Kalin Print Studio, 40 Nevis Road, Tivoli 12583 | 845-417-3830 | 4 entry stairs, no wheelchairs, rough barn floor
louisekalin.com | kalinprints@gmail.com

I’m very excited that my new work combines drawing, painting, and photography, as well as printmaking. For fifty years, I’ve been developing abstract and illustrative imagery, using experimental and innovative printmaking techniques, and materials.

For me, making art has everything to do with growing up in the Catskill Mountains. Ponds, rivers, fields and streams run through my work. Layers of pattern and the colors of my natural surroundings are embedded in my prints, and drawings.

Time spent in France and Africa, and the Southwest has enriched me, and my work. My penchant for experimentation harks back to growing up in a family of artists: my father and brother were painters, and my mother was head of the school art department for five towns on Cape Cod. I experimented with all kinds of fine arts and crafts media.

After a summer’s exchange in France, I went to RISD on full scholarship. Graduating in 1970, I married, and began a career in graphic design and display work for businesses and museums, teaching textile and crafts design, and restoring a 1775 house in Concord, MA where I served on the Historical Commission. I was an exhibiting, working member of the DeCordova Museum print group for ten years.

I moved in 1976 to New Hampshire where I worked and exhibited for fifteen years, and was represented by McGowan Fine Arts, exhibiting in art centers and museums throughout New England. More than two hundred of my New Hampshire prints are in corporate and private collections throughout New England, and in the Currier Museum of Art collection.

After a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in 1987, I worked with other artists to open an artist’s studio complex in an empty mill now known as the Riverview Mills in Wilton, New Hampshire.

I moved to Long Island in 1990 where I served as Executive director of Gallery North, a regional NFP gallery from 1991-98, until moving and opening my studio in Tivoli, New York in 1998.

I am currently a member of Boston Printmakers and the Monoprint Guild of New England, and the Woodstock Art Gallery and Museum.

Meet Louise Kalin in this one-minute video created by Alice Seeger of Seeger Solutions: https://vimeo.com/user30622033/download/348631395/881676570d