Current Exhibitions
Gallery 600 Julia features talented Louisiana artists in curated monthly shows in the front room. With a superior and varied selection of artistic style and technique, the gallery always has an impressive and changing inventory of fine paintings. Art Walk is hosted by all the galleries in the Arts District in the evening on the first Saturday of each month. Gallery 600 Julia hosts the artist reception with refreshments on the First Saturday from 6:00pm – 8:00pm, unless otherwise noted.
The Gallery will be open from 9:30am – 4:00 pm and odd hours by appointment.
Please see Visiting Artists for the ultra realistic food art of Ralph Songy and Libby McMeekin, and architect and landscape painter Tim Vaught, sketching around the Pearl River area. Also two New Orleans passions, Food and Mardi Gras, each have a special CURRENT EXHIBITION page. (2 & 3)
ART WALK 2026: First Saturday 6:00-8:00 PM unless otherwise noted
2026: JAN 3 Peg Usner, Dreams and Water FEB 7 No Art Walk (Feb 17 Mardi Gras) Group Show: Hi Steppin’ MAR 7 Marne Meynig, Coastal Marshlands APR 4 Thomas Lofton, Time and Again MAY 2 Mickey Asche, Birding JUN 6 Elayne Kuehler Lovely Louisiana, Romantic Realism JULY 4 No Art Walk Group Show, The Summer Escape AUG 1 Carol Hallock. Hang Loose SEPT 5 Carol Scott, After Chianciano OCT 3 Steve Bourgeois, My Viewpoint NOV 7 Tim Vaught DEC 5 Camille Barnes
OCTOBER 3: Steve Bourgeois, My Viewpoint
Bourgeois can be seen around town painting en plein air. This technique imparts an immediacy to his paintings through the heightened contrast of light and shade and color values. He paints in a rapid loose, expressive manner capturing the elusive quality of the day. The same holds true for his figurative portraits, accomplished in an “impressionist” style.
A native Louisianian, he currently lives and maintains his studio in Prairieville. He studied at the Baton Rouge Fine Arts Academy and New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, as well as numerous workshops with some of the foremost artists in the country. He began his professional career in 1989, and takes great pride in his versatility. An accomplished portrait artist, he is equally skilled in urban studies, landscape, still life and figural painting, as well as large-scale murals. As one critic sums up Bourgeois’ style of painting, “What magic! Loose, talking colors clearly describing the old hometown, not bothering to go into great detail about things. Select poets can also do this with just a few words.”
FEAST for the EYES! THE FOOD COURT Paintings of New Orleans Favorite Food and Dining Experiences ….Catch your favorite New Orleans dish or server at the Cafe du Monde! Many of these paintings fit into the “Smalls for the Walls” category, a size which can be placed almost anywhere.
