Biography
Louise Kohrman is an artist and printmaker
who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and lives and works in Western
Massachusetts. She received an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School
of Design, a collegiate teaching certificate from Brown University, a BA in
studio art from Smith College and has completed a printmaking and book arts
program in Italy through the University of Georgia. She has worked as a printer
at Wingate Studio in New Hampshire, working with artists such as Walton Ford,
Aaron Noble, Benny Andrews, and printing the work of Louise Bourgeois, among
others.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally, including group exhibitions at the DeCordova Museum and
Sculpture Park (MA), the Portland Museum (ME), the New Bedford Art Museum (MA),
the Danforth Museum of Art (MA), the Bromfield Gallery (MA), the Lancaster Art
Museum (PA), the RISD Art Museum (RI), the International Print Center New York
(NY), Ferrin Gallery (MA), the Copley Society of Art in Boston (MA), Two Rivers
Printmaking Gallery (VT), Lorg Fine Printmakers Gallery (Ireland),
School of Art Gallery and Museumat
Aberystwyth University (UK) and Gallery Hasta (India). Her work is in
corporate, private, and public collections including the Amity Art Foundation
(CT), the Boston Public Library (MA), the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
(MA), the Regional Center for Women in the Arts (PA), Hood Museum of Art (MA), Rutgers
Center for Innovative Print and Paper (NJ), Smith College Museum of Art (MA), Yale
University Art Gallery (CT) and the Southern Graphics Conference Collection
(GA).
Academic Research/Areas of Interest
Louise Kohrman’s studio practice focuses on
drawing and etching. She is interested in harmonizing the lines between
aesthetics and transcendent experience through her use of repetitive actions, meditative
practice and use of serial formats. Her work explores pattern, repetition,
multiplicity, subtlety, interconnectedness and the present moment. Delicacy,
intricacy, and attention to detail serve as foundations of the work.
Her specialization is in intaglio printmaking,
with a focus on newer non-toxic techniques and innovations in the medium. She
is on the faculty at Zea Mays Printmaking, a studio, workshop, gallery, educational facility and research
center dedicated to sustainable and less toxic printmaking practices.