(New Orleans, Louisiana) FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY is proud to present Offerings, the first solo exhibition in twenty-three years of New Orleans-based artist and gallery co-owner, Jonathan Ferrara. For his gallery return, Ferrara unveils over thirty new wall-mounted sculptures – returning to and reclaiming his artist-self and creative process. This suite of sculpture was catalyzed by his installation Offering, which was debuted in the exhibition This City Holds Us -Twenty Years After Hurricane Katrina at Fidelity Bank White Linen Night 2025. Subsequently, the artist experimented with the arrangement of multiple sets of the individual hands, at various scales, articulating patterns and orientations which convey message and meaning.

The exhibition will be on view 27 May through 11 July 2026 with a collector preview on Thursday 4 June from 5:30 – 7:30pm and a public opening reception on 6 June from 5-8 PM as part of the Arts District New Orleans’ First Saturday Gallery Openings.

Ferrara discusses the inspiration for his latest body of work . . .

This new body of work is an extension of my installation from “This City Holds Us (2025)” entitled “Offering”. It consisted of thirty-five life-size sets of my hands extending from the gallery wall in a grid measuring ten by six feet. That piece began my work with creating sculpture from a unique process that I developed with the new medium of 3D printing. I cast my hands in plaster and then collaborated with the 3D printing lab at Tulane’s School of Architecture to render them in polylactate. Once printed, I take these hands and put them through a process in my studio with epoxy, paint, and varnish that transforms them, en masse, back to the texture of actual hands with various finishes that replicate diverse media from ceramic to glass to stainless steel. The versatility of this material and process allows me to be dynamic in the production of sculpture as the creative process unfolds.

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