Louise Laplante

Louise Laplante
Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA

STATEMENT

Working in collage allows for free association. I use vintage periodical and book images to create discrete worlds that merge image, color, and placement. I play with concepts and redefine reality, combining elements intuitively, sometimes with a clear idea of what I want to achieve, and sometimes letting the elements drive the image, one thing leading to another. There is always something of a surrealist element to collage, letting logic go. The results are pictorial “dreams,” bits of reality recombined to create a new, free-form, invented world.

BIO

Louise Laplante studied at the Art Institute of Boston, received her BFA at the College of New Rochelle, and her MA in Fine Art at SUNY Albany. She began actively exhibiting her work in the 1980s in galleries throughout New York, New England, and the country. She works in several media, including pastel, oil stick, and mixed media with wax on panel, and collage. She received a Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant and was a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant in the
Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books category, as well as a Blanche E. Colman Award.

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