About

2016

• La Femme, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans

• Interpretations, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans

• Connections, New Orleans Art Center, New Orleans

2014

• Sputnik II, Boyd Satellite, New Orleans

2013

• Megalomania, Boyd Satellite, New Orleans

• Sputnik1, Boyd Satellite, New Orleans

• The Human Condition: metal rusts and wood rots, Freret Clay Center, new Orleans

2012

• NOLA Now II, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans

2011

• American Visit, B&K Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Saratoga, Ogden Museum, New Orleans

2010

• To the Future, Parce Gallery, New Orleans

• No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans

• Art Venture 3, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans

• Drink and Dial, WW Gallery, London

• Two Eyes, a Nose and a Mouth, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans

• 504 What Style Rock Art Circus, The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans

2009

• Curious and Curiouser, Rebecca Kormind Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

• 12th Annual No Dead Artist, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans

• OHR - Rising, OHR - O’Keefe, OCEAN SPRINGS, MS

• Curate This, BECA Gallery, New Orleans

2008

• Elemental, Terrence Sanders gallery, New Orleans

2007

• New Art New Media, Carroll gallery, New Orleans

• Rising, OHR-O’Keefe Ocean Springs, MS

2006

• No Place Like Home, Giola Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003

• UNO Annual Fine Arts Exhibition

• New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Alumni Exhibition

1999

• MICA Photography Biannual, Baltimore, MD

Solo Exhibitions

2011

• Chicken Lovers, Parse Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2008

• Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Gulfport, MS

It could be said that throughout life there exists a continual loss of innocence, which occurs with the gain of each experience one has. Some of the memories of these experiences may be repressed partially or in full, but exist somewhat abstractly in our thought. For me, struggling for the recollection of those pertinent experiences due to the pace of contemporary life is a persistent one. Nostalgia is a feeling that creeps into the five senses unexpectedly only to leave you longing wistfully for the past. The betraying images, within the work, interact with the sentimental imagery and are not based on particular instances, but on the fusion of reality and the abstract world that each of us inhabit. Embracing a more intuitive method of working, while focusing on the desensitization of the human condition, enable the work to become narratives both personal and open for interpretation.

Within my process, there are several elements that provoke the paintings. There's the usual: my magnificent yet suddenly evolving city, my daughter, the human condition, environmental turmoil, etc. A few of my current sources of inspiration are social networks, online fetishes, and whether/how people choose to portrait themselves on social media. The layers of characters in my paintings and the way their personality characteristics are perceived by the view is a parallel to the way individuals make assumptions about one another’s personality types and celebrity personas via social media profiles. In the same way that we have access to discover limitless virtual environments, I strive to create abstract landscapes for these characters, or personalities, to perform within. I don't usually share my interpretation of their stories with the viewer in order to prevent any prescribed meaning. I feel the viewer should relate their personal experience and their own metaphors and relationships within the work.

2007

• Jurors award, ORH-O’Keefe Museum of Fine Arts, Ocean Springs, MS

2004

• UNO Scholarship fund and award for best design in graduating class

• GoNOLA Tops: 5 Female Artists to Know Now, GoNOLA, Cassie Pruyn http://gonola.com/2016/07/12/female-artists-new-orleans.html

2011

• The Saratoga Collection, Terrence Sanders

2010

• No Dead Artists, The New Orleans Art Review, Terrington Calas

2009

• Curious & Curiouser, Alan Rankle

http://www.perfronth.com/PDF/RebeccaKormind.Curios.Curioser.sm.catalog.pdf

2008

• FOUR: New work by Don Gurewitz, Barbie L'Hoste, Joetta Maue, and Patricia Zalisko, Gambit Weekly, D. Eric Bookhardt

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/four-new-work-by-don-gurewitz-barbie-lhoste-joetta-maue-and-patricia-zalisko/Content?oid=1251020

• "Curate This"

• Absolute Arts

http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2008/08/04/35135.html

2007

• Sun Herald, "Can you 'dig' it?" paintings on ceramic slabs.