Artist Information:
Louise Weinberg
Long Island City, NY
United States
Member Since: Aug 2006
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Artist Statement:
With a background in painting,
collage and mixed media, my
current body of work is
primarily photographic. The
urge to manipulate and combine
images never ceases though.
In these works, compelling
images are combined with
language, either original or
borrowed,
used either as titles or as
texts.
In “Notice,” an inkjet print
of a photo collage, I try to
come to terms with a trip to
Jackson, Wyoming last
year that has haunted me for
months. The incredible
experience of seeing a bison
ten feet away on the side
of the road left me with an
indelible feeling of
exhilaration
followed by despair as I read
in the Times that ranchers
have now lobbied successfully
to shoot what they call
a proliferation of these grand
beasts.
My re-worked photograph made
ghostly by effects in
Photoshop is combined with
other components: a
collaged image of an airdrop
in postwar Berlin that
looks ominous (not
reassuring), drops of what can
be blood or tears, an antique
fragment of an envelope
announcing a death in France
that I found in a
Paris flea market (knowing one
day that the reason
why I required it would become
clear to me),
and a transparent...
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Louise Weinberg's Free Artist Portfolio
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With a background in painting, collage and mixed media, my current body of work is primarily photographic. The urge to manipulate and combine images never ceases though. In these works, compelling images are combined with language, either original or borrowed,
used either as titles or as texts.
In “Notice,” an inkjet print of a photo collage, I try to
come to terms with a trip to Jackson, Wyoming last
year that has haunted me for months. The incredible
experience of seeing a bison ten feet away on the side
of the road left me with an indelible feeling of exhilaration... |
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