Louise Millmann

Louise Millmann’s desire to focus on mixed media collage began on an 18th Century writing desk located in an old house on Pawley's Island, South Carolina in the summer of 1997. She found a clear narrative forming as she arranged the piles of visual imagery culled from the stack of magazines found in the basement. This small "found studio" became a favorite haunt during her brief stay. Since then, she has been "borrowing" STUDIO SPACES all over the world, discovering that her mountains of ephemera had a reason for consuming most of the space in her small NYC studio. Her self-portrait photo collages have been exhibited alongside Joseph Cornell’s boxes at the Zeiher-Smith Gallery in NYC, and she has been actively involved with the multi- national exhibition entitled “A BOOK ABOUT DEATH”. The exhibition was launched as an underground, global art project at the Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery in New York City. Her collage works featured in A Book About Death are currently in the permanent collections of MOMA, Queens Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Louise has been teaching photography and experimental digital design classes for the past thirty-four years in both the Northport and Jericho school districts. She received a four-year full tuition photography scholarship to the School of Visual Arts in NYC where she received her BFA in photography, then completed her MFA + 90 post-graduate credits during her teaching career. She has taught specialized classes in mixed media digital photography at the New School, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art. Permanent Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York Queens Museum of Art, New York Los Angeles Museum of Fine Art, California The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY The Archives of American Art at the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, Washington DC The Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Arts Archive of the University of Iowa The Waskomium, Burlington, VT The Book Art Museum, Lodz, PolandThe Museé de la Poste in Paris, France ARTPOOL, Budapest, Hungary The Fluxus West Archive, St. Louis, MO B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, LIU Post, Brookville, NY Museum fur Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany Museum Schloss Moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany Museum fur Kommunikation, Bern, Switzerland Moscow Museum, Russia The Mumok, Vienna, Austria Karuizawa New Art Museum, Japan