E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
American
As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien seek to remake images from art history to reflect their own experience of the contemporary world. Tackling icons from the great masters like Botticelli, Manet, Rembrandt, and Van Eyck, they recast instantly familiar images in a distinctly modern manner, breaking them free from centuries of historical context and placing them firmly in the present.
Kleinveld and Julien were introduced when each showed photographs in the traveling exhibition, “Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina,” for the storm’s five-year anniversary in 2010. They quickly realized a shared interest in matters of social justice and racial and socioeconomic inequality, which this natural and man-made disaster had brought into focus. Soon after, they began working together on In Empathy We Trust, an evolving photographic project seeking to examine contemporary social issues through the lens of art history.
The journey from the original germination of an idea to a completed E2 photograph is long and complex, often taking six months to a year. Both pre-production and the shoots themselves take place on two continents, as Julien lives in New Orleans while Kleinveld resides in Amsterdam. As such, the planning and execution of their shoots involve months of collaboration, with countless emails and phone calls exchanged. Kleinveld and Julien begin their process with online research and by visiting museums throughout the United States and Europe, searching for compelling images that resonate with our contemporary experience. They then seek to change the context of these images, replacing the original figures with contemporary stand-ins from all races and backgrounds, to more accurately reflect the diversity of the world around them.
Once an image is selected to be “remade with a twist,” they begin to find sitters (preferring artists, actors, and friends rather than models) representing a wide range of marginalized groups — African-American, Asian-American, LGBT — who have not seen themselves equally represented in media and art. After sitters have been selected, E2 begins the work of sourcing costumes. Their European shoots have involved costumes from the Dutch National Theatre in Amsterdam, Dutch costume maker Bert Nuhaan and Studio Pietro Longhi in Venice, while their hometown shoots in New Orleans are a bit less glamorous, seeing them employ sources varying from thrift stores to friends’ closets.
The photographs themselves are the product of careful planning and production rather than chance — more Gregory Crewdson than Diane Arbus. Each shoot is a carefully orchestrated production, featuring up to a dozen sitters, as well as lighting, costume, staging and more. Kleinveld and Julien’s work as E2 sees them each taking on a myriad of roles, from auteur to producer to subject. The finished product is a result of intense collaboration and teamwork, with both Julien and Kleinveld taking turns behind the camera. After the shoots are completed, the work of post-production begins, where extensive digital collaging of subjects and background is often required. They often employ artists such as Italian painter Marco Ventura to hand-paint the backgrounds of their images, further blurring the lines between both photography and painting, and present and past.
In a world that is becoming increasingly stratified along religious, cultural, economic, and ethnic lines, E2’s photographs apply a new interpretation of icons from the past, making them more inclusive for the multicultural world we live in. E2 does not seek to make demands, but to pose questions: why shouldn’t Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring be Asian? Why can’t the iconic image Washington Crossing the Delaware be adapted to show the first President as an African-American woman? For it is in these answers that we find the lingering doubts and biases that we often do not dare to acknowledge.
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(Biography provided by Jonathan Ferrara Gallery)
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Artist: E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Ode to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 30 inches - Edition AP2 of 3 with 2 APs
Framing is an additional $525
Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Vermeer’s The Girl with a Pearl Earring...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
Framing is an additional $313
Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Vermeer’s The Girl with a Pearl Earring...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to the Pinching D'Estrées Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
10.5 x 16 inches - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
Additional framing $265.
