Weekend art roundup – Interesting exhibits to check out this weekend before they close

This weekend brings your last chance to see several great art exhibits in Baton Rouge and your first chance to see some new ones. Here’s a look at what exhibits to check out.

Works by new Baton Rouge Gallery artist members are on view until Thursday, including Isoko Onodera’s haunting charcoal recreations of blurry photographs, Heather Ryan Kelley’s vanitas-style paintings, and Jessica Sharpe’s combination of large-scale installations and mixed media paintings. Go to batonrougegallery.org for more information.

A new exhibit at the Walls Project’s space downtown featuring abstract works from local artist James Kimura-Green. The exhibit, in conjunction with Elevator Projects, includes an artist lecture at 5 p.m. and a reception starting at 6 p.m. Friday. Find out more about the event here.

Two exhibits wrap up their runs at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum on Sunday. Jonathan Brilliant’s “Red Stick Piece,” a site-specific installation constructed of thousands of paper coffee cup holders and stir sticks, comes down … literally. The dismantling starts at 2 p.m. Sunday and the public is invited to watch. Check out our story and video on Brilliant’s process here. Also, an exhibit on photographer John Guider‘s journey paddling more than 2,500 miles of waterways to the Mississippi River delta closes Sunday. Read our story on the exhibit here and find out more about these shows at lasm.org.

More than 25 works from the LSU Student Union Gallery’s permanent collection, including pieces by Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg and Carolyn Durieux, as well as local artists Charles Barbier and Jim Zietz, are on view starting Monday at the gallery. The exhibit continues through August. Find out more here.

An exhibit of images by famed celebrity photographer Jack Mitchell, who shot for Rolling Stone, Time, Vogue and others, ends Monday. The exhibit is on display in the second floor Gallery at the Manship Theatre. For more information, go to manshiptheatre.org.

The Firehouse Gallery on the second floor of the Arts Council building plays host to an exhibit of works by artist and LSU graduate Melissa Precise. The exhibit, “Farewell Works,” opened last Friday and features several impressive installations using wood blocks (the one pictured at the top of this page is titled “Colony”) and other materials as well as video installations. Find out more here.