Rezi Van Lankveld (NL, 1973) is known for her small and medium sized paintings. They have a presence and immediacy that can be described for lack of better words as an affectionate infinity, a borderless elsewhere. The complex and contradictory interplay of immaterial paint, formal play, figurative hints and fauvist palette are created through Van Lankveld process of pouring paint loosely from a can onto the canvas, then pushing and pulling the paint until compositions emerge. Her brightened liquid palette recalls the work of Georgia O'keefe or Helen Frankenthaler, while her biomorphic shapes come closer to El Greco and Philip Guston. Soft, fluid and porous her works are tangible mirages.
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The Rabobank Art Collection, The Netherlands; The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, USA; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK and New York, USA; Aedes Real Estate Collection, The Netherlands.
Text courtesy Office Baroque.