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Representing contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American and International artists, emphasi

Callan Contemporary represents contemporary art by emerging and midcareer American and international artists with an emphasis on abstract and figurative paintings and sculpture. Artists

Pablo Atchugarry
Raine Bedsole
David Borgerding
Teresa Cole
Jose-Maria Cundin
Adrian Deckbar

George Dunbar
Margaret Evangeline
James Flynn
John Folsom
Doyle Gertjejansen
Key-Sook Geum
John Henry
Eva Hild
James Kennedy
Michael Kessler
Mitchell Lonas
Norah Lovell
Shawne Major
Sibylle Peretti
Bradley Sabin

05/22/2026

BRADLEY SABIN
MAY 1 – JUNE 30, 2026

On view now at the gallery.

Sabin’s practice is grounded in a meticulous hand-built process in which each ceramic element is individually hand formed and assembled into expansive compositions. Through cycles of firing and glazing, he develops layered surface treatments that yield nuanced variations in color, depth, and finish. This approach balances precision with organic growth, as discrete forms coalesce into structures that feel both deliberate and emergent.

04/29/2026

Callan Contemporary is pleased to announce a new exhibition for Bradley Sabin featuring ceramic Floral Wall Installations and sculpture.
RECEPTION: Saturday, May 2nd, 6-9 pm
518 Julia Street

04/17/2026

If you’re going to French Quarter Festival this weekend, come visit us at the gallery.

“There’s a vibrational aspect to the work, a feeling of movement. I create connections and a sort of tonal landscape in which they sit. For me that’s the most important part of the painting.” - James Kennedy

JAMES KENNEDY
SPACES FOR THE MIND AND EYE
RECEPTION: SATURDAY APRIL 4TH, 6-8 PM
MARCH 5 – APRIL 20, 2026

04/03/2026

Join us tomorrow (4/4/26) from 6-8pm for live music and art by during Jammin’ on Julia in the .

JAMES KENNEDY
SPACES FOR THE MIND AND EYE
MARCH 5 – APRIL 25, 2026

To create his elegant abstractions on eucalyptus Masonite panel, Kennedy applies as many as 100 translucent acrylic washes over a gesso base, selectively incorporating pumice, graphite, modeling- paste extender, and micaceous iron oxide in layers so topographical, they often cast subtle shadows. This haptic, organic quality, contextualized within an organizing principle of order and balance, has origins in his interdisciplinary background across the fine arts, theater, dance, and design. The paintings that result from these meticulous processes are not only optically alluring, but visceral, almost corporeal.

03/28/2026

JAMES KENNEDY
SPACES FOR THE MIND AND EYE
MARCH 5 – APRIL 25, 2026
On view at

To create his elegant abstractions on eucalyptus Masonite panel, Kennedy applies as many as 100 translucent acrylic washes over a gesso base, selectively incorporating pumice, graphite, modeling- paste extender, and micaceous iron oxide in layers so topographical, they often cast subtle shadows. This haptic, organic quality, contextualized within an organizing principle of order and balance, has origins in his interdisciplinary background across the fine arts, theater, dance, and design. The paintings that result from these meticulous processes are not only optically alluring, but visceral, almost corporeal.

03/26/2026

JAMES KENNEDY
SPACES FOR THE MIND AND EYE
MARCH 5 – APRIL 25, 2026

Born in Northern Ireland, now based in upstate New York, Kennedy earned degrees from the Royal Scottish Academy (Glasgow), London School of Contemporary Dance, and Rhodec Design Academy (Brighton). His works are included in the permanent collections of The British Museum, Saatchi & Saatchi, Corcoran Group, Nordstrom, St. Regis Hotels, The Waldorf Astoria, and the estate of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee. The subject of the solo exhibition James Kennedy: Shape-Shifting at John Hartell Gallery (Cornell University), he is renowned for his instantly recognizable syntax of interconnected forms, which relate to one another in a spirited dialogue between foreground, background, expansiveness, and density, always arriving at a spatial resolution at once immaculate and inevitable.

You can view the current exhibition at Callan Contemporary. Email all inquiries to the gallery.

03/01/2026

Callan Contemporary is pleased to invite you the opening reception for JAMES KENNEDY’S new exhibition of paintings, entitled
SPACES FOR THE MIND AND EYE
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 7th, 6-9

Line, gesture, and geometry coalesce in dynamic visual harmonies in painter James Kennedy’s exhibition, Spaces for the Mind and Eye, at Callan Contemporary. Titled after a thought-provoking profile of Kennedy in the March 2026 issue of AD Design, the show highlights his masterful integration of art-historical influences such as Futurism, Abstract Expressionism, the paintings of Ben Nicholson, and the architectonics of Le Corbusier—all channeled through the prism of his own singular aesthetic viewpoint. To create his elegant abstractions on eucalyptus Masonite panel, Kennedy applies as many as 100 translucent acrylic washes over a gesso base, selectively incorporating pumice, graphite, modeling- paste extender, and micaceous iron oxide in layers so topographical, they often cast subtle shadows. This haptic, organic quality, contextualized within an organizing principle of order and balance, has origins in his interdisciplinary background across the fine arts, theater, dance, and design. The paintings that result from these meticulous processes are not only optically alluring, but visceral, almost corporeal.

02/21/2026

Tomorrow is the final day to view James Flynn’s “Thresholds of Perception” at the gallery.

Flynn credits Pedro Friedeberg and Peter Lobello as his principal artistic influences, having studied closely with both. His visual language is structured by Friedeberg’s intricate pattern complexity and geometric illusionism, along with Lobello’s disciplined abstract minimalism. Evolving from this lineage, Flynn extends the perceptual innovations of the 1960s Op Art movement—particularly Vasarely, Yvaral, Soto, and Agam—while reframing their ideas through Quantum Theory and non-materialist models of Consciousness. Within this expanded framework, perception becomes an active medium in which awareness shapes the very image that appears.

For all inquiries, please email the gallery directly.

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518 Julia Street
New Orleans, LA
70130

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm

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http://www.callancontemporary.com/

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