MARC VAN CAUWENBERGH | Connecting | WAITING ROOM
January 4 - February 6, 2026
These recent paintings explore the increasing fragmentation of human identity and communication within the chaos of the contemporary, urban world; the faceted emotions of physical and psychological relationships. The canvases are a theatrical space, onto which one can project life with its ever-changing combinations of people and environments.
In these works strokes of paint become details of larger, unseen forms in unseen environments. Whole sensual, organic shapes, applied in fluid, dynamic layers of paint on raw Belgian linen, are dissected to a more intimate level. Within the space, a balance is created between these shapes that seem to be floating or quietly suspended in time, other areas emphasize slow transitions or brusk shifts. Their specific colors connect, blend or simply pass by.
Marc Van Cauwenbergh is a Belgian-American artist who has lived and worked in New York since 1994. He moved to New Jersey in 2022 and currently spends part of the year working in the Ardeche region in France. Originally from Ninove, Belgium, he studied printmaking at the LUCA School of Arts in Ghent and holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. He has exhibited internationally since 1984, including at Radial Art Contemporain (Strasbourg), 57W57arts (NY), Jason McCoy Gallery (NY, online), Alice Mogabgab Gallery (Beirut), Galerie Van Caelenberg (Aalst), the Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce (NY), Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery (Brussels), Huize St-Bonaventura (Ghent), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island (NY) and Galerij S 65, Aalst (BE). His work is in private, public and corporate collections such as the Collection of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Brussels, BE), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NY), Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée (La Louvière, BE), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY), EBES (Ghent, BE).Awards include Grant Flemish Community, Belgium and a Fulbright-Hays Grant for Graduate Study in the USA.
PROJECT SPACE
MARC VAN CAUWENBERGH
June 17 - July 30, 2021
These recent paintings explore the increasing fragmentation of human identity and communication within the chaos of the contemporary, urban world; the faceted emotions of physical and psychological relationships. The canvases are a theatrical space, onto which one can project life with its ever-changing combinations of people and environments.
In these works strokes of paint become details of larger, unseen forms in unseen environments. Whole sensual, organic shapes, applied in fluid, dynamic layers of oil paint on raw Belgian linen, are dissected to a more intimate level. Within the space, a balance is created between these shapes that seem to be floating or quietly suspended in time, other areas emphasize slow transitions or brusk shifts. Their specific colors connect, blend or simply pass by.
Marc Van Cauwenbergh is a Belgian-American artist who has lived and worked in New York since 1994. Originally from Belgium, he studied printmaking at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts Sint-Lucas in Ghent, Belgium and holds an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, while on a Fulbright-Hays grant. He has exhibited internationally since 1984. His work is in private, public and corporate collections such as the Collection of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (NY), Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée (La Louvière), Pratt Institute (Brooklyn), EBES (Ghent) and St-Lucas (Ghent). His most recent solo exhibitions were at Jason McCoy Gallery (NY, online), Alice Mogabgab Gallery (Beirut), Galerie Van Caelenberg (Aalst), the Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce (NY), Radial Art Contemporain(Strasbourg), Mathilde Hatzenberger Gallery (Brussels), AMP Gallery (Provincetown) and Huize St-Bonaventura (Ghent).