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Paul Hoek, an astounding painter from The Netherlands, just spent three weeks in San Francisco to fulfill his proposal for an artist grant that funded his travels. After painting ten pieces for The Rich Kids: Neighborhood Films & Photographs (of which he was the Dutch guest appearance) that opened on February 17th at Y2Y Gallery, Paul spent a few minutes over the microphone to share his conceptual groundwork and literal ground-work documented in the above imagery. Listen to his commentary on Earth Painting and other ensuing projects while watching Nico van den Berg's beautiful artist profile of Paul at work to create the aforementioned work.

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See images of the charcoal paintings that Paul describes in the interview here. You can see more works by Paul Hoek at Y2Y Gallery through March 18, 2011.

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