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a whiter shade of pale

March 4, 2008 10:13 am

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The figures may all be nudes, but Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel’s second solo show at London’s Maureen Paley gallery is actually a display of artistic discretion—the delicate swatches of soft color on her mostly white canvases hover like makeup stains on a shirt collar or the remnants of a candy rose licked off a petit four cake. When Schoorel is not painting her ethereal, Proustian paintings, she’s the singer for the slick London-based post-punk experimental band Skill 7 Stamina 12. While the group’s been celebrated by critics for championing “dingy, rat-infested studio-style creativity” (that’s what Splendid magazine had to say, anyway), Schoorel’s resoundingly silent paintings have their own unexpected emotional pitch.

—Ana Finel Honigman

Photo: Maaike Schoorel, “Jemima Nude,” 2007. Courtesy of Maureen Paley, London.

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