Janine Seelen
22765, Hamburg
Janine Seelen transforms everyday scenes in complex works with oil pastes on paper
MessageJanine Seelen spent the most important life of her career in New York City and San Francisco as a graphic artist. Her commissions had a focus on interdisciplinary projects which she later continued back in her hometown in Hamburg. Since 2018 Seelen focuses solely on her paintings. Her subjects are scenes and momentums in the twilight with a focus on seemingly abandoned places not to forget the energy every space is filled with. The multi-layered work is a network of structures between dissolution and demarcation in which she creates a communication and perception between space and time.
Statement
In Between
At night a table tennis covered with snow in a back yard, the expectant look toward the curtain in a movie theatre, a seemingly lost tennis field on a field in the morning.
„In the beginning there is a place that is touching to me.“ A space that inspires, calm, a place to be. The in between is described as a free space between at least two things or persons. It functions as a kind of playroom between a gap in a coherent or holistically whole, but it is also a temporal distance between two activities or processes. "Stop and pause, experience your own free space or create a personal new one when needed. The ordinary that surrounds us is becoming the center of a specific moment and forms a new beginning."
Janine Seelen, born 1965, spent the most important life of her career in New York City and San Francisco as a graphic artist. Her commissions had a focus on interdisciplinary projects which she later continued back in her hometown in Hamburg. Since 2018 Seelen focuses solely on her paintings. The multi-layered work is a network of structures between dissolution and demarcation in which she creates a communication and perception between space and time.
All artworks (c) Janine Seelen
All portraits (c) Josh Bertsch/Seelen+
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