B. 1991, THE NETHERLANDS
Lotte Wieringa is a Dutch artist who paints richly textured surfaces, alternating between dense swaths of color and calligraphic line work. At once abstraction and annotation, Wieringa’s visual language draws upon Japanese woodblock prints and incorporates discrete words or phrases conjuring dream states. Areas of negative space – which in the tradition of woodblock printmaking served a functional purpose to notate the artist or title of the work – are compositional elements which disrupt distinctions between foreground and background. Wieringa’s process is highly intuitive, defined by scratched, scribbled, and dripped paint which invites the viewer to imagine the moment of her interaction with the canvas.
