{"title":"Louise P. Sloane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/louise-p-sloane\/louise-p-sloane-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Lilly Wei's catalog essay for  \"Back to The Future: The Paintings Of Louise P. Sloane. Works From 1976-2022\" Spanierman Modern, NYC. 2024.\r\u003cbr\u003e\"Louise P. Sloane has been making paintings for around five decades, give or take a few years, a pursuit she still finds engrossing, not surprising in a medium that has served humans as a means of expression for millennia—surely passing the test of time.  From the 1970s onward, Sloane—who is a maximalist posing as a minimalist—has focused on structure, materiality, texture, text, and, above all, color. Her surfaces were often pared down to one or two hues in her early work but eventually, she added more, at first mostly subsurface, the multiple layers sandwiched beneath adding depth and density to the painting while the reflection and refraction of physical light skittering across the surface activated its subtle luster. Often working in series, Sloane has opted for a progression that is slow, meticulous, suited to her temperament, the paintings submitted to an exhaustive investigation of combinations and permutations, reveling in a process that is hands-on, empirical, and adamantly not predetermined. Instead, she asks herself constant questions, finding the answers to them in the paintings as she proceeds—as well as new questions. \" Lilly Wei 2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/helloart.com\/collections\/louise-p-sloane.oembed","provider":"helloart","version":"1.0","type":"link"}