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Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

New York based artist Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages
Born in 1983, American artist Louise Despont lives and works in Brooklyn, New York City. She graduated from Brown University, Providence, RI, in 2006. Meanwhile, the artist draws highly complex patterns and symmetrical forms rendered largely in graphite on antique ledger book pages. According to Despont, she has always worked on old ledger pages. She started drawing on them in college and still collects them. “The paper is so beautiful and a lot of it is almost a hundred years old, if not older. Eventually, I started cutting them out of the books and putting them together for my works”. Despont conceives art that mediates between the poles of science and spirit, the material and the immaterial. The talented artist is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in New York.

Acrobats. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Acrobats. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont’s connection with India began when she first came here for an art residency in Delhi. Subsequently, her travels took her to places like Rajasthan, Kerala and Puducherry. And she even made the country her home for some time. Influenced by Buddhism and Hinduism, Louise Despont shows her knowledge in the details of her drawings. “These are elements I’m most attracted to. Even the way I work is a meditation. There’s a lot of solitude, patience and spirituality. A lot of the symbols are very powerful. I visited temples and Buddhist shrines during my travels to India, Nepal and now Tibet and got interested in these sacred spaces. There’s a certain stillness in these places that we lose in our daily routine”.

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Creative Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Fabulous Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Figures and patterns. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Unique Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Beautiful Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Book pages as canvas. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Fantasy drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Complicated and detailed Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Female portrait. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Exhibition of Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

At the art exhibition, book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Leda and Swan. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Leda and the Swan, 2010. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

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Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

As You Are We Once Were, As We Are So Will You Be. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Circus horse. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Clown. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Inspirational Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

Louise Despont drawing on antique ledger book pages

Patterns and symbols. Drawing on antique ledger book pages. Artist Louise Despont

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