Jan Maarten Voskuil (Arnhem 1964) stretches his paintings into the third dimension. His crafted, partly curved wooden constructions are based on simple geometric principles: the circle, the square, and the rectangle He stretches the frames with linen and usually paints them in monochrome colors. With a minimum of means, he manages to develop a broad spectrum with his work whereby he partly stands in the tradition of the constructive, minimal, and concrete art of the twentieth century.

His work is labeled as spatial object, sculpture, autonomous design or even architecture. He himself consistently continues to call the work painting because his frame of reference is painting. Spatial or not, "It remains paint on canvas, and deals with the limitations of the flat surface," he argues. "Conversely, you would call Carl Andre's work sculpture even though it's mostly flat, wouldn’t you?"

Still, there is something to be said for seeing in Voskuil not just a painter. Over the years, his ingenious stretchers have become primarily modular constructions, which can sometimes be assembled in various ways. This makes him not only a painter but also a "builder" of paintings, which brings him very close to architecture.

In his latest series of works the exploration of space is accompanied by the (re)introduction of emptiness into the painting. The modules are no longer connected to each other. Although this disintegration already made its appearance in the series Dynamic Monochromes, from 2012 onwards, in the form of indentations between the modules, this in-between space, like the cuts, is now much more thematized. 
揚‧馬丁‧沃斯奎爾（阿納姆1964年）將他的繪畫延伸到三維空間。他精心製作的部分彎曲的木結構基於簡單的幾何原理：圓形、正方形和長方形。他用亞麻布拉伸框架，通常塗上色彩。憑藉最少的手段，他部分地立基於二十世紀建設性、極簡和具象藝術的傳統中，設法發展出廣泛的作品。
 
他的作品被貼上了空間物體、雕塑、自主設計甚至建築的標籤。他自己則堅持視它們為繪畫，緣於他的參照系是繪畫。至於空間與否，「它仍然是在畫布上繪畫，並處理平面的局限性，」他爭辯道。「相反地，你會稱卡爾・安德烈的作品為雕塑，即使它大部分是平面的，不是嗎？」

儘管如此，沃斯奎爾不僅是一位畫家。多年來，他巧妙的畫框基本上變成了模塊化結構，有時可以以各種方式組裝。他因而不僅是畫家，還是繪畫的「建造者」，這使他與建築非常接近。

在他最新的系列作品中，對空間的探索伴隨著對繪畫（重新）引入空白。模塊不再相互連接。儘管這種分解已經出現在動態單色系列中，但從2012年開始，以模塊之間的縮進形式出現，這種中介空間，如剪輯般，如今更為主題化。最近的第二個發展是顏色漸變的引入，標誌著他迄今為止作品單色性的戲劇性突破，彷彿他再次擁抱繪畫，而不是揚棄它。
Jan Maarten Voskuil
揚・馬丁・沃斯奎爾
描述
Education:
State University Groningen: Master of Arts (graduated), 1985-1989; 
Art Academy Arnhem: Ateliers Arnhem (Post Graduate) 1996-1997.

Selected solo- and two men shows:
2023 Kunstruimte O-68, Velp (met Rob Bouwman) (februari)
2023 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim (G) (Juni)
2022 Campis, with Martijn Schuppers, Assen (April)
2022 Pentimenti Gallery, Around the void, Philadelphia (USA)
2021 Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia (USA)
2020 Volta New York, solo booth, with NL=US gallery
2019 NL=US, ‘More and Less’, with Lily de Bont
2019 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Round Trip with Book launch
2019 Peter Blake Gallery, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Laguna Beach (USA)
2019 Asymptote Arcjtecture, ‘Round trip’, New York, USA
2019 De Vishal, ‘Celebration of the void’, with Pieter W Postma, Haarlem
2018 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, ‘Roundtrip’
2018 Dr Julius, with Anna Maria Bogner, Berlin
2017 Peter Blake, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Laguna Beach (USA)
2017 Sanquin, Jan Maarten Voskuil, Amsterdam
2016 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Chrome Works, Mannheim (G)
2016 dr Julius | ap, Blackout, with Don Voisine, Berlin (G)
2016 Galerie Radial Art Contemporain, with Ewerdt Hilgemann, Strasbourg (F)
2016 GPL Contemporary, Shine on distorted matter, Vienna (At)
2015 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Neue Arbeiten, Improved, Mannheim (G)
2015 Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Rise and Shine, with Sebastian Wickeroth, Dusseldorf (G)
2014 Geranmayeh Gallery, New York, (USA), October
2015 Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Broken Colours, Vienna (At)
2015 Dr Julius ap, (with Ewerdt Hilgemann), Berlin (G)
2015 Peter Blake Gallery, Starting from stretch, Laguna Beach, (USA)
2015 Jan Maarten Voskuil, Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem
2013 The Solo Project, Nuartlink (USA), Basel (Swi)
2013 ABC Architectuurcentrum, achterom (with Rob de Vries), Haarlem
2012 Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Pointing Inside
2012 Art Sensus, Jan Maarten Voskuil, London (UK)
2012 Concept Space, New Characters, Shibukawa, Gunma, (Jap)
2012 Topicova Salonu (with Michal Skoda), Prague, (Cz)
2011 Salamatina Gallery, Closing The Gap, Manhasset, New York (USA)
2011 Sebstian Fath Mannheim, Getting to a point" (G)
2011 Galerie Brno, Brno (Cz)
2010 Argument/PIT, (S)melt (with Christine Rusche (G)), Tilburg
2010 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Jan Maarten Voskuil, New Works, Mannheim (G)
2010 Galerie Rob de Vries, Haarlem
2009 Bellstreet Project Space, Monochromed Space and Sliced Surface (with Jan van der Ploeg), Wenen (At)
2009 Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Running Around In Circles, Mannheim (G)
2009 Galerie Rob de Vries, GRIP-NO GRIP (with Jan van der Ploeg), Haarlem
2009 Museum Waterland, 'RIP-OFF (with George Korsmit), Purmerend
2008 Dum Umeni, Stretcherstretcher, Ceske Budejovice, (Cz)
2007 Museum Het Mondriaanhuis, Flat and Outstanding (with Sanne Bruggink), Amersfoort
2007 Kunstruimte 09, 'Loop', Groningen
2006 De Boterhal, 'Spare Parts II', Hoorn
2005 RC de Ruimte, 'Commodity Act', IJmuiden

Collections: 
Frans Halsmuseum Haarlem; Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Wilhelm Hackmuseum, Ludwigshafen (D); Wannieck Gallery Brno (Cz); geometric Madi Museum, Dallas (USA); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; Private and corporate collections in Europa, Japan, Australie, South America and the USA

Representing galleries:
NL=US gallery, Rotterdam NL / Glen Ridge, USA
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
Bentley Gallery, Phoenix Aizona
Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, G
dr Julius | ap, Berlin, G
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, USA