Kinke KOOI
Female View, 2010
Acrylic paint and graphite on paper
93,34 x 66 cm
(36.74 x 25.98 in)
“My choice of subject matter always originates from a personal fascination, even though I might be terribly embarrassed about it,” says Kinke Kooi, who in her meticulously detailed paintings, drawings, and mixed-media compositions embraces the overlooked, abject, silly, and surreal, as well as notions of femininity and masculinity. Formed of an abundance of painstakingly drawn fine lines, which lend her images a sense of mass and dimensionality, her subject matter includes undulating landscapes, animals, human (especially female) figures and body parts, caves, cavities, and interstitial spaces of all kinds. These are often rendered in a monochromatic palette of orange or pink, which heightens the soft, fleshy appearance of her work, and Kooi’s unabashedly feminine, and feminist, approach.
Kinke KOOI
Female View, 2010
Acrylic paint and graphite on paper
93,34 x 66 cm
(36.74 x 25.98 in)
Kinke KOOI (b. 1961, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; lives and works in Arnhem, Netherlands) attended the Academy for the Visual Arts in Arnhem. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in Arnhem, Netherlands, and has participated in group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; and the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, among other venues.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Arnhem Museum, Arnhem, Netherlands; Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
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