Lorena Kloosterboer
{{short description|Dutch-Argentine artist (born 1962)}}
File:Tempus ad Requiem V by Lorena Kloosterboer.jpg
Lorena Kloosterboer is a Dutch-Argentine artist (born Alkmaar, Netherlands, 1962) who paints using trompe-l'œil, hyperrealism, and photorealistic styles, often creating the illusion of three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface. She is best known for her hyperrealist still life paintings of idiosyncratic compositions made of glass and porcelain pieces. Her paintings have been exhibited and awarded in several countries worldwide. As a sculptor Kloosterboer has created a number of bronze pieces which are displayed in public in the city of Wassenaar. Also, the artist has published several books on painting techniques.{{cite web|title=Lorena Kloosterboer|url=http://www.vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/kunstenaar.php?id=Kloosterboer.l&object=A&pagina=1|website=vanderkrogt.net|access-date=Dec 11, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Lorena Ernestine Kloosterboer|url=http://outspokenart.withtheworks.net/scrolling_gallery/graphiques2/kloosterboer.html|website=outspokenart.withtheworks.net|access-date=July 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305024313/http://outspokenart.withtheworks.net/scrolling_gallery/graphiques2/kloosterboer.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=ABOUT LORENA KLOOSTERBOER|url=http://www.winsornewton.com/uk/connect/member?UserID=177|website=winsornewton.com|access-date=July 13, 2015}}{{cite web|title=LORENA KLOOSTERBOER|url=http://www.contemporary-still-life.com/lorenakloosterboer.html|website=contemporary-still-life.com|access-date=July 15, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Acrylics Artist LORENA KLOOSTERBOER|url=http://raebecgallery.com/portfolio/uncategorised/lorena-kloosterboer/|website=raebecgallery.com|access-date=July 15, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Lorena Kloosterboer|url=http://art-lorena.com/biography|website=art-lorena.com|access-date=July 15, 2015}}
Career
Kloosterboer studied fine arts at the Instituto de Bellas Artes Beato Angélico{{cite web|title=Instituto de Bellas Artes Beato Angélico|url=http://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/areas/educacion/escuelas/escuelas/privada/beato/default.htm|website=buenosaires.gob.ar|access-date=July 9, 2015}}{{Failed verification|date=February 2016}} in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She later attended art classes and workshops for several years at Scottsdale Artist's School in Scottsdale, Arizona.{{cite web|title=About us|url=http://scottsdaleartschool.org/about-us/|website=scottsdaleartschool.org|access-date=July 9, 2015}}{{cite web|title=The International Guild of Realism: Third Annual Juried Exhibition at the Scottsdale Fine Art in Scottsdale, Arizona|url=http://www.realismguild.com/PreviousExhibitionSFA2008.html|website=realismguild.com|access-date=July 9, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085222/http://www.realismguild.com/PreviousExhibitionSFA2008.html|archive-date=September 24, 2015}} Kloosterboer painting subjects include a wide variety of objects like colorful candies, marbles, shells, silverware, glass and ceramics. An evolving series of Kloosterboer's paintings entitled Tempus ad Requiem (‘Time to Rest’ in Latin) depicts still lifes with birds. "This series of still lifes featuring birds perched on ceramic or glass objects symbolizes the need for a time and a place to rest, to come to terms with life’s hurdles and replenish our energies".{{Cite news|url=https://thecuriousfrenchy.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/lorena-kloosterboer-the-visual-poet/|title=Lorena Kloosterboer: the visual poet|date=2017-02-13|access-date=2018-11-12|language=en-US}}
Sculptures
