Louise Despont According to the Universe | Art21 "New York Close Up"

What is the source of inspiration?
Filmed in her Tribeca studio, Louise Despont peruses a vast reference library of images she began collecting in high school and maintains to this day. Drawn to geometry, energy waves, and universal symbols, Despont’s interests reveal a fascination with underlying patterns and cosmological draughtsmen: Rudolf Steiner, Carl Jung, Agnes Martin, Charles Burchfield, Martin Ramirez, Achilles G. Rizzoli, Adolf Wölfli, Hilma af Klint, Theosophy, Buddhist medical charts, Shaker gift drawings, seismographs, echolocation, mandalas, yantras, Tantric drawings, maps, gardens, fasciation in plants, beehives, kilim, ikat, Jantar Mantar, and masks. "What’s so interesting about the creative act is that you can access something completely outside yourself," says Despont, who makes a distinction between consciously referencing subject matter in her artwork versus communing with a sense of unconscious awareness. "If you offer yourself up as the hands to make the work the relationship you form with what you communicate with has its own voice." Featuring Despont’s drawings included in the exhibitions "Harmonic Tremor" (2015) at Nicelle Beauchene and "The Six-Sided Force" (2014) at Pioneer Works, as well as scenes from her stop-motion animation "Experiments in Moving Drawings, Parts I & II" (2007).
Louise Despont (b. 1983, New York, New York, USA) lives and works between New York and Bali, Indonesia. Learn more about the artist at: www.art21.org/newyorkcloseup/a...
CREDITS | ART21 "New York Close Up" Created & Produced by: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Director: Wesley Miller. Editor: Brad Kimbrough. Cinematography: John Marton, Wesley Miller & Andrew Whitlatch. Sound: Wesley Miller. Design & Graphics: Open. Music: Jared C. Balogh. Thanks: Nicelle Beauchene, Catherine Despont, Thierry Despont, Gabriel Florenz, Pioneer Works, Inae Rurup & Dustin Yellen. An ART21 Workshop Production. © ART21, Inc. 2015. All rights reserved.
ART21 "New York Close Up" is supported, in part, by The Lambent Foundation; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and by individual contributors.
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[@GariHatch]

Wonderful concepts, wonderful work, compositions of enlightment ...

[@cancontrl]

this work is so satisfying to me. the symmetry and ephemeral quality of graphite mixed with the deliberate grid of the sheets

[@jspaingreene6350]

Interesting that she flipped through Outsider Art - particularly Adolf Wolfi - and that her work reflects those pieces so much.

[@raktimparashar]

This is nothing new. Seems interesting for those who have no idea about outsider art. Most of these art school educated artists are ripping the outsiders and living a good life with all their theories and talk talk and talk while the outsider artist without any support from gallearists, institutes die of obscurity.

[@hwangeuiyoung8454]

That is so true

[@steveogle3679]

It is what it is. I try to enjoy the freedom I have and be thankful it isn't built with the words/contracts of others. Everyone has their sxxt to deal with. For me the freedom to fail and create magic far outweighs the golden spoon.

[@raktimparashar]

@@steveogle3679 yes, the outsider artist struggle to exhibit their works and never ger the opportunity to do so in galleries. Where as these rip offs enjoys the previledge.

[@amb600cd0]

part of the requirements of being"outsider" art is the borderline artlessness of the work. they were nit there to make art. they didnt think about money or what they were going to do with their work. just that they needed to make it

[@photosportsman2027]

... much talk ( explication ) without substance ... this is ART today