Born in Tilburg in The Netherlands (1955), a graduate of Academie St. Joost Breda, Cathalijn Wouters has been shown at Art Karlsruhe (2016), PAN Amsterdam (2010-2015) and Art Fair Cologne (2015), as well as having shows at Rademakers Gallery, Amsterdam (2019) and ArtCN Gallery, Shanghai (2016). Her work was included in the Dutch Art Now exhibition in New York in 2010, as well as being shown in Paris, Utrecht, Basel and Rotterdam. In her work she uses a great variety of techniques and materials, such as oil paint on canvas and ink on paper. She also explores the relation between different techniques with growing interest. Finding the similarities between the poetic and the robust is an important theme in the work of Cathalijn Wouters. The artist thoroughly examines these apparent visual contrasts. To Wouters, the drawing is an extension of the thought. With a few lines, she captures the moment of a pose, a gesture. She hereby creates a subtle interplay between figuration and abstraction, where the human body is an important reoccurring theme. She seeks to preserve both the intuitive directness of the drawing and the dynamic act of painting. The drawn or painted figures of people, always naked with classical overtones, emerge from and disappear into the unfathomable depths of colour and form.
Born in 1955, Netherlands.
Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Education Experience
1975 - 1980 | St. Joost Art Academy, Breda, Netherlands. |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 | Ghent - Francis Maere Fine Arts Gallery |
2019 | Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery - KunstRAI Solo |
2018 | Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery - Vital Light Blue & Gentle Yellow |
2016 | Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery - The Burning Gold Shanghai - ArtCN Gallery - Gravity & Grace |
2014 | Amsterdam - KunstRAI - Janknegt Gallery |
2013 | Amsterdam - Canvas - Changing Perspectives |
2011 | Tilburg - Studio van Dusseldorp – Reflections in Line and Form |
2010 | Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery - Independent |
2008 | Den Haag - Project 2.0 - Beyond Reality |
2006 | Arnhem - Galerie de Vijf Eijken - Beauty and Consolation |
2003 | Wassenaar - De Greef en de Greef |
1994 | Utrecht - Genootschap Kunstliefde – Working with The Model |
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 | PAN Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery Shanghai - ArtCN Gallery - Out Of The Blue |
2020 | Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery - No Walls |
2019 | Maastricht - Kroon Gallery |
2018 | Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery – Big Art |
2017 | AAF Brussels - Rademakers Gallery |
2016 | AAF Hamburg - Rademakers Gallery |
2015 | PAN Amsterdam - Rademakers Gallery |
2014 | PAN Amsterdam - Janknegt Fine Art |
2013 | PAN Amsterdam - Janknegt Fine Art Amsterdam - Canvas Internationaal |
2012 | PAN Amsterdam - Janknegt Fine Art |
2011 | PAN Amsterdam - Janknegt Fine Art |
2010 | PAN Amsterdam - Janknegt Fine Art |
2009 | PAN Amsterdam - Janknegt Fine Art |
2008 | Rotterdam - Prima Vera Galerie - Project 2.0 |
2007 | Alkmaar - Als man en vrouw schiep Hij hen |
2003 | Wassenaar- De Greef en de Greef |
1987 | Laren - Galerie Ina Boerse |
Residency
2011 | Residency in Beijing. |
2010 | Residency in New York. |
Publications
2010 | Independent, Thieme Art Publishers, Author: Erik Quint, 24 x 30 cm, 85 Pages full color, ISBN 978 90 78964 766 |
2008 | Beyond Reality, Marloes Waanders Publishers, Authors: Jan Kuitenbrouwer, Doris Wintgens, Wietske Jansen Schoonhoven, Ronald Kraayeveld, 24 x 30 cm, 160 pages full color,Hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 978 90 78964 27 8. |
Website
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