Born in the suburban sprawl of the Netherlands, Rezi van Lankveld has become known for paintings that centre on the process of depiction, its absence and presence. With a distinctive approach based upon improvisation, her works find their moments of completion in which an exploration of the material builds to sustain figuration. Pictures are as much evoked as signified. That the climax of the work is found in the moment of an initial recognition gives a sense that the end is rather the beginning, with the act of making is not only subject but content. Van Lankveld’s work has unfolded at an insistently modest scale. Shifting palettes contain consistency, as if the decades of practice were all of one piece, one story, one world.
Rezi van Lankveld (b. 1973 Almelo, Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam.