Louise Laplante

Exhibitions

2008

Small, Wünderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachsuetts

Interactions: Louise Laplante and Liz Chalfin, Wünderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Artists and Books, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

Louise Laplante: One Night, Pivot Media, Florence, Massachusetts

2007

20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wünderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Art Institute, Manchester, New Hampshire

2006

Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

2004

On Paper: Louise Laplante, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

Encaustics, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

New Acquisitions, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

2003

Reopening Exhibition, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

2002

The Belles of Amherst; Contemporary Women Artists in the Collection of the Mead Art Museum and the University Gallery, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts

1998

Vessels: Louise Laplante & David Powers, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

Ten Women, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts

1997

Self Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

1996

Painting Now, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island

Louise Laplante, Milton Art Museum, Milton, Massachusetts

1995

New Work: Louise Laplante, St. Germaine Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts

Drawings: Louise Laplante, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut

Small Works, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut

1994

Sesquicentennial Celebration, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York

Two Artists, Cuneen-Hackett Cultural Center, Poughkeepsie, New York

Large Drawings – Louise Laplante, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts

1993

Louise Laplante, Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts

Drawing Now, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1992

Louise Laplante, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York

Louise Laplante and Margaret Plaganis, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut

1991

Small Objects, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

The Changing World, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York

Louise Laplante New Work, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1989

New Artists: Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire

Figures and faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Louise Laplante, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

1988

Paperworks, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Small But Monumental, Hera Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

1987

The Subject is Water, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island

1986

American Contemporary Women Artists, Gallery Triangle, Washington, DC

1985

Louise Laplante, The Gallery, Springfield Tech Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts

Louise Laplante Works on Paper, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

1984

Works on Paper, F.A.C.E.T., Taos, New Mexico

Works on Paper, 100% Realart Gallery, Spokane, Washington

1983

Louise Laplante, Springfield Central Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts

Rope, Drawings by Louise Laplante, Main Street Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Women Artists, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1982

Two Artists Drawing, Gallery on Paper, Lenox, Massachusetts

Artists Self Portraits, Pratt gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Small Works, Passepartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont

Valley Artists ’82, The Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

1981

Invitational, Danco Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts

Bibliography

“On Paper”, Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, July 2, 2004

“The Belles of Amherst” Contemporary Women’s Art on View”, The Women’s Times, Northampton, Massachusetts, August 2002

“Two Artists, Shared Approach”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, August 2, 1998

“Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Ten Women”, Ellin Anderson, Art New England, June/July 1998

“Art by “Ten Women””, Ellin Anderson, The Haverhill Gazette, Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 19, 1998

“Variety in Whistler’s “Ten Women””, Otto Peter Erbar, The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 8, 1998

“Faces of Art” Anne-Gerard Flynn, The Springfield Times Union, Springfield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1997

“Canal Gallery”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 8, 1994

“Six University at Albany Graduates at Rice Gallery”, The Daily Gazette, Albany, New York, January 20, 1994

“At BCE Drawings Droll to Dramatic”, Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, September 29, 1993

“Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition”, catalog essay by Marilyn F. Hoffman and Michael K. Komanecky, The Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1989

“Art Scene: Louise Laplante” catalog interview by Martha Hoppin, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1989

“Thinking Through Your Art”, Patricia Wright, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 29, 1989

“Art Scenes Offer Powerful Images”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1989

“Small is Beautiful”, Bill van Siclen, The Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island, February 12, 1986

“STCC/Springfield: Louise Laplante”, Art New England, November/December, 1985

“STCC/Louise Laplante”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts September 29, 1985

Collections

Kingsley and Company, San Francisco, California

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

University Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, New York

Private collections

Awards

2008 Recipient, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund

2004 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants, Drawing/ Printmaking/Artist Books

2000 Work selected for inclusion in New American Paintings, Volume 26

1989 Finalist, The Blanche E. Colman Award

Education

MA in Fine Art, State University of New York at Albany, New York

BFA, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York