Current Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: July 12th - August 3rd, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 12th, 6-9 pm

Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays, 12-5 pm, except for Second Saturdays when hours are 6-9 pm.

Paintings of old cars and roadside images of New Orleans have assembled for Price of Nostalgia to commemorate the upcoming 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. The series also explores collective sense of direction, and meanings of global citizenship through symbols of American nostalgia. Visible modifications took place in the city since 2005, but significant wear and tear remain out of necessity and will. Nostalgia bonds strangers and stifles progress at the same time. While constant dissonance swirls in the wind, handsome gas guzzlers dream of distant cousins lost in the flood.

Kaori Maeyama is a member of Staple Goods collective, and an urban landscape painter based in New Orleans. Her work focuses on decay and isolation of the mundane, where brayers and squeegees apply and subtract thin layers of tonal oil paint to create atmospheric visual noise and illusion of tactile humidity. She worked as a focus puller and a digital audio editor before devoting herself to analog image making, and the subaquatic city blues continue to persuade how and what she paints today.

Connections: Staple Goods 10th Anniversary Exhibition Catalog

Exhibition catalog commemorates the collective’s 10th anniversary exhibition, Connections (May 2021), and is available for $5.

Text by Amy Mackie. Book Design by Tiffany Lin. Printed at Paper Machine. Curated by Laura Richens.

Participating Artists: Minka/Thomasine, Aaron Collier, Robyn Denny, William DePauw, Abe Geasland, Daniel Kelly IV, Kristina Knipe, J Knoblach, Norah Lovell, Kaori Maeyama, Anne Nelson, Jack Niven, Laura Richens, Cynthia Scott, Sadie Sheldon, Lorna Williams