O.C. Hooymeijer - large, expressionist oil painting "dancer" painted in 1994, beautifully framed - Sold

Characteristic OC HOOIJMEYER expressionist oil painting. signed and dated (1994) top of painting. Is in very good condition, as is the exclusive frame.

Onno Casper (OC) Hooymeijer (Vlaardingen, March 4, 1958) is a Dutch visual artist. Onno Hooymeijer completed his education at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam in 1981. In 2021, Onno Hooymeijer won the Frisian Gerrit Benner Prize.
After 1981, many series of works of art followed, such as Red Light District, Indian Portraits and Contemporary 17th Century Portraits. Works from these first series were on display at Reflex Modern Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Museum Jan (formerly Museum Jan van der Togt) in Amstelveen and Smelik & Stokking Galleries in The Hague and Amsterdam. His artwork OC Hooymeijers Panorama of Amsterdam was exhibited in 2002 by the Amsterdam Historical Museum as part of the exhibition Love for Sale. In the period 2009 – 2012 he made the series Abuse, Catholic Abuse and De Worship. For a long time, people were central to his work. In his series The Great Exotic Birdshow (2014), the Wonderful Bird World of OC Hooymeijer (2016) and The non-existent birds of Europe (2018), humans made way for birds. As with his previous work, the thematic approach, expressionistic style and framing are striking. During exhibitions of these series he used smell and sound, among other things, with the aim of offering the viewer a 'total experience'. In 2018 he opened the Viewing Hut for the non-existent Birds of the Rottige Meenthe on the Voetpad in Spanga (Friesland). He built this bird hide not to spot 'normal' birds, but to observe his own, non-existent specimens. The viewing hut is a work of art, but also serves as a shelter and resting place for walkers and cyclists. As - in his own words - 'inventor' he wrote two books about non-existent birds. The New Guide to the Non-existent Birds of Europe was shortlisted for the Jan Wolkers Prize in 2019.