Photonola 2026
Leona Strassberg Steiner, digital image 11x14 inches Orquevaux, France
Moira Crone Grasmere, 2026, Mixed Media on plywood 16x10 inches
Scape Times Two - Landscape/Abstraction
Artworks in the genres of landscape and abstraction both rely on color relationships, rhythms and depth. The general absence of figures and narrative allows pure emotional expression to come forward, almost as in music. The small pieces in this exhibition employ photography, collage, color and contrast to render feeling in imagined and real landscapes. Using observations and images from their travels in the French and English countryside. Strassberg Steiner and Crone explore the kinship and strategies of two traditions.
Opening Night
Saturday Night, December 5th 6-9pm
Bywater Fine Art Printing Studio
715 Lesseps Street
Bywater
please enter thru side gate
Artist Talk with Moira Crone and Leona Strassberg Steiner
Sunday, December 6th 3-4pm
Bywater Fine Art Printing Studio
715 Lesseps Street
Bywater
Please enter thru side gate
Moira Crone came to painting after a career as a writer and teacher. The author of three books of stories, and three novels, including the dystopian The Not Yet. She began a concentrated studio practice in 2019, working primarily in mixed media and collage. Since then, she has participated in more than 15 juried shows in Greater New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Norfolk, Los Angeles and elsewhere, as well as six one and two person shows and many group exhibitions. Her work has been featured in The Southern Review, Xavier Review, and other quarterlies. She is represented by the Sullivan Gallery and the New Orleans Art Center Gallery Online, and is a member of Second Story Gallery.
Visual Artist and former dancer Leona Strassberg Steiner has lived on both the East and West coast of the USA, and in Palestine for 27 years. Her work centers on issues related to our planet’s future, the new political dilemma, natural landscapes, and transitions in time. Steiner has exhibited her photographs extensively with solo exhibitions at The Victory Hall Drawing Rooms in Jersey City, the New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, Second Story Gallery, and at Bywater Fine Art Studio in New Orleans. She has participated in various group exhibitions in Spain, California, Illinois, New Jersey, New Orleans, Wisconsin, Evanston, and New York. She has curated six exhibits in the past ten years; Paths that Cross, a photography and video exchange with fellow JC photographers, at 303 Gallery in Jersey City, PolitiocoPopUp 1, 2, and 3, a politically charged multi media art show with over 40 artists from around the country here in New Orleans. New Surroundings an image based show for PhotoNola at Julia912 in 2019. A mega show with 62 New Orleans artists, called As We Heal at the New Orleans Healing Center in New Orleans. She is owner and founder of Bywater Fine Art Printing, serving the artist community in New Orleans. Leona is now painting alongside photography and continues working in her studio in the Bywater, where she resides with her husband and their two dogs.
