NEW ORLEANS, LA.- Jonathan Ferrara Gallery presents The River of Forget featuring new works by artist Kathleen Ariatti Banton in her first solo exhibition with the gallery since 2008. The exhibition includes large abstract works on canvas as well as sculptural pieces that will draw upon the idea of “The River of Forget” which is one of the five mythological underground Rivers that a soul must travel after death. The title is symbolic for Banton in several ways; one being that her mother is suffering from dementia, which, in itself, is a River of Forget. Secondly, the body of work draws on the question of whether New Orleanians should resign to the notion that forgetting the past is part of the recovery process after Hurricane Katrina. A question I ask myself is can we choose which memories to keep and which we leave behind? And, of course, for me the metaphor is all about the water…the river…the t