R.B.Stevenson Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition “Paintings Are People Too” featuring new & recent paintings by Los Angeles artist Monique van Genderen.
Due to the Covid-19 we are taking all of the necessary precautions recommended by the  State of California and the Centers for Disease Control to ensure the safety of visitors and staff. Now visitors will be required to wear face masks and can gather outside the gallery and enter when they feel comfortable with social distancing. 

We look forward to welcoming you back to the gallery.

“Paintings Are People Too” at R.B. Stevenson Gallery in La Jolla is a further iteration of van Genderen’s on-going project of painting in the public sphere. First produced in Berlin in June 2019 “Paintings Are People Too” was shown at the Rosa Luxembourg Platz Kunstverein with the title: “Citizens Don’t Hesitate.” The bannaristic artwork created for the Murals of La Jolla on this same building emulates the hopeful agency that Sister Corita Kent used throughout her practice.

Treating the painting as muse van Genderen’s work employs abstraction to reconsider humanity and empathy. Her paintings take the form of the figure in their shape and verticality, transposing subjectivity and articulating connections between material forces. This exhibition features paintings created in the context of making connections to people and exploring the agency of the art object through the linguistic nature of our visual communications.

Actively working in wall painting and site-specific works in institutions and museums since 2000 van Genderen has contributed significantly to the relationship of painting to public art. Exhibitions featuring these large-scale projects include the Hammer Museum Los Angeles, the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, and Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX. Her work is included in many public and private collections such as the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA and the US Embassies in Surinam and Copenhagen. She was the recipient of the 2019 Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. Van Genderen lives and works in La Jolla and Los Angeles.