Monique van Genderen
23 Jul - 27 Aug 2011
MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN
23 July - 27 August, 2011
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to show solo presentations of new work by Kristin Calabrese, Monique van Genderen and Mindy Shapero. The exhibitions juxtapose three unique and very different approaches to art making that are each steeped in a distinct dialogue with art from the west coast.
In the second gallery, Monique van Genderen presents an ambitiously scaled installation that simultaneously straddles the interior and exterior of the space. In the adjacent gallery van Genderen's explorations continue her vocabulary with new paintings, some in ceramic, others on canvas. Van Genderen's work references abstraction through the use of hard-edged cutouts, sign making, and industrial materials, creating a painterly language that is concerned with surface, finish, and continued interventions within the subject of painting. Her recent ceramic paintings add a new layer of texture to this exploration - alluding to the canvas as the clay displays woven textures. Shifting between abstraction and the acknowledgement of recognizable shapes, Van Genderen's works are decidedly flat, reveling in their two-dimensionality and delightful reliance on their materials to narrate the subject of painting.
Monique van Genderen received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin; Happy Lion, Los Angeles, and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; New Museum, New York; Art Unlimited at Art Basel 37; and in the 48th Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C.
23 July - 27 August, 2011
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects is pleased to show solo presentations of new work by Kristin Calabrese, Monique van Genderen and Mindy Shapero. The exhibitions juxtapose three unique and very different approaches to art making that are each steeped in a distinct dialogue with art from the west coast.
In the second gallery, Monique van Genderen presents an ambitiously scaled installation that simultaneously straddles the interior and exterior of the space. In the adjacent gallery van Genderen's explorations continue her vocabulary with new paintings, some in ceramic, others on canvas. Van Genderen's work references abstraction through the use of hard-edged cutouts, sign making, and industrial materials, creating a painterly language that is concerned with surface, finish, and continued interventions within the subject of painting. Her recent ceramic paintings add a new layer of texture to this exploration - alluding to the canvas as the clay displays woven textures. Shifting between abstraction and the acknowledgement of recognizable shapes, Van Genderen's works are decidedly flat, reveling in their two-dimensionality and delightful reliance on their materials to narrate the subject of painting.
Monique van Genderen received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin; Happy Lion, Los Angeles, and the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; New Museum, New York; Art Unlimited at Art Basel 37; and in the 48th Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C.