In 1991 Kloosterboer unveiled her first bronze sculpture representing a jester officially named De Nar.{{cite web|title = Nar|url = http://www.vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/object.php?record=ZH70ah|website=vanderkrogt.net|access-date = July 13, 2015}} It was commissioned to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a Dutch carnival group: De Deylknotsen. This jester is on public display at De Warenar,{{cite web|title=Warenar|url=http://warenar.nl/|website=warenar.nl/|access-date=July 16, 2015}} the official cultural center in Wassenaar. During the following years Kloosterboer also created a commissioned series of four bronze sculptures popularly known as De Boomstronken (The Tree Trunks), which are on public display in Wassenaar. Color illustrations of these pieces and their locations are shown in the book "Beeldend Wassenaar" offering hiking and biking trails leading past the visual arts in Wassenaar.{{cite web|title=Boomstronk met eekhoorn|url=http://www.vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/object.php?record=ZH70bk|website=vanderkrogt.net|access-date=July 13, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Boomstronk met specht|url=http://www.vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/object.php?record=ZH70bl|website=vanderkrogt.net|access-date=July 16, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Boomstronk met drie muizen|url=http://www.vanderkrogt.net/standbeelden/object.php?record=ZH70bj|website=www.vanderkrogt.net|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
Books
- 2014 - Painting in Acrylics: The Indispensable Guide.{{cite book|last1=Kloosterboer|first1=Lorena|title=Painting in Acrylics: The Indispensable Guide|date=October 17, 2014|publisher=Firefly Books|isbn=978-1770854086}}
- 2014 - Complete Guide to Painting in Acrylics{{cite book|last1=Kloosterboer|first1=Lorena|title=Complete Guide to Painting in Acrylics|date=November 19, 2014|publisher=Search Press Ltd|isbn=978-1782211877}}
- 2015 - De Complete Gids voor Acrylverf - Professionele Technieken voor Traditionele Toepassingen{{cite book|last1=Kloosterboer|first1=Lorena|title=De Complete Gids voor Acrylverf - Professionele Technieken voor Traditionele Toepassingen|date=Sep 1, 2015|publisher=Librero|isbn=978-90-8998-563-7|pages=11/44|url=https://www.literatuurplein.nl/boekdetail.jsp?boekId=1034756|access-date=July 16, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Complete gids voor acrylverf|url=http://www.standaardboekhandel.be/seo/nl/boeken/tekenen-creativiteit/9789089985637/lorena-kloosterboer/complete-gids-voor-acrylverf|website=standaardboekhandel.be|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
Critique
Kloosterboer's artwork has been favourably reviewed and included among other artists in a book on the history of women painters in the Low Countries{{cite book|last1=Stighelen|first1=Katlijne van der|title=Vrouwenstreken : vrouwelijke schilders in de Nederlanden (1550-nu)|date=2010|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|location=Amsterdam|isbn=978-9089642783|page=168,169,199–202}}{{cite book|last1=Van der Stighelen|first1=Katlijne|title=Vrouwenstreken : onvergetelijke schilderessen uit de Lage Landen|date=2010|publisher=Lannoo|location=Tielt|isbn=9789020988703|pages=168, 169, 199–202|url=http://www.tento.be/OKV-artikel/vrouwenstreken|access-date=July 13, 2015}} authored by Art Historian Professor Katlijne van der Stighelen.{{cite web|title=Katlijne Van der Stighelen - Professor at the University of Leuven & editor of the Pictura Nova series|url=https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/flemishbaroque/team/katlijnevanderstighelen|website=arts.kuleuven.be|access-date=July 9, 2015}}
Some of Kloosterboer's paintings from her time in the USA are included in a published essay on Trompe L'Oeil in America, by Kevin Sharp.{{cite book|last1=Sharp|first1=essay by Kevin|title=The reality of things : trompe l'œil in America|date=2007|publisher=Vero Beach Museum of Art|location=Vero Beach, Fla.|isbn=9780977636839|page=27,28|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008544232}} Also, some of her realist paintings were included in Acrylic Artist's Guide to Exceptional Colour (by Lexi Sundell) chosen to illustrate fundamental aspects of color such as temperature, intensity and brightness.{{cite book|last1=Sundell|first1=Lexi|title=Acrylic artist's guide to exceptional colour|date=2012|publisher=Search|location=Tunbridge Wells|isbn=978-1-84448-807-0|page=70,104,105}} Media articles and interviews dealing with Kloosterboer's artwork are available from other sources.{{cite web|title=An Interview with Lorena Kloosterboer|url=http://www.isap-online.com/documents/isap_newsletters/2008_isap_4-1.pdf|website=isap-online.com|access-date=July 12, 2015}}{{cite web|last1=Lizzi|first1=Susana|last2=Castillo|first2=Luis|title=El increíble encantamiento de la creatividad|url=http://en.calameo.com/read/000174915b8ff99747d22|website=en.calameo.com|access-date=July 12, 2015}}
Exhibitions
