS
A great write up on NPR's Science Friday
The New Republic commissioned us for a crazy story about murderous sounds
Geoffrey Koslov gets relevant with an insightful commentary on Resonantia
Aline Smithson did a very nice write up for Lens Scratch about Resonantia
A nice bit from Burnaway on the B-Sides show in San Francisco Here
We were in the Critical Mass top 50 in 2015 for Resonantia
Resonantia is featured in GUP magazine #49
We were in Square Magazine # 604 for our Resonantia series
D. Eric Bookhardt reviews Resonantia for the Gambit
Paige Goodpasture interviews us about Resonantia for The Creative Habit
The New Orleans Advocate reviews Resonantia
Photographer/filmmaker Dave Anderson
paid us a visit one day
Our new book, The Oblivion Atlas, and the photo exhibition reviewed
Our Ogden Museum show reviewed
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