Maaike Schoorel
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Maaike Schoorel is an artist based in London
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Schoorel was born in Santpoort, The Netherlands. She makes paintings based on photographs, using traditional genres such as landscape
, portrait
and still-life. She favours pale colours and minimal detail.
Maaike Schoorel is represented in London by Maureen Paley
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Prix de Rome 2007, de Appel, Amsterdam
The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London
How to Endure, curated by Tom Morton, Athens Biennial, Athens
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Zes, Marc Foxx, LA, & Harris Lieberman, New York
Stilleven, Portret, Schutterstuk, Marc Foxx: West Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Just in time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2005
Slow Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Prague Biennale 2, presentation for Flash Art, Prague
IBID Projects, Vilnius, London.
2004
Galerie Diana Stigter, Rheinschau, Cologne
Must I paint you a Picture?, Haunch of Venison, London
2003
Someplace Unreachable, IBID Projects, London
2002
Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Gemeente Museum, The Hague
Band in Crisis, (with Skill 7 Stamina 12), Cooper Gallery, Dundee
London
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Schoorel was born in Santpoort, The Netherlands. She makes paintings based on photographs, using traditional genres such as landscape
Landscape art
Landscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
, portrait
Portrait
thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
and still-life. She favours pale colours and minimal detail.
Maaike Schoorel is represented in London by Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley
Maureen Paley is the American owner of a contemporary art gallery in Bethnal Green, London, where she lives. It was founded in 1984, called Interim Art during the 1990s, and renamed Maureen Paley in 2004. She exhibited Young British Artists at an early stage...
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Selected exhibitions
2007Prix de Rome 2007, de Appel, Amsterdam
The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London
How to Endure, curated by Tom Morton, Athens Biennial, Athens
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Zes, Marc Foxx, LA, & Harris Lieberman, New York
Stilleven, Portret, Schutterstuk, Marc Foxx: West Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Just in time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2005
Slow Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
Prague Biennale 2, presentation for Flash Art, Prague
IBID Projects, Vilnius, London.
2004
Galerie Diana Stigter, Rheinschau, Cologne
Must I paint you a Picture?, Haunch of Venison, London
2003
Someplace Unreachable, IBID Projects, London
2002
Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Gemeente Museum, The Hague
Band in Crisis, (with Skill 7 Stamina 12), Cooper Gallery, Dundee
External links
- Further information from Galerie Diana Stigter
- Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
- Ana Finel Honigman on Maaike Schoorel’s exhibition at Maureen Paley from ArtNet.com
- Maaike Schoorel on ArtFacts.com