LOUISE ERHARD
www.louiseerhard.com
Louise Erhard was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1985. Growing up in the Antique Business in South Florida Louise was taught at an early age to appreciate old things and explored and nurtured her own creativity by attending a performing Arts Middle and High School majoring in Visual Arts. While exploring all mediums Louise developed a love for darkroom photography with a focus on street photography. Louise attended the Savannah College of Art and Design with a major in photography. Afterwards in finding that obtaining and keeping up a personal darkroom would be unfeasible she began to explore and fell in love with collage as a medium. While continuing to be a multidisciplinary artist Louise found collage an appropriate platform in delivering the content she is interested in, touching on all while utilizing her appreciation through discarded and found vintage ephemera.
In a world gone digital Louise’s argument as an artist is keeping the artisan use of one’s hands alive. Louise’s works are found, cut and assembled solely with her hands. From a vast collection of outdated source material Louise tediously disassembles then reassembles paper planes to create her own dialogs, stories, and worlds. Playing with moods and tones Louise creates relatable situations and scenarios while exploring the psychology of the human condition through the relationships with others, ourselves, and life. When it comes to inspiration for her work, Louise uses the experiences from her own life, treating the canvas like a diary and an outlet for her own inner excavations. Always keeping a sense of humor, despite the content, Louise creates an air of optimism, which shows through in cheeky undertones and clever symbolism.
Louise has shown in exhibitions all around the US (one that she is most proud to of been a part of was a curated collage retrospective in which she hung along side her heroes who paved the way for such a medium as Martha Rosler and Louise Nevelson) and belongs in predominant contemporary collections, along with this Louise sold out a jewelry line of hers in the Whitney Museum Gift Store in NYC and recently had American Apparel turn one of her drawings into a fabric print for an Artist Collaboration.
www.louiseerhard.com
Louise Erhard was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1985. Growing up in the Antique Business in South Florida Louise was taught at an early age to appreciate old things and explored and nurtured her own creativity by attending a performing Arts Middle and High School majoring in Visual Arts. While exploring all mediums Louise developed a love for darkroom photography with a focus on street photography. Louise attended the Savannah College of Art and Design with a major in photography. Afterwards in finding that obtaining and keeping up a personal darkroom would be unfeasible she began to explore and fell in love with collage as a medium. While continuing to be a multidisciplinary artist Louise found collage an appropriate platform in delivering the content she is interested in, touching on all while utilizing her appreciation through discarded and found vintage ephemera.
In a world gone digital Louise’s argument as an artist is keeping the artisan use of one’s hands alive. Louise’s works are found, cut and assembled solely with her hands. From a vast collection of outdated source material Louise tediously disassembles then reassembles paper planes to create her own dialogs, stories, and worlds. Playing with moods and tones Louise creates relatable situations and scenarios while exploring the psychology of the human condition through the relationships with others, ourselves, and life. When it comes to inspiration for her work, Louise uses the experiences from her own life, treating the canvas like a diary and an outlet for her own inner excavations. Always keeping a sense of humor, despite the content, Louise creates an air of optimism, which shows through in cheeky undertones and clever symbolism.
Louise has shown in exhibitions all around the US (one that she is most proud to of been a part of was a curated collage retrospective in which she hung along side her heroes who paved the way for such a medium as Martha Rosler and Louise Nevelson) and belongs in predominant contemporary collections, along with this Louise sold out a jewelry line of hers in the Whitney Museum Gift Store in NYC and recently had American Apparel turn one of her drawings into a fabric print for an Artist Collaboration.
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