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Item Ships From: Louisiana
Ode to Batoni
s Virgin of the Annunciation
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2 APs
Large Size: 36 x 32 inches
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Caravaggio
s Narcissus
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2 APs
Large format: $3,750
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the histor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Gheeraerts
Portrait of Elizabeth I
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2 APs
Large Size: 36 x 23 inches
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to de la Tour
s The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3, 2APs
Large Size: 29.25 x 36 inches
STATEMENT:
e2, a collaboration between New Orleans artists Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien, re-imagines iconic images from th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of a White Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans
Inspired by Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800
Phot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van der Weyden
s Crucifixion
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 4.5 inches - Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck
s Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 11.5 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?), 1433
Photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Raphael
s Bindo Altoviti
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 17 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adam and Steve, Ode to Hugo van der Goes
The Fall of Man
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, 2 APs
Framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In Empathy We Trust. The project presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envision the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, E2’s revisionist Art History works by artists such as van Eyck, Botticelli, Raphael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, Manet and Whistler. Inspired by the original paintings, E2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition, they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project, Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
E2 has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as: Royal Academy of Art (London), Photoville (New York), Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), Museum Castelvecchio (Verona), Galerie SIRIUS (Tokyo), New Orleans Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans). The duo is represented by JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, New Orleans and their work appears in numerous public and private collections, including: Benetton Collection (Treviso, Italy), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Trento, Italy), Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA) and The Marks Collection (Houston).
Elizabeth Kleinveld is an artist and photographer from New Orleans, now based in Amsterdam, who takes her inspiration from Paul Outerbridge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Petrus Christus
Portrait of a Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 12 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Metsys
Moneylenders
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 16 - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in 2013 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Metsys’ Moneylenders, 1514
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Velasquez
s Venus at her Mirror
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 24 inches - Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in Amsterdam in 2011
Inspired by Velasquez’ Venus Looking in Her Mirror, 1647-51
Photography and ac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck
s Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 17.5 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man (Self-Port...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Dyce
s Paolo and Francesca II
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In Empathy We Trust. The project presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envision the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, E2’s revisionist Art History works by artists such as van Eyck, Botticelli, Raphael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, Manet and Whistler. Inspired by the original paintings, E2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition, they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project, Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
E2 has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as: Royal Academy of Art (London), Photoville (New York), Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), Museum Castelvecchio (Verona), Galerie SIRIUS (Tokyo), New Orleans Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans). The duo is represented by JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, New Orleans and their work appears in numerous public and private collections, including: Benetton Collection (Treviso, Italy), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Trento, Italy), Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA) and The Marks Collection (Houston).
Elizabeth Kleinveld is an artist and photographer from New Orleans, now based in Amsterdam, who takes her inspiration from Paul Outerbridge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Aman
s Creole with a Red Headdress
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 17 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In E...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van der Weyden
s Crucifixion
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 10 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
2010s Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to de la Tour
s Penitent Magdalen
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 16 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
Available framing $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In Empathy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van der Weyden
s Portrait of a Lady
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Leutze
s Washington Crossing the Delaware
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
23 x 36 inches - Edition 2 of 3 with 2 APs
Available framing $525
Shot in 2016 in New Orleans, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Remaking Marat
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.5 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in New Orleans in 2011
Inspired by David’s The Death of Marat, 1793
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
From the Pyx Series, Portrait male unraveling
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
From the Pyx series, nude figure unraveling
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Wound Man
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and ceramicist who creates pieces that chemically and conceptually fuse the two medi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
Soaking it all in
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 2/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
My Caliginous Heart
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Amicable
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Digging Your Scene
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Digging Your Scene
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blooming Man
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Blooming Man
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Hold Your Ground
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Just Hanging
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alive in the Dark
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoking Kills
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Smoking Kills
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Alive in the Dark
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
In The Air
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Together
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Together
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Picasso
s
Portrait of Dora Maar
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Dora Maar", 1937
Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs
“Ode to Picasso’s 'Dora Maar’' is a self-portrait of E2 artist Elizabeth Kleinveld as the photographer and artist Dora Maar. Kleinveld was drawn to this particular image of Maar while grieving the death of her father in 2021; she was captivated by the sadness that seems to ooze from the canvas, how the sitter’s melancholia is obscured by the playful color contrast. For E2’s remake, artist E.Paul Julien painted directly over the photographic print of Kleinveld, emphasizing the masking of grief.
The artists say of their work...
