After a 4,000 mile journey, A.I.R. Gallery is pleased to welcome 7 artists from Sweden. A.I.R. has hosted a series of international exchange exhibitions since 1976, as part of the gallery's mission to provide a community for women artists and provide the opportunity to show their diverse work.
To the artists in the exhibition, thank you for traveling all this way and sharing your wonderful work! It was a joy to meet you and I hope our paths cross in the future.
-Stephanie
Hjördis Becker’s motifs recall traveling and a journey; empty coat hangers on the line, chairs left behind, drawings of footprints, birds poised in the same direction, as in flight. Pictures developed as in a darkroom, clarified and surprising.
Annika Erixån paints artifacts that become part of a sculpture that becomes an ink drawing. It is like practicing a language, conjugating words into sentences, joining it all together.
Margareta Krantz’s icons in textile are mysterious, puzzling, while at the same time they dazzle with shimmering colors.
Margareta Lindman creates a language, which does not have any order or a hierarchical structure. Her works have a feeling of wool and milk - something very old-fashioned in a story that we follow in winding paths cluttered with associations.
Birgitta Nenzén, fragmented pictures joined together like musical notation that never ends, like humming. The sculptures have firm forms but with notches, turning into cog-wheels that grip into each other and then move on. The embroideries from past generations of women are also a kind of notation that here becomes a slow tale of roots and heritage.
For Aino Näslund, everyday items are things that separate and become symbols or simple indicators. Her contours are strong and soft, like a dialect that sings - both comfortingly and heartfelt.
Irene Trotzig, is totally natural in her painting, the forms penetrate each other like a strong light that dissolves all and everything. Its own values of perspective builds, turn, twist the colors that roar and resound.
To the artists in the exhibition, thank you for traveling all this way and sharing your wonderful work! It was a joy to meet you and I hope our paths cross in the future.
-Stephanie
Hjördis Becker’s motifs recall traveling and a journey; empty coat hangers on the line, chairs left behind, drawings of footprints, birds poised in the same direction, as in flight. Pictures developed as in a darkroom, clarified and surprising.
Annika Erixån paints artifacts that become part of a sculpture that becomes an ink drawing. It is like practicing a language, conjugating words into sentences, joining it all together.
Margareta Krantz’s icons in textile are mysterious, puzzling, while at the same time they dazzle with shimmering colors.
Margareta Lindman creates a language, which does not have any order or a hierarchical structure. Her works have a feeling of wool and milk - something very old-fashioned in a story that we follow in winding paths cluttered with associations.
Birgitta Nenzén, fragmented pictures joined together like musical notation that never ends, like humming. The sculptures have firm forms but with notches, turning into cog-wheels that grip into each other and then move on. The embroideries from past generations of women are also a kind of notation that here becomes a slow tale of roots and heritage.
For Aino Näslund, everyday items are things that separate and become symbols or simple indicators. Her contours are strong and soft, like a dialect that sings - both comfortingly and heartfelt.
Irene Trotzig, is totally natural in her painting, the forms penetrate each other like a strong light that dissolves all and everything. Its own values of perspective builds, turn, twist the colors that roar and resound.
A.I.R. Expedition Sweden is open till July 18th.
