The American Scandinavian Society presents Nordic Mixed Media, Photography/Platinum Silicone-Rubber/Oil on Canvas, at Trygve Lie Gallery in New York, January 28th through March 7th.
The American Scandinavian Society invites you to a Closing Reception. Saturday, March 6th, 2:00 to 5:00 pm. This exhibit opened January 28th and has been enthusiastically received. Two of the artists will be present to talk about their work at the reception
MATTHIAS VAN ARKEL — Stockholm-born artist, Matthias van Arkel, “paints” colorful three dimensional abstractions using the strongest industrial rubber and pigments. The process is part random abstract expressionist and part tightly controlled minimalist sculpture.
Van Arkel presses pigments into the rubber, twisting, compressing, layering and sculpting, then he cuts and forms this in a metal tray to “bake”.
“Van Arkel’s engagement with his materials yields stratified composites of form, texture and color recalling forms that might be associated with landscapes, tectonic plates, or on another more intimate level, remnants of erotic encounters perhaps.” The critic Stephen Conway, NYC, 2008
Van Arkel is well known and collected in Scandinavia, with over a dozen solo and some fifteen group exhibitions, His next show opens at Gallery Aronowitsch, Stockholm in March. He will also exhibit giclee prints bringing the three dimensions back to two.
DANIEL SANDBERG — Stockholm-based artist Daniel Sandberg’s work explores the relationship and growing imbalance between nature and man. His large-scale photographs, usually taken from a distant perspective always depict landscapes where man’s presence is either a seen or unseen participant. The work is dramatic and aesthetically pleasing and brings to mind Andreas Gursky photographs.
In this, his first exhibition in NYC, Daniel presents several pieces from the nearby Hamptons. They are a part of his ongoing Beach Series; which examines mans relationship to and use of this particular landscape.
Sandberg has previously exhibited in Europe, at Epson Kunst Betrieb, Market Art Fair Stockholm 2009, Galleri Mårtenson & Persson Påarp to name only a few, as well as having been selected for the Liljevalchs-Vårsalong Stockholm 2009. In newspapers and magazines, as he has received increasing exposure, the focus has been on his incisive view of changing landscapes.
TORILD STRAY — Norwegian born Torild Stray, has been based in New York since 1990. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe for over a decade. Stray's work is collected internationally and has received international acclaim.
Since coming to NY, Stray has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships, including The Agnus Gund Scholarship, The New York Times Scholarship, Charles Revson Fellowship and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist in Residency Program in WTC.
Stray teaches at the NY Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture and Bryggen Kunstskole in Bergen.
Nordic Mixed Media is curated by Elfi von Kantzow Alvin and Associate Curator Caroline Ohlson.