Artist in Focus: Erik Neimeijer | Opening Reception

Unchained.Art Contemporary Gallery continues its inaugural season with a new capsule exhibition format designed to spotlight singular artistic voices alongside and in dialogue with the gallery’s main program.

A Celebration of Rhythm, Color, and Creative Drive

Neimeijer transforms Unchained.Art’s downtown gallery into a stage of saturated emotion and narrative play. These works are not portraits or scenes so much as songs — painted compositions vibrating with sound and motion. They capture the thrill of imperfection, the freedom of gesture, and the shared pulse between artist and audience. Running concurrently with the gallery’s main exhibition, this capsule marks the full launch of Unchained.Art’s new programming: compact, high-energy showcases that offer intimate encounters with artists whose practices defy convention while staying accessible and authentic.

Erik Neimeijer is a Dutch musician and painter whose medium-to-large-scale, high-color canvases pulse with rhythm and life. His world is populated by gamblers, bulls, lovers, musicians, and tropical dreamers — all rendered in a loose yet unmistakable style that he describes as “somewhere between Walt Disney and Diego Rivera.” A self-taught force of energy, Neimeijer channels the same drive that fuels his rock-and-roll career into painting. A guitarist and singer for the Dutch band Bökkers, in 2017 he had his first art exhibition and since then has painted and exhibited at an incredible pace. Neimeijer has since exhibited at the Herman Brood Museum in the Netherlands, DAC Concepts Gallery in Greece, Red Dot Miami, and at galleries in Paris, London, Madrid, and New York. His practice unfolds at the same unstoppable pace as his music — joyful, unapologetic, and deeply human.