Prospect.3: Notes for Now

The international contemporary art biennial Prospect New Orleans returns this fall with its third installment, Prospect.3: Notes for Now, on view October 25, 2014, until January 25, 2015, across New Orleans.

The three-month exhibition will showcase the work of more than fift y leading contemporary artists from around the globe, including established greats like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ed Clark, Alma Thomas, and Paul Gauguin, as well as notable emerging figures such as Hew Locke, Pieter Hugo, and Pushpamala N.

Franklin Sirmans, the Terri and Michael Smooke Department Head and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is serving as the artistic director for Prospect.3: Notes for Now. The biennial will take place at eighteen venues across the city and offer a number of commissioned, site-specific projects. Many projects engage in some way with New Orleans’s unique culture and offer distinctive interpretations of the city, both past and present.

In addition to showing their work, many artists will be invited to participate in a myriad of educational and public programs. A fully illustrated catalog, featuring documentation of P.3 and essays on the exhibition, will also be produced.

As part of its mission to support the local arts community, Prospect New Orleans has implemented a satellite program for each biennial edition, this year rechristened P.3+. This program highlights concurrent exhibitions and arts events featuring local artists during the opening weekend and throughout the course of the biennial. P.3+ Regional takes this concept a step farther, showcasing local artists in Baton Rouge, Hammond, and Lafayette.

pieter hugo Shaun Oliver, Cape Town, 2011 C-print, 127 × 102 cm

copyright © Pieter Hugo, courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town, and Yossi Milo, New York

pushpamala n. and clare arni Lakshmi (after oleograph from Ravi Varma Press, early twentieth century) from the photo-performance project Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, Bangalore, 2000–2004 type C print on metallic paper and sepia-toned gelatin silver print on fiber paper, 24 × 20 in.

pushpamala n. and clare arni Yogini (after Deccani [Bijapur school] miniature painting, ca. sixteenth century) from the photo-performance project Native Women of South India: Manners and Customs, Bangalore, 2000–2004 type C print on metallic paper, 24 × 20 in.

hew locke For Those in Peril on the Sea, 2011 mixed media installation of approximately seventy boats, 5 × 19 m Saint Mary & Saint Eanswythe’s Church, Folkestone Triennial 2011

photo by Indra Khanna

hew locke Chinese Imperial Gold Loan 3, 2013 acrylic ink on historic company stock certificate, 50 × 40 cm

photo by Charles Robinson, courtesy Hales Gallery, London

ed clark Louisiana Red, 2004 acrylic on canvas, 67 × 72 in.

courtesy N’Namdi Contemporary Fine Art, Miami

ed clark Vertical Pink and Blue, 2006 acrylic on canvas, 84 × 72 in.

courtesy N’Namdi Contemporary Fine Art, Miami

pieter hugo Outside Noupoort, 2013 C-print, 105 × 139 cm

copyright © Pieter Hugo, courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town, and Yossi Milo, New York