Lisa Vlaemminck
Pop, plants, pathogens and petri dishes. These are just some of the visual associations that find their way into the rich complexities of Lisa Vlaemminck’s undulating painterly universe. Inclusive of forms often recognizable, although slightly skewed from the familiar, Vlaemminck’s paintings provide glimpses into trippy recherché regions from the microscopic to the interstellar, as well as the amorphous spaces in between.
Pulling from conventional visual vocabularies of painting tropes, still life subjects such as potted plants or bowls of fruit offer an armature for images to be built out from, remixed and re-encountered under new eccentric parameters. Brushwork often takes on the semblance of vases, vials, flutes, beakers, and decanters forming post-modern amoebae that dance across the surface. In these works definitions between signifier and signified become as equally viscous as the embryotic fluid that casts them in a kind of suspended animation. The semi-translucent membranes of alien flora frame multitudinous layers of under painting, offering vignettes into the atomic structure of the composition: florescent molecules comprised of individual gradient brushstrokes.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1992 in Ixelles, Belgium
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Solo and two person exhibitions
2022
Morph Allure, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium
2021
Plastic roses never wither, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Cryogenic sleep in full colour, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Spaceship Love Affair, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
Group Exhibitions
2022
Manscaping, The Hole, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sausage Party, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2021
Door het doek het schilderij, Roger Raveel Museum, Zulte, Belgium
2020
Dreaming Only of Spring, LOTO, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Groetjes uit Knokke, rodolphe janssen, Knokke, Belgium
Oud slecht werk, Social Harmony, Ghent, Belgium
2018
Paper Works, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
Con Amore, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2017
De Nieuwe Garde (Kunst in Huis), Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp, Belgium
Summerhang, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
Tien om te zien, Gevaertsdreef 01, Oudenaarde, Belgium
Full Moon in Leo, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, Belgium
2016
Zeeassuranties en Urk, Galerie DADA, Rotselaar, Belgium
2015
Hortus Althea, CIAP, Hasselt, Belgium
De Stad als Performance, Triënnale Bruges, Bruges, Belgium
KOMASK, Antwerp & Liège, Belgium
2014
Chica Chica Bau Bau, Zwart-Wild, Ghent, Belgium
De vierkantigste rechthoek, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2013
De pasgeverfde staldeur, Bijloke, Ghent, Belgium
Collections
Collectie FOD Buitenlandse Zaken, Belgium
Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap - M Leuven, Belgium
Permanent installation, DoRemy daycare, Leuven, Belgium