London Paint Club

Rachel De Joode

Soft

22 October - 19 December 2020

Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 18, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in), © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 18, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in), © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery

Gallery

“I’m interested in seeing the world from a completely detached perspective.”

Annka Kultys Gallery is pleased to present Soft, an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based Dutch artist Rachel de Joode.  On show are five of the artist’s large scale (152 x 125 cm) abstract paintings from her 2020 Sloppy Therapy series.  Soft is de Joode’s first solo show in London.

De Joode describes the central focus of her practice as the space between the physical and the virtual worlds, exploring the relationship between the three dimensional object and its two dimensional representation.  Her work encapsulates a constant play between surface, meaning and materiality, disrupting the entanglement between these different plateaus in order to regain simplicity.

InstallationRachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 21, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in) Unique, (RdJo005.20) © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery_View_2020_Rachel_de_Joode_Annka_Kultys_featured
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 21, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in) Unique, (RdJo005.20) © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery
InstallatioRachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 19, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in) Unique, (RdJo004.20) © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Sim Annka Kultys Galleryn_View_2020_Rachel_de_Joode_Annka_Kultys_featured
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 19, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in) Unique, (RdJo004.20) © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Sim Annka Kultys Gallery
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 14, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in), Unique, (RdJo002.20) © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 14, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in), Unique, (RdJo002.20) © Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 12, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in) Unique, (RdJo001.20) Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery
Rachel de Joode, Sloppy Therapy 12, 2020, Pigment ink on archival paper, mounted on aluminium dibond, and frame, 152 x 125 cm (59 3/4 x 49 1/4 in) Unique, (RdJo001.20) Rachel de Joode, Image courtesy of Annka Kultys Gallery
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Biography

Rachel de Joode is a Dutch-born, Berlin-based multi-media artist.  She mixes mediums, particularly those of photography, sculpture and most recently, painting.  Her work bounces between the physical and the virtual, exploring the relationship between the three dimensional object and its two dimensional representation.  De Joode’s work is a constant play between surface, representation and materiality.

De Joode earned her diploma in time-based art from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam.  She was awarded the Deutsche Börse Residency Program at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt (2013) and the Sculpture Space funded residency (2012), as well as a residency at LMCC swingspace program at Governors Island (2013 – 2014) in New York.  She has received funding from the Mondrian fund, the Berliner Senat and the Royal Dutch Embassy.  Her work has been reproduced and reviewed in Vitamin C clay and ceramics (Phaidon), ArtforumArtnetThe New York TimesThe New YorkerDIS magazine and Charlotte Cotton’s book Photography is Magic.

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