Maaike Schoorel

Maureen Paley is pleased to present Fulcrum, a new exhibition by Maaike Schoorel. This is her fifth exhibition with the gallery and follows on from her recent solo exhibition at the Willet-Holthuysen House that is part of the Amsterdam Museum.

Maaike Schoorel is widely known for her paintings that traverse an indefinable space between abstraction and figuration. The artist aims to reveal unseen moments and overlooked experiences in everyday life and her approach to painting is informed by a nuanced understanding of how colour and form are interpreted by the human mind. Her paintings have continuously oscillated between converging historical genres such as still lives, portraits and landscapes and her subject matter simultaneously references contemporary life and traditions. Formally her paintings appear to be almost monochromatic yet on closer inspection they reveal a breadth of pigment and texture. The new paintings in this exhibition document familiar scenes of human connection, celebration and interaction, and present glimpses of personal experience across single and two-part canvases that are at once diaristic and universally understood.

Maaike Schoorel (b. 1973, Santpoort, The Netherlands and lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands). Selected solo exhibitions include Rendez-vous, Amsterdam Museum, The Willet-Holthuysen House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2022/2023); Maaike Schoorel at Van Wassenhove House, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2020); London | New York | Rome | Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands (2016/2017); Conversation Piece Part 2: Maaike Schoorel, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy (2016); Sub-Lo, Maureen Paley, London, UK (2015); Maaike Schoorel And The Old Masters, Frans Hals Museum – HOF, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2012); Tribute, Maureen Paley, London, UK (2012); Maaike Schoorel - Zelfportretten & Stillevens, The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London, UK (2011); Album, Frans Hals Museum – HAL, Haarlem, The Netherlands (2008); Nudes, Maureen Paley, London, UK (2008); Bathing dining garden father daughters beach bed, Maureen Paley, London, UK (2006).