Louise Despont at Nichelle Beauchene Gallery

Louise Despont, Serpens, graphite and colored pencil on antique ledger book pages, 2012.
Louise Despont, Serpens, graphite and colored pencil on antique ledger book pages, 2012.

Louise Despont brings together representations of the constellations Ophichus and Serpens with Persian carpet imagery in her amazingly intricate graphite and colored pencil drawing, ‘Serpens.’  Created on collected vintage accounting ledgers, this labor intensive piece wows with its detail and evocation of esoteric bodies of knowledge.  (At Nichelle Beauchene Gallery’s new Lower East Side location, 327 Broome Street through Jan 20th.)