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Color Theory
Workshop at the Anna Bier Gallery
Please join the Greenville Art Guild in the Anna Bier Civic Room,
Saturday March 24th from 10-12pm for a complimentary presentation on
Color Theory by Louise Captein, Associate Professor of Painting and
Drawing in the Department of Art at Otterbein University.
Louise is a native of The Netherlands. She earned her degree in
painting and drawing from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie School of Art
and Design in Amsterdam in 1991. She shows her oil paintings and paper
collages in solo- and group exhibitions in Ohio and throughout the
country. She has won a juror recognition award for her collage work
from art historian Richard Kendall in 2009. In 2006 she received an
Annie's Fund Award from the Ohio Art League for her painting A Perfect
Day from New York based artist Melissa Meyer and an honorable mention
for her painting Sunday Afternoon in the Park from Richard Rosenfeld,
director of The Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia. Her painting The
Meeting Place is in the collection of the Grosse Pointe Public Library
in Michigan.
Louise has taught art in the Netherlands and in the U.S. In the U.S she
has taught at The Ohio State University, the Columbus College of Art
and Design, Otterbein University and Columbus State Community College.
Louise Captein currently teaches as an Associate Professor of Painting
and Drawing in the Department of Art at Otterbein University."
Artist Statement – “My work revolves around the nuanced interplay of
shapes and spaces, the subtlety and strength of colors and overall
formal directness and clarity. My exploration of composition and color,
which is manifest in my work, reflects the Dutch tradition in painting
and design I grew up in and of which I am a part. The ways I structure
the picture plane, use color and apply abstraction is influenced by my
appreciation for Dutch painters like Johannes Vermeer, Piet Mondriaan
Karel Appel and, among other contemporary artists, painter Han Schuil.
The expressive mark making and emotive gestural qualities of Abstract
Expressionist paintings of the 1950's and 60's New York School and
early 20th century European Modernism are also sources of artistic
inspiration.
Throughout my career I have been fascinated by the mysterious content
of abstract and semi-abstract forms. This has led me to explore the
multiple meanings of shapes, spaces and colors in individual collages
and in series of related collages. In my process I probe the
flexibility of my materials. I "push" my shapes in different directions
while I test and stretch the natures and notions of my abstract and
semi-abstract forms.
As a colorist, in my paintings I passionately fine-tune color and
explore and celebrate the perceptual aspects of color, color
interaction and the push and pull of color fields. When it comes to
color, size matters: In my large-scale paintings, color fulfills its
promise. I explore how the smallest change in color alters a mood, or
reduces or refutes spatial tension in a composition. My careful
balancing and control of color produces the multi-dimensional, animated
effect that I am after. I intentionally keep the surfaces of my
canvasses smooth, without any texture - which further maximizes the
strength of my colors and the precision of my forms.”
https://dublinarts.org/2017/07/07/louisecaptein/
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