Artist Information:
Louise Weinberg
Allston, MA
United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
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Artist Statement:
Louise Weinberg - Artists
Statement
My work focuses on the issue
of containment – the human
desire for the safety of
enclosure and structure vs.
the terror of possible
entrapment. My abstract
paintings depict an array of
containers- grids, buildings,
eggs, spheres, circles,
squares and cubes.They suggest
that a container can protect,
imprison or both.
In my Spheres Emerging Series,
I paint spheres, which are
also containers, but the
spheres now appear to be free,
no longer held down, nor
struggling to burst out. These
paintings are concerned with
the notion of form developing
within a space. The spheres
are ambiguous -at once huge or
molecular. The space that
surrounds the form is
ambiguous as well -sometimes
deep, sometimes shallow.
Painting for me is a slow
gradual emergence of form into
space. Using palette knives,
nails, combs, rags -I push,
pull, dig and scrape -
searching for layers
underneath as I continue to
add more paint on top of older
layers. This way of working
always allows me to make
surprising discoveries, which
I find to be an essential part
of the painting process. My
paintings emerge gradually and
only after much struggle, not
unlike the way a person’s
sense of ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibitions
2006 “Louise Weinberg – New
Paintings”, Diamond-Newman
Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2006 “Louise Weinberg – New
Paintings and Drawings”, Art
Gallery, Brookline Senior
Center, Brookline, MA.
1998 “Louise Weinberg - Recent
Work”, Brandeis University
Gerstenzang Science Center,
Waltham. MA.
1997 “Louise Weinberg - New
Paintings”, Jewish Community
Center, Newton, MA.
Selected...
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Artist Galleries:
http:/www.phoenix-gallery.com
Phoenix Gallery
210 Eleventh Ave
NYC NY1001
http:/www.donovangallery.com
The Donovan Gallery
Tiverton, Rhode Island
http:/www.DianaLevineFineArt.co
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Diana Levine Fine Art Gallery
One Design Center Place
Boston, MA 02210 617 338-6030
http:/www.nkgallery.com
Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
460 ...
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Louise Weinberg's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Louise Weinberg's Portfolio.
Louise Weinberg - Artists Statement
My work focuses on the issue of containment – the human desire for the safety of enclosure and structure vs. the terror of possible entrapment. My abstract paintings depict an array of containers- grids, buildings, eggs, spheres, circles, squares and cubes.They suggest that a container can protect, imprison or both.
In my Spheres Emerging Series, I paint spheres, which are also containers, but the spheres now appear to be free, no longer held down, nor struggling to burst out. These paintings are concerned with the notion of form developing within a space. The spheres are ambiguous -at once huge or molecular. The space that surrounds the form is ambiguous as well -sometimes deep, sometimes shallow.
Painting for me is a slow gradual emergence of form into space. Using palette knives, nails, combs, rags -I push, pull, dig and scrape - searching for layers underneath as I continue to add more paint on top of older layers. This way of working always allows me to make surprising discoveries, which I find to be an essential part of the painting process. My paintings emerge gradually and only after much struggle, not unlike the way a person’s sense of ... |
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