Eastman included in a group exhibition "Games People Play" at VSOP Projects

Among mankind’s greatest inventions and obsessions, organized sports and games are, inarguably, one of culture’s greatest sources of passion, ritual, and amusement. 

Featuring quilted masterworks that draw formal inspiration from some of our most celebrated table games, dreamy oil paintings depicting solitary bodies immersed in water, fantastic works of folk and naive art (both real and faux), and complex abstractions that, when viewed from afar, reveal themselves as formal drawings of beloved sports stars, Games People Play is a wide-reaching celebration of some of the myriad intersections of art and sport.

The exhibition also features works by Louise Crandell, Robert Otto Epstein, Charley Friedman, Garance, Justin Horne, Jerry McLaughlin, Dan Nelson, Sam Schugren & Phoebe Faint, Wendy Small, Peter Treiber Jr., Felix van Dam and Winneke de Groot (We Are Out of Office), Lexa Walsh, and Jeffrey Wolf. 

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4, 6–8 pm.
On view: Saturday, November 4 to November 25.
Closing Reception: Saturday, November 25, cocktails, music, performances, and art giveaways from 7 pm. til late.

VSOP Projects @ Very Special
200 Main Street, Greenport, NY
Thursday to Sunday, 11–6 pm

VSOP Projects Office & Showroom (by appointment)
311 Front Street, Greenport, NY 11944
+1 631 603 7736
info@vsopprojects.com

Invitation to Collaboration: A Week of Printmaking at Russell Janis

Using the traditional double wedding ring quilt pattern, Louise Eastman will be working with Janis Stemmermann on a new series of block-printed images on the press at Russell Janis. Long-time collaborators, Louise and Janis invite you to join them while they work. During the week, artists Tara Geer and Annie Coggan will be leading conversations.

Wednesday, October 18  
Printing between 1–5 pm. Visual Thinking Strategies conversation led by Tara Geer at 5 pm.

Thursday, October 19  
Printing between 2–5 pm.

Friday, October 20  
Reception at 5 pm. with a conversation led by Annie Coggan.

Russell Janis Studio

292 Manhattan Ave 1G (entrance on Devoe St)

Brooklyn NY 11211
russelljanis.com


"Airing of the Quilts" at Duck Creek

The Arts Center At Duck Creek and Artist Louise Eastman invite you to celebrate Earth Day and the rites of spring at The Airing of the Quilts event, on Saturday, April 22.

Throughout the colder months, Quilts are there to warm our beds and shield us from the chill of drafty doors and windows. After a long winter of snuggling up under layers of handmade covers, the Spring gives us all a chance to get outside and air our quilts! Bring your quilt be it one you made, found, or inherited! Large or small, old or new, if it hangs from a clothesline, we'll hang it!

On view: 9–5 pm, Saturday, April 22, 2023
(Rain date April 23)

The Arts Center at Duck Creek
127 Squaw Rd, East Hampton, NY 11937
631-604-8464
info@duckcreekarts.org

"Players Constitute The Pieces"

Louise Eastman and collaborator Janis Stemmermann will be exhibiting new works in Players Constitute the Pieces at Planthouse Gallery this April. Works include monoprint textiles, a silkscreened edition on linen, and ceramic tiles. Combining the dotted grid of the childhood game Twister with stylized daisies––motifs borrowed from each artist’s independent practice—Players constructs an immersive environment of visual play and permutation. Together, Stemmermann and Eastman interrogate the capacious and productive nature of artistic collaboration; considering tools, materials, and even users as co-creators, Players invites viewers into new relations with artistic objects through touch, use, and re-arrangement.

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 13, 6–8 pm.
On view: April 13 to May 14, 2023.

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

Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann Textile/Print Collaboration 2022

For New York Textile Month VII, Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann will host an open house where you can meet the artists, see the workspace, and view the new works. Come to Russell Janis studio in Brooklyn, and see the artists printing carved linoleum and wood blocks onto assembled and patchwork textiles. Long-time collaborators, Eastman and Stemmermann create unique artworks and editions involving textiles and printmaking.

Follow the making of the project on Instagram @russelljanis.

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
5–8 pm.

Russell Janis Studio
292 Manhattan Ave 1G (entrance on Devoe St)
Brooklyn NY 11211

russelljanis.com
textilemonth.nyc

A Group Exhibition at Planthouse Opening July 12th!

