Femaissance

09/10/2019

your weekly mid-week reset is happening TOMORROW at salon! femaissance is hosting EVERY WEDNESDAY at 6pm in our space. link in bio to sign up for this rejuvenating, heart hip and mind opener of a class. $20 pp | $5 for and salon residents

09/06/2019

“Monstera Deliciosa” by .little.studio
2019 | Watercolor, ink + silver leaf
1.25 x 8.75 x 10.75 in. frame
$200

09/05/2019

there was the big bang, and then there was 9-4-8-1. birthday girl loves to joke that 99.9% of september 4th stardust went to “and everyone else just had to deal.” well to our guiding light, our godmother, our patron saint of lucite, st. germain and menswear, our muse, our listener, our momager, our timeless beauty... if anyone else on this planet got a hefty dose of virgo luster that day, it was certifiably you. we love you around the sun and back a hundred more. happy birthday j 💓

09/05/2019

Yeah, Depop is our favorite thing to hit the internet since... The internet. Enjoy ***free shipping*** with any bundle and lots of pretty things to look (or collect) 😎😎😎

09/04/2019

Couldn't make it to Felice Flow this week? Well good news because it's happening EVERY WEDNESDAY through the end of the year! Come to yoga at SALON for the 90-minute mid-week decompression we promise you need.

09/04/2019

We Got The Power No Illusion + Angela Davis by (2017)⁣
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16 x 20 in. | Limited edition canvas print (edition of 5) | $500 each⁣
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Visit femaissance.us/1985-poet to see all Monique’s work⁣
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Monique “1985Poet” Porter is a New Orleans-based Poet and Art Activist who, through poetry, public art, and community engagement is devoted to controlling the cultural narrative by way of color and words.⁣
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Monique’s art activism has provided her the experience of collaborating with organizations including the City of New Orleans, Cultural Innovative District (CID), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the City of Los Angeles. Monique has spread her message that, “Love is The Revolution” in many forms from reciting poetry with members of the Black Panther Party for the Black Arts Movement Conference to cross walks, murals, and gallery exhibitions in New Orleans not to mention a mural in the mountains of Granada Hills soaring 959 feet into the air all of which highlight the art of resistance.⁣
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Monique uses her voice to rally for change. She is the creator of the 1985 Love Campaign, a heart driven initiative determined to rebuild and restore communities with love. As she would eagerly say, “You may wonder why I choose to display my cultural pride through my photos, art, and words. It is my responsibility to display our narratives through black womanhood, through the arts, and through different perspectives.” -1985Poet @ Femaissance

09/04/2019

We Got The Power No Illusion by 1985 Poet
16 x 20 in.
Limited edition canvas print (edition of 5)
$500

09/04/2019

: In a series of beautiful accidents I found this original Polaroid from the opening of Primavera taken by ✨ It was tucked away in the magical upstairs of ✨
Having just opened my first solo exhibition with I am full of gratitude for the multitude of ways this community inspires and supports ✨
Musings in Watercolor is on display at 2nd floor next to Anthropologie ✨

09/03/2019

"The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure. The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.” - John Berger, Ways of Seeing⁣
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A n**e woman kneels on a patch of sand as she combs through a beach of rocks and ancient artifacts. Contoured with thick red lines, her pink body and untangled hair exudes a kind of heat you feel form laundry fresh out of the dryer, or a phone left out on a metal surface in the blazing sun. ⁣
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With daylight beaming on her back, her breasts and their shadow nearly become center focus of the composition. But this figure’s focus lies elsewhere. In the midst of her beachcombing, she discovers a fragmented glimpse of herself from a broken mirror in the sand. The mirror is sharp, angular, precarious even to her fleshy, unprotected skin. There is both knowledge and hubris in this moment of self-realization, which is inspired by Caravaggio’s Narcissus. But in Rachel Loyacono’s classically modernized version, vanitas is no risk. For it is only through having seen the mirror and herself (vanitas), that this figure can know of its sharp edges, or what lies beyond (veritas). As she leans into her reflection, the figure’s gaze shifts beyond herself, beyond the canvas, and into the realm of a viewer, caught in a moment of red-handed voyeurism. ⁣
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Rachel Loyacono⁣
Beachcomber, 2018⁣
Oil on canvas | 30.5x20in.⁣
$725 @ Stonefree Boutique

09/03/2019

"The mirror was often used as a symbol of the vanity of woman. The moralizing, however, was mostly hypocritical. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure. The real function of the mirror was otherwise. It was to make the woman connive in treating herself as, first and foremost, a sight.” - John Berger, Ways of Seeing

A n**e woman kneels on a patch of sand as she combs through a beach of rocks and ancient artifacts. Contoured with thick red lines, her pink body and untangled hair exudes a kind of heat you feel form laundry fresh out of the dryer, or a phone left out on a metal surface in the blazing sun.

With daylight beaming on her back, her breasts and their shadow nearly become center focus of the composition. But this figure’s focus lies elsewhere. In the midst of her beachcombing, she discovers a fragmented glimpse of herself from a broken mirror in the sand. The mirror is sharp, angular, precarious even to her fleshy, unprotected skin. There is both knowledge and hubris in this moment of self-realization, which is inspired by Caravaggio’s Narcissus. But in Rachel Loyacono’s classically modernized version, vanitas is no risk. For it is only through having seen the mirror and herself (vanitas), that this figure can know of its sharp edges, or what lies beyond (veritas). As she leans into her reflection, the figure’s gaze shifts beyond herself, beyond the canvas, and into the realm of a viewer, caught in a moment of red-handed voyeurism.

Rachel Loyacono
Beachcomber, 2018
Oil on canvas | 30.5x20in.
$725 @ Stonefree Boutique

09/02/2019

Lace up your sneakers, do your hair tall, and check your nails. We're going to be feeling good as hell after this Lizzo-themed sweat sesh! The Commons is teaming up with Kelsey Greenfield of Body Shoppe and the brains behind Femaissance to host a dance-cardio class at Canal Place Tuesday, September....

08/28/2019

Big statement wall, no art? This black + white watercolor print by Lyla Clayre Studio is your solution. Starting at just $10.

Painted on location in the Marigny district, this painting captures neighboring shotgun houses at the golden hour