Between time and memory
Oil on Wood
20x16in
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Embracing the brokeness
Oil on Linen
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Francien Krieg
Netherlands
Credentials
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
« My work captures the beauty, the power and the vulnerability of the human condition. »
Francien Krieg is a Dutch painter whose work explores the human body as a place where time, vulnerability, strength and uncertainty become visible.
For many years, she was known for her paintings of aging female bodies, questioning conventional ideas of beauty, shame and visibility. In recent years, her focus has widened. She now paints young men, boxers, floating figures, sleeping bodies and adolescents caught between childhood and adulthood.
Krieg is interested in the body not as an ideal form, but as something fragile, strange and honest. Her paintings often show people when the mask begins to slip: a boxer after the fight, a boy floating in water, a figure resting, withdrawing, resisting or giving in.
Her work moves between tenderness and discomfort, beauty and unease. Her painting process has also become more direct and colourful, with a growing use of alla prima painting that brings immediacy, risk and energy into the surface.
For many years, she was known for her paintings of aging female bodies, questioning conventional ideas of beauty, shame and visibility. In recent years, her focus has widened. She now paints young men, boxers, floating figures, sleeping bodies and adolescents caught between childhood and adulthood.
Krieg is interested in the body not as an ideal form, but as something fragile, strange and honest. Her paintings often show people when the mask begins to slip: a boxer after the fight, a boy floating in water, a figure resting, withdrawing, resisting or giving in.
Her work moves between tenderness and discomfort, beauty and unease. Her painting process has also become more direct and colourful, with a growing use of alla prima painting that brings immediacy, risk and energy into the surface.
- Nationality
- Netherlands
- Born
- 1973
- Mediums
- Painter
Finalist MOD portrait - Nominated- Zarragoza, Spain
BoldBrush Awards - Bold brush award first prize- United States
Artist of The Year Award - Nominated- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Figurativas - 2019 - Nominated- Barcelona, Spain
solo twee pauwen / gallery Twee pauwen - The hague, Netherlands
solo Francien Krieg / gallery Mokum - Amsterdam, Netherlands
solo exhibit gallery Pinsart / gallery Pinsart - Brugge, Belgium
MEAM International womens day / MEAM Barcelona - Barcelona, Spain
Unseen / Stone sparrow NYC - New york, United States
Painting Today / MEAM Museum European d’Art Modern - Barcelona, Spain
Painting the figure now / Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art - Wausau, United States
Stark realisme / gallery Beinart - Brunswick, Australia
Elizah Leigh- The unvarnished landscape of life
Fine Art Connoisseur magazine- flowers
Poets and artists- Go wild
Poets and artists- Story tellers
Artists on art- Not above my couch
MEAM. Museu Europeu d'Art Modern- Figurativas 2019
Millionart kaleidoscope- Mastermind
Poets and artists- 50 great figurative artists
Pouch Cove Foundation - Pouch cove, Canada
Howard tullman, United States
ING collectie, Netherlands
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