Short Bio
She studied at the Art Institute of Boston, received my BFA at College of New Rochelle and MA in Fine Art at SUNY Albany, and started actively exhibiting her work in the 1980’s, in galleries in New York, New England and around the country. She works in numerous media, pastel, oil pastel, and mixed media with wax on panel and collage. She was the recipient of the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund grant and a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants, Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books and Blanche E. Colman Award.
Statement
I work in several media, all connected by my attraction to old paper for its contents, its images, and its aged beauty. The stains, discoloring, stray marks, and creases give it a richness not possible with new paper. My drawings in pastel use stencil-like silhouettes on the collaged vintage pages and are my response to the paper that forms their backgrounds.
My collages are based in free association, using vintage periodical and book images to create discrete worlds merging image, color, and placement. They play with concepts and redefine reality. I combine their elements intuitively, sometimes with an idea of what I want and sometimes letting the elements themselves drive the image. I reclaim and reinterpret the past to bring it into the present.
I have recently added oil stick on panel pieces to further explore my continuing fascination with black birds and how they move in the world in her oil pastels. The simply shaped backgrounds in vibrant hues complement the dark black birds as they interact with that world.
Resume / CV
Exhibitions:
2024
Echoes: A Journey Through Mixed-Media Collage, Painting, and Sculpture, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Nor’Easter, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going?, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Boston Muse: Womxn’s Art, Scollay Square Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Elusie Gallery, Easthampton, Massachusetts
2023
Microworks, A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
Smallish, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
As They Saw It: Women Artists Then & Now, D’Amour Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts and
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Nothing Permanent, Dartmouth Cultural Center, South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Used, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, Massachusetts
Strut, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2022
Looking Back Now - Louise Laplante, Laconia Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Summer Show, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Mixed Media Show, Dover Art Association, Dover, New Hampshire
Corporal Gestures – An Exhibition of Contemporary Collage, School of Architecture, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Collage: Departures and Adaptations – Nan Fleming and Louise Laplante, Anchor House of Artists,
Northampton, Massachusetts
Dodge and Burn, ArtsWorcester, Worcester, Massachusetts
2021
Looking Forward, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, New York
Revitalized, Stove Factory Gallery, Charlestown, Massachusetts
Variations, Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead, Massachusetts
2020
Natural Worlds, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Providence National, Providence, Rhode Island
The Newport Annual, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
2019
Creatures Big and Small, GR Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut
Collage, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York
Mediums of Exchange, Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, New York
2018
Figures We Fancy, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Shelter, A.P.E., Northampton, Massachusetts
Material Flow: Rhythm in Collage and Sculpture, Pratt Gallery, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
2017
Abstractions in Black and White, Gallery 175, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Blanche Ames, National, Borderlands, North Easton, Massachusetts
Five Points Biennial, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
A Declaration of Sentiments: Reflections on the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NYC, Athens
Cultural Center, Athens, New York
2016
Winter Exhibit, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2015
Boston Biennial Four, Atlantic Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Drawing, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Taking Root: Caniskek and the Meeting of Two Worlds, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, New York
North Northeast, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
NBMMA 45th
Exhibition, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
2014
New Directions ’14, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Connecticut Women Artists – 85th National, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, Connecticut
New England Collective V, Galatea Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Biennial Three, Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2013
Storytellers and Conjurers, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2012
Works on Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Drawing, b.j. spoke Gallery, Huntington, New York
Strange Glue, Thompson Gallery, Weston, Massachusetts
Silhouette, A.P.E., Northampton, Massachusetts
The Cadence of Familiarity, Krauss Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2011
20th
Anniversary Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
New Works, Paper City Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
Small Works, Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts
2010
Text/Context, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts
A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Here and Gone: Presence, Absence, Memory and Time, Amy H. Carberry Fine Art Gallery,
Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts
2009
Dreamscape, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
2008
Small’08, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Interaction: Louise Laplante and Liz Chalfin, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Artists and Books, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts
One Night, Pivot Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts
2007
20 Artists x 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Art Institute, Manchester, New Hampshire
Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
2006
Small: 20 Artists x 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
2004
On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
Encaustics, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