Some of the best moments of summer take place at a carnival. This summer, Planthouse is proud to present Carnival, a group exhibition featuring work by Juan Pablo Baene, Deborah Chaney, Louise Eastman, Margaret Garrett, Margaret Lanzetta, Peter Schenck, Louise Sheldon, David B. Smith, and Janis Stemmerman.

Planthouse
55 West 28th Street, New York, NY, 10001

July 12 to August 19, 2022
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 12, 6–8 pm.

THREADING THE NEEDLE at The Church

This summer Eastman is included in Threading the Needle, an exhibition of work by contemporary artists using fabric and fiber practices showing at The Church in Sag Harbor. Threading the Needle is curated by Sara Cochran and Eric Fischl.

The compelling works gathered for this exhibition question and blur the artificial boundaries between fine art and craft as well as between genres historically associated with feminine or masculine roles. By tapping into the rich historical vein of traditionally handmade crafts, contemporary artists have, in greater numbers, been adapting and utilizing techniques derived from tapestry, weaving, embroidery, beading, quilting, and knitting that have profound effects on the meaning and aesthetics of their work. In counterpoint, craft practitioners have taken up the conceptual mantle of contemporary art to imbue their legacy materials with a new resonance. Artworks in this exhibition expand an aesthetic conversation into the realms of fashion, design, politics, race, gender identity, and technology. From intimately scaled works to immersive site-specific installations, these works reinterpret the histories of art and fabric and add nuance to principles of contemporary art. Questions of the interplay between skill, technique, and concept are at the center of this exhibition, challenging a cultural hierarchy that has traditionally privileged painting and sculpture and has valued certain skill sets while disregarding others.

The show features works by 50 international and local artists, including El Anatsui, Tabitha Arnold, Louise Bourgeois, Diedrick Brakens, Margarita Cabrera, Nick Cave, Judy Chicago, Helena Hernmarck, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alice Hope, Mike Kelley, Laurie Lambrecht, Dinh Q. Le, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Christa Maiwald, Charles McGill, Ernesto Neto, Maria Nepomuceno, Sheila Pepe, Erin M. Riley, Faith Ringgold, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Alan Shields, Julianne Swartz, and Hank Willis Thomas.

The Church
48 Madison Street, Sag Harbor

Opening reception: June 30, 2022, 6–8 pm.
On view Wednesdays to Sundays, 12–5 pm.
July 1 to September 18, 2022

For more information contact
cecilia@thechurchsagharbor.org

FIELDWORK

8 Artists at Lazy Point

A site-specific exhibition featuring Louise Eastman, Brian Gaman, Alice Hope, Chris Lidrbauch, Curtis Mitchell, Aya Miyatake, Michael Rosch, Bonnie Rychlak, and Janet Goleas, artist/curator. 

May 22 to September 4
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 22, 4 –6 pm. 

D’Amico Studio & Archive
128 Shore Road, Amagansett
New York, 11930

Damico-art.org
info@damico-art.org
631 267 3172

New Edition: Pink House by Victory Garden Collective

In light of the recent efforts to erase women’s reproductive rights in the United States, Victory Garden has made a limited edition print titled Pink House. It depicts the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s only remaining clinic that supports a woman’s right to make autonomous decisions about her body. All proceeds from the purchase of this publication will be donated to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization to support women’s right to choose in states which limit access to contraception.

In fact, those layers of state restrictions were working against her just as lawmakers had intended — pushing abortion out of reach, especially for those struggling to make ends meet. I watched her walk out after “counseling,” not knowing if I’d see her again. She made it back to get her abortion the next week, but not all patients do. - Shanon Brewer, Director of The Jackson Women's Health Organization

The Victory Garden Collective is Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small, and Janis Stemmermann.

VICTORY GARDEN, Pink House, 2021
Four-color linoleum block print on Kitakata paper
21 x 15 inches

Available at Planthouse

OPENING MOVES: Eastmans most recent work is on display at Planthouse

I have spent this past year working in a borrowed, abandoned red house next door. My time in lockdown became a residency. Before the pandemic, I’d begun to think about games of chance, dice, luck. With so much time to think, I started going over my history, memories from my grandfather’s porch of him playing backgammon with my brother. They could see the probability logic, calculate the rolls, trust the gambling. There are coveted rolls, double 6’s, accompanied by cheers. Double ones, snake eyes, and dice can symbolize bad luck but usually get a wahoo in backgammon. – LOUISE EASTMAN

Opening Moves includes ceramic works and monoprints.
On view May 21 to June 26, 2021

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