Hear from artist Doreen Wittenbols as she guides us through her latest series of paintings and installation works from her debut solo exhibition in New Mexico, Happening.
Doreen Wittenbols (Breda) is a Dutch-Canadian visual artist based in New York City. She is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art & Design. Her work encompasses single-session observational paintings and longer exploratory projects involving abstraction, installation, performance, serialized painting, and ephemeral art.
Since 2016, Wittenbols’ figurative painting practice has expanded to include the incorporation of sentimental or “souvenir” objects from her own life as well as found vintage items. Through installation projects and conceptually driven series, Wittenbols reworks these non-traditional art elements from female and queer LGBTQIA+ perspectives to alter or subvert their superficial significance in an attempt to question the patriarchy and assumed societal roles.
Doreen Wittenbols’ work has been exhibited in the UK, The Netherlands, Canada, New York, Paris, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her first solo exhibition in the United States debuts at Form & Concept in Santa Fe, New Mexico.