New Acquisitions, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2003
Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
2002
The Belles of Amherst: Contemporary Women Artists in the Collection of the Mead Art Museum and
The University Gallery, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts
1998
Vessels: Louise Laplante and David Powers, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
Ten Women, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts
1997
Self Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts
1996
Painting Now, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
Louise Laplante, Milton Art Museum, Milton, Massachusetts
1995
New York: Louise Laplante, St. Germaine Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
Drawings: Louise Laplante, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut
Small Works, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
1994
Sesquicentennial Celebration, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York
Two Artists, Cuneen-Hackett Cultural Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Large Drawings – Louise Laplante, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts
1998
Louise Laplante, Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts
Drawing Now, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1992
Louise Laplante, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Laplante and Margaret Plaganis, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
1991
Small Objects, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
The Changing World, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Laplante – New Work, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1989
New Artist: Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire
Figures and Faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Louise Laplante, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
1988
Paperworks, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Small But Monumental, Hera Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
1987
The Subject is Water, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
1986
American Contemporary Women Artists, Gallery Triangle, Washington, DC
1985
Louise Laplante, The Gallery, STCC, Springfield, Massachusetts
Louise Laplante – Works on Paper, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1984
Works on Paper, F.A.C.E.T. Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Works on Paper, 100% Realart Gallery, Spokane, Washington
1983
Louise Laplante, Springfield Central Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts
Rope – Drawings by Louise Laplante, Main Street Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Women Artist, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
1982
Two Artists – Drawing, Gallery of Paper, Lenox, Massachusetts
Artists Self Portraits, Pratt Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Small Works, Passepartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont
Valley Artists ’82, The Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
1982
Invitational, Danco Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts
Bibliography
As They Saw It, catalog, 2024
Microworks, A.P.E., exhibition catalog 2023
Red, Cambridge Art Association, exhibition catalog, 2023
Curator’s Pick, Women United Art Magazine, January/February 2023, p. 139
The Summer Show at Carrie Haddad Gallery, Art Spiel, Louisa Pancoast podcast, August 2, 2022
Corporal Gestures, 2022, exhibition catalog, p. 133
Exhibizone 2020, exhibition catalog, p.86
Providence Art Club National Open, exhibition catalog, pp. 139-140
2020 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, exhibition catalog, 2020
Mediums of Exchange, Bartholomew W. Bland, exhibition catalog, pp. 14-15
“’Works on Paper’ Evokes Yesteryear at Carrie Haddad Gallery”, Amy Griffin, Albany Times Union, September 26, 2012
Strange Blue: Collage at 100, catalog, essay Todd Bartell, 2012
Creative Quarterly No 21, The Journal of Art and Design, December 2010
“Louise Laplante: Here and Gone”, Paul Bloomfield, Art New England, April/May 2010
“Burge, King, Laplante and Hammond at Haddad Gallery”, Hudson-Catskill Newspaper, Hudson, New York, November 8, 2009
“On Paper”, Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, July 2, 2004
“’The Belles of Amherst’ Contemporary Women’s Art on View”, The Women’s Times, Northampton
Massachusetts, August 2022
“Two Artists, Shared Approach”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts,
August 2, 1998
“Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Ten Women” Ellin Anderson, Art New England,
June/July 1998
“Art by “Ten Women””, Ellin Anderson, The Haverhill Gazette, Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 19, 1998
“Variety in Whistler’s “Ten Women””, Otto Peter Erbar, The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 8,
1998
“Faces of art’, Anne-Gerard Flynn, The Springfield Times Union, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 8, 1994
“Six University at Albany Graduates at Rice Gallery”, The Daily Gazette, Albany, New York, January 20,
1994
“At BCE Drawings Droll to Dramatic”, Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts,
September 29, 2993
Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition, catalog, essay by Marilyn F. Hoffman and Michael K. Komanecky,
The Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1989
“Thinking Through Your Art”, Patricia Wright, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton,
Massachusetts, March 29, 1989
“Art Scenes Offer Powerful Images”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts,
March 12, 1989
“Small is Beautiful”, Bill van Siclen, The Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island, February 12, 1986
“STCC/Springfield: Louise Laplante”, Art New England, November/December 1985
“STCC/Louise Laplante”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, September
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Collections
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland
Kingsley and Company, San Francisco, California
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts
The Ontological Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
University Museum, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
University Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, New York
Private collections
Awards
2008 Recipient, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund
2004 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants, Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books
1998 Finalist, Blanche E. Colman Award
Education
MA in Fine Art, State University of New York at Albany, New York
BFA, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
Studied, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Represented by
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York