Shot in 2011 in Amsterdam
Inspired by an anonymous artist of the Fontainebleau School’s Presumed Portrait of Gabrielle d’Estrées and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars, circa 1594
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Millais' Ophelia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld ...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 26 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
Framing an additional $525
Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage, 1434
Photography and acting are kindre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Titian's Venus of Urbino
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
10.5 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
30.75 x 24 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
Already Framed
Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage, 1434
Photography and acting are kindred spirits ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
27 x 36 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by Manet’s Olympia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Goya's Maya
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
10.5 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
32 x 36 inches - Edition 3 of 3 with 2 APs
Shot in New Orleans in 2014
Inspired by Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1,
also known as Portrait of the Artist’s mother, 1871
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photographic project, In Empathy We Trust, presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envisioned the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, e2 “remakes with a twist” works by artists such as van Eyck, Rafael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, and Manet. Inspired by the original paintings, e2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
Accompanying e2’s series is its own coat of arms, bringing new meaning to the traditional symbol of the aristocracy. Heralded with pelicans and a fleur de lis, the shield reflects the artists’ Louisiana roots. It also features their motto: In Empathy We Trust, which reflects the core values of e2’s work. The artists believe in the power of empathy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rigaud's Louis XIV
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
21 x 24 inches - Edition 5 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in New Orleans in 2014
Inspired by Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1,
also known as Po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 28.5 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
18 x 24 inches - Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by Manet’s Olympia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rembrandt's The Night Watch
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3 of 3 with 2 APs
Available framing $525.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photograp...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
15.25 x 24 inches - Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs
Available framing $420
Shot in 2016 in New Orleans, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Faith Ringgold's Café des Artistes
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 2 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $790.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Tapestry, Archival Pigment
Ode to Goya's Maya
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 24 inches - Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rembrandt's Jewish Bride
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
21 x 24 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in Amsterdam in 2013
Inspired by Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride, ca 1665
Photography and acting are kindre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 11.5 inches - Edition 7 of 7 with 2 APs
Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Marriage, 1434
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photographic project, In Empathy We Trust, presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envisioned the work of old master painters
beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, e2 “remakes with a twist” works by artists such as van Eyck, Rafael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, and Manet. Inspired by the original paintings, e2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
Accompanying e2’s series is its own coat of arms, bringing new meaning to the traditional symbol of the aristocracy. Heralded with pelicans and a fleur de lis, the shield reflects the artists’ Louisiana roots. It also features their motto: In Empathy We Trust, which reflects the core values of e2’s work. The artists believe in the power of empathy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rembrandt's The Night Watch
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
Available framing $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photograp...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rembrandt's The Night Watch
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 48 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
Available framing $790.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Petrus Christus' Portrait of a Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 12 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Courbet's The Sleepers
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In Empathy We Trust....
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rembrandt's Jewish Bride
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 6 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in Amsterdam in 2013
Inspired by Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride, ca 1665
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Whistler's Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
32 x 36 inches - Edition 3 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Shot in New Orleans in 2014
Inspired by Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1,
also known as Po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van der Weyden's Crucifixion
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 7 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adam and Steve, Ode to Hugo van der Goes' The Fall of Man
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 3 of 7, 2 APs
framing is an additional $270.
Shot in Amsterdam in 2013, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by van der Goes’ the fall of man, 1470-75
Photogr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Ingres' Valpincon Bather
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 16 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Rigaud's Louis XIV
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current ph...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 16 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck's Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 17.5 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man (Self-Port...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck's Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 11.5 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait?), 1433
Photograph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Olympia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 x 16 inches - Edition 2 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in New Orleans in 2011, background illustrated by Marco Ventura
Inspired by Manet’s Olympia...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Botticelli's Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 15 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In Empathy We Trust. The project presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envision the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, E2’s revisionist Art History works by artists such as van Eyck, Botticelli, Raphael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, Manet and Whistler. Inspired by the original paintings, E2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition, they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project, Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
E2 has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as: Royal Academy of Art (London), Photoville (New York), Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), Museum Castelvecchio (Verona), Galerie SIRIUS (Tokyo), New Orleans Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans). The duo is represented by JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, New Orleans and their work appears in numerous public and private collections, including: Benetton Collection (Treviso, Italy), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Trento, Italy), Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA) and The Marks Collection (Houston).
Elizabeth Kleinveld is an artist and photographer from New Orleans, now based in Amsterdam, who takes her inspiration from Paul Outerbridge...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 30 inches - Edition 3 of 3 with 2 APs
Framing is an additional $525
Shot in 2012 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Vermeer’s The Girl with a Pearl Earring...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Raphael's Bindo Altoviti
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 17 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
18 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans and Amsterdam
Inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photographic project, In Empathy We Trust, presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envisioned the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, e2 “remakes with a twist” works by artists such as van Eyck, Rafael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, and Manet. Inspired by the original paintings, e2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
Accompanying e2’s series is its own coat of arms, bringing new meaning to the traditional symbol of the aristocracy. Heralded with pelicans and a fleur de lis, the shield reflects the artists’ Louisiana roots. It also features their motto: In Empathy We Trust, which reflects the core values of e2’s work. The artists believe in the power of empathy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Metsys' Moneylenders
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in 2013 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Metsys’ Moneylenders, 1514
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld...
