about

''My work is a play with the boundaries of form and non-form. Through painting and sculpture I translate metaphysical ideas into physical substances. When does a form begin and where does it end? The direct making process is the base of this exploration.
To play with the abstract is for me a way to provoke an image that lies in between recognition and alienation. Between the supernatural and the materialistic. Between the natural and the human-made.
By doing this I try to open up an awareness of the non-conceptual understanding of form we all have, to promote the intuitive bodily experience instead of understanding trough reasoning.
I’m interested in creating the tension between the normality of daily objects and the subliminal effect objects can transcend. Reflecting on how people are connected to objects I try to come closer to a universal language.
To search for the unknown I create images that are hard to look at because of their chaos and abundance and at the same time open up a playground of fragments that wants to be touched and shaped like a puzzle.
My installations allow you to step in without thoughts in a world that is a combination of the abundance and fastness of a supermarket in 2020 and the ancient wisdom that lies within the zen stone gardens you can find in Japan.''

Since 2016 part of the art collective SKÈR, Amsterdam.

2019 Summer semester at Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo Japan.
2016-2020 BA Fine Arts, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands.

Isa van Lier(1996) is an artist from Amsterdam currently living and studying in The Hague. Her work consists of paintings, ceramic sculptures and room-filling installations.
Trough her works she explores the boundaries between form and non-form. Promoting a way of understanding through intuition, body and soul instead of ratio, hierarchy and concepts.
During her stay in Japan in 2019, she found herself surrounded by the ancient wisdom of Zen that had always been deeply present in her work but not yet totally understood. Now full of new wisdom and aesthetically and spiritually inspired she came back with an endless amount of inspiration to work from and since then tries to recreate the feeling she gained when she went to the zen stone gardens. There, where nothing really is to see, only some stones and rocks…. But what a peaceful state of mind you enter when you are sitting in in this simple timeless environment.
However living in 2020, a world of abundance, fastness and technology, the stone gardens feel often far away. Supermarkets with endless rows of plastic packaged foods, in all the shapes and colors you can imagine.
In her work she opens up a play between these two opposites, to find out that maybe they are more alike then you would think

UPCOMING:
-KABK GRADUATION SHOW, 10-13 September 2020.

2019
-Note to Self, 4th year pre-end exam show at Helena van Doeverenplantsoen 3, The Hague, The Netherlands.
-My Japanese Room, one man show in ‘3.00G gallery’ in Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan.
-Nog Lang Niet Jarig, duo exhibition with ROTS in T’Wit Zwanenburgwal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
-Belly, group show, Royal Acadamy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands.

2018
Charley El Ranzino, live painting performance, SKÈR, De Salon, Ruigoord, The Netherlands.
-To Dee or Not to Dee, group exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands.
-Home Expo 3.0, group exhibition, Czaar Peterstraat, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2017: Blousem, group exhibition and event by SKÈR, Erik’s House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2016:
Sofie in the Jungle, group performance and installation with SKÈR, Landjuweel, Ruigoord, The Netherlands.
-Grote Glazen Kleine Lettertjes, solo exhibition, Mollie Chaoot, Amsterdam, The Netherlands