As an artist who spent much of her life exploring the poetics of the feminine with the French Quarter as a backdrop, the messaging of the graffiti struck her as a personal affront. She decided to transform what she saw into something new: a body of work that involved the direct confrontation of her feminine poetics with the graffiti she found so disorienting.
Read the article: D. Eric Bookhardt, Gambit Weekly, October 22, 2018.
The Tagged series is Sacabo’s affirmation of female personal identity in the face of the depersonalizing graffiti she confronts on the daily walk from her home to her studio. Her characteristically romantic portraiture appears overlaid with, and negating, the rude words and drawings, some of them too obscene for reproduction in some social media or print outlets.
Read the article: Jerry Cullum, ArtsATL, October 8, 2018.
Artist Lecture “You Are Now” by Josephine Sacabo, Thurs, Oct 11, 7pm
Opening Reception Sat, Oct 13, 6–9pm
EBD4: 2382 Chamblee Tucker Rd., Chamblee, GA 30341
Both the Artist Lecture and Opening Reception events are presented in part by the generous support of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University.
For more information about TAGGED
This luxury limited edition book is entirely handcrafted from the binding to the letterpress and hand-pulled photogravure.
This is the story of a woman who invents her freedom by creating an imaginary architecture made of light, scraps of memory, hopes, and dreams – a permeable architecture where nothing is confined.
It is dedicated to Juana La Loca, the supposed “mad” queen of Spain in the 16th century who for political motives was imprisoned for 46 years by her father, husband, and son in an architecture of darkness and stone. – Josephine Sacabo
For more information about Structures of Reverie
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 4, 5 – 8 pm
A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
www.agallery.com
on view through January 12, 2019
For more information about TAGGED
Opening Reception with the Artist
Friday, May 11, 6 pm
Hammond Regional Arts Center
217 E. Thomas Street
Hammond, LA 70401
From the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
For more information about Salutations
Opening Reception with the Artist
Saturday, October 14, 7 pm
A Gallery for Fine Photography
241 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70130
For more information about Barking at God
2017 Latin American Library Open House
Friday, September 29 at 2pm.
Howard Tilton Memorial Library, 4th Floor
Tulane University
7001 Freret Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
Josephine will discuss her photogravure process at Tulane University’s 13th Annual Latin American Library Open House.
Juana and the Structures of Reverie
Opening Reception
Friday, May 6 5-7pm
VERVE Gallery of Photography
219 East Marcy St.
Santa Fe, NM 87501
For more information about Juana and the Structures of Reverie
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 12, 3-5pm
Artist Talk: 3:30 pm
A Gallery For Fine Photography
241 Chartres St., New Orleans, LA 70130
El Mundo Incansable de Susana San Juan
Óyeme con los Ojos
Opening Reception: December 11, 6 pm
Art Gallery of the Consulate of Mexico
901 Convention Center Blvd. Suite 118
New Orleans, LA 70130
In conjunction with the 2015 PhotoNOLA Festival
Now, let me tell you about the Josephine Sacabo known to those of us photo-people who hang out in New Orleans a lot. She is a warm and gracious hostess. Her studio is a place for art thinking and practice. Her kitchen table is a place for profound and often irreverent conversations. And her generosity toward and support of the arts in New Orleans knows no bounds.
Judy Sherrod, South x Southeast Photo Magazine, November 2015
Opening Reception
November 12, 6-8 pm
A Gallery For Fine Photography
241 Chartres St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
A new series of 42 11×14 wet collodion tintypes.
“Thus My Body Builds Around It Room After Room” – Proust
For more information about Juana and the Structures of Reverie
Lecture and Discussion: Pan American Connections
Sunday, November 1 3-5pm
Old Ursulines Convent
1100 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
Bold (Feminine), a group exhibition highlighting an internationally diverse group of female photographers that addresses the oblique narrative of perception and representation of women in photographic imagery.
This exhibition is presented in collaboration with curator Constance Lewis.
Participating artists include:
Joana Choumali
Helena Christensen
Josephine Sacabo
Yelena Yemchuk
Melissa Zexter
Christy Bush
Opening Reception: October 15, 7-9 pm
Marcia Wood Gallery MIDTOWN: 1037 Monroe Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30306
Workshop with Josephine Sacabo
Nocturnes: Images of the Psyche
September 26-27, 2015
Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock NY 12498
New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle
New Orleans, LA 70124
On view January 23 – April 5, 2015
For more information about Salutations
Q: WHAT IN YOUR EYES MAKES A GREAT PHOTOGRAPH? A GREAT WORK OF ART?
A: In my eyes a great work of art has to come from an authentic place in the artist; an intense need to express whatever it is and then the discipline and hard work of giving it its most perfect form.
Read the interview: Rfotofolio, January 15, 2013
“So many of these photographers, including Josephine, originally came from somewhere else. And I think there’s something about New Orleans, as a city of profound mystery, that attracts its own – attracts people that are attuned to the mysteries of the city, that are really the mysteries of the world and the universe … So I think that all of them in a way are doing their version of what it is about this city and this region that inspires them to create.”
Listen to the interview: Susan Larson, The Reading Life (WWNO), December 24, 2013