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It emphasizes her avoidance of spiritual iconography, instead exploring poetic implications of art-historical qualities through repeated haptic gestures and analog pigment sourcing. The works’ faint ridges, built via layered gesso and acrylic and then sanded, foster slow looking through contrasts of matte and gloss, restrained color relationships, and complex surface textures and pigments.","LIES KRAAL  \n\n| \u003Cbr>2 | Lies Kraal was born in Rotterdam and has been based in Los Angeles since the 1950’s. She has worked as a monochrome painter for decades and is interested in continued investigations around mark making and introspective contemplation. Having begun practicing Zen Buddhism in 1988 the artist sites her meditative practice as a conceptual root within her painting. Steering away from spiritual iconographies or folklore, Lies Kraal instead focuses on the poetic implications of fundamental art-historical qualities within minimalist painting. Looking to fellow contemporaries like Agnes Martin, Kraal utilizes motifs such as repeated haptic gestures and analog processes of sourcing pigments to convey deeper relationships between the artist and her environment.\u003Cbr>Her often mono-chromatic series reflect west-coast sensibilities that trace back to the minimalist and light and space movements of the 1960’s. Faint ridges, which emerge from the repeated layering and sanding away of gesso and acrylic pigment, catch light in ways that amplify and disguises each works meticulously composed surface. The artist has stated that she,“likes people to feel her paintings without touching them,” a caveat that harkens\u003Cbr>familiar understandings of movements localized to Los Angeles such as Finish-Fetish, which was championed by artists such as John McKraken, Ron Davis, Helen Pashgian, Mary Corse, and Larry Bell.\u003Cbr>3 |\n| --- | --- |\n\nLies Kraal’s Sudio, Los Angeles  \n| 6 | “In the late 80’s and early 90’s, I made a series of paintings on unstretched linen. One of my inspirations was Leon Golub’s wonderfully potent, unstretched paintings. For Golub, stretcher bars were too conventional, too polite.\u003Cbr>I felt the same, and unstretched linen became a way to break out of this typical structure and existed as an expression of freedom. I enjoyed their quietly rebellious nature and the irony of depicting hard surfaces on a soft fabric. There seemed to be a loose, free-flowing sensuality and undulation when these pieces were installed.\u003Cbr>Later on, I was fortunate enough to meet him in Los Angeles and shared how much he had inspired me,“You know Leon, it’s freedomlike not wearing a bra.”’\u003Cbr>-Lies Kraal\u003Cbr>7 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n\n| \u003Cbr>8 | Equipment Room Door\u003Cbr>1989\u003Cbr>Acrylic on unstretched linen\u003Cbr>54 x 51 inches\u003Cbr>137 x 130 centimeters\u003Cbr>9 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n\n| Plumbago\u003Cbr>1987\u003Cbr>Scored acrylic and graphite on unstretched linen\u003Cbr>54 x 51 inches\u003Cbr>137 x 130 centimeters\u003Cbr>10 | \u003Cbr>11 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n\n| \u003Cbr>12 | Century City\u003Cbr>1987\u003Cbr>Acrylic on unstretched linen\u003Cbr>54 x 52.5 inches\u003Cbr>137 x 133 centimeters\u003Cbr>13 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n\n| Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles\u003Cbr>June 4, 2016\u003Cbr>Kraal is known for her modestly scaled and intently worked monochrome paintings, which often feature smooth horizontal and vertical ridges.\u003Cbr>Surface texture is an important aspect of Kraal’s painting; one she employs to encourage slow looking. In these paintings she draws the viewer in with the contrast between the soft-focus of a matte surface and the sharpness of gloss; the balanced relationship between cerulean blue and a creamy tangerine; the subtle speckles in a velvety plane of cool dirt brown.\u003Cbr>These textures, colors and effects are very difficult to produce with acrylic paint. She often makes her own paint with powdered pigments collected on her travels in order to develop deeply saturated color. Kraal often remarks that she would like the viewer to feel her paintings without touching them.\u003Cbr>14 | \u003Cbr>16-3\u003Cbr>2016\u003Cbr>Acrylic on hardboard panels\u003Cbr>15 x 30 inches (diptych) Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer\u003Cbr>15 |\n| --- | --- |\n\n\n|  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n\nLies Kraal Solo Show at Vielmetter, Los Angeles June 4 – July 9, 2016  \n16-2  \n2016  \nAcrylic on hardboard panels 15 x 30 inches (diptych)","cbCaioOGcOHVggjm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioOGcOHVggjm","pdf",1677091,1,17,"English","en",105,"# Lies Kraal\n## Biography and artistic intent\n## Unstretched linen series\n## Featured works","[{\"question\":\"Where is Lies Kraal from, and where is she based?\",\"answer\":\"Lies Kraal was born in Rotterdam and has been based in Los Angeles since the 1950s.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Zen Buddhism influence her painting?\",\"answer\":\"She began practicing Zen Buddhism in 1988 and presents her meditative practice as a conceptual root for her painting.\"},{\"question\":\"What materials and surfaces are central to her work?\",\"answer\":\"She is known for monochrome paintings on unstretched linen, as well as carefully textured surfaces built through layered gesso and acrylic pigment and sometimes through homemade pigment from powdered materials she collects.\"}]","Lies Kraal Catalogue - 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