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Louise Jones

Louise Jones (neƩ Chen) is a second-generation Chinese American, born in Los Angeles in 1988. Her artistic practice centers around painting, while her background is in drawing and printmaking at University of California Santa Cruz. Her work first gained recognition in 2014 after moving to Detroit, where she began painting murals of flowers on buildings and local businesses. To date, her murals have been displayed in museums and public spaces throughout the US and the world, including the Henry Ford Cancer Pavilion, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. She currently works in the public and private sectors simultaneously; completing floral mural commissions in addition to works on canvas inspired by the breadth of human impact and culture.

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