Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Liv Mette Larsen
The First Art Newspaper on the Net    Established in 1996 Thursday, November 14, 2024


Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Liv Mette Larsen
Larsen works slowly and deliberately, more like a caretaker than an engineer. She mixes her own egg tempera colors using finely ground raw pigments, and she applies them skillfully and meticulously to linen surfaces of generally modest size, both horizontal and vertical.



NEW YORK, NY.- Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art is presenting Nightview, a solo exhibition of paintings by Liv Mette Larsen. Born in 1952 in Norway, Larsen now lives and works in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The exhibition consists of nineteen paintings, all done using egg tempera on linen. Selected works on paper by the artist will be on view in the gallery’s back room.

“Larsen has long preferred buildings, often variably industrial, as her subject matter. Factories, warehouses, water towers, and silos are among the structures in her customary wheelhouse, and she depicts them individually or paired (“Vertical Night View IV,” “Small Night View XI”), or at times in small groups (“Night View VII,” “Night View XIII”). Landscapes they are, skylines they are – but then again, not really. ‘Buildingscapes’ describes them better; ‘building portraits’ hits even closer to home. The artist’s structures appear to us as shapes and as sitters, as ‘formal’ casts of posing characters, as blocky individuals with personalities and moods. Like bottles for Morandi, Larsen’s buildings transcend their objectness to embody certain qualities not always granted to objects: simplicity and humility, honesty and sympathy, and wistful, whispery curiousness.

Industrial structures as actors poised before ambient backdrops: thusly set is Larsen’s stage. If Nightview were in fact a play, it would be set in the warehouse district of Bushwick, Brooklyn, where the artist has kept a home and studio for many years, around which are situated all of the buildings portrayed in the exhibit. We see them much the way Larsen sees them when looking out her windows at night, lights low, registering notes for new works. Their compositional quiet and calm echo the calm quiet of their inception. Larsen achieves this tenor by depicting her subjects as silhouettes, in hues generally dark, before open skies, generally monotone. Her buildings range from near-blacks to blues, greens, and reds; her night skies, from deep purples to warm oranges and bright yellows. The artist peers out her windows into the roof of the night, and at the shadowed buildings that commune beneath it, then furnishes surfaces with rooftop contours and nocturnally luminous atmospherics.

Larsen works slowly and deliberately, more like a caretaker than an engineer. She mixes her own egg tempera colors using finely ground raw pigments, and she applies them skillfully and meticulously to linen surfaces of generally modest size, both horizontal and vertical. She works without tape, without rulers, allowing the gradual, experienced movement of her hand and brushes to create lines that are straight enough, washes of color that are consistent enough. Her applications are typically thin, such that the tooth of the linen remains readily visible; this serves to soften the contours of the structures and nimbly variegate the expanse of their backdrops. Her lines are carefully formed and angled, though never rightly rectilinear or rigid. As such, her buildings appear settled, weathered, used. Her largely monochromatic skies, meanwhile – now deep, now vivid; now darker, now brighter – take up the subtle textures of her surfaces, leaving her backgrounds grainy and striated, her ambient lights diffused….Abstractions indeed, to be sure, yet Larsen’s painstakingly rendered paintings and collages nonetheless register very real buildings in a very real place, staged and staid like actors before a curtain, or like precious objects in a display case. The varicolored diffusions looming luminously all around these forms, meanwhile, are analogously convincing as the bizarrely real lights of industrially peripheral metropolitan nights.”

- Excerpt from “Rooftops, Nights, Lights: Liv Mette Larsen’s Nightview at Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art” by Paul D’Agostino

Liv Mette Larsen (b.1952, Oslo, Norway) is a painter working out of Brooklyn, NY, whose work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe at venues such as the Kunstverein Marburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Lüdenscheid, Germany; Trafo Kunsthall, Norway. Her work is held in private and public collections around the U.S. and Europe.










Today's News

February 17, 2022

Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art opens a solo exhibition of paintings by Liv Mette Larsen

First UK NFT exhibition of iconic Italian masterpieces, from Da Vinci to Modigliani, launches at Unit London

Museum security guard adds eyes to painting's faceless figures

Hindman launches independent appraisals division

Sotheby's to offer the largest fancy vivid blue diamond ever to appear at auction

Inaugural exhibition at Gagosian Gstaad features never-before-exhibited works by Damien Hirst

Hauser & Wirth brings together 12 contemporary artists working in the traditions of quilting and textile practice

P·P·O·W Gallery opens an exhibition of works by Elizabeth Glaessner

Advance details of The Costume Institute's 2022 spring exhibition unveiled by The Met

Alia Farid presents three bodies of new work at Kunsthalle Basel

Mimi Ọnụọha's first solo exhibition with bitforms on view in New York

Bridget Riley presents works in dialogue with Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party

Centre Pompidou opens an exhibition of photographs by Gaston Paris

Nye & Company announces Chic and Antique Estate Treasures Auction, March 2nd-3rd

Solo exhibition by celebrated Venezuelan artist Jaime Gili opens at Cecilia Brunson Projects

Six highlights from the Black Film Archive

A 'Merchant of Venice' that doubles down on pain

An exhilarating set of Cecil Taylor's jazz arrives, 49 years later

Kathryn Kates, actress of 'Seinfeld' babka fame, dies at 73

Items belonging to Duncan Edwards of Manchester United and England to be offered at auction

OPEN unveils design for Sun Tower in Yantai, China

Dix Noonan Webb to sell the Throckenholt Cross

First New York solo presentation of the work of Carole Harris on view at Sargent's Daughters

1964 Aston Martin DB5 for sale with H&H Classics

A Closer Look at Anonymous Server

Best Games You Can Play Online

How can I Lookup A Phone for Free with Reverse Phone lookup service by PeopleFinderFree

Tips To Keep In Mind When Buying A Gold Chain

Toshiba C55 C5381 Reviews

Easiest And Simplest Way To Edit Videos In Filmora

What Is a Sketchbook: A Detailed Review of Sketchbooks

5 Best Types of Therapy for People With Trauma




Museums, Exhibits, Artists, Milestones, Digital Art, Architecture, Photography,
Photographers, Special Photos, Special Reports, Featured Stories, Auctions, Art Fairs,
Anecdotes, Art Quiz, Education, Mythology, 3D Images, Last Week, .

 



Founder:
Ignacio Villarreal
(1941 - 2019)
Editor & Publisher: Jose Villarreal
Art Director: Juan José Sepúlveda Ramírez
Writer: Ofelia Zurbia Betancourt

Attorneys
Truck Accident Attorneys
Accident Attorneys
Holistic Dentist
Abogado de accidentes
สล็อต
สล็อตเว็บตรง

Royalville Communications, Inc
produces:

ignaciovillarreal.org juncodelavega.com facundocabral-elfinal.org
Founder's Site. Hommage
to a Mexican poet.
Hommage
       

The First Art Newspaper on the Net. The Best Versions Of Ave Maria Song Junco de la Vega Site Ignacio Villarreal Site Parroquia Natividad del Señor
Tell a Friend
Dear User, please complete the form below in order to recommend the Artdaily newsletter to someone you know.
Please complete all fields marked *.
Sending Mail
Sending Successful