UNLOCK THE WORLD OF RASHAAD NEWSOME: AN ART-INSPIRED JOURNEY THROUGH NEW ORLEANS

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1 TRIP SUMMARY UNLOCK THE WORLD OF RASHAAD NEWSOME: AN ART-INSPIRED JOURNEY THROUGH NEW ORLEANS DESTINATION NEW ORLEANS TRAVEL DATES JAN 20, 21, 22 PARTNERS & SUPPORTERS 11/7/16

Unlock the World of Rashaad Newsome: An Art-Inspired Journey through New Orleans Trip Summary Length of Trip 2 days / 2 nights Travel Dates - 2017 Jan 20 (Fri), 21 (Sat), 22 (Sun) Website curagenda.

com +1 917 727 1972 OVERVIEW De Buck Gallery in collaboration with Curagenda presents a 2-day exclusive experience for the occasion of Rashaad Newsome s major homecoming solo exhibition Mélange at

2 Unlock the World of Rashaad Newsome: An Art-Inspired Journey through New Orleans Trip Summary Length of Trip 2 days / 2 nights Travel Dates Jan 20 (Fri), 21 (Sat), 22 (Sun) Website curagenda.com/rashaadnewsome-nola Contacts Booking Reservations and for more information: mélange@debuckgallery.com OVERVIEW De Buck Gallery in collaboration with Curagenda presents a 2-day exclusive experience for the occasion of Rashaad Newsome s major homecoming solo exhibition Mélange at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans an interdisciplinary presentation curated by Andrea Anderson. The New Orleans-born artist, renowned for his voguing performances and stunning collage work, is offering an exclusive insider s experience of his hometown. Guests will be introduced to Newsome s world New Orleans, a fascinating city unlike any other, with an incredible heritage and history, is a destination steeped in tradition influenced by a melting pot of cultures. In this 2-day trip, we will offer a private artist and curator-led tour of the museum show, while introducing you to the best of the city, its neighborhoods, people, local culture, Creole cooking, architecture, and perhaps most important of all be inspired by this once-in-a-lifetime artist expedition. CONTENT 1. PROGRAM AT A GLANCE 2. TRIP DETAILS & HOTELS 3. FEATURED ARTICLES 4. EXHIBITION INFORMATION 5. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY 1

3 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Day 1 FRIDAY 1/20/17 Rashaad Newsome: Mélange Artist and Curator walk-through of the exhibition at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) Welcome cocktails at Hotel Monteleone s Carousel Bar & Lounge Warm up with the artist, gallery team, curators and guests FIVE performance A genre-bending live performance piece that combines the crescendo of sound and movement Gallery Dinner hosted by De Buck Gallery at one of the top restaurants in New Orleans A NOLA-style Celebratory Affair hosted by CAC Legendary DJ Jubilee and the undisputed king of Vogue tracks, MikeQ, have a spinoff of bounce and vogue anthems. Cash bar and food truck onsite Day 2 SATURDAY 1/21/17 Artist Breakfast at Compére Lapin This New Orleans restaurant where Creole meets Caribbean, is the work of chef Nina Comptons and has earned many fans among New Orleanians Experience Rashaad Newsome s NOLA Experience the vibrancy of New Orleans through the eyes of the artist. We are offering exclusive walking tours orchestrated by Rashaad Newsome introducing the best of his hometown, highlighting this fascinating city s art, culture, heritage and culinary delights. Your specialist guides for the afternoon will be De Buck Gallery s team including gallerist David De Buck. Farewell drinks at The Franklin Artist Conversation (optional) Rashaad Newsome discusses his multidisciplinary artistic practice Full itinerary will be available upon booking; Itinerary subject to change before trip departure 2