Category
2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Portrait of a White Woman
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 24 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans
Inspired by Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait of a Black Woman, 1800
Phot...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
12 x 16 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans and Amsterdam
Inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current photographic project, In Empathy We Trust, presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envisioned the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, e2 “remakes with a twist” works by artists such as van Eyck, Rafael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, and Manet. Inspired by the original paintings, e2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
Accompanying e2’s series is its own coat of arms, bringing new meaning to the traditional symbol of the aristocracy. Heralded with pelicans and a fleur de lis, the shield reflects the artists’ Louisiana roots. It also features their motto: In Empathy We Trust, which reflects the core values of e2’s work. The artists believe in the power of empathy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Ingres' Valpincon Bather
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.5 inches - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Metsys' Moneylenders
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 16 - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in 2013 in Amsterdam
Inspired by Metsys’ Moneylenders, 1514
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in t...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Millais' Ophelia
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien). Their current ph...
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2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Velasquez's Venus at her Mirror
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 24 inches - Edition 2 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Shot in Amsterdam in 2011
Inspired by Velasquez’ Venus Looking in Her Mirror, 1647-51
Photography and ac...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Raphael's Bindo Altoviti
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 11.5 inches - Edition 3 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 19 inches - Edition 1 of 5 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Aman's Creole with a Red Headdress
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
19 x 11.25 inches - 2Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
Available framing $265
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Inspired by Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans’ Creole with a Red...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Van Eyck's Self Portrait
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
36 x 26.5 inches - Edition 2 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Shot in 2012 in New Orleans
Inspired by Van Eyck’s Portrait of a Man (Self-Portrait), 1433
Photography...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Botticelli's Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10 inches - Edition 5 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
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2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Remaking Marat
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.5 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Shot in New Orleans in 2011
Inspired by David’s The Death of Marat, 1793
...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to the Pinching D'Estrées Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 24 inches - Edition 3 of 5 with 2 APs
Available framing $420
Shot in 2011 in Amsterdam
Inspired by an anonymous artist of the Fontainebleau School’s Presumed Portrait of Gabr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
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Archival Pigment
Ode to Velasquez's Venus at her Mirror
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 36 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $525.
Shot in Amsterdam in 2011
Inspired by Velasquez’ Venus Looking in Her Mirror, 1647-51
Photography and a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to van der Weyden's Portrait of a Lady
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 10.5 inches - Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to the Pinching D'Estrées Sisters
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
24 x 36 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
Additional framing $525.
Shot in 2011 in Amsterdam
Inspired by an anonymous artist of the Fontainebleau School’s Presumed Portrait of Ga...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Manet's Déjeuner sur l'herbe
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
27 x 36 inches - Edition 1 of 3 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $790.
Shot in 2011 in New Orleans and Amsterdam
Inspired by Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863
Ph...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Adam and Steve, Ode to Hugo van der Goes' The Fall of Man
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Edition 1 of 5, 2 APs
Framing is an additional $420.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the ongoing series by E2 - Kleinveld & Julien, entitled In Empathy We Trust. The project presents viewers with re-imagined iconic images from the history of art. The collaborators re-envision the work of old master painters beginning with the Flemish Primitives and spanning nearly 600 years.
With subjects enacting roles with varied representations of race, age, and sexual orientation, E2’s revisionist Art History works by artists such as van Eyck, Botticelli, Raphael, Velázquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Fragonard, Manet and Whistler. Inspired by the original paintings, E2 hopes to “jar viewers” into questioning their own perceptions. They invite viewers to see these images, and indeed the world anew, using humor, wit and playfulness. In addition, they hope that the viewers will see how stereotypes can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
The collaboration began in 2010, after completing work on the traveling exhibition and book project, Before (During) After: Louisiana Photographers Respond to Hurricane Katrina. This natural and man-made disaster brought social inequities in Louisiana into vivid focus. Conversations between Kleinveld and Julien revealed their mutual interest in issues of social justice.
E2 has been exhibited internationally in institutions such as: Royal Academy of Art (London), Photoville (New York), Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), Palazzo Fortuny (Venice), Museum Castelvecchio (Verona), Galerie SIRIUS (Tokyo), New Orleans Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans). The duo is represented by JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY, New Orleans and their work appears in numerous public and private collections, including: Benetton Collection (Treviso, Italy), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Trento, Italy), Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA) and The Marks Collection (Houston).
Elizabeth Kleinveld is an artist and photographer from New Orleans, now based in Amsterdam, who takes her inspiration from Paul Outerbridge...
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2010s Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
Ode to Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace
By E2 - Kleinveld & Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
16 x 13 inches - Edition 4 of 7 with 2 APs
framing is an additional $265.
Photography and acting are kindred spirits in the new series by e2 (Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien)....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary E2 - Kleinveld & Julien Figurative Prints
Materials
Archival Pigment
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