Louise Belcourt

Louise Belcourt
Born1961
Montreal, Canada
NationalityCanadian, American
EducationMount Allison University
Known forPainter
AwardsJohn S. Guggenheim Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts
WebsiteLouise Belcourt
Louise Belcourt, Mound #12, oil on panel, 22” x 29”, 2012.

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]

  1. ^ Yau, John. "Weekend Studio Visit with Louise Belcourt," Hyperallergic, January 25, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Butler, Sharon. "Louise Belcourt," The Brooklyn Rail, March 5, 2010, p.25. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  3. ^ Church, Amanda. "Louise Belcourt," ARTnews, June 2012, p. 97.
  4. ^ Volk, Gregory. "Big Brash Borough," Art in America, September 2004.
  5. ^ Johnson, Ken. "Louise Belcourt – 'Wriggling Philosophical Life'," The New York Times, May 7, 2004, p. E38. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  6. ^ Brody, David. "Louise Belcourt at Jeff Bailey Gallery," Artcritical, March 22, 2010. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  7. ^ Cohen, David. "As Sprawling As Brooklyn Itself," The New York Sun, April 22, 2004.
  8. ^ Yablonsky, Linda. "Borough sprawl," Time Out (New York), April 29–May 6, 2004.
  9. ^ Servetar, Stuart. Review, New York Press, July 10–16, 1996.
  10. ^ McAdams Shane. "Manufacturing Dissent: The London Art Fairs," The Brooklyn Rail, November 2007, p. 35. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  11. ^ Artforum. "2012 Guggenheim Fellows Announced," News, April 12, 2012. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  12. ^ Greenberger, Alex. "New York Foundation for the Arts Announces 2015 Artists’ Fellowships," ARTnews, July 24, 2015. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  13. ^ DeFeo, Ron. "A Conversation with Louise Belcourt," Latin American Literature and Arts, Spring 2003, p. 25-36.
  14. ^ Lowry, Vicky. "Art Show: Louise Belcourt," Elle Décor, March 2012, p.20, 78–79. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  15. ^ Jeff Bailey Gallery. Louise Belcourt: Paintings, New York: Jeff Bailey Gallery, 2010.
  16. ^ Baird, Daniel. "Karin Davie and Louise Belcourt," Border Crossings, Vol. 24, No.3, Issue 95, 2005, p. 49–50.