Current Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: September 13th - October 5th, 2025

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13th, 6-9 pm

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

In her first solo show at Staple Goods Gallery, Audra Kohout looks back at years of her work to re-examine and reflect, to create an awakening, a return of the self, a Resurrection. While exploring themes of identity, duality, sexuality, birth and death, spirituality, memory and gender, Resurrection forever captures yet another moment of the transitory states of life experience. It is a record of time, time past, time present, time to come and time gone.

Audra Kohout (she/her) is a mixed media assemblage artist and designer from Covington, GA. She works and lives in New Orleans, where she has established a large number of collectors. She has spent the last 25 years showing in various galleries throughout the United States while working as a designer at Floor 13 Furniture where she sets the stage! Working with 3D mixed media materials such as horse hair, beeswax, dirt, string and bones, she incorporates antique objects like porcelain doll parts, watches, pulleys and such which still retain the human energy of the past. She continues her curiosity into the complexities of the human psyche. Inspired and influenced by the uniqueness of the city, she is drawn to the energy, architecture, cemeteries and antique stores where she gathers the magical objects for her work, what she refers to as “the art of collecting”.

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