Lenie van den Bulk (1953) - See Through

Lenie van den Bulk Born in 1953 in Berkel en Rodenrijs Education: Academy of Visual Arts Rotterdam from 1980 – 1984 From 1984 she often exhibited in the Netherlands and several times abroad. Her paintings are usually very colorful and often in large format. In addition to finely worked out parts, there are rougher parts that form a mutual contrast. She depicts her experiences, thoughts and memories with colour, shape and rhythm. _ “Lenie van den Bulk has developed a strong personal idiom that is difficult to place at first. However, if you look at her older work, you will see that this artist has built a bridge between pre-war German and Dutch expressionism and the work of various American abstract expressionists. Nice to know, but not necessary; her paintings do have their own visual language and have developed into autonomous, complex, but clear images. Van den Bulk has a gigantic arsenal of visual means to express himself. She mainly paints with a palette knife, works pasty wet-on-wet, dabs or stencils, dissolves her paint, sometimes works very layered and then transparent again, polishes her work, uses form and counter-form, repetitions, it all coupled with a virtuous sense of colour.”_ Review: Aart van der Kuijl, Haarlems Dagblad, 10 March '94 _"The paintings are more evocative than figurative, with titles such as 'After the rain', 'Spring' and 'Snow'. The intended experience according to the title is clearly evoked by shapes and colours. One experiences a lively effect of saturated colors in a composition that is also contained in just the right frames'_ Review: Dolf Welling, Rotterdams Dagblad, 4 May '99 Stipends/Grants from Rotterdam Center for Visual Arts in 1985 and 1986 Private collection/Private collection Commissioned by company/private person/Commissioned by company/private person Reviews/Reviews in e.g. Rotterdams Dagblad, Havenloods, Het Vrije Volk, Uit Journal; Haarlems Dagblad, Bergen op Zoomse Bode, Waddinxveen Weekly, Maasstad edition Delfshaven, Punt Uit Magazine. Publication/Publication in L'art du collage à l'aube du vingt et unième siècle, Pierre Jean Varet, 2006; The White House 100 Years, 1994; Vox, Women in Art, 1984. Recent Exhibitions / Exhibitions: 2021 EuropArtFair, Amsterdam 2021 ArtEindhoven 2022 Dutch Luxury Design, Neighbors 2023 Artists Association Kadmium, Delft Stipends Center for Visual Arts Rotterdam in 1985 and 1986 Purchases and assignments by companies and individuals Reviews in, among others, Rotterdams Dagblad; P. Ouwerkerk, D. Welling, Haarlems Dagblad; A. van der Kuijl Publication in L'art du collage à l'aube du vingt et unième siècle, Pierre Jean Varet Publisher Duo Duo, Rotterdam: Booklet Lenie van den Bulk, Paintings Collages