Gerdine
Duijsens’ dining and party scenes have a very recognizable style that can be
distinguished by four main elements: people, lush layers of color, expressionistic
mark making, and portraiture. Duijsens’ people are "bon-vivants,"
somewhat blasé, comical, cheerful, and bored.
Duijsens was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, and studied at the Art
Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgium. A career in art wasn't part of
the plan initially, but there was no stopping her as time went by. Once the
children had all gone separate ways, she gave way to something deep inside that
she had always known, ever since the days she played hooky while munching on
her sandwiches in art museums. She believes one doesn't become an artist but is
born one.
Duijsens’
work is a synthesis between figurative and abstract art. Her internationally
collected paintings reflect the modern culture of consumerism, the desire to
achieve status, and overindulgence. In their unguarded moments, Duijsens
displays her characters as their vulnerable and insecure selves, when in their
seemingly unobserved moments they briefly escape from a world in which status,
knowledge, protocols, and power keep them prisoner.
Through lyrical expressionism in its purest form, we see
ourselves. The characters are satirical, exaggerated forms and are meant to be
lighthearted and fun. The partying, dining, happy single, and Botox paintings
have become Duijsens’ trademarks and have generated a steadily growing club of collectors
internationally.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Postcards From Nowhere", Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Representation of Imagination”,
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Mixed Exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles,
CA
2018 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
“Kunst & Karat,” Amstel Hotel,
Fine Fleur Gallery, Amsterdam
Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles,
USA
Affordable Art Fair Hamburg,
Germany
2017 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair New York, NY
2016 Art Hamptons, NY
“Art Nocturne Knocke,” Fine
Fleur, Belgium
Galerie Mensing, Hannover
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair New York
2015 Affordable Art Fair Singapore
Galerie Pascale Froessel,
Strausbourg, France
Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam,
NL
Affordable Art Fair, New York,
NY
Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Exhibition, Byard
Gallery, Cambridge
2014 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
Art Toronto, Canada
Houston Fine Art Fair, TX
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles,
USA
2013 Galerie Daniel Guidat, Cannes, France
“Gerdine Duijsens: Oeuvres Recents,”
Galerie Pascale Froessel, France
Fondaco Arte Architettura, Rome,
Italy
Galerie Patries van
Dorst, Wassenaar, Netherlands
2012 Affordable
Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Affordable Art Fair, Brussels,
Belgium
Lille Art Fair, France
2011 Biennale Florence, Italy
Vindemia Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Galerie Gerdine, Keulen
HeArt Show, Istanbul, Turkey
Gallery Amersfoort, Netherlands
Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam,
Netherlands
2010 Holland Art Gallery, Eindhoven,
Netherlands
Fine Fleur Art Gallery,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gallery Pascale Froessel,
Strassbourg, France
The Elephant parade Emmen,
Netherlands
Workshop Liliane Fonds, Sri Lanka
Giga kunst Goirle, Netherlands
Mirtos Animal Project
Docters Art Maastricht,
Netherlands
Galeria del Arte
Breda, Netherlands
2009 Gallery Fondaco, Roma,
Italy
2007 Kunsthal Holland Art
Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Museum Bydgoszsz,
Poland
2006 Holland Art Gallery,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Holland Art Gallery,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Galerie Dejavu, Son en
Breugel
Holland Art Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Holland Art Gallery, Eindhoven,
Netherlands
