MAY HER MEMORY BE A REVOLOUTION

On September 18, 2020, less than two months before what might be the most important election in the history of our country, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. This iconic groundbreaking lawmaker and feminist was one of several American leaders that the Victory Garden Collective looked to for inspiration as it began creating publicly-engaged art projects that aimed to “initiate conversation and action.”

As our country declined into political turmoil since the 2016 election, people worldwide began using RBG's image and words to galvanize them in the fight for justice. Upon her passing, May Her Memory Be A Revolution, became a shared moniker for the collective loss felt, and an acknowledgment of the truly revolutionary life she led.

In honor of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the decades long work she did to defend our human rights, Victory Garden created May Her Memory Be A Revolution, a mirror to gaze at your reflection and let the memory of Ruth’s fortitude and strength inspire you to rise up and defend our democracy every day.

Victory Garden is a collective or women artists including Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

May Her Memory be A Revolution, 2020
Silkscreen on Mirror, 12 x12 inches, Edition of 50.
Printed in Brooklyn at Pegasus Prints.

Available at Planthouse

Victory Garden and Planthouse at the Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum Shop is featuring a limited collection of politically focused artwork by Victory Garden. Victory Garden is a collective or women artists including Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Subway: Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum 2/3 Stop

The Brooklyn Museum Shop

Eastmans latest ceramic work is on display at Gallery Diorama

I am comfortable in a haptic place and can I gamble with making shapes. From there you can imagine the possibilities, feel the anxiety of a loaded deck, anticipate what could be next, trust in chance, and the probability needed to produce the result in your favor. - Louise Eastman

MIGHTY, includes new works by Sara Weissler, Katie James, Tara Douglass, and Louise Eastman.
On view through November 2020. 

Gallery Diorama

Greenpoint, BK

JUSTICE by Victory Garden

Justice, by the Victory Garden Collective, 100 silkscreen tea towels and newsprint posters, published by Planthouse.

"We can’t have Law & Order without Justice for all. Our communities deserve Economic, Environmental, Racial and Social Justice for all. On November 6, Vote for Justice." - Victory Garden collective

Victory Garden is a collective or women artists including Louise Eastman, Jess Frost, Tara Geer, Katie Michel, Wendy Small and Janis Stemmermann.

Victory Garden
Justice, 2020
Silkscreen on Linen Towel and Newsprint
20 x 20 inches, 30 x 30 inches
Edition of 100

Available at Planthouse

Eastman's new monoprints, “Luck of the Dice,” on view at Russell Janis now

In this year of the Presidential election, Louise Eastman embarked on a body of work about the luck of the dice. In her studio, she wove a series of squares on her loom with different configurations of horizontal lines representing numbers 1-6 on the die.  In February, during a series of visits to the Russell Janis studio she used the weavings as matrix, inking them and passing them through the press. She experimented with different quality of yarn for the stripes, anticipating they would receive or resist the ink to print with contrast. Laying out the woven squares on the press bed, she played with the 11 possible ways the squares could be arranged to build a cube.

This exhibit is a window installation that can be viewed from the street only: everyday from dusk until dawn through the month of November. 

Russell Janis
292 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn NY
on Devoe St. next to the church
Graham Avenue L stop

russelljanis.com

Louise Eastman is featured in the E/AB Fair 2020

Louise Eastmans most recent series of monoprints, Luck of the Dice, is featured at the Russel Janis Gallery booth at the E/AB Fair. See more details about this work in the Dice section of this site.

The fair gathers an international community of over 60 publishers and dealers, featuring emerging and mid-career contemporary artists. Editions/Artists’ Books Fair has been New York’s premier showcase for the discovery of new and contemporary prints, multiples, and artists’ books for over 20 years.

The Editions/Artists' Books Fair this year will be online from October 14, 2020. 