"Everything Changes, the latest phase of our ongoing series In Empathy We Trust, presents odes to iconic images from the Modern and Contemporary art periods. Our artistic process during Everything Changes was heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inescapable upheaval brought about by this once-in-a-lifetime event. This major societal shift alongside ongoing social unrest compelled us to further explore the distorted realities permeating American culture and, consequently, veiling oppression of marginalized communities. With lockdown restrictions disrupting our usual process of gathering for photoshoots, we also began playing with new approaches for our work. As a result, our latest iteration marks a new technique exploration, with completely over-painting atop of select prints, adding an additional layer of distortion to an already-altered reality.
The title for this show takes inspiration from one of our favorite Frida Kahlo quotes: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” The pandemic fostered a collective understanding of just how malleable and fragile our reality is. Our perceptions, our personal routines, and our culture as a whole – these realities are never guaranteed stasis, and the only way to move forward is to evolve, both as artists and individuals. The pieces in this show invite viewers to embrace the inevitability of change and the natural discomfort of re-examining their expectations of how a work of art – and by extension, a culture – should look.
The process of creating an e2 image has always involved intense collaboration, and the images here would not be possible without stellar teamwork. We would especially like to thank Cameron Wood for his extensive digital post-production and our wonderful models."
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien seek to remake images from art history to reflect their own experience of the contemporary world. Tackling icons from the great masters like Botticelli, Manet, Rembrandt, and Van Eyck, they recast instantly familiar images in a distinctly modern manner, breaking them free from centuries of historical context and placing them firmly in the present.
Kleinveld and Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Distant Lover
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dance With Me
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dance With Me
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Gold
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Gogh
s
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe", 1889
Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
"Ode to Van Gogh’s 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe’” is a self-portrait of e2 artist E.Paul Julien as the tortured artist. This piece was inspired by Julien’s own struggles with mental health issues during isolation during pandemic lockdown, as he found himself in a place where he could relate to the fragile mindset that Van Gogh experienced through most of his life.
The artists say of their work...
"Everything Changes, the latest phase of our ongoing series In Empathy We Trust, presents odes to iconic images from the Modern and Contemporary art periods. Our artistic process during Everything Changes was heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inescapable upheaval brought about by this once-in-a-lifetime event. This major societal shift alongside ongoing social unrest compelled us to further explore the distorted realities permeating American culture and, consequently, veiling oppression of marginalized communities. With lockdown restrictions disrupting our usual process of gathering for photoshoots, we also began playing with new approaches for our work. As a result, our latest iteration marks a new technique exploration, with completely over-painting atop of select prints, adding an additional layer of distortion to an already-altered reality.
The title for this show takes inspiration from one of our favorite Frida Kahlo quotes: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” The pandemic fostered a collective understanding of just how malleable and fragile our reality is. Our perceptions, our personal routines, and our culture as a whole – these realities are never guaranteed stasis, and the only way to move forward is to evolve, both as artists and individuals. The pieces in this show invite viewers to embrace the inevitability of change and the natural discomfort of re-examining their expectations of how a work of art – and by extension, a culture – should look.
The process of creating an e2 image has always involved intense collaboration, and the images here would not be possible without stellar teamwork. We would especially like to thank Cameron Wood for his extensive digital post-production and our wonderful models."
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Munch
s
The Scream
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Edvard Munch's "The Scream", 1893
Edition 1 of 3 with 2APs
“Ode to Munch’s ‘The Scream’” depicts a non-binary subject trapped in an infinite scream against a New Orleans backdrop. This piece represents the silent pain of gender dysphoria constantly experienced by non-binary people as they traverse a binary world that would rather ignore their existence entirely.
The artists say of their work...
"Everything Changes, the latest phase of our ongoing series In Empathy We Trust, presents odes to iconic images from the Modern and Contemporary art periods. Our artistic process during Everything Changes was heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inescapable upheaval brought about by this once-in-a-lifetime event. This major societal shift alongside ongoing social unrest compelled us to further explore the distorted realities permeating American culture and, consequently, veiling oppression of marginalized communities. With lockdown restrictions disrupting our usual process of gathering for photoshoots, we also began playing with new approaches for our work. As a result, our latest iteration marks a new technique exploration, with completely over-painting atop of select prints, adding an additional layer of distortion to an already-altered reality.
The title for this show takes inspiration from one of our favorite Frida Kahlo quotes: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” The pandemic fostered a collective understanding of just how malleable and fragile our reality is. Our perceptions, our personal routines, and our culture as a whole – these realities are never guaranteed stasis, and the only way to move forward is to evolve, both as artists and individuals. The pieces in this show invite viewers to embrace the inevitability of change and the natural discomfort of re-examining their expectations of how a work of art – and by extension, a culture – should look.
