Maaike Schoorel (born 1973) is an artist based in

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. Schoorel was born in

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. She makes paintings based on photographs, using traditional genres such as

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portrait A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this ...

and

still-life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, book ...

. She favours pale colours and minimal detail.Douglas Heingartner, Flash Art, fro
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Selected exhibitions

2015 ''Maureen Paley'', London, UK 2014 ''Interiors, Stigter Van Doesburg'', Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2013 ''Conservatory'', Mendes Wood, São Paulo. 2012 ''Tribute'', Maureen Paley, London, UK 2011 ''Maaike Schoorel – Zelfportretten & Stillevens'', the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London ''zwart / wit dagboek'', Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam ''Maaike Schoorel'', Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 2010 ''Art Features'', Art 41 Basel, Galerie Diana Stigter 2009 ''Nudes and Garden'', Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 2008 ''Album'', Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, ''Nudes'', Maureen Paley, London 2007 ''Prix de Rome 2007'', de Appel, Amsterdam ''The Triumph of Painting'', The Saatchi Gallery, London ''How to Endure'', curated by Tom Morton, Athens Biennial, Athens ''Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative'', curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London ''Zes'', Marc Foxx, LA, & Harris Lieberman, New York ''Stilleven, Portret, Schutterstuk'', Marc Foxx: West Gallery, Los Angeles 2006 ''Just in time'', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2005 ''Slow Art'', Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf ''Prague Biennale 2'', presentation for Flash Art, Prague IBID Projects, Vilnius, London. 2004 Galerie Diana Stigter, Rheinschau, Cologne ''Must I paint you a Picture?'', Haunch of Venison, London 2003 ''Someplace Unreachable'', IBID Projects, London 2002 ''Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst'', Gemeente Museum, The Hague ''Band in Crisis'', (with Skill 7 Stamina 12), Cooper Gallery, Dundee

References

External links

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*Ana Finel Honigman on Maaike Schoorel's exhibition at Maureen Paley fro
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