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Lily van der Stokker, Real Male Panties

Lily van der StokkerReal Male Panties, 2026

acrylic on canvas

25 x 48 cm

About the artist

born in Den Bosch, The Netherlands, in 1954. She lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. Lily van der Stokker has been making immersive artworks in the form of wallpainting-based installations since the 1980s, at which time she also operated an art gallery in New York’s East Village sharing a street with such influential programs as Colin de Land’s Vox Populi and Pat Hearn’s eponymous gallery. In their immediate delivery, van der Stokker’s works beckon happy-go-lucky intonations in their fanciful, ‘feminine’, curlicued and flower- powered familiarity. Their formal bubbled, blobby, and loopy approachable techniques may recall the doodlings more traditionally relegated to the notebook margins of a teenage girl, while the textual inclusions create dichotomies that illuminate more cutting messages and comment upon more condemning realities. lily van der Stokker presents us with works that require the viewer to consider the implications of ‘Kissy, Kissy’ but also of ‘no improvement / no progress’. As Roberta Smith noted in 1990, “The messages conveyed in this terminally cheerful manner usually have a double edge.”

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