The process of creating an e2 image has always involved intense collaboration, and the images here would not be possible without stellar teamwork. We would especially like to thank Cameron Wood for his extensive digital post-production and our wonderful models."
⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯
As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
On Foot
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 5/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Picasso
s
Portrait of Dora Maar
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Dora Maar", 1937
Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
“Ode to Picasso’s 'Dora Maar’' is a self-portrait of E2 arti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Gogh
s
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe
By E2 - Kleinveld
Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe", 1889
Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
"Ode to Van Gogh’s 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe’” is a self-portrait of e2 artist E.Paul Julien as the tortured artist. This piece was inspired by Julien’s own struggles with mental health issues during isolation during pandemic lockdown, as he found himself in a place where he could relate to the fragile mindset that Van Gogh experienced through most of his life.
The artists say of their work...
"Everything Changes, the latest phase of our ongoing series In Empathy We Trust, presents odes to iconic images from the Modern and Contemporary art periods. Our artistic process during Everything Changes was heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inescapable upheaval brought about by this once-in-a-lifetime event. This major societal shift alongside ongoing social unrest compelled us to further explore the distorted realities permeating American culture and, consequently, veiling oppression of marginalized communities. With lockdown restrictions disrupting our usual process of gathering for photoshoots, we also began playing with new approaches for our work. As a result, our latest iteration marks a new technique exploration, with completely over-painting atop of select prints, adding an additional layer of distortion to an already-altered reality.
The title for this show takes inspiration from one of our favorite Frida Kahlo quotes: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” The pandemic fostered a collective understanding of just how malleable and fragile our reality is. Our perceptions, our personal routines, and our culture as a whole – these realities are never guaranteed stasis, and the only way to move forward is to evolve, both as artists and individuals. The pieces in this show invite viewers to embrace the inevitability of change and the natural discomfort of re-examining their expectations of how a work of art – and by extension, a culture – should look.
The process of creating an e2 image has always involved intense collaboration, and the images here would not be possible without stellar teamwork. We would especially like to thank Cameron Wood for his extensive digital post-production and our wonderful models."
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As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien seek to remake images from art history to reflect their own experience of the contemporary world. Tackling icons from the great masters like Botticelli, Manet, Rembrandt, and Van Eyck, they recast instantly familiar images in a distinctly modern manner, breaking them free from centuries of historical context and placing them firmly in the present.
Kleinveld and Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Warm Memory
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture, and nightlife photography. As a photographer, Trenity uses his camera to capture the life and composition of still life around him. His photographs have a warmth to them that pulls the viewer into the scene as if they were present - a feature that has become characteristic of his photographic style.
Trenity Thomas has been in various juried exhibitions, most recently, JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY's 24th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art and the Louisiana Contemporary juried exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. His photographs have also received international attention when they were chosen for exhibition in photovogue, a prestigious collection of photographs curated by the Photo Editors of Vogue Italia.
The artist says of his work...
In this series of work, I am taking a step out of reality to create visual stories through photography. Consistently pulling ideas from my imagination and things that are in front of me allows me to create my own world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Passing By
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 2/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of genres including fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, portraiture, and nightlife photography. As a photographer, Trenity uses his camera to capture the life and composition of still life around him. His photographs have a warmth to them that pulls the viewer into the scene as if they were present - a feature that has become characteristic of his photographic style.
Trenity Thomas has been in various juried exhibitions, most recently, JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY's 24th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art and the Louisiana Contemporary juried exhibition presented by The Helis Foundation at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. His photographs have also received international attention when they were chosen for exhibition in photovogue, a prestigious collection of photographs curated by the Photo Editors of Vogue Italia.
The artist says of his work...
In this series of work, I am taking a step out of reality to create visual stories through photography. Consistently pulling ideas from my imagination and things that are in front of me allows me to create my own world...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
9, 10
By Peter Olson
Located in New Orleans, LA
Vases in various sizes.
From left to right:
9 - 21h x 5w in
10 - 20h x 5w in
[lives & works – Philadelphia, PA ::: b. 1954]
Peter Olson is a Philadelphia-based photographer and c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Photographic Film
$5,800
Runner
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Runner
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 2/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sundial
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ralph Ave
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Search Light
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Search Light
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mister
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 2/7
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mister
By Trenity Thomas
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5
TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Louisiana - Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
