The Tamesis
In 2000, while seeking her MFA at Yale College, Swedish musician Sigrid Sandström took off to Maine for a summertime teaching fellowship at the Skowhegan College of Paint and Sculpture. This is a transforming factor. “That’s when I began repainting landscapes due to the fact that it was generally the exact same land as Sweden,” Sandström stated. “The lavenders are a bit larger and blossom later on. Their foxes have various noses. However I acknowledge each tree kind – it’s nearly like a twisted memory.”
Ever Since, Sandstrom, 55, has actually made an engaging debate: Landscape is greater than simply an area, a hill or a fish pond; It is both a mental room and a physical room. Her scenes can be quiet and barren, like a field in between winter season and springtime, or they can be as spectacular as the setup sunlight, as spinning as the sea after a tornado. In a current paint, a five-foot-tall Nubes Swirls of blue and chartreuse border a cloud, both lively and threatening. “I want points that are psychological, vague, unsolved,” she states.
Sandström’s home town is Stockholm, where she deals with her partner, a style teacher at Lund College, and their 15-year-old child. However when we talked last summer season, she had to do with 2 hours western, in a workshop in her lodge near the little city of Örebro. She has actually been extremely hectic these previous couple of years. In the previous 2 years alone she has actually had solo events in Los Angeles, Stockholm, Tokyo and Shanghai, and she has actually simply validated a program at Galerie Perrotin in London next March. However her emphasis currently is this loss, when her most current collection of massive abstract paints will certainly be revealed at Anat Ebgi Gallery in New York City City. This will certainly be her very first solo event in the city in greater than a years.
Sandstrom likes the fast drying out rate of acrylic paint to oil paint, and she has actually long made use of strategies such as discoloration, smearing, splashing and publishing to layer appearances. Color-wise, the brand-new job is bolder and fiercer. She attracted ideas from the frescoes of the very early Renaissance, specifically Giotto and Fra Angelico. “I have actually been thinking of a dress layout that blends pinks, oranges and purples,” Sandstrom stated.
