Swedish artist in the U.S.

Why Is Everything A Rag
The first solo museum exhibition of the Stockholm-based artist Jockum Nordström in the Americas takes place in New Orleans, LA.

A reception opens the exhibit at 6 p.m. on March 22.

Children's books, jazz and blues vinyl covers, collages, drawings, paintings and paper sculptures collected from the start of his career through today, figure in a practice animated by and built of visual vernacular.

Inhabiting liminal spaces heralded as much by surrealism as by folk traditions, Nordström looks to the cultural, psychological and physical margins of society. Positioning his audience as voyeurs into derelict buildings, soundscapes and private lives - Nordström explores the conditions of "outside" to develop an oeuvre of outlines - physical perimeters, cut-outs and scraps - creative edges of civilization.

New Orleans has shaped his artistic imagination since the early '90s and is the home of the music he continues to make as a member of the band, Joakim Ahlund & Jockum Nordström.