at SUNSET is pleased to present a one day one painting event by Sunday Morning Painters Club WHATEVER LOLA WANTS (2) by Jan van der Ploeg.

at SUNSET is a Scheveningen based art space which shares its space with a shifting selection of national and international artist-run spaces. at SUNSET is a non-regular initiative that seeks to create dialogue, exchange and connection with a focus on the process with artists.

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INTUITIVE NATURE

Geometric Roots & Organic Foundations

If abstraction is a language, Jan Van Der Ploeg is a grammarian.
His visual language is reduced to a set of essential parameters, but he goes wild within that restricted space. Van Der Ploeg’s paintings consequently inhabit another dimension in the non-objective universe, taking a decisive path at thecrossroads of contraction and expansion.
He took the exit toward contraction and reduction. Or towards the realm, Mies van der Rohe famously consecrated with the phrase “less is more.”
His most recent work draws inspiration from record sleeve designs by Josef Albers for Command Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Like Albers, Van Der Ploeg economizes his visual repertoire only to turn what might be minimal into maximal compositional inventions.

Shane McAdams

The Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland
October 5 through December 9, 2023