All rights reserved: @Mariejon de Jong-Buijs, 2024
Dutch artist Mariejon de Jong-Buijs’ process-based work is inspired by the tradition of Dutch landscape painting, a physical inspiration born of her own work experience on farms and a long visual immersion in the history of the genre. Rather than representing the landscape, she aims to reconnect with it through memories. Her paintings are large-scale, often characterized by the use of saturated colors, geometric shapes, repetitive patterns and foldings of the canvas.
Mariejon de Jong-Buijs’ work is an exploration of abstraction juxtaposed with geometric minimalism. She is interested in the ways which paint can be used to create marks, inscriptions, and gestures through the use of non-traditional paint application. Like tractors, back-sprayers, brooms and her body, she utilizes a full range of working tools in and outside the studio.
She understands her “painting” as a process for carrying out specific actions to make the vicissitudes of the paint visible. The resulting work on canvas exposes the process, tools, materials and the act of movement. Traces of paint accumulate, residues stick, the elements leaves traces. Her work to date are predicated on an attention to process in relation to unfolding in time, the performance of specific and generally repetitive actions across canvas.
Still working within the tradition of the painted canvas, de Jong-Buijs is committed to exploring new ways of taking painting beyond the easel.
Basel, Switzerland 2025
Isabel Balzer
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