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Upstairs at Coquette is a modest art gallery in the second floor dining room of Coquette, a contemporary Southern restaurant in the Garden District of New Orleans.

We exhibit contemporary art — fine art and vernacular photography, folk art, paintings, mixed-media works, design, etc. We aim to showcase the exceptional talent, craft, and sincerity of Southern artists.

Open by appointment or divine circumstance.

2800 Magazine St
New Orleans, LA 70115

Jan–Aug 2024

Greenwood
Solo exhibition by M.G. Tucker
Produced and edited by Joshua Huval
With design by Garrett DeRossett

After a decade devoted to an evangelical lifestyle, Louisiana native M.G. Tucker became disenchanted with its dogmatic culture. ‘Greenwood’ finds Tucker lost, reaching for a new reality, and so creating his own narrative in the wake of religion.

With thirteen faceless photographs, Tucker expresses a portrait of the considerations made while building a life from scratch. Focusing on the immediate vernacular of homes, cemeteries, and the modest charms of the Gulf South, he unveils an intimacy with his own spiritual conflicts while connecting the dots of his personal ancestries.

As our attention is subverted by screen-time and its answers for everything, ‘Greenwood’ invites the viewer to rekindle wonder and find serenity in truth’s elusiveness, as Tucker found through his questions and his cameras.

Yellow Lamp, Louisiana, 2023
Pigment print on baryta paper
11.5x17.5 inches
Edition of 5

$500

Nick’s Butterfly, Louisiana, 2018
Pigment print on baryta paper
11.5x17.5 inches
Edition of 5

$500