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Gregg Louis

Shadow Prints

sunless tanning lotion on paper, 11x14 in

2012

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New York – Psychic Ménagerie, an exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Gregg Louis including a video, 10 sculptures, 15 prints, and wallpaper, will be on view at the Nohra Haime Gallery from March 19th through April 27th.  Louis’ new video titled Blots (2013) opens the exhibition. A grid of 9 screens depict 9 participants in a faux psychological experiment. Louis, who serves as the administrator and is centrally featured, presents a series of abstract shapes on index cards. One by one, he slowly turns the cards and exposes the shapes to the participants, which clamor to respond with the first thing that comes to mind. The result is a cacophony of answers, and as the video unfolds it becomes more like Hollywood Squares than Freud’s couch.  Throughout the main gallery are Louis’ uncanny Inkling sculptures. From a distance, perched on top of display stands, the sculptures have a striking resemblance to specimens found in a Natural History Museum. But upon closer investigation, they become surreal forms that defy any typical taxonomy. These strange creatures are actually constructed of wigs, horns, and glass eye balls. Louis says, “The Inkling works came out of this idea of cloud gazing. An act many of us as children participated in. You look up towards the sky and allow your imagination to freely associate the shapes that float by you. I think of the Inkling sculptures as me trying to breathe life into those loosely identified shapes by bringing them down to earth and giving them a tangible form. The sculptures that result are often the strange residue of interpretation.” Sharing space with Louis’ Inklings are his Shadow works. These edgy prints also pick up on the theme of interpretation and  ontology. Using the ubiquitous Rorschach technique, the artist creates distinct prints out of sunless tanning lotion. The images that follow portray foreboding entities which feel simultaneously empty and powerful.  Gregg Louis is a Brooklyn-based artist born in St. Louis, Missouri. He has exhibited solo shows at Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC (2011); Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (2011); and Hotel Maria Kapel (collaboration), Hoorn, Netherlands (2011). His group exhibitions include Doing Easy, Los Caminos Gallery, St. Louis (2011); Life in a Peaceful New World, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2011); I’m OK, You’re OK, Concertina Gallery, Chicago (2010); A New Currency curated by Dan Cameron, 55 Delancey Street, NYC (2009). Louis was awarded a VBS Fonds collaborative project grant (2011); SNS REAAL Fonds collaborative project grant (2011); and SVA Alumni Scholarship Award (2009). His publications include Wall Street Journal (2013); Riverfront Times (2011); PaperMag.com (2009); and Gothamist.com (2009). Louis received his B.F.A. from the Missouri State University, M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, and held residency (2009) at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. DATES: March 19- April 27, 2013 OPENING RECEPTION: Monday, March 18th from 6 to 8 p.m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leslie Garrett at 212-888-3550 or art@nohrahaimegallery.com 

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Check out my interview with Vivi Ying He in the Spring M Magazine

http://nohrahaimegallery.com/admin/docevents/louis-mmagspring13.pdf

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Looking beyond the limits of picture frames, contemporary artists are going after the whole wall, attacking it with paint, video and their own wallpaper.

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Working off of the statistical concept used to calculate the variation from an average point, "Standard Deviation" plays with the tension between the expected and the unexpected, encouraging viewer...

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Gregg Louis (MFA 09) curates Standard Deviation a group show featuring the work of Leah Dixon (MFA 14), Sharona Eliassaf (MFA 11), Naoko Ito (MFA 10) and Eric Mistretta (MFA12) opening at The Shirey (47 Thames St, #105, Bushwick, NY) on Friday, September 28 from 8pm-10pm. The exhibition will be on view until October 19, 2012.

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Gregg Louis,  Avi Krispin, and Erik Alkema

IT: The Choir Sings on the Shore of Lake IJselmeer

single channel video, 3m55s

2011

Koor Ooker conducted by Feico de Leeuw singing on the shore of the IJselmeer.

Video made as part of the project/ exhibition: 'It, or the Something in the Lake' for HMK (HotelMariaKapel) in Hoorn

We created a myth for the city of Hoorn, and recreated that story with the help of the local community....

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Hotel Maria Kapel - Fall 2011.

Hotel Maria Kapel is an artist-run residency and project space in the old town of Hoorn, just 34 km north of Amsterdam. The programme involves artists and curators working in a wide range of media, mainly focusing on installation and context based work and video. Guests are hosted in in a 17th century warehouse nearby, which has 4 separate guest rooms. Hotel Mariam Kapel is an energetic meeting- and work place for international as well as Dutch visual artists, who work together or individually in the chapel or wider surrounding. Work periods can last up to 2 months and result in an exhibition.

Collaborative project with Avi Krispin & Erik Alkema

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Visual manifestations of UFOs are typically simple joinings of convex and concave discs, often envisioned at night, emitting ethereal light in an undetermined manner. Gregg Louis’s recent solo exhi...

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Gregg Louis  Everyday UFOs March 16 - April 23, 2011 EVERYDAY UFOs, an exhibition of recent photography by Gregg Louis, will be on view in the project room at the Nohra Haime Gallery from March 16th through April 23rd. In his first solo exhibition in New York, Louis uses photography to construct uncanny images of UFOs out of found household objects such as light bulbs, TV antennas, dishes, plungers, etc. His process of arranging, stacking, and transposing these mundane objects against a black backdrop creates surreal images that humorously and sometimes eerily re-imagine everyday reality. By transforming these ubiquitous objects that typically fade into the background of our daily lives, Louis creates playful images that at once feel unique, familiar, and otherworldly. Everyday UFOs mediates between an optimistic child-like playfulness and a skeptical investigation into projections and blind faith in phenomena beyond the earthly realm. The work blurs the line between belief, imagination and reality, and explores the potential we have to knowingly or unknowingly redefine our everyday perceptions for better or worse. Gregg Louis, a multidisciplinary artist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to New York and received his Master of Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in 2009. Louis was a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency Program in 2009. His work has been exhibited in both the US and abroad. Louis currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. DATES: March 16 - April 23, 2011 RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST: Wednesday, March 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ana Maria de la Ossa at 212-888-3550 or gallery@nohrahaimegallery.com 

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I stopped into Concertina Gallery recently and got a personal tour of the latest exhibition from co-directors Francesca Wilmot and Katherine Pill.  The apartment gallery’s current show features work by seven artists, some working in collaboration, others alone, all exploring the self-help phenomenon in a variety of mediums through some light, but revealing, mockery, reminding... Read more »

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Gregg Louis

The Magic in Things

hand-sewn flag, 41x60 in

2010

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Gregg Louis

Untitled Video Art

single channel video, loop

2009

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Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture

Skowhegan, an intensive nine-week summer residency program for emerging visual artists established in 1946, seeks each year to bring together a gifted and diverse group of individuals who have demonstrated a commitment to art-making and inquiry to create the most stimulating and rigorous environment possible for a concentrated period of artistic creation, interaction and growth.

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Gregg Louis

Grand Opening Banner

vinyl banner, 36x72 in

2009

Featured on Gothamist.com on May 29, 2009

55 Delancy Street - New Currency Exhibition curated by Dan Cameron