Exhibitions

2012

The Cadence of Familiarity, Krauss Gallery, Moses Brown School, Providence, Rhode Island

2011       

20^th Annniversary Exhibition, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

Paperworks, Paper City Studios, Holyoke, Massachusetts

Small Works, Towne Gallery, Wheelock College, Boston, Massachusetts

2010       

Text/Context, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts

A Community of Artists, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts

Here and Gone: Presence, Absence, Memory and Time, Amy H. Carberry Fine Art Gallery,  Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts

2009       

Dreamscape, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

2008       

Small ’08, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Interaction: Louise Laplante and Liz Chalfin, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst Massachusetts

Artists and Books, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts

One Night, Pivot Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts

2007       

20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Art Institute, Manchester, New Hampshire

Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

2006       

 Small: 20 Artists X 2 Feet, Wunderarts Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Salon, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

2004       

On Paper, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

Encaustics, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York

New Acquisitions, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

2003       

Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

2002       

The Belles of Amherst; Contemporary Women Artists in the Collection of the Mead Art Museum and the University Gallery, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts

1998       

Vessels: Louise Laplante & David Powers, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

Ten Women, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, Massachusetts

1997       

Self Portraits, Hart Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts

1996       

Painting Now, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island

Louise Laplante, Milton Art Museum, Milton, Massachusetts

1995       

New Work: Louise Laplante, St. Germaine Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts

Drawings: Louise Laplante, Newspace Gallery, Manchester, Connecticut

Small Works, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut

1996       

 Sesquicentennial Celebration, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York

Two Artists, Cuneen-Hackett Cultural Center, Poughkeepsie, New York

Large Drawings – Louise Laplante, Canal Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts

1993       

 Louise Laplante, Geissler Gallery, Greenfield, Massachusetts

Drawing Now, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1992       

 Louise Laplante, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York

Louise Laplante and Margaret Plaganis, Pump House Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut

1991       

Small Objects, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

The Changing World, Pindar Gallery, New York, New York

Louise Laplante New Work, Nicole C. Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1989       

New Artists: Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition, Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire

Figures and Faces, Gary Wortzel Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Louise Laplante, Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

1988       

 Paperworks, Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Small But Monumental, Hera Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

1987       

 The Subject is Water, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island

1986       

 American Contemporary Women Artists, Gallery Triangle, Washington, DC

1985       

 Louise Laplante, The Gallery, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts

Louise Laplante Works on Paper, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

1984       

Works on Paper, F.A.C.E.T., Taos, New Mexico

Works on Paper, 100% Realart Gallery, Spokane, Washington

1983       

Louise Laplante, Springfield Central Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts

Rope, Drawings by Louise Laplante, Main Street Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Women Artists, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

1982       

Two Artists Drawing, Gallery on Paper, Lenox, Massachusetts

Artists Self Portraits, Pratt gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

Small Works, Passepartout Gallery, Winooski, Vermont

Valley Artists ’82, The Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

1981       

Invitational, Danco Gallery, Florence, Massachusetts

Bibliography

Creative Quarterly No. 21, The Journal of Design and Art, December 2010

“Louise Laplante: Here and Gone”, Paul Bloomfield, Art New England, April/May 2010

“Burge, King, Laplante and Hammond at Haddad Gallery”, Hudson-Catskill Newspapers, Hudson, New York, November 8, 2009

 “On Paper”, Daily Freeman, Kingston, New York, July 2, 2004

 “The Belles of Amherst” Contemporary Women’s Art on View”, The Women’s Times, Northampton, Massachusetts, August 2002

 “Two Artists, Shared Approach”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, August 2, 1998

 “Parker Gallery, Whistler House Museum of Art, Ten Women”, Ellin Anderson, Art New England, June/July 1998

 “Art by “Ten Women””, Ellin Anderson, The Haverhill Gazette, Haverhill, Massachusetts, March 19, 1998

 “Variety in Whistler’s “Ten Women””, Otto Peter Erbar, The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 8, 1998

 “Faces of Art” Anne-Gerard Flynn, The Springfield Times Union, Springfield, Massachusetts, May 5, 1997

 “Canal Gallery”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 8, 1994

 “Six University at Albany Graduates at Rice Gallery”, The Daily Gazette, Albany, New York, January 20, 1994

 “At BCE Drawings Droll to Dramatic”, Christine Temin, The Boston Globe, Boston, Massachusetts, September 29, 1993

 “Gloria Winchler Memorial Exhibition”, catalog essay by Marilyn F. Hoffman and Michael K. Komanecky, The Currier Gallery, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1989

 “Art Scene: Louise Laplante” catalog interview by Martha Hoppin, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1989

 “Thinking Through Your Art”, Patricia Wright, The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 29, 1989

 “Art Scenes Offer Powerful Images”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts, March 12, 1989

 “Small is Beautiful”, Bill van Siclen, The Providence Journal, Providence, Rhode Island, February 12, 1986

 “STCC/Springfield: Louise Laplante”, Art New England, November/December, 1985

 “STCC/Louise Laplante”, Gloria Russell, The Sunday Republican, Springfield, Massachusetts September 29, 1985

Collections

Kingsley and Company, San Francisco, California

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts

Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts

University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

University Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, New York

Private collections

Awards

2008 Recipient, Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund

2004 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grants, Drawing/Printmaking/Artist Books

1998 Finalist, Blanche E. Colman Award

Education

MA in Fine Art, State University of New York at Albany, New York

BFA, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York

Galleries

Carrie Haddad, Hudson, New York

Clark Art Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Looking for Answers, 2010

30 x 20 in., chalk on vintage collaged paper