The Garden Edge #10

Coal and acrylic on canvas

The artwork was part of the group show Transformations at MELK, Oslo 2022.

130 x 190 cm
Unique
NOK 75,000.00
+ 5% art tax

Linda Soh Trengereid (f. 1984) holds a degree from the Art and Design Academy in Bergen.

Her drawn and painted canvases give associations to hand coloured photographs, balancing between fact and fiction, a sort of alternative realism where the motifs are taken out of time and place. Trengereid works serially in varying sizes, from small and intimate to large formats that fill the entire field of vision. The starting point for each motif is places she has visited. Trengereids’s background as an adopted child from South Korea can be said to have an underlying influence here. In the execution of her images, Trengereid works layer upon layer with charcoal and and acrylics towards her desired hybrid between a drawing and a painting. The acrylic paint can sometimes erase parts of the drawing, other times she retouches the paintings with coal again on top. The people in her works are often absent or appear as empty sections of untreated canvas where the paint has partially penetrated through. Only the contours of human life stands out, defined by the surrounding landscape.

Trengereid has been acquired by Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Haukeland University Hospital, the University of Bergen and Fana Kulturhus, amongst others. She has public decorations at REV Ocean (2020), Tertnes VGS (2018-2019) and Klostergarasjen in Bergen (2015).

(upcoming solo), Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, NO
2024
Slinten i øyet (group), Nitja senter for samtidskunst
2023
Bytting (solo), Kuben, QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2023
Blunk - The Trond Mohn collection (group), Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, NO
2023
Life, Death, and Rebirth (group), Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, NO
2023
Utopia (group), Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
2022
Transformations (group), MELK, Oslo, NO
2022
Verden er mindre enn ingenting (group), Kristiansand Kusthall, NO
2022
Into the wild (group), QB, Oslo, NO
2022
The Garden Edge (solo), Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, NO
2021
As far as my eyes can sea (group), Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, NO
2021
Fugleperspektiv (duo), BOA, Oslo, NO
2018
Mylder (solo), Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, NO
2017
Mylder (solo), LNM, Oslo, NO
2016