About

ROADRUNNER BOOGIE
Joke Hansen

With each new painting or series, Joke Hansen sets ground rules for herself. For example: at least one oblique plane, at least one eye and no more than two corners. In recent years, she has made this game of strangely shaped canvases and cut-outs her own, and it constantly directs her towards new quests.

Like any painter, she displays an urgency to break out of the confines of the canvas. Her solution is to look for alternative forms: roundings, angled sides and cut-outs. The cut-outs and, in parallel, the oval-, circular- or elliptical-shaped elements on the …