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George Yerger + Leslie Addison
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George Yerger and Leslie Addison are photographers and mixed media artists from New Orleans. They are currently represented in New Orleans by Cole Pratt Gallery as well as by Gallery 119 in Jackson, Ms and Southside Gallery in Oxford MS. Their work has been featured at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, and in exhibitions at the Louisiana Art and Science Museum, The Mississippi Museum of Art, and The University of Southern Mississippi Museum of Art. It is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Mississippi Museum of Art, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and The New Orleans Museum of Art. Recent awards include, a 2007 Fellowship to both artists from the Pollock/Krasner Foundation, the Louisiana State Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship for 2006-2007 for George; and the Artistic Merit grant from The Contemporary Art Museum of Houston for Leslie as well as the Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship for 2007-2008.
Both Leslie and George were born and raised in Louisiana and have many generations of family ties to the Deep South areas around Port Gibson, MS. and the La./Ms. Delta respectively. Their projects “Firefly Diaries; Memories and Dreams of a River Country,” “Phantom Winds; a Mystic Hymn of Louisiana” and the new “Field Notes; Searching for Southern Mythology” all draw from their connection to, and deep love for these ancestral places. For many years they have also been passionately involved in projects in South and Central America. This work has taken them to Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Mexico, Panama and Guatemala.
George has a BA from Southeastern Louisiana University. His artistic insights have developed over 30 years of work and observation but he has an intuitive sense for creating complexly composed artwork and photographs layered with ambiguous meaning. Leslie attended the Art Institute of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico but her influences started practically at birth. Her grandmother was the fine art photographer Dina Woelffer. As a student of and then fellow teacher with Aaron Siskind and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Institute of Design, she formed life long friendships with them as well as other mid century photographers and painters. Her husband was the well known Abstract Expressionist painter Emerson Woelffer. “Through them and their friendships with Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Max Earnst and others I was exposed to a constant flow of influences which helped shape my vision and passion.”
