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VERHOYE Annabelle Jasmin
Annabelle Jasmin Verhoye's work seeks to create imagery that is at once true to her subject's form, yet with additional layers of interpretation. The resulting effect is one of elucidating both the scene's objective nature as well as its inner essence and the mood it organically creates.
She plays with both monochromic backdrops as well as vistas that pull the viewer into the piece with gradients of light and depth. Annabelle's technique and conceptual framework is in many ways the polar opposite of many past and current approaches in two important ways. For example, she works in a reverse layering process on acrylic glass sometimes obfuscating form with each application. The result is her first layer of paint is often the first image the viewer sees, as opposed to the last brush stroke of an oil painting being the most forward facing. Just as a forest itself does not evolve as a predetermined collection of trees, Annabelle's work begins and ends in a similarly natural way-uncalculated yet true to the spirit of her subject's sublime nature.
Additionally, she has extended her traditional palette of glass and acrylic paint to raise the significance of the naming of her pieces, in a sense attempting to synergistically bring visual art and prose together. The intent is to not limit the viewer's experience, but to in fact enhance it, adding another dimension to the picture yet within a framework that is provocative; in a sense a movement away from the relativism embraced by some contemporary artists.
Born in Germany and raised in France, she ultimately moved to Manhattan where she received her MFA degree from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has won numerous awards and has been exhibited at Opera Gallery (New York), BMW (New York), R2 Gallery, Thomas Werner Gallery (New York), The Society of Illustrators, The Tribeca Arts Club, School of Visual Arts (Korea), Catherine Malandrino ( New York)) and La Samaritaine (Paris).
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