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Rachel Avena Brown received her BFA from the College of Santa Fe and her MFA from NYU before joining the Front in 2010.

Brown uses the familiar (knitting) and the current (digital video) to create accessible work that tackles broad concepts not easily defined.

In the artist’s own words…“By utilizing what is accessible to all, and erasing the functionality of the objects, I am attempting to create anomalies in space, making connections between what cannot be defined; the body, the spirit, and the universal light that surrounds us.”

You can check out more of Rachel’s work here.

Kyle Bravo is a founding member of the Front, and received his BFA from LSU and his MFA from the University of North Carolina. Bravo has exhibited extensively all over the world from New York to France to Japan.

Bravo is a direct product of the punk rock and underground zine revivals of the 90s and proudly wears his DIY ethos on his sleeve. Using a wide range of techniques that range from xerox and graphite to traditional printmaking and video, Kyle explores complex and personal relationships while contextualizing these interactions through society as a whole.

Check out Kyle’s work here.

Dave Greber is one member of the Front who is not a stranger to the UAB Visual Arts Gallery. Here’s your chance to make amends if you missed his incredible exhibition BROTHY CITY last March at the UAB VAG.

Check out Greber’s Public Service Announcement video for the Front! And, more work from Greber here.

The Front, an artist-run collective and not-for-profit gallery, fosters the development of contemporary art in the city of New Orleans through innovative exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, and other arts programming, all of which are free and open to the public. Founded by artists in 2008 amidst the post-Katrina resurgence of New Orleans and committed to a spirit of grassroots DIY determinism, The Front cultivates new and experimental work, in particular from emerging artists, but also from nationally and internationally known artists.

Brick Mower by Justin Butts

Coliseum by Jason Barker

MC Chris by Derek Prevatt

Protomen by John Lytle Wilson

Silver Mt. Zion by Ian Ferguson

We will be highlighting some of the fantastic posters in our current exhibition THE BOTTLETREE in the coming weeks leading up to the release of the accompanying BOTTLETREE book! This poster is from one of our favorite Birimngham designers, Traci Edwards.