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“...a transcendent feeling of tranquillity, order, and purity”

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Janise Yntema’s painting explores physical light as a manifestation of emotional and

psychological states, states of human frailty and the soul’s expansion into hope.

Through the materials of melted wax on wood panel, her paintings capture and

emanate light toward a transcendent feeling of tranquillity, order, and purity.

Yntema creates this transcendent lightness through her materials and techniques.

She applies natural bees wax to wood panels, shaping it with heat. This method is

one of the oldest known painting techniques, dating back over 2000 years. It is so

durable that ancient Egyptian encaustic paintings maintain their brilliant colours and

minute detail to this day, never cracking like oil painting, unaffected by moisture,

mildew, or fungus.

The intensely time consuming nature of such a technique draws the artist’s close

attention to the process itself: slow, meditative, almost prayer-like. And the extreme

heat involved recalls alchemy, the changing of mundane materials into precious,

sacred objects. Yntema uses a blow torch to sweep her “brush strokes” across her

paintings seamlessly, while the heat invisibly dilutes, mixes, and binds the layers of

colour to each other into translucent layers of luminous tone. She then polishes the

surfaces with the softest cotton to a high fleshy gloss, like oil rubbed into supple skin.

Yntema further develops the feeling of light radiating and emanating from the

materials by carefully choosing her colours and surface texture. Yntema’s colour,

evoking silence and simplicity, is the melting sky, the sunrise and the sunset through

water, given in blues, greens, yellows, pinks, violets, and browns. Layered together,

they continually swirl and drift.

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She depicts sky, undifferentiated particles of atmosphere, opening spaces that seem

to breathe. The sky and water are only suggested, and the paintings preserve the

silence of being non-representative, nebulous, and imaginatively expansive. Of the

surface texture, the polished finish seems matt when viewed frontally, but when

moving to the side view it becomes shiny, glossy in patches, shimmering with a

gently undulating surface. It is the surface of still waters, a glassy reflective, catching

the ambient light and gathering it into bright patches. And yet earth-bound, the

gouges in the surfaces puncture its skin, pinching, puckering, and folding at the

incision. Opposites in harmony, the transcendent light is manifest by a material so

bodily, tactile, lickable, supple, pliant, in fatty veins of white, bleeding and frenetic

at times like lightning. The strong push and pull between the fleshy surface and airy

depth brings life to the already organic wax and wood materials.

In scale, some of Yntema’s paintings are almost large enough to walk right through,

full of air and light, and other paintings are small like peepholes into an unimaginably

vast space beyond. In this way, the sizes are inviting on a personal level. Yntema

explains:

“I am interested in finding a balance of exactly how much is necessary to fully

develop a painting and exactly how much is necessary to leave out.”

Jacquelyn Stonberg, PhD

Kean University

September 2009

New Jersey, USA

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[PREVIOUS PAGE] NIGHTLINESwax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 105 cm / 47” x 41.5”

[OPPOSITE] DIFFUSED LIGHT IIwax encaustic and oil on panel

107 x 99 cm / 42” x 39”

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SECONDS AWAY [diptych]wax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 180 cm / 47” x 71”

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FLIGHT LEVELwax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 105 cm / 47” x 41.5”

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BEECH BOTANICAL [diptych]wax encaustic and mixed media on panel

20 x 40 cm / 8” x 16”

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OCTOBER SEAwax encaustic and oil on panel

60 x 60 cm / 23.5” x 23.5”

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AWAKEwax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 105 cm / 47” x 41.5”

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LIGHT RAIN ON A SUMMER’S NIGHTwax encaustic and oil on panel

60 x 60 cm / 23.5” x 23.5”

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MORNING MISTwax encaustic and oil on panel

60 x 60 cm / 23.5” x 23.5”

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DIFFUSED LIGHT Iwax encaustic and oil on panel

107 x 99 cm / 42” x 39”

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ASH BOTANICAL [diptych]wax encaustic and mixed media on panel

18 x 26 cm / 7.7” x 11”

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STILL [diptych]wax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 180 cm / 47” x 71”

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EVENING STILLwax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 105 cm / 47” x 41.5”

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WHITE RAINwax encaustic and mixed media on panel

17 x 17 cm / 6.5” X 6.5”

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DAYBREAKwax encaustic and oil on panel

120 x 105 cm / 47” x 41.5”

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NORTHERN MISTwax encaustic and oil on panel

30 x 30 cm / 12” x 12”

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JANISE YNTEMA

1962 BORN IN NEW JERSEY, U.S.A

EDUCATION1980-84 PARSON’S SCHOOL OF DESIGN, NEW YORK CITY, BFA1986 THE COOPER UNION, NEW YORK CITY

SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS1993 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY1994 HOBOKEN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY1995 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, NEW JERSEY1996 WATCHUNG ARTS CENTER, NEW JERSEY—AWARD SHOW1997 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY2003 CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS1989 CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY, NEW JERSEY (JURIED EXHIBITION)1990 CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY, NEW JERSEY1991 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY RARITAN VALLEY ART GALLERY, NEW JERSEY (INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION)1992 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY TRIBECA 148 GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY, NEW JERSEY1993 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY, NEW JERSEY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, NEW JERSEY (JURIED EXHIBITION) TRIBECA 148 GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY1994 CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY, NEW JERSEY (JURIED EXHIBITION) ALJIRA CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW JERSEY BROOK ALEXANDER GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS CENTER FOR THE ARTS, NEW JERSEY (AWARD SHOW)1995 ARTISTS SPACE, NEW YORK CITY CITY WITHOUT WALLS GALLERY, NEW JERSEY THE MORRIS MUSEUM, NEW JERSEY (INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION) A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY1996 CERES GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY (INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION) A.I.R.GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY THE ARSENAL GALLERY, CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY1997 SIMON GALLERY, NEW JERSEY PRINTED MATTER, NEW YORK CITY A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY

1998 SIMON GALLERY, NEW JERSEY SOHO 20, NEW YORK CITY (INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION) A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE’S ARCHIVE OF AMERICAN ART, NY WATCHUNG ARTS CENTER, NEW JERSEY (INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION) CANESSA GALLERY, SAN FRANCISCO, CA1999 SOHO 20, NEW YORK CITY, INVITATIONAL2000 CENTURY GALLERY, LONDON MAFUJI GALLERY, LONDON CHRISTINE VAN STRALEN GALLERY, AMSTERDAM2001 CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON STEPHEN LACEY GALLERY, LONDON MAFUJI GALLERY, LONDON CENTURY GALLERY, LONDON2002 C-B-GALERIE, COLOGNE CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON CENTURY GALLERY, LONDON2003 CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON A&A GALERIE, BELGIUM2004 CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON2005 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON2007 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON2008 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY CADOGAN CONTEMPORARY, LONDON2009 A.I.R. GALLERY, NEW YORK CITY

COLLECTIONSPHILLIPS CORPORATION, THE NETHERLANDSPTS SOFTWARE, THE NETHERLANDSAMHERST COLLEGE, AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTSART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILLINOISBROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORKCARNEGIE INSTITUTE MUSEUM OF ART, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIACINCINNATI MUSEUM OF ART, OHIOFRED JONES JR. MUSEUM OF ART, OKLAHOMAGUTENBERG MUSEUM, GERMANYMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK CITYMILWAUKEE ARTS MUSEUM, WISCONSINMUSEUM OF MODERN ART ARCHIVES, NEW YORK CITYPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM, RHODE ISLANDSTEDELIJK MUSEUM, AMSTERDAMYALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, CONNECTICUTNATIONAL MUSEUM FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS, WASHINGTON, D.C

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