Selfportrait 2016

Micky Hoogendijk

Diasec/plexiglassC-printPhotographic print
137 ⨯ 103 cm
ConditionExcellent
Currently unavailable via Gallerease

• About the artwork
  Micky Hoogendijk, born in The Netherlands, makes iconic photos and objects that capture man’s vulnerability while also exposing hidden yet powerful and majestic beauty.
  
  The starting point in Hoogendijk’s work is an encounter, dream or object that culminates in an explosion of ideas. On set, Hoogendijk allows her model's instinct and personality to melt together with her camera and drive her creative inspiration.
  
  Hoogendijk coaxes trust, contact and vulnerability from her subjects in order to produce an image from which the viewer can then create his own world. Recurring themes are religion, society and mythology; her work provokes fundamental queries about life and our existence.
  
  Art has always been part of her life. Hoogendijk grew up in an international art scene in Europe, surrounded by artists, art dealers, theater makers, dancers and actors. She spent years in front of the camera as an actress and model. The transition came when her late mother's last gift, a camera, inspired her and became the drive behind the creation of new life.
  
  Hoogendijk chooses innovative printing technologies to create images with depth and richness, so they appear almost three-dimensional. Micky Hoogendijk currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
• About the artist

  Art has always been an essential part of Micky Hoogendijk. Born in Amsterdam July 8, 1970, Micky Hoogendijk grew up immersed in an international environment of art; surrounded by artists, art dealers, theater makers, actors and dancers. Micky Hoogendijk’s grandfather, Dirk Hoogendijk, was one the most successful art dealers in The Netherlands in the last century. He used his perceptive eye to enrich many museums, including the Rijksmuseum, with the works of the Dutch Masters. As a young girl, Micky Hoogendijk also spent many hours in the painting workshop of her father, the painter Roelof Frankot, who began as a photographer before moving his focus to abstract art

  In 2009, Micky Hoogendijk received a last gift from her ailing mother: a professional still camera. The gift would change her career forever. Two months later, her mother passed away, and she moved to San Francisco, where she discovered the majestic lines and architecture of the city through the eye of the camera. By 2010, living and working again in Los Angeles, Micky Hoogendijk discovered her gift for artistic portraits. Nurtured by the life of the international art world and memories of the Old Dutch masters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt, Micky Hoogendijk takes the beholder on a journey into her universe: a dynamic and inspiring realm where visual arts, technology and theater melt together into photography.

  Hoogendijk’s photographic work has appeared in art shows like Art Platform Los Angeles, E- merge Art Fair in Washington DC, Contemporary Art Fair in Istanbul, Art Fair for Modern and contemporary Art Cologne Germany, Rotterdam Contemporary Art fair, Amsterdam PAN, KunstRai and ForReal. Exhibitions in Los Angeles, Austin TX, Santa Fe NM, Bogota-Colombia, Mexico City, Amsterdam and her work even went all the way to Tokyo, Japan. She has garnered both critical acclaim and commercial success and has signed with galleries in Amsterdam, Houston, Santa Fe, Mexico City and Los Angeles and recently with IconicImages.net UK, who also represent photographers like Terry O’Neill.