Helen Verhoeven "Events One and Two"
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Events One and Two centers on a single 14-foot panoramic interior that draws from history painting and state portraiture, though, Verhoeven admits, “my work is a gross distortion of these genres.” The rest of the exhibition builds out from this painting with a series of corresponding works that are details of the larger, made through shifting compositions, omitting or enhancing information, and by making minute alterations or distortions from one painting to the next. The project plays with languages of painting and image making: it references Art History’s canonized (“bravado”) painters by implementing a wide range of rendering styles and borrowing, on occasion, from their cast of characters.
Helen Verhoeven lives in Brooklyn, New York and The Hague, The Netherlands. She is a recipient of the 2008 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst (The Royal Dutch Prize for Painting).
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from October 17, 2008 to November 15, 2008