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Paula Evers was born in Bergen, Holland in 1942. Bergen is famous as a twentieth-century painters’ community comparable to the French Barbizon and for the Bergen School of landscape painting. Inspired by the rich culture of her surroundings Evers took classes from Peter Schenk and studied at the Van Gogh Academie in Amsterdam. Evers was a member of the painters group “ArtBent” in the early 1990’s.
Evers’ work increasingly deals with dualism in western thinking. First we meet the almost empty and typically Dutch flat landscape: metaphor for nature, balance, uncontrollable forces and passivity. In these paintings horizontal lines dominate. Single islands of form burst through fields of cobalt and orange creating distant horizons out of the void.
Secondly we are confronted with paintings defined by rationalism, culture, society and activity in which vertical figures are prominent. Abstracted human forms subtly convey emotion through gesture and color. Figures press forward, as if present when the painting was initiated, while other pairs turn away and quietly dissolve into the atmosphere.
In both subjects, landscapes and figures, we discover traces of the other including compositional elements, palettes, luminous surfaces, and a dreamlike resonance. Thus they present us with a synthesis between opposites, constituting a very complex yet visually accessible body of work, full of both cool and abstract restraint and expressive figurative emotion.
EXHIBITS
2007
Galerie Sous-Terre, Lithoijen, Solo
MAC, Aalsmeer, Art Fair
Kustbeurs , Den Bosch , Art Fair
2006
PAN, Amsterdan, Art Fair
Galerie Kasdialma Bou, Cuacoa, Group
Kustbeurs, Den Bosch, Art Fair
2005
Newmark Gallery, San Francisco, group
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Galerie Contempo, Eindhoven, Solo
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, Art Fair
Galerie Vivendi, Paris, Group
Galerie Trace, Maastricht, Group
2004
Galerie Kasdialma Blou, Curacoa, Group
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag, Art Fair
Galerie Brauckman, De Kaag, Solo
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
2003
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag,
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Art Miami, Miami, FL, Art Fair
Galerie Sous-Terre, Lithoijen, Solo
2002
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag
Pan, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Galerie Trace, Maastricht
2001
Galerie Vivendi, Paris, Solo
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag
2000
Art Paris, Paris, Solo
Kustrai, Amsterdam, Art Fair
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
1999
Holland Art Fair , Den Haag
PAN, Amsterdam, ART Fair
Galerie Brauckman, De Kaag, Solo
Galerie Sous-Terre, Lithoijen, Solo
1998
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Grantique, Riotterdam, Art Fair
1997
Galerie Brauckman, De Kaag, Solo
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag
Galerie Boogaard, Helmond, Solo
Galerie Contempo, Eidhoven, Solo
Galerie Sous-Terre, Lithoijen, Solo
1996
Galerie Brauckman, Heemstede, Solo
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag,
Galerie Contempo, Eidhoven, Solo
PAN, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Galerie Sous-Terre, Lithoijen, Solo
Rosmalen Art Fair, Rosmalen
1995
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag,
Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Art Fair
Galerie’T Weefuhis, Nuenen, Solo
Galerie Contempo, Eidhoven, Solo
1994
Holland Art Fair, Den Haag,
1992
Galerie
Mondi, Soesterberg, Solo
Galerie Signal, Amsterdam, Group
Galerie Mondi, Soesterberg, Group
Rosmalen , Rosmalen, ArtFair
1991
Galerie 1632, Zaltbommel, group
Factore, Amsterdam, Solo
1990
Schiphol, AMSTERDAM , Solo
Den En Heuvel, Kasterlee, Solo
Publications
2007
‘Schilderijen. Paula Evers’,
Herman Van Heusden, Cat.
2006
‘Diffuse Spiegels’
Esther Boet, Vivenda (met afb.)April
2003
‘SCHILDERIJEN MET OPEN EINDE’ Therese enneking, Vill d’Arte9met afb., March
‘AUX COULEURS DE LA HOLLANDE’ Sud Meusien (met afb.) 12/09/2003
2002
‘ZONNIG EN WARM’
Lies Holtrop, Art ni (met afb.) Sept. 2002
2001
‘THE COLLECTION’ Kunst 10 daagse (met afb.) Oct14
‘MET VOLLE OVERGAVE’ Select, Tableau (met. afb.) Summer
2000
‘PAULA EVERS – ART PARIS’ Mark Slegers, cat. (met afb.) Feb.
1999
‘PAULA EVERS’ Mark Slegers, cat Rotterdam mart
1997
‘KUNST VAN DE ZAAK’ Vriz Nederland (met afb.) Jan.
‘PAULA EVERS’, Lies Holtrop, Kunstwer (met afb.) March
HOLLAND ART FAIR, Tableau, February
‘SCHIMEN UIT EEN DROMENRIJK’ Esther Voet, Talkies (met af.) July
1996
PAULA EVERS – SCHILDERIJEN Tableau 9 (met afb.) April
1995
‘KUNSTENAARSGROEP ARTBENT TOONT TENTOONSTELLING IN DEN HELDER’ (met afb.) March 26
‘HET EVANGELIE VAN HERKENBAARHEID’ May 11
1994
‘PAULA EVERS BIJT SPITS AF VAN EXPOSITIESEIZOEN AF VAN DE BOLDER’ (met afb) Sept. 22 Martha Derkmaat, NoordHollanse Courant – Stad en Streek
PRETTIG WEEKEND (met afb.) Sept 22
1992
‘ABSTRACT WERJ UB NIBDUKEDER’
De Gooi en Eemlander
June 18, Jan Bos. Amersfoortse Courant
1991
‘OOG VOOR KUNST’ Haarlemmersmeers dagblad (met afb.) Nov. 26
Berard van Dalen, Amsterdam en Omstreken
1990
PRETTIG WEEKEND, p. 1 (met afb.) nr. 14 – April 16
POETISCHE ONTMOETINGEN VAN MENSEN’ Aktief, p. 7 (met afb. )j96, April 9
‘SCHILDERIJENTENTOONSTELLING IN DEN EN HEUVEL’ Express, Sept. 13
1989
‘DOE MEE’ De Nieuwe noordhollandse courant, p. 9 Sept. 11
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