Movement Through Matter

September 2021
1:23:43

The Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art (CWCA) invited me to give a talk for their Stellar Presentation series. I spoke about how my swimming and painting have been intertwined for most of my life. I talk about the stroke I had on my right side when I was three years old, and I explore the idea that both swimming and painting use “strokes” as essential movements. I recount how I started to coach open water swimming in the summer of 2021, and the insights I had about air and breathing through coaching, and how I think that might influence my painting in the future.

Ampersand Artist Feature: Louise LeBourgeois

August 2021
4:31

I’ve been using Ampersand Claybord panels for my paintings since 2009. I have developed a strong relationship with the company. Ampersand bought one of my paintings in 2015, and in 2019, my husband Steven Carrelli and I visited their factory in Buda, Texas.

Ampersand makes short videos about the artists who use their products, and I was thrilled to be included among them. In August 2021, Ampersand CEO Elaine Salazar and videographer Eric Krings flew to Chicago to make this video with me in my working in my studio and swimming in Lake Michigan.

Moon Translation #635

May-July 2020
6:26

In late 2019, I received a commission for a 55” x 67” painting. I worked on the commission from May to July 2020. As I began to gesso the panel, it occurred to me to create a time-lapsed video of my process from start to finish.

Because the composition of this painting had been established in advance, this video doesn’t show my usual process of “discovering” what the painting will be. But it does demonstrate how I lay down multiple layers of color to create my images.

One Body

May 2020
3:09

I made this video in early 2020 to accompany my one person show One Body at Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco scheduled for May 2020. Although the opening was cancelled because of the pandemic, Dolby Chadwick hung the show and scheduled visits, one person or one household at a time. The gallery also created a virtual tour of the show, which you can see here.