Artist at KESTER+ BLES gallery, London
www. KESTER+ BLES.com

KESTER+BLES, 53 Pembridge Road, Notting Hill. London W11 3HG
(Recent works), 27 March - 7 May 2009,

London Art fair, Stand P 18
Gallery KESTER+BLES
14 - 18 januari 2009

Judith van Bilderbeek
Dutch by birth, Judith lives and works in The Hague.

Judith’s paintings contain all the basic elements of Expressionism,
with their emotive use of colour and distorted, turbulent forms.
What sets Judith’s bold and colourful paintings apart, however,
is their positioning of domestic
subject-matter within unsettling,
warped compositions.

Judith zooms in on everyday household objects such as cars, furniture,
pets, toilet bowls and sinks, elevating the status of commonplace objects to create dramatic still lifes which border on the grotesque.
Judith’s interest in ordinary objects and the possible stories behind them springs from her childhood,
when she spent days wandering around the markets and fairs where her mother sold antiques.
There she encountered all kinds of abandoned personal belongings and was intrigued by the life they might have had prior to ending up in the stalls.

Judith often only shows parts of her subjects and removes from them all
unnecessary details, providing only a minimum of information.
Her compositions are intentionally naïve, and at times seem to present objects from a child’s perspective.
These distorted viewpoints are further exaggerated by her use of slightly off-register grids and patterns in wall and floor tiles, road markings, tablecloths and wallpaper.

Judith applies thick, sensual layers of paint, densely coating her canvases and allowing the grainy textures of earlier marks to resurface.
Her obvious love of paint, her determined brushstrokes and selection of straightforward themes give her work an air of effortlessness and simplicity.
It is, however, the product of a long and conscious process that leads to a successful balance of thought and feeling, logic and intuition, fact and imagination.
Judith paints with great flair, humour and virtuosity to create powerful yet gently humane works that reverberate with deeper associations.

EDUCATION

Royal Academie of Fine Arts - 1988
The Hague
Holland

MEMBERSHIPS

1988-Member, STROOM, The Haque, from art to architecture
2000-Member, Pulchri Studio, association of art painting, The Haque
2002 -Member, Haagse Kunstkring, The Haque

AWARDS

2000 - Van Heel- Poort award, The Haque,Oeuvre award for a talented Dutch artist
Van Ommeren- De Voogt award, The Haque,Yearly based art award for a member of Pulchri Studio

LECTURES

2001/07-Teacher, Free Academy of Fine Arts, The Haque
2003 -Workshop The American School of The Hague, Wassenaar
2007- Teacher Academy of Social Arts, Leiden

SUBSIDIZATION

2002/05- Presentation arrangement to Individual Subsidy,
STROOM, The Haque, from art to architecture
2006-Individual subsidy, Prince Bernhard Culture foundation Amsterdam

EXHIBITIONS

2000

The Haque,( nomination Van Heel-Poort award),Pulchri Studio, solo

2001

Amsterdam, (Illusions}, Galerie Parade, group
Amsterdam, ARTRAl, stand Galerie Parade, group
Amsterdam, (The meeting}, Galerie Parade, group

2002

The Haque, (The Hofvijver in Poëtry & Image),
Museum Bredius en Haags Historisch Museum, 167 Dutch and Belgian artists and poëts, group

2003

The Haque, Haagse Kunstkring, (work of members), group
Oegstgeest, Galerie de Grunerie,(Oil pantings), solo
The Haque, Galerie K.A.B.K. (The Status Quo), group
STROOM, The Haque, from art to architecture
The Haque, Pulchri Studio, (Oil pantings), solo
Dordrecht,(Title Unknown Projec)t, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, group
Paris, Galerie Brun Léglise, group

2004

Nieuw Roden, (Connections), Museumhuis Kunstpaviljoen, group
Amsterdam, (Portret of Anne Frank), Anne Frank Museum, solo
The Haque, (Framed on the Hofvijver), 10 artist from the Netherlands and 10 from the European union, group
The Haque, (Ostensible),Vrije academie, solo

2005

Grubbenvorst, (Mixed Cultures), Galerie Raaijmakers, group
The Haque, De Kloostertuin, (20 painted frames), group

2006

The Haque, Galerie Rehorst, solo
Heerenveen, Museum Willem van Haren, solo
The Haque, Nieuwspoort,( Tribute to the tullips), group
Enschede, Villa de Bank, (Out of the wall), solo

2007

Wijchen, Museum kastel Wijchen, (Daily live layers), solo
Groningen, CBK, der AA kerk,( New Art treasures), groep

2008

Amsterdam, Ververs gallery, (Present), groep
The Haque, Pulchri Studio,( rest, regularity and spacetravel), duo, with Niels Janssen
Amsterdam, Ververs gallery, solo
Wijk bij Duurstede, Jonkergouw galerie, duo
The Haque, Galerie Rehorst, solo
SBK Tilburg / Galerie 56, solo

PUBLICATIONS

2000

Jorinde Benner,( Acknowledge between mirrors),Haagsche Courant, 27 September
Abe van der Werff, (Van Heel-Poort Award for Judith van Bilderbeek), Pulchri Magazine nr.4

2001

I.B. van Crefeld, (Three centuries of Jewish Artists)
Hermance Schaepman, (De Hofvijver in Poëtry and Image), catalogue

2002

Wil van Elk, Oegstgeester Courant, 20 September
Marianne Dommisse, (Shopmobile with forgotten bottle), Pulchri magazine, nr.5

2004

Roos van Put, Haagsche Courant, 25 September, (The Hofvijver with floating illuminated art)
Hermance Schaepman,( Framed on the de Hofvijver), 10+10 cultural meetings, catalogue
Monografy about Judith van Bilderbeek, (Ostensible), part 9 of the sery Haags Palet.
Contains 48 images of paintings over the last four years, autor, Pien Hazenberg

2006

Hendrik Jan de Bakker, Algemeen Dagblad,15 March, ( Auto-buffet through the eyes of an artist)
Friesch Dagblad, 14 june, (Casualness in Heerenveen)
Susan van den Berg, Leeuwarder Courant, 17 june (Paintings Judith van Bilderbeek with full speed and vision)
S. van Ek, Friesch Dagblad, 28 June, (A steady hand on a loose wrist)
Jurjen K. van der Hoek, Heerenveense courant, 12 July (Around the corner of visibility)
Han Mulder, Catalogue belonging by the exhibition, Tribute to the tullips International Perscenter Nieuwspoort The Hague, October
Herman Haverkate, De Twentche courant, Tubantia, 16 November (Beauty of daily live)

2007

A film(documentairy) by Ludmilla Bessonova ,interviews and images of the painting proces in the atelier of the artist