Annemarie Busschers

Annemarie Busschers (1970) lives and works in The Netherlands.
She received her formal training at the Academie Minerva, the Fine Arts Academy at Hanze University Groningen, in art and graphic techniques.

Busschers' search and finds of her subjects aren't random. She chooses just as her personal life develops. She started making portraits after the birth of her son, and after that, she focused on children of friends and acquaintances. But she kept concentrated on the skin. Later she involved grown-ups as well in her work. In these "˜mature' works, special features, acquired during life, started to emerge, and were elaborated on, in her paintings. She demonstrated again her own fascination with skin. The textures and shades, irregularities, birthmarks, scars, imperfections are all replicated in unabashed detail.

She takes photographs of her models and studies the photographs in painstaking detail. After that, she starts to "˜construct' the face anew. They are painted, but they are also constructed in layers. Busschers' portraits are built with a variety of things: acrylic paint, pencil, pastel, epoxy, wood, wax, paper, felt and even linen on the canvas. The result is far more powerful and textured than a portrait of mere pe...

2014 Groninger Museum
2014 400 jaar science, Der Aa-church, groningen
2014 Art Wynwood
2013 Art Copenhagen 30 aug- 1 sept.
2013 Art Southampton 25 -29 july
2013 Scope Basel 10-16 june
2013 Jacoba Wijk gallery, Wehe den Hoorn 17 ma- 19 ap
2013 Scope New York 6 - 10 ma
2013 art wynwood, Miami 14-18 feb
2013 art at the warehouse, Rotterdam 5-10 feb
2013 Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen 'Reset' t/m 13 feb
2012 Context Miami 5-9 december
2012 Pan Amsterdam 18-25 november
2012 Art Southhampton, 26 july 2012 - 30 july
2012 Witzenhausen Gallery, Chelsea New York, 19 july- 23 aug, solo show
2012 Scope Basel 12-17 june
2012 Scope New York 7-11 maart
2012 Art Wynwood, Miami 16-20 febr.
2112 Raw Rotterdam, Rotterdam 8-12 febr
2011 Pan Amsterdam
2011 Scope Miami
2011 ING 'het liefdevolle oog' Henriette Polak Museum, Zutphen
2011 Scope Basel
2011 Witzenhausen gallery, Chelsea NYC
2011 Scope New York
2011 10-13 febr Art Rotterdam
2011 Art Palm Beach, Florida 20 - 24 jan
2010 Scope Miami Nov30-dec5
2010 Pan Amsterdam Nov20- nov28
2010 Scope Basel
2010 Art Amsterdam
2010 Dutch art now, New York
2010 Museum de Fundatie
2009 'Conceptual Realism' A selection from the ING Collection, Kunsthal 52,Den Helder
2009 Art Ams...