Kloosterboer's paintings have been exhibited in many countries including Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Some recent exhibits including her paintings are:
- 2019 MEAM exhibition, Barcelona{{Cite web|url=https://www.europapress.es/catalunya/noticia-meam-llena-mujeres-artistas-contemporaneas-diversas-exposicion-20190306143622.html|title=El MEAM se llena de mujeres artistas contemporáneas y diversas en una exposición|date=2019-03-06|publisher=Europa Press|access-date=2019-10-18}} [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ygXqoZ9QA]
- 2015 - IGOR Exhibition - The International Realism Guild's Tenth Annual International Juried Exhibition, at the Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, USA{{cite web|title=10th Annual International Juried Exhibition|url=http://www.realismguild.com/UpcomingExhibitions.html|website=realismguild.com|access-date=July 9, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826092225/http://www.realismguild.com/UpcomingExhibitions.html|archive-date=August 26, 2015}}
- 2015 - Richeson75 International Still Life & Floral Online Exhibition{{cite web|title=Still Life and Floral 2015|url=http://www.richeson75.com/pages/stilllife/2015/index.html|website=richeson75.com|access-date=July 9, 2015}}
- 2015 - The R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA (May 19 - July 26) - Masterworks From The International Guild Of Realism, Museum Tour Produced by David J. Wagner, LLC.{{cite web|title=Masterworks From The International Guild Of Realism|url=http://realismguild.com/CurrentExhibitions.html|website=realismguild.com|access-date=July 9, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822213548/http://www.realismguild.com/CurrentExhibitions.html|archive-date=August 22, 2015}}
- 2014 - Second Annual Juried Trompe l'Oeil Exhibition, (September 27 – December 31, 2014) at the John F. Peto Studio Museum, Island Heights, NJ{{cite web|title=Juried Trompe L’oeil Exhibition|url=http://petomuseum.org/2nd-annual-trompe-loeil-exhibition/|website=petomuseum.org|access-date=July 10, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160211094717/http://petomuseum.org/2nd-annual-trompe-loeil-exhibition/|archive-date=February 11, 2016|url-status=dead}}
- 2014 - Trompe l'Oeil Exhibition, at Reynolds Fine Art, in New Haven, Connecticut, USA (March 20 - April 30) {{cite news|title=Events in Connecticut for March 23–29|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/nyregion/events-in-connecticut-for-march-23-29-2014.html?_r=0|access-date=July 10, 2014|work=NEW HAVEN Reynolds Fine Art "The Art of Trompe l’Oeil," works by Gary Erbe, Larry Charles and Lorena Kloosterboer|agency=NY Times|date=March 20, 2014}}
- 2013 - Atelier Animal Exhibition, at the CODA Museum, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.{{cite web|title=Atelier Schilderwedstrijd Dieren|url=http://www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/tentoonstellingen/coda-museum/archief/2012/dieren/|website=coda-apeldoorn.nl|access-date=July 19, 2015}}
Kloosterboer's work was also exhibited in 2010, (J. Willot Gallery, Palm Desert, CA),{{cite web|title=The International Guild of Realism: Fifth Annual Juried Exhibition at the J. Willott Gallery in Palm Desert, California|url=http://www.rgeoffreyblackburn.com/international_guild_of_realism_exhibitions_winners_artists.pdf|website=rgeoffreyblackburn.com|access-date=July 11, 2015}} 2008 (Tempe Center for The Arts, Tempe, AZ),{{cite web|title=Masters of Illusion Unveiling the Mystery of Trompe L’Oeil|url=http://www.tempe.gov/home/showdocument?id=3507|website=tempe.gov|access-date=July 11, 2015}} 2008 (Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, 112th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY),{{cite web|title=Catharine-Lorillard-Wolfe-Art-Club-112th-Annual-Open-Exhibition-2008|url=https://es.scribd.com/doc/271302865/Catharine-Lorillard-Wolfe-Art-Club-112th-Annual-Open-Exhibition-2008|website=es.scribd.com|access-date=July 11, 2015}} and 2007 (Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, WA),{{cite web|title=The Best of Trompe l'Oeil Today|url=http://www.artistsforconservation.org/news-media/news/best-trompe-loeil-today|website=artistsforconservation.org|access-date=July 19, 2015}}
Awards
Below is a partial list of awards won by the artist.{{cite web|title=Lorena Kloosterboer Selected Awards|url=http://art-lorena.com/awards|website=art-lorena.com/awards|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
