Gerard Boersma's Photorealism

Smooth, polished surfaces. Meticulous attention to detail. Flawless and seemingly lifelike. These are words we often use when describing the great Dutch Masters of the seventeenth century. That era also marked the emergence of genre scenes—paintings of everyday life with people depicted in settings at home, in commerce, or at leisure. Influenced by those great predecessors and trained rigorously in their classical techniques, contemporary Dutch artist Gerard Boersma has emerged as both a masterful hyperrealist painter and a keen observer of modern everyday life. But where the Old Masters gave us milkmaids pouring milk and merchants weighing coins, Boersma gives us the contemporary art gallery. It is a brilliant pivot…