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Louise Eastman’s work DECEMBER 3, 2014, in the Smack Mellon show RESPOND is featured on the New York Times "Protest Art" slide show. The slide show is a feature of Holland Cotter's article "Raging at Racism, From Streets to Galleries, Smack Mellon and Grey Art Display Art Sparked by Politics" from Jan 22, 2015.
RESPOND runs through Feb. 22 at Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street at Washington Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn; 718-834-8761, smackmellon.org.
Louise discusses her potholders in this short documentary aboutPAPER REVERIES. The show will be open until February 7 at Shirley Fiterman Art Center. 81 Barclay Street, New York, NY.
Smack Mellon has postponed planned exhibitions in order to respond to the continued failure of the United States to protect its black citizens from police discrimination and violence. The gallery space will be used to present events, performances and artworks that address the institutional racism that allows for the police to murder black members of the community. Louise Eastman will be participating.
Exhibition Dates: January 17- February 22, 2015. For a full list of artists and information about events during this show visit www.smackmellon.org. Smack Mellon is at 92 Plymouth St, Brooklyn.
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Louise Eastman’s steadfast avoidance of canvas or paper is a laudable twist on conventional art-making that still hangs on a wall.
In “Loop Holes,” Louise Eastman’s homespun weavings and cast bricks look perfectly at home in the barn that houses the Silas Marder Gallery exhibition space in Bridgehampton. Yet they would look equally at home in some of the South Fork’s remaining untouched classic midcentury ranches, complete with linoleum floors and Formica countertops.
Read MoreEastman will be included in a new group show, PAPER REVERIES at Shirley Fiterman Art Center, December 11 to February 7, 2015. The opening reception is on Wednesday, December 10, from 6 to 9. Shirley Fiterman Art Center is at 81 Barclay Street, New York, NY.
Eastman will be included in a new group show, HOME SPUN, at Silas Marder gallery, November 29 to December 21, 2014. The opening reception is on Saturday, November 29, from 4 to 8 with the Peter Watrous Trio from 5-7pm. Silas Marder Gallery is at 120 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, NY. For more details: info@silasmarder.com.
LOUISE EASTMAN LOOP HOLES has been extended to remain on view through November 16, 2014. Silas Marder Gallery is located at 120 Snake Hollow Road, Bridgehampton, NY 11932. For more information go to: silasmarder.com.
The first time it was shown was May 2014. The ball started as a collection of all the materials left over in my studio, from 2 years, cut into strip and wound into a ball. Then woven onto a 8x10’ loom over the period of a week, then rolled back into a ball. The second time: It remains a ball on the floor with the beginning thrown over and hanging on a rafter at Silas Marders Gallery.
The original intention for this was a participatory maypole, October, 2014. It started as a ball with a pole reaching out of it. Anyone is welcome to sew, knit and add on to it. It has grown up a staircase and canopied out. Seems more like a fort now. I will wind it all back into a ball at the end of the show.
"The artist’s site-specific installation, LOOP HOLES, a conflagration of wool tubes and tape, felt and stringy bits, is true knit-bliss. A gleeful miasma of lines and twists and knots of color, the structure mounts the stairs and balcony, loosely knitting a helter-skelter scaffolding that seems to emanate from an oversize yet unassuming yarn ball nearby. Prismatic and sumptuously haywire, the net result is this side of euphoria." - Janet Goleas
