Lily Van Der Stokker
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This artwork features a minimalist, pastel-toned landscape with a prominent couch as the central focus. The colors are muted, with soft shades of blue and white dominating the overall composition. The couch, rendered in a neutral tone, appears to be the only recognizable object in the scene. The style is reminiscent of mid-20th century design, with clean lines and a dreamlike quality. The artist's intention seems to suggest a sense of solitude, introspection, or detachment from the surrounding environment, inviting the viewer to ponder the relationship between the couch and the ambiguous, cloud-like formations in the background. ...
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Lily Van Der Stokker
B.1954, Dutchborn in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, in 1954. She lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. In their immediate delivery, van der Stokker’s works beckon happy-go-lucky intonations in their fanciful, ‘feminine’, curlicued and flower- powered familiarity. Their formal bubbled, blobby, and loopy approachable techniques may recall the doodlings more traditionally relegated to the notebook margins of a teenage girl, while the textual inclusions create dichotomies that illuminate more cutting messages and comment upon more condemning realities. lily van der Stokker presents us with works that require the viewer to consider the implications of ‘Kissy, Kissy’ but also of ‘no improvement / no progress’. As Roberta Smith noted in 1990, “The messages conveyed in this terminally cheerful manner usually have a double edge.” ...