In this year of the Presidential election, Louise Eastman embarked on a body of work about the luck of the dice. In her studio, she wove a series of squares on her loom with different configurations of horizontal lines representing numbers 1-6 on the die. In February, during a series of visits to the Russell Janis studio she used the weavings as matrix, inking them and passing them through the press. She experimented with different quality of yarn for the stripes, anticipating they would receive or resist the ink to print with contrast. Laying out the woven squares on the press bed, she played with the 11 possible ways the squares could be arranged to build a cube.
Luck of the Dice, 30 x 22,” 2020
Series of 11 monoprints
Printed at Russell Janis studio
Published by the artist
MONOPRINTS
FRAGILE
Combining weaving and printmaking, I inked up 6 square weavings, each one a ‘side of a die’ and printed multiple times with a mimeograph like blue on manilla folders, offering the viewer the suggestion of a random roll. The combination of folders and ink hark to random office supplies, photocopies, and memories of a more well-ordered world. The dice are either a random role or a stacked deck. Either way, fragile. - Louise Eastman
Series of 6 Monoprints on manila folders, 17 1/2 x 12,” 2020
Printed at Russel Janis Studio, Published by artist