Borg De Nobel

Born 11-11-1965 Zeist, Netherlands

Borg deNobel paints on the boundaries of dreams. Her images derive from a place where primitive schema and sophisticated colors combine to become metaphors for lived and imagined experiences. Intentionally de-schooled and vibrant with forcefully painted surfaces, her work has an “in-your-face’ quality. There are echoes of neo-expressionism and Punk Rock, updated with cautious optimism, subtle humor and empathy.

Offering select clues to decipher, deNobel’s canvases become mysterious signs that are destined to mean different things to different viewers. Seduced by their apparent naïveté and provoked by their honesty, we are simultaneously compelled to reflect on our own associations with the forms portrayed and with cultured expectations of painting. Though deNobel toys expertly with the relationship between language and image when she juxtaposes recognizable forms, anyone looking for a story is likely to come up empty-handed. As titles such as Ice Flowers, Sleep is King and Dog in the Mist suggest, this is poetry, not prose. Her work is both charming and blunt . . . comfortably accessible on some levels and infectiously out of reach on others.

As a whole, deNobel’s paintings comprise the d...

Mainly selftaught

Art Students League, NYC 1987/88
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam 1989/90

25th til 30th April 2022
Blue Gallery
222 East 46th street 10017, Manhattan
New York City


M.A.D.S Milano Philo-Poem Exhibition
21st of may until 31st of may 2021 Italy

20 November until 25 December 2020
Tussen Kunst & Kitsch Kitchen

Kitsch Kitschen Pop Up Shop
Haarlemmerdijk 48, 1013JE, Amsterdam
Netherlands

SeeMe exhibition space
The Affordable Artfair 2019
Metropolitan Paviljon 125 west 18th street
New York, NY 10011 USA
15 & 16 September 2018 KunstRoute Aalsmeer

14 January until 15 April 2018
"For All Who See" a small exhibition of 6 works of 100x100cm
VT Keramiek, Magneet 14M in Purmerend

Permanent exhibition in B&B "De Olifant" in Groningen, Netherlands from 1 september 2016

October 2015
Monastery Showroom Works
For All to See
Cell 09
Purmerend, Netherlands



September 2014
Goodbye with paintings party
Amsterdam
Studio 7N


25th july- 10th september
See.Me exhibition 2013
Long Island City New York

20th oct/27 Nov 2012 ArtBox , Thesinge Netherlands

June 2011 TRI, gallery AnderOmanders, Bad Nieuweschans, Netherlands

April 2012 Small Spring Solo OLVG Amsterdam

July/august 2011 Zomer Expo Gemeente Museum Den Haag, Netherlands

June 2010 International Gallery Hamburg, Germany

January 2009, Talents, Terrebent...