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MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

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8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023
  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    8 DECEMBER 2022 - 28 JANUARY 2023

  • MILES MCENERY GALLERY IS PLEASED TO PRESENT MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN'S FOURTH SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE GALLERY. THE EXHIBITION OPENS 8 DECEMBER AT 511 WEST 22ND STREET AND WILL REMAIN ON VIEW THROUGH 28 JANUARY 2023. Accompanying the exhibition is A FULLY ILLUSTRATED DIGITAL CATALOGUE FEATURING AN ESSAY BY DR. MORAN SHELEG.

  • New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023  Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York, NY: Miles McEnery Gallery, ‘Monique van Genderen,’ 8 December 2022 - 28 January 2023
    Image: Christopher Burke Studio. Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 
  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 78 x 128 inches 198.1 x 304.8 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on linen

    78 x 128 inches

    198.1 x 304.8 cm

  • "Although committed to her chosen practice of painting in the most serious way imaginable, there remains a playful streak to Monique van Genderen's wildly ambitious and deliberate approach. It is an approach that tarries with—even luxuriates in, and very consciously so—all the historically loaded, visually enticing, self-contradictory, and more maligned aspects of abstract painting as they have unraveled over the last hundred years or so."

    - Dr. Moran Sheleg in "A Conceptual Illusion"

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 78 x 128 inches 198.1 x 304.8 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on linen

    78 x 128 inches

    198.1 x 304.8 cm

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 78 x 117 inches 198.1 x 297.2 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on linen

    78 x 117 inches

    198.1 x 297.2 cm

  • "Since her college days, Van Genderen has toed the line between painting and installation. After graduating from the California Institute of Art in 1991, making large-scale works (that also employed nonconventional materials like vinyl) seemed a useful way to attack the 'problem' of painting as it stood at the time. But large-scale works also facilitated a bolder stance, one capable of competing with the sculptural and conceptual practices then so dominant, enabling a woman artist to take up more space both literally and metaphorically."

    - Dr. Moran Sheleg in "A Conceptual Illusion"
  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 53 x 65 inches 134.6 x 165.1 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on linen

    53 x 65 inches

    134.6 x 165.1 cm

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on linen

    48 x 36 inches

    121.9 x 91.4 cm

  • "A visitor to her studio once said that encountering a van Genderen mural was like being underwater and on the street at the same time. This fluidity of evocation, the ease with which several opposing ideas, terrains, and feelings can be held simultaneously with minimal drama or conflict, is the lifeblood of her work and what makes it ultimately so pleasurable to experience and to be a part of."

    - Dr. Moran Sheleg in "A Conceptual Illusion"

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on canvas

    48 x 36 inches

    121.9 x 91.4 cm

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on linen

    48 x 36 inches

    121.9 x 91.4 cm

  • "This is painting as a conceptual illusion, which reaches into our minds through our eyes and thus reverses the age-old adage—echoed by artists from Marcel Duchamp to Gerhard Richter and beyond—that painting is the work of conceit and idiocy. Instead, it imagines what a painting that has the potential to change one’s perspective as a person, however short-lived or unexpected, might look like."

    - Dr. Moran Sheleg in "A Conceptual Illusion"

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on canvas

    48 x 36 inches

    121.9 x 91.4 cm

  • MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2022

    Oil on canvas

    48 x 36 inches

    121.9 x 91.4 cm

  • "While the result of a physically laborious and time-consuming process, these paintings are also involved in a mind-bending game of reference and recall, with certain motifs, such as the distinctive green 'single quote' mark appearing across several canvases, culminating in the four 'single quote' paintings seen in this exhibition. The paintings themselves bracket other canvases, as well as the entire installation. Hovering in mid-air, they seem to encapsulate the very idea of quotation itself."

    - Dr. Moran Sheleg in "A Conceptual Illusion"

    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
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    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    Close
  • 'You see a small painting. It seems innocuous enough, a picture on the wall surrounded by others just like it....

    MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

    Untitled, 2019

    Ceramic

    15 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/4 inches

    40 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm

    "You see a small painting. It seems innocuous enough, a picture on the wall surrounded by others just like it. You step closer to get the measure of it, to try to grasp something about its collection of colors and array of techniques. You look at it for some time. Yet the longer you look, the less yielding the surface appears, despite bearing the minute, cross-hatched lines and looping, irregular textures of canvas and paint. After some time, the penny drops. It is not (or not exactly) a painting, but a clay cast of a stretched canvas fired in a kiln, painted, glazed, and fired again, masquerading as a painting."
    - Dr. Moran Sheleg in "A Conceptual Illusion"
  • Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Monique van Genderen Studio, 2018

    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      10 x 8 inches
      25.4 x 20.3 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      10 x 8 inches
      25.4 x 20.3 cm
    Close
  • Monique van Genderen (b. 1965, Vancouver, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts,...

    Monique Van Genderen in her Studio, 2018

    Monique van Genderen (b. 1965, Vancouver, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA.

     

    She has presented solo exhibitions most recently at Bernier/Eliades, Brussels, Belgium; Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany; and Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA. Her past presentations include the Hammer Museum Lobby Project, Los Angeles, CA; “Monique van Genderen,” survey exhibition at Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany; “Festaal,” Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany; “Monique van Genderen and Kirsten Everberg,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France; “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Abstrakt Maler,” Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway; “Monique van Genderen,” D’Amelio Gallery, New York, NY; “Personal Exhibition,” The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Effearte, Milan, Italy; and Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium.

     

    Van Genderen has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions such as the Albertina Museum,Vienna, Austria; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego,CA; Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany; and the U.S. Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname.

     

    Her work may be found in the collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoria, IL; Eileen Harris Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

     

    She is the recipient of a Project Commission for the Murals for La Jolla, La Jolla, CA; the Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Federal Courthouse Building Art Commission for the GSA, Arts and Architecture Program, Harrisburg, PA; and the West Hollywood 1% for the Arts Public Art Commission, West Hollywood, CA. In 2004, she was an Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.

     

    The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 78 x 128 inches 198.1 x 304.8 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      78 x 128 inches
      198.1 x 304.8 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 78 x 128 inches 198.1 x 304.8 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      78 x 128 inches
      198.1 x 304.8 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 78 x 117 inches 198.1 x 297.2 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      78 x 117 inches
      198.1 x 297.2 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 53 x 65 inches 134.6 x 165.1 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      53 x 65 inches
      134.6 x 165.1 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 48 x 36 inches 121.9 x 91.4 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      48 x 36 inches
      121.9 x 91.4 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      30 x 24 inches
      76.2 x 61 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2019 Ceramic 15 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/4 inches 40 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2019
      Ceramic
      15 3/4 x 12 x 1 1/4 inches
      40 x 30.5 x 3.2 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on linen 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on linen
      10 x 8 inches
      25.4 x 20.3 cm
    • Monique Van Genderen Untitled, 2022 Oil on canvas 10 x 8 inches 25.4 x 20.3 cm
      Monique Van Genderen
      Untitled, 2022
      Oil on canvas
      10 x 8 inches
      25.4 x 20.3 cm
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