Works by Janise Yntema
Janise Yntema is an American abstract painter currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium.
She works with the ancient technique of encaustic wax, a combination of beeswax, resin and pigments in which heat serves as the active solvent.
Education
After studying at the Art Students League in New York, Yntema earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Parsons School of Design/The New York School in New York City in 1984.
Technique
Yntema applies natural beeswax and resin to wooden panels, using a blowtorch to seamlessly blend her brush strokes. With close attention to process itself, she creates her images through slow and deliberate accumulations of semi-transparent layers of colour.
Light permeates these layers and becomes compositionally present.
Heat invisibly dilutes, mixes, and binds each layer into a translucent luminous tone.
The application and removal of material, in an additive/reductive process, allows unexpected moments to emerge in an alchemical dance between what is directed and what is uncontrolled.
There is a sublime quality in her work as she creates an environment of diffused light that remains minimal and abstract. The element of time is evident.
Inspiration
Yntema's visual language is inspired by how light, perceived through pigment, creates space in combination with how perceptions of time can be retained through colour.
Her work references Postmodern Tonalism.
Her paintings bring to question the line between figuration and abstraction as within the visual language of the horizontal, a sense of place is suggested.
Her paintings are concerned with what is perceived as real comparative to the ideal, an examination into the larger reality of nature and life.
Artist’s Statement
“My works explore the perception of light as revealed through nuance of color, composing a space between the natural and the ideal. An environment of diffused light is created that remains minimal and abstract. I consider my subject to be light, and landscape its messenger, with changing transitions in color capturing reflected memories of small moments in time.”
Collections
Her work is included in numerous public and private collections, including that of the Philips Corporation, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Exhibitions
Yntema extensive exhibition history includes solo and group shows in London, New York City, Brussels, and Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Le Paysage Tranquille at Galerie Marie Demange, Brussels, in 2016, and The Quiet Landscape, at Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK, in 2015.
Solo exhibitions
2019
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK, "Sense of Place"
2016
Galerie Marie Demange, Bruxelles, "Le Paysage Tranquille"
2015
Kean University, Nancy Dryfoos Gallery, Union, NJ, "The Temperature of Light"
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK, "The Quiet Landscape"
2014
Libre Choix, Bruxelles, Gothic Light
2009
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK, "Still"
1997
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, Award Show
1995
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Montclair State University Art Gallery, Montclair, NJ
1994
Hoboken Gallery, Hoboken, NJ
1993
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2 & 3 person exhibitions
2012
Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2 person
2003
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK, 2 person
1998
Soho 20, New York, NY, 3 person
Watchung Arts Center, Watchung, NJ, 3 person
1994
William Carlos Wiliams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ, 3 Person
1993
Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY, 3 person
Selected group exhibitions
2018
A & A Galerie, Hasselt Belgium, "She Sea See"
Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MA "The Blues"
A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, "Photosynthesis"
BOZAR Centre d'Art, Bruxelles, "Truc Troc"
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2017
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, "Depth Perception" curated Joanne Mattera & Cherrie Mittenthal
Atlantic Gallery, New York, New York, "Hopeful Darkness"
Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA, "Photosynthesis"
Kobalt Gallery, Provincetown, MA, "Alternative Wax"
Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, "12th Annual Encaustic Invitational"
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2016
Elizabeth Dow, East Hampton, NY, "Skimming the Surface"
2015
Carte de Visite ARTopenKUNST, Bruxelles
2014
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
Galerie Judy Straten, Horst, The Netherlands, "Personal Choice"
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
A&A Galerie, Hasselt, Belgium
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
School Voor Filosofie, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2012
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY, "Fahrenheit 180"
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2009
A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Minus Space, Brooklyn NY
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
New York University Fales Library, New York, NY
2007
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2003
A&A Galerie, Hasselt, Belgium
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
2002
C-B-Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
Century Gallery, London , UK
2001
Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK
Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, UK
Mafuji Gallery, London, UK
Century Gallery, London, UK
ACAVA Open Studio, London, UK
D.U.M.B.O. Open Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Mafuji Gallery, London, UK
Century Gallery, London, UK
Christine Van Stralen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ACAVA Open Studio, London, UK
D.U.M.B.O. Open Studio, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Soho 20, New York, NY
D.U.M.B.O. Open Studio, Brooklyn, NY
1998
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Smithsonian Institute’s Archive of American Art, New York, NY
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GAle GAtes et al., Brooklyn, NY
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
1997
Printed Matter, New York, NY
Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, Invitational Exhibition
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, NY
1995
Artists Space, New York, NY
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ, Invitational
Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ
Bloomfield College, Sibert & Knox Halls, Bloomfield, NJ
Monmouth Museum, Brookdale College, Lincroft, NJ
William Carlos Williams Center, Rutherford, NJ
1994
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ, Juried Exhibition
Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1993
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
William Carlos Williams Center for the Arts, Rutherford, NJ, Juried Exhibition
Women’s Caucus for Art National Juried Exhibition, Portland, OR
1992
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY
Raritan Valley College Art Gallery, North Branch, NJ, Invitational Exhibition
Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Huntington College Art Gallery, Montgomery, ALA
1991
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
Raritan Valley College Art Gallery, North Branch, NJ
Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1990
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ
Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ
The Cathedral Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ, Invitational Show
1989
City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