The Laura Russo Gallery presents
De Tand des Tijds
an exhibition of new work by Henk Pander
February 7th – March 2nd, 2013
Opening Reception: February 7th, 2013 5-8pm
The Laura Russo Gallery
805 NW 21st Ave.
Portland Oregon
97209
Tue – Fri 11 – 5:30
Saturday 11 – 5
& by Appointment
Iron Fist, 2012, 30″ x 44″
Bob Hicks writes a wonderful article on Henk Pander’s show at the Oregon Jewish Museum, January through May of 2012. Hicks’ writes very eloquently about much of Pander’s work.
Hicks: “Much of Pander’s art in Transport is heroically scaled, and its size is important to both its impact and its particularity. Telling details leap out with a clarity that can only be dimly suggested in reproductions. (Trust me: the reproductions accompanying this story can’t carry a candle to their originals.) And it’s an unrelentingly social art that keeps its feet soundly on the side of private territory, perhaps because the point of a culture’s social contract is to secure safe haven for private life. The pieces here have neither the sense-stirring battlefield drama of Goya’s famous Disasters of War prints nor the overt moral outrage of Sue Coe’s prints and drawings condemning the butchery of animals. Pander’s art seems somehow sadder and in its way perhaps even braver, because it sees not just the atrocious event, but the private ripples of the atrocious event. To truly understand, it seems to say, first you have to truly look.”
Read the full article here.
Professor and Blogger Chazz Williams of Albany State University writes about Henk Pander’s exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art on view until the 21st of this month. He writes about a number of works in the exhibition, as well as providing sone contextual information regarding the subject. It is an interesting read.
Williams: “The paintings have a Surreal edge as the mystery and the dreamlike (or nightmare like) quality of the memories divulge the horrible absurdity that a child must experience during war time…It is when Pander stops the action that things get truly haunting.”
Read the rest of the article here.
Jim Hendricks writes about Henk Pander’s current exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in the Albany Herald.
Hendricks: “Whether it’s because of the grand size of the works, the interplay of light and color, or the sometimes uncomfortable subject matter, the works prompt a little soul searching on the part of the observer.”
To read the rest of the review, click here
HENK PANDER
Exhibition: May 3 – July 21, 2012
Albany Museum of Art: Henk Pander’s paintings are aligned with long-standing traditions in European landscape and still life painting while they explore the American scene and historical memory. For his landscapes, he chooses historically relevant, albeit forgotte, sites. He paints these as they are, desrted and in disrepair as a commentary on how short our cultural memories can be. These large-scale paintings, some as large as 12 feet wide, act as monuments to these places and the history they represent.
Tel: (229) 439-8400
info@albanymuseum.com
311 Meadowlark Drive
Albany, Georgia 31707
TRANSPORT – WORKS BY HENK PANDER AND ESTHER PODEMSKI
Opening Reception
Oregon Jewish Museum
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
5:30 – 7:30pm
In ‘Transport – Works by Henk Pander and Esther Podemski’, the artists use World War LL as the backdrop from which to explore the remembered realities of wartime. Dutch born Pander’s work delves into the world of his difficult and dangerous childhood. Podemski grew up in Portland listening to her father’s tales of surviving ghettos, concentration camps, and a daring post-war escape. Both artists root their connection to the past in childhood memories and family connections. Pander and Podemski explore complex relationships – between time and memory and truth and the subjectivity of the mind – with intellectual rigor and brilliant rendering.
OJM CINEMA SCREENINGS
House of the World – a film by Esther Podemski
Sunday, January 22 at 2:00pm
Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber
Wednesday, February 22 at 12:00pm & Thursday, February 23 at 7:00pm
Painted Life – a film by Jacob Pander
Wednesday, March 21 at 12:00pm & Thursday, March 22 at 7:00pm
Oregon Jewish Museum
1953 NW Kearney St.
Portland, OR
Exhibition Gallery Hours
Tue – Th 10:30a – 4:00p
Fri 10:30a – 3:00p
Sat/Sun 12:00 – 4:00p
January 9 – February 15, 2012
Henk Pander: Sees All, Paints All
Selby Galleries I & II: The large-scale paintings of the Dutch-born Henk Pander capture the realities of today and the past going back to his childhood memories of living in occupied Holland during World War II. Pander’s art combines his contemporary sensibilities with his Dutch academic training to create a unique body of work.
Artist Talk and Luncheon: Thurs., Jan. 12, 11:30 a.m., Roskamp Hall, $45 (catered by Michael’s On East, Henk Pander catalog included). Please call for reservations by Jan 4.
Tel: (941) 359-7563
Opening Reception: Fri., Jan. 13, 5 – 7 p.m.
Director’s Tour: Mon., Jan. 23, 11:30 a.m.
Selby Gallery
Ringling College of Art and Design
2700 North Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34234
Originally from Holland, painter Henk Pander found himself in Portland in the sixties. From images of cattle carcasses to the ruins of ground zero, Pander creates stunning, controversial and internationally renowned work about the passage of time and inevitable change. View Pander’s work and hear his story of sketching for the Portland Fire Department. He shares his thoughts on finding meaning in the subject matter he brings to his art.
First Broadcast: 2005
Producer: Jessica Martin
‘Buried Buick’
Oil on linen
80×142″
1999
Collection of the artist
For Henk Pander, who taught himself to drive only in 1971 at the age of 34, six years after immigrating to the United States, big American automobiles are emblematic of American space, culture, and consumption. As suggested by the colossal scale of this painting, he is particularly fascinated by abandoned automobiles, such as this Buick that has come to rest at the bottom of a pit near Goldfield, Nevada. Like old airplanes, old cars and other old machinery that languish in ravines, back lots, and front yards throughout the American West are for Pander memento mori–reminders of the quick obsolescence of things and the brevity of life.
~ Roger Hull
Professor Emeritus, Art History, Willamette University
Senior Faculty Curator, Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Henk Pander’s paintings reflect personal experience, giving form to events he has witnessed throughout his life, where individual experience meets historical time. In an attempt to make visual sense out of contemporary dilemma, he deals with issues such as the passage of time, entropy and loss, in the form of memories of war and childhood, portraits involving aging and personal history, vanitas still lifes, and technology versus the natural world. He has consistently maintained a concern with careful composition, a rich and intimate surface, a quality of atmosphere, and fine drawing.
