Louise Bloom

Louise Bloom has created a whole collection of paintings, engravings and artist books that reinterpret the fabulous universe of Lewis Carroll.

Bloom employs the iconography of the world of our dear Alice in Wonderland, weaving poetry and image with a finesse and brilliance inspired by childhood memories of the enthusiasm with which her father introduced her to this extravagant world.

Whatever the medium, paint, print or book work, this artist preserves the essential character of the original sense and no-sense story, juxtaposing and exploiting opposites; the imaginary and the real, the extraordinary and the mundane, the absurd and the sensible, the dream-like and the logical, to shock us into awareness about the abusive nature of our consumer culture.

The resulting ironies serve to influence our perceptions, and like reversed images in a mirror, alter our gaze on a transforming world, disturbing us in the process.

At a time when we face prospects of ecological disasters, Bloom’s images impact us as they raise a multitude of questions: principally, what predictions for our world are revealed on the other side of the mirror?

Manon Régimbald

Directrice artistique du Centre des arts contemporains

du Québec à Montréal

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CINQ FEMMES

Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides,

Saint-Jérôme

du 11 septembre au 13 novembre 2011

The upcoming exhibition CINQ FEMMES unites five highly accomplished Laurentian women artists who are a creative “tour de force.” Louise Bloom is exhibiting works from the new collection of paintings and prints from her recent solo exhibition LIVRE OUVERT (Maison de la Culture Mercier) in Montreal in June of this year.

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(See link to Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides to view film about CINQ FEMMES)

http://youtu.be/3aW5YsOSWAY

Maison de la culture Mercier – Juin 2011

LIVRE OUVERT

Montréal – Juin 2011

LIVRE OUVERT is a finely woven, well integrated presentation of prints, collage and paintings that derive from my interest in story as a vehicle of transformation, rooted in the “narrative”. The work invites close reading and intends to surprise, stimulate, incite and sometimes shock the intellect. The consequences of our consumer culture and human greed have in recent years been a large part of the “story”.

My print works on paper as illustration and text, either my own or recycled, often result in the ironic marriage of medium and message. I use digital manipulation and photo processes in combination with hand drawing to achieve the desired composition. I favor lithography and etching. The “Artist Book” as a form has particular appeal.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

This is an exhibition of artist books that originate at the Atelier de l’Ile, a collective print studio in Val David, Québec, and L’Union de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba. This unique collection of 27 books, playfully and ingeniously explores the subject of art and new communication technologies.

Centre d’exposition du Vieux Presbytère, 150, rue des Peupliers, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec.

LOUISE BLOOM – TELEPHONO