- 2012 - Second Place for Tempus ad Requiem in the International Artist Magazine Challenge #72 'Favorite Subjects' Competition.{{cite web|title=International Artist Magazine #88 December_January 2013 issue|url=https://www.internationalartist.com/issues/num/88|website=internationalartist.com|access-date=July 16, 2015|ref=page 4}}
- 2012 - Atelier Award 2012, First Place for Tempus ad Requiem at the CODA Museum, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.{{cite web|title=Atelier Schilderwedstrijd Dieren|url=http://www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/tentoonstellingen/coda-museum/archief/2012/dieren/|website=coda-apeldoorn.nl|access-date=July 16, 2015|ref=Prijswinnaars}}
- 2012 - Finalist with Tempus ad Requiem in the Richeson 75 International Online Animals, Birds & Wildlife Competition.{{cite web|title=Animal, Birds, and Wildlife 2014|url=http://www.richeson75.com/pages/wildlife/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150127073844/http://www.richeson75.com/pages/wildlife/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 27, 2015|website=richeson75.com|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
- 2011 - Jack Richeson & Co Materials Award for Sapientia at the 4th Annual ISAP Online Signature Members Show.{{cite web|title=ISAP 4th Annual Online Signature Members Show|url=http://www.isap-online.com/4th_sig_members/4th_sig_members_winners.html|website=isap-online.com|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
- 2011 - Ampersand Materials Award for Bon Voyage in the 14th Annual ISAP International Open Exhibition at the Santa Cruz Art League Gallery, in Santa Cruz, California, USA.{{cite web|title=14th Annual ISAP International Open Exhibition|url=http://www.isap-online.com/14th_exhibition/14th_exhibition_winners.html|website=isap-online.com|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
- 2009 - Creative Achievement Award for Chalkboard No. 1 - Manet (together with Larry Charles) at the Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition of the International Guild of Realism, at The Weatherburn Gallery, in Naples, Florida, USA.{{cite web|title=Creative Achievement|url=http://www.realismguild.com/PreviousExhibitionWeatherBurn2009.html|website=realismguild.com|access-date=July 19, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085223/http://www.realismguild.com/PreviousExhibitionWeatherBurn2009.html|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}
- 2008 - Best of 2008 in the Still Life Category, for Twice As Much, Cat’s Eyes Marbles and Alternative Anthology in the International Best of 2008 Competition at the Marziart Internationale Galerie, Hamburg, Germany.{{cite web|title=M a r z i a r t Internationale Galerie|url=http://www.marziart.com/Wettbewerbe2008/Start-Competition.HTM|website=marziart.com|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
- 2006 - Merit Award by Savoir-Faire for Liberty at the 9th Annual International ISAP Exhibition, at the Cornell Museum of Art and History, Delray, Florida, USA.{{cite web|title=9th Annual ISAP International Open Exhibition|url=http://www.isap-online.com/9th_exhibition/9th_exhibit_winners.htm|website=isap-online.com|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
- 2006 - Creative Achievement Award for Twice As Much at the 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition of the International Guild of Realism, at Manitou Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.{{cite web|title=The International Guild of Realism's Second Annual Juried Exhibition was held at the Manitou Galleries.|url=http://www.realismguild.com/PreviousExhibitionManitou111506.html|website=realismguild.com|access-date=July 19, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085221/http://www.realismguild.com/PreviousExhibitionManitou111506.html|archive-date=September 24, 2015}}
- 2005 - Master Painters of the World, US Showcase, honoring Sunday Best featured in the June/July 2005 issue of International Artist Magazine.{{cite web|title=International Artist June_July 2005|url=http://backissues.com/issue/International-Artist-June-2005|website=backissues.com|access-date=July 16, 2015}}
References
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External links
- [http://art-lorena.com Lorena Kloosterboer official website]
- [https://museum-of-art.net/rooms/walk/18136 Online Exhibition of Lorena Kloosterboer]
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