Jeannette Louie Press Release 2000

January 6 February 5, 2000

Press Release for publication:
Esso Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the year 2000 with a new installation by

Jeannette Louie
over there, over here, Hokusai

Opening reception: Thursday, January 6, 2000 68 p.m.
Exhibition Dates:

The Chinese-American artist Jeannette Louie, current fellow at the American Academy in Rome, presents a new installation thinking on Japanese engraver and painter Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The subject of her project focuses on the most famous image from Hokusai's series Thirty six and one hundred views of Mount Fuji: The Big Wave. The result will be obvious for those viewers who are familiar with the image, not just because in the center of Jeannette Louie's composition there is a framed mirror on top of which she has placed a photograph of Mount Fujiama, but also because of the sheets of cut paper orderly displayed in front of the framed image, that the wind moves like waves. This does not seem to be just a deliberate distortion, but embarks the artist and the spectator on a sort of dialectical analysis. Instead of asking her self the now obsolete question "May I use a simile, the simile of a tree?" Jeannette Louie's sense of direction brings order into the passing stream of image and experience. The title of the piece recites over there, over here, Hokusai, and follows the precise rhythm of the waves; it sets the direction of her work not just in nature and life, but also in the visual experience of art, placing the viewer far enough from the image-source, standing below the waves, so that "something else" is absorbed and reflected, something at the level of the ocean that becomes part of the work. (Potassio Pliffi)

Jeannette Louie is an artist born and living in New York. She has taught and lectured at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, at P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, at The Caldwell-West Caldwell Center of Community & Continuing Education, West Caldwell, NJ. A recent recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize, with a year residency at the American Academy in Rome, she has received many awards such as The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship; Vermont Studio Center, VT; the Skowhegan Payson Governor's Fund Fellowship for Asian Artists, Skowhegan, ME; The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY, NEA Printmaking Fellowship; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Aim Program. Her work has been previously exhibited in solo shows at Esso Gallery, NY and Trans Hudson Gallery, NJ and in group shows at the Parsons Gallery, at the Bronx Museum, at PS122, New York, NY, at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, at Time & Art, Sardinia, Italy and more recently at Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy in a group show curated by Esso Gallery.

Please note !
the exhibition

ALIGHIERO e BOETTI
Masterworks on Paper 19671984 and related images by
Elisabetta Catalano, Gianfranco Gorgoni and Paolo Mussat Sartor

has been extended through February 5, 2000


	January 6 February 5, 2000
	Press Release for publication: Esso Gallery is pleased to inaugurate the year 2000 with a new installation by Jeannette Louie over there, over here, Hokusai Opening reception: Thursday, January 6, 2000 68 p.m. Exhibition Dates: The Chinese-American artist Jeannette Louie, current fellow at the American Academy in Rome, presents a new installation thinking on Japanese engraver and painter Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The subject of her project focuses on the most famous image from Hokusai's series Thirty six and one hundred views of Mount Fuji: The Big Wave. The result will be obvious for those viewers who are familiar with the image, not just because in the center of Jeannette Louie's composition there is a framed mirror on top of which she has placed a photograph of Mount Fujiama, but also because of the sheets of cut paper orderly displayed in front of the framed image, that the wind moves like waves. This does not seem to be just a deliberate distortion, but embarks the artist and the spectator on a sort of dialectical analysis. Instead of asking her self the now obsolete question "May I use a simile, the simile of a tree?" Jeannette Louie's sense of direction brings order into the passing stream of image and experience. The title of the piece recites over there, over here, Hokusai, and follows the precise rhythm of the waves; it sets the direction of her work not just in nature and life, but also in the visual experience of art, placing the viewer far enough from the image-source, standing below the waves, so that "something else" is absorbed and reflected, something at the level of the ocean that becomes part of the work. (Potassio Pliffi) Jeannette Louie is an artist born and living in New York. She has taught and lectured at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, at P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, at The Caldwell-West Caldwell Center of Community & Continuing Education, West Caldwell, NJ. A recent recipient of the prestigious Rome Prize, with a year residency at the American Academy in Rome, she has received many awards such as The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship; Vermont Studio Center, VT; the Skowhegan Payson Governor's Fund Fellowship for Asian Artists, Skowhegan, ME; The Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY, NEA Printmaking Fellowship; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, Aim Program. Her work has been previously exhibited in solo shows at Esso Gallery, NY and Trans Hudson Gallery, NJ and in group shows at the Parsons Gallery, at the Bronx Museum, at PS122, New York, NY, at New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, at Time & Art, Sardinia, Italy and more recently at Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy in a group show curated by Esso Gallery.
Please note !	the exhibition ALIGHIERO e BOETTI Masterworks on Paper 19671984 and related images by Elisabetta Catalano, Gianfranco Gorgoni and Paolo Mussat Sartor has been extended through February 5, 2000