Russel Janis Booth at E/AB

FRAGILE, an exhibition featuring Eastman at Planthouse Gallery, summer 2020

Combining weaving and printmaking, I inked up a 6 square weavings, each one a ‘side of a die’ and printed multiple times with a mimeograph like blue on manilla folders, offering the viewer the suggestion of a random roll. The combination of folders and ink hark to random office supplies, photocopies, and memories of a more well-ordered world. The dice are either a random role or a stacked deck. Either way, fragile. - Louise Eastman

FRAGILE is an online group exhibition that includes works by Mildred Beltré, Anders Bergstrom, Noah Breuer, Victoria Burge, Louise Eastman, Greg Foley, Simryn Gill, Valerie Hammond, Ruth Lingen, Matt Magee, Lothar Osterburg, Janis Stemmermann, Wendy Small, Naho Tarusihi, and Heather Watkins. 

FRAGILE, on view from July, 2020

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

MISS DEMOCRACY, including works by Eastman at Planthouse Gallery

I started making dice as a reaction to our threatened democracy. A pair of dice can be loaded, a gamble, a reminder of having something at stake. The snake eyes tiles, double ones, are smiling in a field of clover- saying “let’s not have another crapshoot election” so let’s VOTE. - Louise Eastman

MISS DEMOCRACY is an online group exhibition that includes works by Katie Commodore, Daniel Clarke, Angela Conant, Jeremiah Dine, Elizabeth Duffy, Louise Eastman, Glenn Goldberg, Phillip Hardy, Erik Hougen, Anki King, Michael Krueger, Martha Lewis, Matt Magee, Melissa Marks, Tanya Marquardt & David Smith, John Mitchell, Rachel Ostrow, Janis Stemmermann, Victory Garden, Rita Valley, Chuck Webster, and Diana Weymar, Tiny Pricks Project.

MISS DEMOCRACY, on view from May 15, 2020

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

New Work at Editions/Artists' Books Fair

The E/AB Fair has been New York’s premier showcase for the discovery of new and contemporary prints, multiples and artists’ books for over 20 years. We will be featuring new editions and unique images by Peter Bregoli, Peter Cross, Louise Eastman, Molly Haynes, Kathleen Kucka and Janis Stemmermann. Come visit, booth #D8 at The Caldwell Factory (aka Cedar Lake) in the heart of New York’s Chelsea art district.

Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann
Daisy Dice, 2019
Relief, Stencil and Chine Collé, 39-1/2 x 46 inches
Edition of 5

Russell Janis at the Editions/Artists’ Books Fair
The Caldwell Factory
547 West 26th Street NYC
between 10th and 11th Ave

October 24 – 27, 2019

HANDOFF: WEAVING IN SPACE

This site-specific project, conceived by Christine Sciulli and Bastienne Schmidt, takes on the tradition of the Exquisite Corpse as a collaborative action drawing-in-space, constructed and manufactured in-situ with ropes, threads and textiles. Referencing the drawing-in-space tradition of Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, and Fred Sandback, invited artists will engage their own practice in a ricocheting handoff to create a three-dimensional drawing – weaving and subsuming their contributions during the seven weeks of the exhibition to generate a large-scale spatial installation completed by the show’s closing. This piece invites discussion of conventional notions of authorship to explore the contemporary necessity of collective making.

“Handoff” artists include Louise Eastman, Sabra Moon Elliot, Saskia Friedrich, LoVid, Toni Ross, Bastienne Schmidt, Christine Sciulli, Morgana Tetherow-Keller, Virva Hinnemo and Almond Zigmund.

Shown above on left Saskia Friedrich installing, on right installation view.

HANDOFF Completion Celebration

Join us along with the artists from HANDOFF: Weaving in Space as we celebrate the completion of this dynamic collaborative exercise. Refreshments will be provided.

SUNDAY, March 24, 4-6 PM - FREE
Southampton Arts Center
25 Jobs Lane
Southampton, NY 11968

Handoff will be on view through Sunday, April 14.
For more information go to www.southamptonartscenter.org