Louise K Weinberg

Education:

Brandeis University BA Magna Cum Laude Waltham, MA

Columbia University MS, NYC, NY.

School of the Museum of Fine Arts- 4 year Diploma in Studio Art, Boston, MA

Exhibitions at:

The Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

Phoenix Gallery, NYC,NY

DietzSpace, NYC NY (Solo Show)

The Mills Gallery- Boston Center for the Arts

Diamond Newman Fine Art, Boston MA -with Christine Vallaincourt

NKGAllery , Boston, MA

Lana Santorelli Gallery, NYC,NY.

Special Invitational Lana Santorelli Gallery, NYC NY

The Boston Graduate School   of Psychoanalysis, and The Jung Institue of Boston

Baak GAllery, Cambridge,MA

AD20/21 Boston's Art Fair

Bromfield Gallery  Invitational, Boston MA

Imago Gallery, Warren, Rhode Island award for excellence in painting

Brandeis University Gerstenzang Science Center

South SHore Art Center-honorablecmention in painting

Louise Weinberg

ARTIST 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 paintings depict an array of containers - grids, buildings, eggs, spheres, circles and squares and suggest that a container can protect, imprison or do both.

I find that my work often veers back and forth between competing dualities – abstraction vs. photorealism, loose vs. tight, contained vs. unrestrained, geometric vs. biomorphic shapes, painting vs. drawing, whimsical vs. serious, square vs. circle, creation vs. destruction. My most recent body of work “The Tension of Opposites’ is an ongoing  exploration of these and other dualities that creep into my paintings.

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 layers. This way of working always allows me to make surprising discoveries, which for me is 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 self emerges itself over the course of a lifetime.

Louise Weinberg