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. Also two New Orleans passions, food and Mardi Gras, each have a special EXHIBITION page. (2 & 3)
ART WALK 2025: First Saturday 6:00-8:00 PM unless otherwise noted
January 4: Linda Lesperance All Things New Orleans February 1: Spencer Schulz Electric Palette March 8 Marne Meynig Cajun Country April 5: Stephanie Reed, Pedestrian Pleasures,Scenes from local meanders May 3 Carol Hallock Swamp and Circumstance in May June 7: Ralph Songy Larger Than Life July 5 Linda Lesperance Louisiana Roots August 2: White Linen Night: Carol Scott Crystal in Leo September 6: Chuck Broussard October 4: Don Reggio November 1: John Killeen December 6: Will Smith, Jr.
JUNE 7, 2025 RALPH SONGY Larger Than Life
Fine art realist painter Ralph Songy lives and works in Metro New Orleans: My inspiration comes from Beauty high-lighted through light, dark color and tonal value changes and my desire to realistically express that beauty in a painting.
Songy’s self taught style of realism starts with isolating small scale grids of the image source, then and analyzing the smallest details of their abstract parts. Each square grid of information is unique in it’s color transition, tonal values, hues and form. To create a sharp clear image as a realistic painting, he zooms into those small grids to interpret the information, then strives to accurately and clearly represent each small section onto canvas, with tiny thin brush strokes. The more accurate the analysis and transference, the sharper and more realistic is the finished product. Through the process, those detailed parts combine to become the large scale completed painting on canvas. In this way, beauty is pulled from the abstract detail and is brought into clear sharp focus as a complete realistic acrylic painting on canvas.
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