Louise Laplante

Louise Laplante
Easthampton, Massachusetts, USA

STATEMENT

My collages are based on free association, using vintage periodical and book images to create discrete worlds merging image, color, and placement. They play with concepts and redefine reality. Their elements are combined intuitively sometimes with an idea of what I want to achieve and sometimes just letting the elements themselves drive the image, one thing leading to another. There is always something of a surrealist element to collage, letting logic and reality go. These images were driven either by the text in a chosen element or by the configuration of that element. The results are pictorial “dreams”, bits of reality recombined to produce a new free-form invented world.

BIO

The artist studied at the Art Institute of Boston, received her BFA at the College of New Rochelle, and MA in Fine Art at SUNY Albany. She started actively exhibiting her work in the 1980s in galleries in New York, New England, and around the country. Currently, her work is represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, New York.

ARTIST CONTACT

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