In the early 1990s, Louisa Chase’s use of expressive mark-making and geometry became more complex and layered. Her geometric forms morphed into full-bodied stick figures and music notes suspended in action within a space, engulfed in fields of gestural drawings and translucent shadows that repeated the figures’ actions.

In 1991, after major solo exhibitions in Kyoto, Japan, and at the Brooke Alexander Gallery in New York and the Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery in Chicago, Chase took a brief hiatus. She moved from Manhattan to Long Island, where she purchased the home of artist and friend Susan Rothenberg in Sag Harbor that overlooked the bay. She named it “Camp Lucy,” after her mixed-breed husky dog. With a passion for sailing, she acquired a catboat and taught herself how to sail. Chase later settled in a 1930s farmhouse with a studio in East Hampton.