Neo Expressionist Artist Louisa Chase Signed Print. 1972. Yale School Of Art

  
For sale is a very rare and hard to find abstract print from the highly regarded neo expressionist artist Louisa Lizbeth Chase (1951 - 2016). From the limited edition portfolios of prints from the Yale at Norfolk, Yale School of Music and Art class of 1972 where she is listed as a student (Lisa Chase). Done in a very limited edition run of 52 which were for the students and faculty members only. This must be one of the earliest artworks available by this acclaimed artist. Printed in 1972 the artist was just 21 at the time.

Medium: Serigraph on embossed heavy wove paper. Signed: In pencil en verso. Louisa Lizbeth Chase (1951 - 2016). Abstraction painter and printmaker Louisa L.

Chase was born in 1951 in Panama City, Panama. Her paintings, primarily oil, feature sparse, dark, Expressionist calligraphic scribbles often overlaying and contrasting with the geometry of isolated rectangles in primary colors, as if to comment upon the opposing natures of these differing forms.

Degree in 1973 from Syracuse University, New York, and an M. Degree in 1975 from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. She taught painting from 1975 to 1979 at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, and in 1980 to 1982 in New York City at the School for Visual Arts. She received grants in 1978-79 and 1982-83 from the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1979-80 from the New York Council on the Arts Creative Artists Public Service. Chase has exhibited, in one-person and group shows, at the Robert Miller Gallery, New York City (1981-82, 1984, 1986); Galerie Inge Baker, Cologne, Germany (1983); Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California (1985); Whitney Museum of American Art (1985); Metropolitan Museum of Art (1988); and Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1989).

Louisa Chase's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and New York Public Library in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; University of Massachusetts, Worcester; Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Library of Congress, Washington, D. And Denver Art Museum, Colorado.