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Bio
Louviere + Vanessa’s work effectively combines the mediums and nuances of film, photography, painting and printmaking. They utilize Holgas, scanners, 8mm film, destroyed negatives, wax and blood. Since they began professionally showing in 2004, they have been in 40 exhibits and film festivals in america and abroad. They are included in private collections world wide, the Photomedia Center as well as the film archive for Globians International Film in Potsdam Germany and Microcinema in San Francisco. Six images from the Creature series were recently acquired by the George Eastman House for an exhibit that will travel the world through 2010. They have also been published in several books and magazines worldwide. They experiment in moving pictures and have created the first movie shot with a plastic Holga camera consisting of 1,900 frames. Based on that film, they were recently hired to shoot the animation sequence for Rosanne Cash’s latest music video, “Mariners & Musicians”, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. They have a long fascination with themes of duality, and paradox: beauty as horror, creation as destruction, the personal as a universal. Craft and concept are the devices they use to explore the gray zone within those themes.
Jeff Louviere is from New Orleans, Vanessa is from New York and they met each other half-way, in Savannah. Jeff graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design during which he and 3 other artists were inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records for a 76,000 square foot painting of Elvis. Vanessa began photographing at age 12 and won a Kodak International Award of Excellence in Photography when she was 17. She photographed through Italy and Greece before graduating from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in Photography.
Jeff and Vanessa live with their German Shepherds in New Orleans.
Exhibits
•solo show december 8th :: farrington smith gallery, new orleans, la
•vision/revision, group show dec 9th :: contemporary art center, new orleans, la
•photography now 100 portfolios, DVD and group show :: march 27th,
wright state university, dayton, OH
•silver eye center for photography group show on exhibit until feb 10th,
pittsburg, PA
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