Date:
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Laila Carlsen at Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle
On October 7, the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, opens an exhibition with the Norwegian artist Laila Carlsen, who for two years studied under the renowed painter Odd Nerdrum.
Artist Laila Carlsen grew up in a small Norwegian village sketching the world around her at a young age, often preferring the solitude of the forest. After one year at Einar Granum Art School in Oslo, she rejected the brightly colored, unnatural style popular with her instructors and subsequently spent two years apprenticed to the great figure painter Odd Nerdrum. In the ten years since then, Carlsen has developed a personal iconography rich in the fusion of the physical and spiritual self primarily evidenced in her deeply personal self-portraits. Carlsen is represented by Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California.