Louise Weinberg
Biography
Louise Weinberg earned a BA from Brandeis University, an MS from Columbia University, and is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Through her paintings, she is constantly developing an understanding of the psychological and physical phenomenon of containment. The progression of her work -- from meticulously rendered life-like and over-sized eggs, to her abstractions of apartment buildings, elevator shafts, hallways, and grids, to dabs of what seem like never before seen colors bleeding into space-- forms a narrative of her life experiences.
Artist's Statement on The Sphere Series:
The sphere appears in this series over and over again, often in sets of three. Most often the spheres seem to float in space, but sometimes they are held down by gravity. Sometime they seem to be spinning, sometimes they are still. Form in space (volume and depth) intrigues me. Sometimes the spheres seem to emerge from the space and I leave the viewer to ponder the meaning of this. Pushing paint around with a palette knife allows me a greater tactile sense of the paint and feels very related to the process of drawing.
The sphere, like its flat cousin the circle, can represent qualities we yearn for as humans –a sense of wholeness, unity, simplicity, and symmetry.
We begin life contained inside a sphere (a uterus) and we begin life as a sphere (as morulas and blastulas). We live our life on a sphere (the earth.) I invite the viewers to examine their associations to this image as well as to the quantity of three which seems to appear so frequently in these paintings.
Awards and 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 show 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
21:23 Vision, Delta Terminal A -lower concourse, Logan Airport, Boston MA
2006
Allston Open Studios, Allston, MA
Size Matters, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA, Juried by William Stover, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA and Barbara Lee, Art Consultant and Collector
Faith in Art, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA
New Paintings, Diamond-Newman Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Square Constructions, with Cheryl Jaffee, BAAK Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Drawings and Diptychs, Brookline Senior Center, Brookline, MA
Women's Caucus for Art Regional Juried Exhibition, Bunker Hill Community College Boston, MA
2005
Myth, Dream and Fantasy, Gallery 1581 at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, Brookline, MA
Boston Arts Festival, Boston, MA
2004
Boston Arts Festival, curated by Joanna Sultan, Curator-SMFA, Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art-RISD and Camio Alvaraz, co-director Samson Project Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
Boston Arts Festival, Inaugural festival curated by Carole Anne Meehan, 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 Gallery, Boston, MA
Barnett 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, MGP 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
1999
Group Show, Signature Gallery, Chestnut Hill, MA
1998
The Art of Monoprinting, Jewish Community Center Auditorium Gallery, Newton, MA
Louise Weinberg, Brandeis University, Gerstenzang Science Center, Waltham, MA
Selected Bibliography
Susan Mulski, “The Chicken Show”, Art New England, Dec/Jan 2002, Vol.23, No. 1Studio Visit Magazine (OSP), Work selected for inclusion in September national publication.
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 Island2007 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, MA.
1998 First Prize –“Annual Art Show”, Newton Art Association,
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA.
1997 First Prize – “Annual Art Show”, Newton Art Association,
Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Newton, MA.
Source: Diamond-Newman Fine Arts LLC has sourced this information from the artist. This information is solely for historical perspective and we can not guarantee the comprehensivenessor complete accuracy of this information since we did not directly comprise the historical log of the artist's shows ourselves. Exhibition information should not be a basis for purchasing artwork.
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