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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 Galleries:
http:/www.phoenix-gallery.com
Phoenix Gallery
210 Eleventh Ave
NYC NY1001
http:/www.donovangallery.com
The Donovan Gallery
Tiverton, Rhode Island
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Diana Levine Fine Art Gallery
One Design Center Place
Boston, MA 02210 617 338-6030
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Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
460 ...
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Exhibitions for Louise Weinberg:
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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 Two Person and Juried Group Exhibitions
2008 “Louise Weinberg and Christine Vaillancourt” Diamond-Newman Fine Arts. Boston,MA.
“Then and Now”, SMFA Alumna, Pooke Gallery,Walnut Hill School, Natick,MA.
2007 “Paint”. National competition juried by Gerry Bergstein, Bancroft Gallery, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA. Honorable Mention award in Painting.
“Small Works” ,Bromfield Gallery, Juried show of small paintings, Boston, MA.
“Plus One”, a special exhibition featuring Bromfield artists + invited guests, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
“Egg Paintings”, Donovan Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island DeltaAirline Terminal- Logan Airport- Group Show: Selected Allston Artists,
Boston, MA.
2006 “Square Constructions– “Louise Weinberg and Cheryl Jaffe”, BAAK Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
“Size Matters”, Rhys Gallery, Boston,MA. Juried by William Stover, Director of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Barbara Lee, Art Consultant.
“Women’s Caucus for Art Regional Juried Exhibition”, Juried by Mary Fifield, MFA, president of BHCC and Laura Montgomery MFA, BHCC Gallery Director, Bunker Hill Community College Boston, MA.
“Faith in Art”, juried by Laura Montgomery MFA, BHCC Gallery Director, Bunker Hill Community College. Boston, MA.
2005 “Boston Arts Festival”, Juried show,Christopher Columbus Park.Boston,MA.
“Myth, Dream and Fantasy”, Gallery 1581 at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, MA.
2004 Boston Arts Festival”, curated by Joanna Soltan, curator-SMFA, Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art-RISD and Camilo Alvarez, co-director Samson Project Gallery, Boston, MA.
2003 “Egg Paintings”, North End Gallery, Boston, MA.
“Boston Arts Festival “, Inaugural festival curated by Carole Anne Meahan, Director ICA/Vita Brevis, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
“Jeff Koons Medal Award Dinner”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
”Hubbub”, Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts. Boston, MA.
2002 “Small, Smaller, Smallest”, Bromfield Art Gallery, Boston, MA.
“Barnet Rubenstein and His Legacy”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,MA.
“Boit Competition”,Grossman Gallery,School of the Museum of Fine Arts” Boston,MA.
“Robert Rauschenberg Medal Award Dinner”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
”Domestic Bliss”, Bentley College Art Gallery, Waltham, MA.
“New Art 2002”, National Emerging Artists’ Competition curated by Allison Kemmerer, Curator of Contemporary Art, Addison Gallery of American Art, MPG Gallery, Boston, MA.
2001 “Boit Competition”,Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
“The Chicken Show”, The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.
“Student Annual”, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
2000 “Cambridge Art Association Fall Salon”, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
1999 “Cambridge Art Association Fall Salon’, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
“Cambridge Art Association Group Show”, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
“Group Show”, Signature Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA.
“Newton Art Association Anniversary Show”, The New Art Center, Newton, MA.
1998 “Louise Weinberg”, Newton South Cooperative Bank, Newton, MA.
“Newton Art Association”, Newton Free Library, Newton, MA
“Newton Art Association’, The Armenian Museum and Library of America, Watertown, MA.
“The Art of Monoprinting”,Jewish Community Center Auditorium Gallery, Newton,MA. “Louise Weinberg”, Grove Bank, Newton, MA.
1997 “About Cambridge”,University Place Gallery, Juried show, Cambridge Art Association,Cambridge, MA.
“Group Show”, Gallery 333, North Falmouth, MA.
“Louise Weinberg”, Newton South Cooperative Bank, Newton, MA.
Selected Bibliography:
Studio Visit Magazine -Paintings to be featured National Magazine
published by OSP, publishers of New American Paintings. Edition to be available to the public in Sept 08.
Susan Mulski, “The Chicken Show”, Art New England, December/January 2002, Vol.23, No. 1
Cover Art – “Hierarchy” by Louise Weinberg in Salamander – the New England Journal For Poetry, Fiction and Memoirs, Vo.10, No. 2005
Awards:
2008 Imago Foundation Award for Excellence in Painting, Warren Rhode Island
2007 Honorable Mention –“Paint!” National show juried by Gerry Bergstein.South Shore Art Center
1999 Second Prize – Newton Art Association’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition, The Armenian Museum and Library of America, Watertown, Massachusetts.
1998 First Prize –“Annual Art Show”, Newton Art Association, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts.
1997 First Prize – “Annual Art Show”, Newton Art Association, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, Massachusetts.
Represented by Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, 450 Harrison Avenue. Boston, MA.
Diana Levine Fine Art, One Design Center Place, Boston, MA.
The Donovan Gallery, Tiverton Four Corners, Tiverton, RI.
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