Louise Captein works in oils and paper collage. She earned a terminal degree from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1991) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017). Louise has taught studio art in higher education since the mid 1990’s, both in The Netherlands and the U.S, and joined the art and art history faculty at Otterbein University in 2009. Her work has been shown locally and nationally in group and solo exhibitions at Keny Galleries of Columbus, The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Center Gallery, The Ohio State University's Hopkins Hall Gallery, the Dublin Arts Council, and the Richard M. Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University, among other venues. Her collages have been called "masterful" and “… quixotic in appearance yet meticulous in their approach to the formal elements of space, line, color and composition.”
"Space is my material; shape a by-product."
I view my work as a manifestation of what the French philosopher Henri Bergson called élan vital; the creative impulse on which life depends. This aliveness can include a broad spectrum of subject matter and, in the larger body of my work, ranges from the off-hand and playful to the poetic and from the sumptuous to the foreboding. Whatever form the work takes my wish is that it is forceful in its oneness and complex in its consequence.
I view my work as a manifestation of what the French philosopher Henri Bergson called élan vital; the creative impulse on which life depends. This aliveness can include a broad spectrum of subject matter and, in the larger body of my work, ranges from the off-hand and playful to the poetic and from the sumptuous to the foreboding. Whatever form the work takes my wish is that it is forceful in its oneness and complex in its consequence.
“No really creative transformation can possibly be effected by human beings, either in nature or in society, unless they are in the creative state of mind that is generally sensitive to the differences that always exist between the observed fact and any preconceived ideas, however noble, beautiful, and magnificent they may seem to be.”
- David Bohm
“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
- Louise Bourgeois
- David Bohm
“To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.”
- Louise Bourgeois