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Louise P. Sloane: For The Love Of Color

February 7 – March 9, 2019

Louise P. Sloane, Mystic Garden, 2018, Acrylic paints and pastes on linen, 40 x 36 inches, one rectangle and a central square (blue, purple, yellow border) with personal text written in blue over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Mystic Garden, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

40 x 36 inches

 

Louise P. Sloane, Burner, 2018, Acrylic paints and pastes on linen, 36 x 36 inches, four rectangles and a central square (blue, purple, pink and green edge) with personal text written in pink over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Burner, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

36 x 36 inches

 

CCBAS, 2013, Acrylic paints and pastes on bent aluminum panel, 50 x 46 x 3/8 inches, four rectangles and a central square (blue, purple, light blue) with personal text written in red over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974.

CCBAS, 2013

50 inches x 46 inches

Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel

Louise P. Sloane, Sizzler, 2017, Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel, 46 x 44 inches, four rectangles and a central square (blue and orange) with personal text written in red-orange over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Sizzler, 2017

Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel

46 x 44 inches

 

Louise P. Sloane, The Mighty Atom, 2014, Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel, 50 inches x 46 inches, four rectangles and a central square (magenta and pink) with personal text written in green over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

The Mighty Atom, 2014

50 inches x 46 inches

Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel

Louise P Sloane, True Blue, 2005, Acrylic paints and pastes on wood panel, 80 x 72 inches, four rectangles and a central square (blue, purple, indigo) Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974.

True Blue, 2005

Acrylic paint and pastes on wood panel

80 x 72 inches

Louise P. Sloane, H Blues, 2011, Acrylic paints and pastes on wood panel, 80 inches x 72 inches (each panel is 80 x 36 inches), four rectangles and a central square (blue and cobalt) with personal text written in green over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

H Blues, 2011

80 inches x 72 inches (each panel is 80 x 36 inches)

Acrylic paints and pastes on wood panel

Louise P. Sloane, Green Square With Reds, 2010, Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel,34 inches x 30 inches, four rectangles and a central square (red and mahogany) with personal text written in green over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Green Square With Reds, 2010

34 inches x 30 inches

Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel

Louise P. Sloane, Ring Of Fire, 2018, Acrylic paints and pastes on linen, 36 inches x 36 inches, four rectangles and a central square (blue and lighter blue with green edges) with personal text written in blue and red over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Ring Of Fire, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

36 x 36 inches

 

 

Louise P. Sloane, RRCT, 2018, Acrylic paints and pastes on linen, 48 x 72 inches, four rectangles and a central square (magenta, red and blue with green edges) with personal text written in blue and red over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

RRCT, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

48 x 72 inches

 

Louise P. Sloane, Celeste, 2018, Acrylic paints and pastes on linen, 48 x 36 inches, rectangle and a central square (magenta, and yellow) with personal text written in orange and dark red over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Celeste, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

48 x 36 inches

 

 

Louise P. Sloane, Dangerzone, 2018, Acrylic paints and pastes on linen, 44 x 40 inches, rectangle and a central square (magenta, and yellow) with personal text written in orange and dark red over the squares to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Her works focus on geometric forms while celebrating color and texture.

Dangerzone, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

44 x 40 inches

 

Louise P. Sloane, DRVBS, 2015, Acrylic paint and pastes on aluminum panel, 26 x 24 inches, signed, titled and dated on the verso, SOLD, four rectangles and a central square (magenta, and purple) with personal text written over the squares in pink and blue to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974, embracing minimalist techniques and the beauty of color and texture.

DRVBS, 2015

26 inches x 24 inches

Acrylic paints and pastes on aluminum panel

Louise P. Sloane, It's All Good, 2018, Acrylic paint and pastes on linen, 44 x 40 inches, signed, titled and dated on the verso, four rectangles and a central square (yellow, blue, and peach edges) with personal text written over the squares in green to create three dimensional texture. Louise P. Sloane has been creating abstract paintings since 1974. Louise P. Sloane, has been creating abstract paintings since 1974, embracing minimalist techniques and the beauty of color and texture.

It's All Good, 2018

Acrylic paint and pastes on linen

44 x 40 inches

 

 

Press Release

Louise P Sloane:  For the Love of Color 

February 7-March 9, 2019

 

Spanierman Modern is very pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of Louise P. Sloane in Miami. You are invited to the opening reception on Thursday, February 7th, 2019 from 6-8 pm. Please RSVP here.

Sloane’s work at first blush seems confectionary in nature because of her choice of color and texture.  Upon closer, more serious examination, it becomes clear that her work is characterized by rigorous attention to formal elements such as color, shape, balance, and depth. 

Sloane has continued to develop a unique composition, which straddles the lines of Minimalism, gestural abstraction, and Color Field painting.  Commonly rectangles are divided into quadrants, with a square in the center, comprised of high key complementary colors.  All are filled with dense lines of what resembles cursive writing, arranged horizontally on the outer quadrants and vertically on the inner square. Color, for which Sloane’s work is perhaps most celebrated, here attains an unprecedented luminosity.  

Louise P. Sloane’s painting emanates from a long and rich tradition in art history. The visual language of her paintings embraces the legacy of reductive and minimalist ideologies while celebrating the beauty of color, and a human affinity for mark making.

In the second quarter of the nineteenth century, J.M.W. Turner pushed the limits of using dramatic color.In 1839, a French chemist named Michel Eugene Chevreul published his treatise on the vibrant interaction of the complementary pairings of color, which include, red-green, orange-blue and yellow-violet. Monet rejoiced in the complementary colors’ tendency to reinforce one another, painting red poppies in green fields. It was in this vein that van Gogh, after painting The Night Cafe in Arles, explained to his brother Theo, "I tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by contrasts of red and green." 

Georges Seurat evolved a system. An honorary founding father of Op Art, Seurat painted dots in colors he knew would dissolve, or 'optically mix' in the eyes of the beholder. The Fauves, and especially Matisse, took the next step, severing color's dependence upon nature. After World War II, the Abstract Expressionists liberated color once and for all from representation. Mark Rothko aspired to paint tragedy in brooding tones of purple.  After ten intensive years of achievement, the works of Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning spoke for themselves.

Painters that came of age around 1960 were determined to go in the opposite direction. Some of these artists spoofed the new consumer culture, while others ignored it. All of them responded to the arresting colors and hard edges of its graphic design.   They accomplished this by employing all kinds of abstract forms and color contrasts that stimulated the partnership of eye and mind. Many artists experimented with one or more 'Op' techniques, as they came to be called, in exactly the same creative spirit that many twentieth-century painters and sculptors studied Cubism without a thought of becoming 'cubists'.

Louise P. Sloane joins the ranks of a small but mighty group of great artists including Ellsworth Kelly, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Anton Albers and Barnett Newman. Like these monumental artists before her, she has dedicated her life's work to explore the limitless possibilities of a single theme; an insistence on color