Maaike Schoorel
Every image is in some way involved with the process of remembering. Maaike Schoorel's paintings, often based on old family photographs, make this visible while harnessing the visceral advantages that paint has over negatives or pixels. Creamy grounds, muted tones, blurs, stains and sketchy details take her compositions to the edge of abstraction - leaving them to hover somewhre between emerging into full view and just fading away. The light and airy nature of Schoorel's paintings suggests that the past is to be found not by peering into dark recesses, but rather by staring into the glare of an imagined sun.
Copyright Dominic Eichler, Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2007-8
Selected Bibliography
2007 'Maaike Schrooel: Magic Eyes', Pablo Lafuente, Flash Art International, March/April
2007 'Must See Art', Amra Brooks, The Los Angeles Times
2006 'Bathing dining garden father daughters beach bed: Maaike Schrooel's Shadow Play', Ingrid
Commandeur, Metropolis M
2006 Just in Time, Maxine Kopsa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2005 'London: Critics' Picks', Brian Sholis, Artforum.com
Selected Exhibitions
2007 'Stilleven, Portret, Schutterstuk', Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2007 'Very Absract and Hyper Figurative', Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2006 'Bathing dining garden father daughters beach bed', Maureen Paley, London
2006 'Just in Time', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2006 'Le Nouveau Siecle', Museum van Loon, Amsterdam
Shown by
Maureen Payley, London
Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
