A painter in his early career, Ousdhoorn takes the illusionary language of painting and applies it to sculpture to form a bridge between the spatial illusion of a flat surface and the concrete reality of a physical object.
Space and transparency as well as a desire for harmony and the classic rules of perspective are all ingredients that play a major role in the work of Reinoud Oudshoorn.
Inspired by the “spiritual” painters of abstract expressionism such as Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly, Oudshoorn is equally trying to create a level of perception that resembles a state of consciousness, where the immaterial transcends to the physical and not vice versa.
Oudshoorn seeks ways to give viewers the physical experience of the totality of space through a relatively small object. “A work must produce more space than it consumes” as the artist explains himself.