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.
This exhibit is a window installation that can be viewed from the street only: everyday from dusk until dawn through the month of November.
Russell Janis
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY
on Devoe St. next to the church
Graham Avenue L stop