The Tension of the Surface To look at a Bep Scheeren painting is to witness a deliberate struggle between form and erasure. Born in Kerkrade in 1950, Scheeren does not treat the canvas as a space to be filled, but as a site of constant negotiation. Her work rejects the idea of a finished, static image. Instead, she treats the act of painting as a process of addition and subtraction, where parts are intentionally removed or painted over…