4 TRIP DETAILS PACKAGE OPTIONS A. 2 Night Hotel Package Hotel Monteleone $1,400 B. 1 Night Hotel Package Hotel Monteleone $1,000 C. Program only without hotel $500 *Prices are per person, including room taxes. WHAT S INCLUDED: Program activities on the itinerary 1-2 night stay in Hotel Monteleone 1 artist breakfast Welcome cocktails 1 Gallery dinner Guided art and cultural tour on Jan 20 Airport Transfers in New Orleans WHAT S NOT INCLUDED: Individual hotel expenses Travel insurance Gratuities OPTIONAL ADD ONS: Flight bookings Spa bookings Trip Extension and Excursions TERMS: Full itinerary details will be issued after booking is confirmed. Final Price is determined after itinerary is confirmed by the client A full payment is required to secure the booking. Trip charges are non-refundable, but transferable. Travel insurance protection is strongly recommended. In the unlikely case that we cancel the trip prior to departure, we will give you a prompt refund of the trip cost less a $500 administration fee. 3

sparkling jewel in the heart of the French Quarter.

5 STAY Hotel Monteleone Hotel Monteleone is one of the last great family-owned-andoperated hotels in New Orleans. Since 1886, five generations of Monteleones have dedicated themselves to making their hotel what it is today a sparkling jewel in the heart of the French Quarter. The legendary Carousel Bar still revolves every fifteen minutes and numerous authors, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty and Truman Capote were frequent visitors. 4

6 RASHAAD NEWSOME: MELANGE New Orleans-born artist Rashaad Newsome returns for this interdisciplinary presentation, Mélange. Including films and recent works on paper, as well as the artist s vogue performance, this assembly of genre-bending works frames both Newsome s live performance and studio practice through the history of collage. Using layered constructions of formal material to investigate layered constructions of social identity, Mélange borrows from dance, technology, gaming, and handcrafted collage for a transformative presentation of art in motion. In the Mélange performances, five dancers represent the five elements of vogue femme hands, cat walk, floor performance, spin dips, and duck walking. As each dancer takes the floor, a hip-hop M.C., an operatic vocalist, and local musicians improvise an interactive soundtrack, building to a beautifullystructured crescendo of sound and movement. The exhibition is curated by Andrea Andersson, The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts at the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center (CAC) Exhibition Supporters The exhibition is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Foundation, and The Helis Foundation Exhibition Dates: Jan 14 Feb 12,

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including: collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming and performance, to form

7 ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including: collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming and performance, to form an altogether new field. Best known for his visually stunning collages housed in custom frames, Newsome's work is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice and abstraction. Newsome's works opposes cultural essentialisms. They lead us into a realm of uncertainty, in which the symbols presented transform, but are nonetheless made tangible. Newsome s most recent collages evolve from abstracted Baroque-esque designs that incorporate symbols of these subcultures to personified figurative subjects with clearly recognizable human faces and bodies. Compositionally, these works are still heavily influenced by Newsome s interest in the rules of heraldry and the use of contemporary pop cultural status symbols. By moving towards portraiture, Newsome engages with the idea of agency, specifically in relation to interpretations of feminism by trans-gender and cis-gender women of color. In giving his collages faces, Newsome inherently imbues them with this sense of agency as the figures that emerge confront viewers head-on. Newsome lives and works in New York City. He was born in 1979 in New Orleans, He has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world including: The Whitney Museum (NYC), The Studio Museum in Harlem (NYC), Brooklyn Museum (NYC), MoMAPS1 (NYC), SFMOMA (CA), New Orleans Museum of Art (LA), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France), The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (Moscow, Russia), and MUSA (Vienna, Austria). Newsome s work is in numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC), The Brooklyn Museum of Art (NYC), The SFMOMA (CA), The Studio Museum (NYC), and The New Britain Museum of American Art (CT). In 2010 he participated in the Whitney Biennial (NYC), and in 2011 Greater New York at MoMAPS1 (NYC). 6

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE

THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE spotlights multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome s work about the dance form known as vogue. For a decade, Newsome has worked with members of the vogue community, which developed