Lily Van Der Stokker
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This whimsical artwork features a vibrant, abstract composition of colorful shapes and textures. The predominant colors are warm tones of yellow, orange, and red, contrasted with cooler blues and grays. The overall style is playful and expressive, with hand-drawn elements and playful annotations such as "Red Rashes on Face" and "Not itchy." The piece appears to be a child's drawing or an intentionally naive artistic expression, capturing a personal, subjective experience. This artwork likely reflects the artist's unique perspective and attempts to convey a playful, carefree, and honest interpretation of their own skin condition or physical sensations. ...
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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.” ...