Louise Deroualle

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Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Louise Deroualle moved to the U.S. in 2013 to pursue a Master’s degree in Ceramics at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Louise has worked at Curaumilla Art Center in Chile and was the Studio Coordinator of Ceramics at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She exhibits nationally and has been awarded competitive residencies and fellowships, including the Roswell Artist-in-Residency and The Aspen Art Museum Fellowship., she is a Lecturer at the University of North Carolina Asheville.

“My work is an abstracted representation of me: my identity, the way in which I relate to others and understand the environment I am in. I use ceramic materials to create formal abstractions that reveal different facets—physical, experiential, emotional—of myself.”

“The artwork I create with this clay is influenced by the different cultural experiences to which I have been exposed and the way those interactions build my identity.”