Echoes of other Mothers II

Acrylic and seam on canvas

130 x 110 cm
Unique
NOK 46,000.00
+ 5% art tax

Liv Tandrevold Eriksen (b. 1976, Oslo) is educated from the KHIO Institute of colour in Oslo.

Perhaps the greatest asset in Tandrevold Eriksen’s arsenal of resources is her exquisite lightness of touch. Her earlier paintings were delicate networks of thinly laid brushstrokes, evoking oily smudge patterns left on well used touchscreens. Since then, the quality of lightness has taken many forms in Eriksen’s images, in strangely atmospheric compositions where visual equilibrium is countered and attained by superimposition and layering. Some of her paintings introduces more physical elements to her layering process. The images are fairly large canvases occupied by amorphous blobs of diluted acrylics onto which fan-like constellations of similarly treated cutouts are attached to the support, either distributed as singularly applied patches or laid out in curvilinear sequences. These hybrid images notably depart from Eriksen’s previous works, inasmuch as the ground’s whiteness is less prominent and the sewn-on patches make for surfaces more textural and cluttered—however, curiously, without shedding the impression of lightness.

Where the graphic qualities of Eriksen’s earlier paintings tended to reveal her artistic background in drawing, the spaces conjured by her new images appear increasingly ambiguous. The multicoloured attachments look perfectly at home on the paintings’ surfaces, yet seem to hover weightlessly over the pictorial ground, like fluttering confetti. This effect of spatial oscillation—resulting from the appliquéd elements being, quite literally, cut from the same cloth as the rest of the composition whilst remaining materially distinct from it—is an eccentric take on the postmodern pictorial idiom which tilts the horizontal planes of illusionistic recession vertically.

Tandrevold Eriksen is in numerous private collections as well as Statens Kunstråd (SE), Norwegian Culture Council (NO), Equinor (NO), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NO) and KLP (NO).

Enter Art Fair (group, upcoming), Lokomotivværkstedet, Copenhagen, DK
2024
Market Art Fair (solo), With QB Gallery, Stockholm, SE
2024
La table, l'océan et le fruit (group/solo), Ølhallene, Tou Scene, Stavanger, NO
2023
Ville Epler (solo), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2023
Painting Today (group), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2022
30 Grader i Februar (group), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2021
DeLux (group), She Will Art Space, Ski, NO
2021
Enter Art Fair (solo), With QB Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2021
Wave/Wave/Wave (solo), QB Gallery, Oslo, NO
2020
Gymbag (solo), LNM, Oslo, NO
2019
Blå over Rød (Rosa) (solo), Tag Team, Bergen, NO
2015
Hvordan lage en hage (group), Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, NO
2015
Fjernsyn (solo), Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
2013
Awake in Sleep (solo), Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO
2009
Helsinki Biennale (group), Helsinki, FI
2008
Hordaland Kunstsenter (solo), Hordaland, NO
2004
Tegnebiennalen, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, NO
2004

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