Upcoming Show: FOUR MORE YEARS

This summer Louise Eastman will participate in Planthouse's celebration of its anniversary, a group show featuring artists shown over the past four years. 

Collaboration has been integral to Planthouse's mission, having not only showcased emerging artists, but also created new works with them. The publishing arm of the gallery will be featured in a display of print editions released since its founding - and will include the portfolio LIGHT, WEIGHT by Louise Eastman and Heather Watkins.

Exhibition dates: June 27 to August 11, 2017
Opening Reception: Tuesday, June 27, 2017 6–8pm

Planthouse Gallery
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–5 pm, or Mondays by appointment
55 W 28th Street, New York, NY
212.564.5502

For more information visit Planthouse FOUR MORE YEARS

IN THE STEPS OF FOLLY COVE - Kickstarter Campaign

Louise Eastman is participating with a group of diverse visual art practitioners invited to create unique prints using the same approach as the Folly Cove Design Collective. Along with Eastman, Peter Bregoli, Abigail Doan, Jean-Jacques Du Plessis, Jonathan Fabricant, Elise Ferguson, Susan Martin, Joe Peppe, Mylene Pionilla, Wendy Small, Barb Smith, Russell Steinert, Janis Stemmermann, and Andy Yoder will be creating works. IN THE STEPS OF FOLLY COVE is community-based project in Brooklyn, New York. 

Support IN THE STEPS OF FOLLY COVE on Kickstarter

MISS 2017, a portfolio of embroidered sashes

MISS 2017 Is a collection of silk sashes reminiscent of those worn by suffragettes in the early 20th century and then later by contestants in the Miss USA pageant. In this project The VICTORY GARDEN Collaboration return the sash to a context of political commentary from one of objectification, with text such as MISS REPRESENTED, MISS JUDGED and MISS LED.

President Trump owned the USA pageant until 2015 and the slogans reflect the artists’ frustrations with his misogynistic rhetoric and his assault on women’s health and reproductive rights.

The VICTORY GARDEN Collaboration is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

MISS 2017 is included in the Public Collections of The New York Historical Society and The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven.

For more information contact Planthouse Gallery at 212.564.5502

Rise Up on National Strike Day 2017

For Valentines Day 2017, the VICTORY GARDEN Collaboration created a number of projects to support the National Strike on February 17th. These included Heart Candies, Postcards, Suffragette Sashes, and a DIY Valentines Day sticker kit. 

The VICTORY GARDEN Collaboration is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

Download a DIY Valentines Day sticker kit

For more information read Suffragette Sashes or contact the Russell Janis gallery.

Russell Janis Gallery
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
917.951.3485

PERSIST DENIM APRON available now!

An another art project for protest by VICTORY GARDEN - The PERSIST DENIM APRON is to be worn as a morale booster in this current political climate. Hand sewn and screen printed by the artists in Brooklyn, NY.

The VICTORY GARDEN Collaboration is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

Available at Russell Janis

A SENSE OF PLACE

Southampton Arts Center announces the first exhibition of 2017, A SENSE OF PLACE. Organized by Bastienne Schmidt, this exhibition is envisioned as a dialogue among artists reflecting their own concept of “a sense of place” in different ways, might it be in a physical manner or as a conceptual representation of what an environment can be.

A SENSE OF PLACE includes Philippe Cheng, Louise Eastman with Janis Stemmermann, Christopher French, Saskia Friedrich, Mary Heilmann, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Michelle Stuart, Edwina von Gal and the Perfect Earth Project, and Almond Zigmund.

On View: February 24 through April 9, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 25, 5-7 pm
Gallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday, 12-6 pm

Southampton Arts Center
Open Thursday to Sunday, 12-6 pm
25 Jobs Lane, Southhampton, NY
631.283.0967

Louise Eastman is featured in Art Blog

Trump World – Signs of Protest
Art Blog, By Matthew Rose, February 19, 2017

Excerpt:

Small actions and objects became symbols of resistance–hand-knitted “pink pussy” hats became the de facto signifier of defiance. 

In Brooklyn, New York, a small group of women artists, curators, gallery owners, and printmakers called the Victory Garden Women’s Collective came together to print and distribute more than one thousand "Suffragette Sashes" for the January 21 marches. The pieces echoed the women’s suffrage march in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913. Designed by artist Louise Eastman sashes read, MISS TREATED, MISS JUDGED, MISS HANDLED and MISS LED...

Read the full article on Art Blog

VICTORY GARDEN at Planthouse Gallery

Louise Eastman will be participating in VICTORY GARDEN, a salon style exhibition featuring paintings and works on paper by fifty artists from around the country at Planthouse Gallery in Manhattan. The opening reception will take place on Thursday, December 8, from 6-8PM. All works will be priced at $500 or less. 

Exhibition Dates: December 8, 2016 to January 13, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 8, 6-8pm

During World War I and II, Victory Gardens were planted next to private homes and in public parks throughout North America, Europe and Australia. Designed to reduce pressure on the food supply, the gardens were also considered to be morale-boosting symbols of solidarity. Government-led campaigns were mounted, with lithographic posters targeting urban and rural dwellers alike and inspiring them to plant fruits and vegetables. Citizens felt empowered by their contributions to the war effort and rewarded by the produce grown. Today, our world is in political and environmental turmoil and we are similarly in need of nourishment and unification. The show will feature small paintings, prints, and works on paper that in some way connect to this theme.  

For more information visit http://planthouse.net/

Planthouse Gallery
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 12–5pm, or Mondays by appointment
55 W 28th Street, New York, NY
212.564.5502

VICTORY GARDEN t-shirts have arrived!

Eastman’s VICTORY GARDEN t-shirt is now available, along with designs by Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann. 20% of the proceeds will be donated to GrowNYC's Greenmarket division where funds are used to help make greenmarkets accessible for all income levels. 

Russell Jannis Gallery
Open Saturdays 11AM-7PM or by appointment
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
917.951.3485

Buy online at the VICTORY GARDEN shop

MARIGOLD an Eastman & Stemmermann Collaboration

Cultivation, color and cloth is the framework for this fall’s ongoing MARIGOLD collaboration between Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann. For their first series of the season, they printed marigolds on large scarf panels of lightweight wool and silk. MARIGOLD is available at Russell Jannis Gallery. 

Russell Jannis Gallery
Open Saturdays 11AM-7PM or by appointment
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn
917.951.3485