About the work

Rezi van Lankveld is known for her small and medium sized paintings. Her work has a presence and immediacy that can be described, for lack of better words, as an affectionate infinity, a borderless elsewhere. The complex and contradictory interplay of immaterial paint, formal play, figurative hints and fauvist palette are created through van Lankveld’s process of pouring paint loosely from a can onto the canvas, then pushing and pulling the paint, removing and adding via sanding or brushwork until complex, layered compositions emerge and take permanent shape.
“The image (we cannot call it a depiction) sometimes appears folded or pleated, sometimes cracked or torn. Fault lines and turning points mark the constitutive moments in the painting process. The component elements grate and grind, twist and turn, manoeuvring themselves into precarious positions in order to prop up the whole and to save it from collapse. Everything contributes to a delicate balance, a temporary entente that has just been established and whose future is uncertain.”

-D. van den Boogerd in Rezi van Lankveld, Flitsen, 2020

About the artist

REZI VAN LANKVELD (b. 1973, Almelo, The Netherlands) graduated from Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht in 1999.  She lives and works in Amsterdam.

Van Lankveld is known for the mode of painting that combines abstraction and figuration, chance and determination. She has shown extensively throughout Europe. Recent solo exhibitions include: Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium (2020); Reset, Borgloon, Belgium (2019); The Approach, London (2018); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2015); FIAC, Paris (2014); among others.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions including Palazzo de’Toschi, Bologna (2020); Annet Gelink, Amsterdam (2019); Root Canal, from De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2018); The Approach, London (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); and many others.
Van Lankfeld’s work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Rabobank Art Collection, The Netherlands; The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, and the Zabludowicz Collection, London and New York.