Monique van Genderen | The Sea Ranch, 2024

Dec 7, 2024 - Jan 4, 2025 7655 Girard Avenue
Overview

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film. 

 

Three works that were made for each other. In support of each other. In reaction to each other. First the painting, then its documentation, then documentation on the person that made the painting. Then the poem, it’s logic is modular, one of response and repetition. The poet mixed up the lines and let the images guide her. Precise and timed, tuned to a moment in mid-August. But anyone can do it. You can do it too. You can say the lines in response to the images, the soundtrack, the person.
 
Two friends from different generations went on a trip. They had in mind to make their own works, using each other’s company, in support of each other’s work. The film was to be about the death of an artist. Maybe it still is.
 
The paintings are also a process of response and repetition. They have images that obstinately repeat, putting the pressure on to remember something that looks like something else. The order is embedded in the process, and the process becomes transparent, closing the loop to make the circle. That circle that entwines friendship, mirroring the self in another’s gaze.

-Monique van Genderen
 

 
Monique van Genderen (based in San Diego/Los Angeles) received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA and her BFA from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA. She has presented solo exhibitions most recently at Galerie Richard, Paris, France; Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Bernier/Eliades, Brussels; Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin; Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA; Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig; TAI Modern, Santa Fe, NM; Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo; D’Amelio Gallery, New York, NY; Effearte, Milan; Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn; and Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA.

 

Her work may be found in the collections of AIG Sun America Inc., Los Angeles, CA; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoria, IL; Eileen Harris and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; KB Home, Los Angeles, CA; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany; MCA San Diego; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

 

She is the recipient of a Project Commission for Murals for La Jolla; the Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Federal Courthouse Building Art Commission for the GSA, Arts and Architecture Program, Harrisburg, PA; and the West Hollywood 1% for the Arts Public Art Commission, West Hollywood, CA. In 2006, van Genderen was shortlisted for the Castellón County Council III International Painting Prize, Castellón, Spain and, in 2004, was an Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.

 

Jennifer Moxley is a poet, essayist, and translator born and raised in San Diego. She studied at University of California, San Diego and the University of Rhode Island, where she completed her BA, and Brown University, where she earned an MFA. She is the author of Druthers (Flood Editions, 2018), The Open Secret (Flood Editions, 2014), Clampdown (Flood Editions, 2009), The Middle Room (subpress, 2008), Often Capital (Flood Editions, 2005), The Sense Record and other poems (Edge Books, 2002; rpt. Salt Editions, 2003), and Imagination Verses (Tender Buttons, 1996; rpt. Salt Editions, 2003). Enlightenment Evidence (rem press, 1996) was translated into French as Evidence des Lumières at the Fondation Royaumont in 1998. She has translated two books by the French poet and scholar Jacqueline Risset: a book of essays titled Sleep’s Powers (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008) and a book of poems, The Translation Begins (Burning Deck, 1996). In 2010, her translation of Anne Portugal’s Absolute bob was published by Burning Deck. She was the poetry editor for The Baffler magazine from 1997-2010 and a contributing editor of The Poker magazine from 2003-2008. Moxley teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine. 
 

photo: Lile Kvantaliani
Selected Works