Brenda van der beek
231 Chestnut St
North Andover, MA 01845
brenda@brendavanderbeek.com
website: brendavanderbeek.com

My art practice is informed by innate human disposition to order, my need for structure and my ever present interest in urban environments.  I have only recently come to realize that as a child being exposed to my father’s connections to architecture and construction has most likely contributed to my own desire to paint geometric abstract environments. I feel that I am a builder on a two dimensional plane with the work being an interplay between experiencing urban landscapes and then interpreting them. I sort things out entirely on the canvas. My intuitive beginnings and subsequent process of constructing, eliminating and rearranging result in a satisfying yet indefinite setting that is a synthesis of orderliness and disruption, concealing and revealing. I am not a serial painter and therefore I need to let something unexpected happen each and every time. Contradicting planes of depth and space paired with flatness is an aspect that continues to be an intention in my paintings.