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Louise LaplanteRaven Reads the Lines: Chalk Drawing of Black Bird on Vintage Book Pages2019
2019
$3,000

About the Item
Raven Reads the Lines (Chalk Drawing of Black Bird on Vintage Book Pages) by Louise Laplante
chalk on vintage collaged book pages.
Artwork measures 25 x 37 inches unframed
This contemporary, graphic chalk drawing on collaged vintage book pages was made by Louise Laplante in 2019. The vivid silhouette of a single black bird is stenciled on aged, vintage pages of a likely an early 20th century book entitled "Stars of Destiny". The pages contain illustrations of diagrams instruction how to palm read. In certain segments the stenciled images are delicately brushed over with a thin wisp of chalk which adds a delicate textured effect to the drawing.
About the artist:
Interested in blending the old world with the new, mixed media artist Louise Laplante combines her original images with ephemera of the past, enticing a conversation about it’s “relevancy to the present.” Her compositions begin with vintage book pages, personal handwritten letters, sheet music, or instruction from old guides on etiquette or science. While the text itself is weighted with reference to a particular subject, the visual of the typed or handwritten words and printed illustrations establish a unique pattern. These layered backgrounds are superimposed with opaque charcoal drawings that are inspired by the themes read between the lines. Most recently, the artist has opted for larger scale work, combining multiple sheets of vintage paper to expand her unique motifs. Laplante exhibits across the Northeast and has shown with Carrie Haddad for more than ten years.
Artist Statement:
My work connects the texts, and ideas, in the vintage book, music or correspondence pages, with images those words evoke to comment on how the past still resonates, whether we are aware of it or not.
It is informed by my love for old paper, letters, books and images, both as reminders of the past and as bits of pattern, tone, line and shape. The text on them acts as both content and visual device. With each work, I select, arrange and collage these pieces creating both a support and pattern building on it with motifs that are suggested by words on the papers. Although I often start with an agenda I always allow each work to build its own image.
Artist Resume:
Education
MA in Fine Art, State University of New York at Albany, New York
BFA, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
Studied, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Exhibitions
2019 Mediums of Exchange, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York
2018 Figures We Fancy, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Shelter, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
Material Flow: Rhythm in Collage and Sculpture, Pratt Gallery, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
2017 Abstractions in Black and White, Gallery 175 Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Blanche Ames National, Borderlands, North Easton, Massachusetts
Five Points Biennial, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
A Declaration of Sentiments: Reflections on the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NYS, Athens
Cultural Center, Athens, New York
2016 Winter Exhibit, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2015 Boston Biennial 4, Atlantic Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Drawing, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Taking Root: Caniskek and the Meeting of Two Worlds, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, New York
North Northeast, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
NBMMA 45th Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
2014 New Directions ’14, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Connecticut Women Artists – 85th National, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut
New England Collective V, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Biennial 3, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2013 Storytellers and Conjurers, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2012 Works on Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Drawing, b.j. spoke gallery, Huntington, New York
Strange Glue, Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts
Silhouette, A.P.E., Northampton, Massachusetts
The Cadence of Familiarity, Krauss Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2011 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Paperworks, Paper City Studios, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Small Works, Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts
2010 Text/Context, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Here and Gone: Presence, Absence, Memory and Time, Amy H. Carberry Fine Art Gallery,
Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts
2009 Dreamscape, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2008 Small ’08, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Interaction: Louise Laplante and Liz Chalfin, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst Massachusetts
Artists and Books, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
One Night, Pivot Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts
2007 20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Art Institute, Manchester, New Hampshire
Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2006 Small: 20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2004 On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Encaustics, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
New Acquisitions, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2003 Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2002 The Belles of Amherst; Contemporary Women Artists in the Collection of the Mead Art Museum
and the University Gallery, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
1998 Vessels: Louise Laplante & David Powers, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
Ten Women, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts
1997 Self Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
1996 Painting Now, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
Louise Laplante, Milton Art Museum, Milton, Massachusetts
1995 New Work: Louise Laplante, St. Germaine Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
Drawings: Louise Laplante, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut
Small Works, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
1994 Sesquicentennial Celebration, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
Two Artists, Cuneen-Hackett Cultural Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Large Drawings – Louise Laplante, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
1993 Louise Laplante, Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Drawing Now, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1992 Louise Laplante, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Laplante and Margaret Plaganis, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
1991 Small Objects, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
The Changing World, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Laplante New Work, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 New Artists: Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
Figures and Faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Louise Laplante, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
1988 Paperworks, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Small But Monumental, Hera Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
1987 The Subject is Water, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
1986 American Contemporary Women Artists, Gallery Triangle, Washington, DC
1985 Louise Laplante, The Gallery, Springfield Tech Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts
Louise Laplante Works on Paper, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1984 Works on Paper, F.A.C.E.T., Taos, New Mexico
Works on Paper, 100% Realart Gallery, Spokane, Washington
1983 Louise Laplante, Springfield Central Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
Rope, Drawings by Louise Laplante, Main Street Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Women Artists, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
1982 Two Artists Drawing, Gallery on Paper, Lenox, Massachusetts
Artists Self Portraits, Pratt Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Small Works, Passepartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont
Valley Artists ’82, The Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1981 Invitational, Danco Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts
Bibliography
“’Works on Paper’ Evokes Yesteryear, at Carrie Haddad Gallery”, Amy Griffin, Albany Times Union, September 26, 2012
‘’Strange Glue: Collage at 100”, catalog, essay Todd Bartell, Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts, 2012
Creative Quarterly No. 21, The Journal of Design and Art, December 2010
“Louise Laplante: Here and Gone”, Paul Bloomfield, Art New England, April/May 2010
“Burge, King, Laplante and Hammond at Haddad Gallery”, Hudson-Catskill Newspapers, Hudson, New York, November 8, 2009
“On Paper”, Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, July 2, 2004
“The Belles of Amherst” Contemporary Women’s Art on View”, The Women’s Times, Northampton, Massachusetts, August 2002
“Two Artists, Shared Approach”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, August 2, 1998
“Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Ten Women”, Ellin Anderson, Art New England, June/July 1998
“Art by “Ten Women””, Ellin Anderson, The Haverhill Gazette, Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 19, 1998
“Variety in Whistler’s “Ten Women””, Otto Peter Erbar, The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 8, 1998
“Faces of Art” Anne-Gerard Flynn, The Springfield Times Union, Springfield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1997
“Canal Gallery”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 8, 1994
“Six University at Albany Graduates at Rice Gallery”, The Daily Gazette, Albany, New York, January 20, 1994
“At BCE Drawings Droll to Dramatic”, Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, September 29, 1993
“Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition”, catalog essay by Marilyn F. Hoffman and Michael K. Komanecky, The Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1989
“Art Scene: Louise Laplante” catalog interview by Martha Hoppin, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1989
“Thinking Through Your Art”, Patricia Wright, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 29, 1989
“Art Scenes Offer Powerful Images”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1989
“Small is Beautiful”, Bill van Siclen, The Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island, February 12, 1986
“STCC/Springfield: Louise Laplante”, Art New England, November/December, 1985
“STCC/Louise Laplante”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts September 29, 1985
Collections
Kingsley and Company, San Francisco, California
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
University Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, New York
Private collections
Awards
2008 Recipient, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2004 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants, Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books
1998 Finalist, Blanche E. Colman Award
- Creator:Louise Laplante (American)
- Creation Year:2019
- Dimensions:Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 37 in (93.98 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Hudson, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2274169211
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