Exhibition Opening Reception: "Intertwined" & "The Lay of the Lack of the Land"

Join us on Saturday June 14th from 6-10pm at Antenna (3718 St. Claude Ave) for our next Second Saturday event - an opening reception for our new exhibitions! Antenna is open weekly from 12-5pm Thursdays through Sundays. Mix and mingle with Antenna Collective members, Antenna staff, local artists and other members of the art loving community while taking in our new exhibitions "Intertwined" & "The Lay of the Lack of the Land" (on view June 14th-July 27th, 2025) A self serve bar is on site (donations suggested). Read below for more about each exhibitions, on view June 14th-July 27th, 2025 at Antenna Gallery (3718 St. Claude Ave). We will be having another reception on July 12th from 6-10pm at Antenna. INTERTWINED BY FLORA CABILI: Intertwined is an immersive, multidisciplinary exhibition that centers around notions of space, carving, permanence, and expansion through mixed media 2D and 3D artworks (paintings, collages, sculptures, videoed movement storytelling, and a soundscape collaboration between Sophia Scarano, Jeremy Phipps, and Flora Cabili). These works showcase a pattern’s journey meandering, entangled through confined and liberating un-namable metaphysical environments, organisms, and symbols asking “where do things end and begin?’. The pattern vocabulary derives from Cabili’s past work contemplating the nature and composition of material, specifically non-disposable petroleum byproduct materials like Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foam (EPS’s foam air-filled balls compacted together emulate our most basic human parts — cells, DNA strands, organs — and nature). Learn more about and view more of Flora’s work on their website. DOWNSTAIRS: "Upcycling: The Creative Use of Waste Materials" This Antenna collective member exhibition, curated by collective member Kerry Punzo, highlights works that utilize discarded items and trash. A range of thematic and aesthetic choices made by the artists explore and celebrate unique paths opened by the inherent potentials of repurposing. THE LAY OF THE LACK OF THE LAND BY NICOLE SARA SIMPKINS: This work investigates ecological change in Gulf Coast ecosystems and along the Mississippi River, juxtaposing repeat patterns of troubling plant species with the architecture of fossil fuel extraction. Large scale tapestries of hand-printed textiles suspend in translucent layers, accompanied by works on paper. Learn more about and view more of Nicole’s work on their website.