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Erik Neimeijer
'I paint like I play — fast, loud, and with love; my paintings are about the things that make life worth living — the chaos, the color, and the beat that keeps it all going'
 Get Rhythmacrylic on canvas, framed, 48.5" x 40.5" |  A Good Lifeacrylic on canvas, framed, 40.5" x 40.5" |  Mescaleroacrylic on canvas, framed, 40.5" x 40.5" |  Light the Wayacrylic on canvas, framed, 48.5" x 40.5" |
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 Me & Bobby McGeeacrylic on canvas, framed, 40.5" x 40.5" |  Austin City Limitsacrylic on canvas, framed, 40.5" x 40.5" |  Pride & Joyacrylic on canvas, framed, 40.5" x 40.5" |  Slow Burnacrylic on canvas, framed, 32.5" x 32.5" |
 Havana Moonacrylic on canvas, framed, 32.5" x 32.5" |
Erik Neimeijer
Erik Neimeijer (b. 1982) is a Dutch musician and painter whose medium-to-large-scale, high-color canvases pulse with rhythm and life. They bridge his two worlds: music and painting. 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.”
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Originally educated as a social psychologist, Neimeijer spent years as guitarist and singer with the Dutch rock band Bökkers before turning seriously to painting. A self-taught artist, Neimeijer channels the same drive that fuels his rock-and-roll career into painting. He began exhibiting in 2017 and his painting career has developed at an incredible pace. Neimeijer has since shown at the Herman Brood Museum in the Netherlands, DAC Concepts Gallery in Greece, Red Dot Miami, and galleries in Paris, London, Madrid, and New York.
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His practice unfolds at the same unstoppable tempo as his music — joyful, unapologetic, and deeply human - with a steady flow of studio work, international exhibitions, and a forthcoming book 'Scheppingsdrang' planned for 2026.
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2025 marked his Austin debut. Founder and curator of Unchained.Art Contemporary Gallery, Christina Hiltscher, invited Neimeijer as the first artist in the fully fledged gallery’s 'Artist in Focus' capsule program — a four-week, concentrated presentation that runs alongside the main exhibition schedule. The collaboration reflects a shared interest in independent voices that carry their own rhythm, on stage and on the wall, while staying direct, accessible, and authentic.
Neimeijer transformed the gallery into a stage of narrative play. His 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.