Janise Yntema

Janise Yntema (born March 29, 1962) is an American painter working in the ancient wax encaustic technique. Yntema was born in New Jersey and attended Parsons School of Design and the Art Students League of New York. She has had solo exhibitions in New York and throughout the United States as well as London, Amsterdam and Brussels. Her works are in the collections of several museums in Europe and the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

She works and lives in Brussels, Belgium.

Early life and education Janise Yntema was born in 1962 in New Jersey. She attended St John the Divine Stoneyard Institute. Yntema has worked in marble dust, aluminum, iron powder, wood and wax. She said in 1996 that her body of work "makes reference towards figuration and landscape, but is abstracted and abbreviated to encompass the initial intensity of the physical gesture." Yntema lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.

Exhibitions Yntema has participated in more than 60 group exhibitions and had solo exhibits in New York, London, Amsterdam and Brussels. 1994 - The Definitive Decade - Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ 1997 - Recent Work, solo exhibition - A.I.R. Gallery, New York City, NY 1998 - Mixed Media, Simon Gallery, New York 2010 - Fahrenheit 180: A Group Encaustic Exhibition, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY 2016 - Le Paysage Tranquille, Galerie Marie Demange, Brussels, Belgium 2017 - Depth Perception, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA 2018 - Truc Troc, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium 2019 - "Praeter Terram" The Green Door Gallery, Bruxelles 2019 "Sense of Place: Landscape and Identity" Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK 2020 "Realist and Lyrical Landscape" The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

Collections Yntema's work is included in the permanent collections of the following institutions:

Amherst College, Amherst, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Guy Gilsoul, January 17, 2016, Le Vif Express, Belgique