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Monique Van Genderen Lectures, Presents Exhibition at SCAD-Atlanta
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11/2/2006 On Nov. 2, Los Angeles-based artist Monique van Genderen lectured to students, faculty and staff at SCAD-Atlanta about her past work and upcoming exhibition, "The Sensory Foundations of Mental Life."
According to van Genderen's press materials, she combines colored vinyl film with enamel paint and drawing to create work that runs the gamut from installations to small watercolors. She employs low-grade commercial materials in pieces dedicated to color and light. Van Genderen's interest in color and its properties — density, reflection, tone and hue — also motivates her to reinterpret modernist masters, such as Henri Matisse, Hans Hofmann and Morris Louis, who also explored color in their work. Other signature themes include abstraction, its histories within Eastern and Western cultures, and fluctuations between grand and small. While referencing frescoes and mural painting, her work also brings the urban street experience into a gallery setting. Van Genderen was born in 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and raised in the Los Angeles area. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego, and a master's degree from the California Institute of the Arts. In addition to exhibiting her work in a variety of venues, van Genderen has taught at several Los Angeles-area institutions, including the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2004, she was artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. Van Genderen has been featured regularly in group exhibitions since the 1990s, most recently at the New Museum in New York (2005); the 48th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2005); and a curated group show at the Volta art fair in Basel, Switzerland (2006). She also has created installations for the Hammer Museum at UCLA (2006), the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (2005), Le Consortium in Dijon, France (2005) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia (2003). Article by Turia Stark Williams, communications manager for SCAD-Atlanta. Photo by Freddie Bennett.
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