Louise Weinberg

My paintings address the issue of containment. My work has evolved from meticulously rendered life-like eggs to abstractions of apartment buildings, elevator shafts, hallways and grids, to spheres in space.

The massive buildings, rectangles, and grids, reminiscent of my NYC childhood demonstrate how these more rectangular forms, themselves containers, can evoke feelings of entrapment and claustrophobia. I ask the viewer to consider how both the “comfort of containment” and the “torment of entrapment” can and perhaps must simultaneously exist. What are the structures in which one is nurtured and also hidden away, in which one is sheltered and at the same time imprisoned? Can one break free of form and yet still reconstitute its life affirming value?

In my Urban Rhythm paintings, I am concerned with conveying a sense of place, one inspired by NYC, the urban landscape of my childhood. My interest is in the color, texture and rhythm of city life and in the remembered pure pleasure of childhood play in an urban landscape.

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