Louise Belcourt | |
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Born | 1961 Montreal, Canada |
Nationality | Canadian, American |
Education | Mount Allison University |
Known for | Painter |
Awards | John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts |
Website | Louise Belcourt |
Louise Belcourt (born 1961) is a Canadian-American artist based in New York, known for elusive, largely abstract paintings that blend modernist formal play, a commitment to the physical world, and a visual language that shifts between landscape and the body, architecture and geometric form.[1][2][3][4] New York Times critic Ken Johnson writes of her earlier work, "balancing adroitly between Color Field abstraction and Pop-style representation, Ms. Belcourt's paintings invite meditation on the perceptual, the conceptual and how our minds construct the world."[5] Describing her later evolution, David Brody writes in Artcritical, "Hard-nosed Canadian empiricism and Brooklyn grit seem to combine in Belcourt’s work to undermine stylistic stasis."[6]
Belcourt has exhibited internationally, including shows at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Vienna Kunstlerhaus, The Drawing Center, Stewart Hall (Quebec), and the Weatherspoon Art Museum.[7][8][9][10] She has received awards from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others,[11][12] and her art belongs to the art collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Cultural Ministry of Quebec, and Fleming Museum of Art.[13][14][15]
Belcourt splits her time between Brooklyn, New York and eastern Quebec, Canada.[2][16]