Monique van Genderen

Monique van Genderen's paintings draw on the legacy of high modernist abstraction, merging its visual language with an insistent attention to materiality. She often alters the shapes of her canvases and works unusual materials, such as collaged strips of vinyl, resulting in works that wryly engage with canonical modernist ideas about the flatness of the picture plane and the two-dimensionality of the painted surface. Incorporating different textures into her paintings, the surfaces of each work are variable, at times reflective, and elsewhere matte, just as her use of color ranges from bold, saturated areas of color to loose, nearly translucent washes. Van Genderen's work has been the subject of solo shows at institutions such as the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa.