Louisa Chase

Louisa Lizbeth Chase (March 18, 1951 – May 8, 2016) was an American neo-expressionist painter and printmaker.

Life Chase was born in 1951 in Panama City, Panama. She grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In the year of her graduation she had her first New York exhibition, at the alternative gallery Artists Space.

She taught painting at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1975 to 1979, and at the School of Visual Arts from 1980 to 1982. She was a National Endowment for the Arts grantee.

She exhibited at the 1984 Venice Biennale. Her solo exhibitions include: Brooke Alexander Gallery (1989) The Texas Gallery in Houston (1987); Gallery Inge Baker in Cologne, Germany (1983) and others. the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Library of Congress, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Syracuse University Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the Elvehjem Museum of Art, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

Chase lived in Sag Harbor, New York. She died on May 8, 2016, in East Hampton, New York, at the age of 65.

Art

Louisa Chase is known for her use of schematically drawn body parts (i.e. hands, feet, torsos) and elements of landscape, separately or combined. Chase’s work shows influence from New Image Painting and Neo-Expressionism. 1979 Chase's work "Tears, Ocean II" part of Painting: The Eighties at NYU

Works and publications