Leslie Lyons series goes on show as part of No Dead Artists exhibition in New Orleans

Leslie Lyons, GIRDLE self-portrait from the series, WHO CAN I BE NOW?

GIRDLE from Leslie Lyons’ new self-portrait (mostly) series WHO CAN I BE NOW? has been selected for the annual No Dead Artists National Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. No Dead Artists is co-presented by ArtDaily.org, billed as “the first art newspaper on the net’.

Each year, gallery owner Jonathan Ferrara invites a panel of renowned arts professional and collectors to select the newest creative talents. This year collector and arts philanthropist Toby Devan Lewis, New Orleans Museum of Art director Susan Taylor, and 21c museum director William Morrow, made up the jury.

This series is the first in an on-going project in which music photographer Leslie Lyons selects a song of influence to her and illustrates the lyrics with photographs. The exhibition runs until 24 September.  The  work will also be shown at the Expanded Music Project exhibition at Land of Tomorrow Gallery (LOT), in Louisville, Kentucky opening 18 November.

See over for Lyons’ artist statement and a couple more images from the series, which have been described as “quite provocative”…