Jette Van Der Lende

ESSAY.by D.F. Colman, an art writer based in Manhattan:WHISPERS IN AN EMPTY AMPHITHEATERJette van der Lendes realistic oils have the preternatural capacity to stop time. Or at least slow time down. In his novel Slowness Milan Kundera writes: A word uttered in a small enclosed space has a different meaning from the same word resonating in an amphitheater. No longer is it a word for which he holds full responsibility and which is addressed exclusively to the partner, it is a word that other people demand to hear, people who are there, looking at them. True the amphitheater is empty, but even though it is empty, the audience, imagined and imaginary, potential and virtual, is there, is with them. With van der Lende the scale of the works may be small and yet we as viewers seem to be witnessing the birth of something special, an object caught in a cats cradle of relations (optical and mental) with other objects and the space that envelops them. This artist has the uncanny ability to create visionary work that intimates the sacred souls and sacred lives of the circumstances of objects in the world.read the whole essay of Coleman at

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Greverud sykehjemmene Marsh 4th - April 30
2023 Sugarman-Peterson Gallery, Santa Fe, USA June 1st –26th
2022 Oppegård kunstforening, Christmas exhibition Oct - Nov
ArtWork Gallery Nov/Dec
Romeriksutstillingen Oct 1 - Nov 6
Kunst i Follo, August 26 - 27
2021Artwork as - galleri Nov/Dec
Oppegård kunstforening, Christmas exhibition Nov 27 - Dec 12
Kunst i Follo, August 21 - 222020 Principle Gallery in Charleston SC Oct 2-31
2019 Solo exhibition at Galleriverkstedet H12, Oslo
2018 exhibition in Gallery B5 in the old town of Fredrikstad.
Jølstra Museum November 23 - December 16
Galleriverkstedet H12, Oslo October 24th - November 11th
Sugarman-Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe, USA October 05th – 29th
Chosen to represent Norway in European Art Museum in Denmark
2016 Oppegård Kunstforening exhibition at Rosenholm Campus August 31 – September 2.
2016 Exhibition of the Ley Dan Award winners at Ley Dan Gallery in Canada June 13 - June 20
2015 -2016 The Masterworks from the International Guild of Realism Museum Tour: The R.W.Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, LA, Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala FL, Albany Museum of Art , Albany GA
2015 Exhibition with Riflessismo at Kongsvinger Fortress in the Arsenal. “Against violence”
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