18. FEB. KL. 11:00–4. MAR. KL. 12:00
Peter Sutton på Galleri Ramfjord / Lavely Miller og Maya Kulenovic på Ramfjord International
Arrangement av Galleri Ramfjord
Sted: Galleri Ramfjord
Hovedgalleriet: Peter Sutton "English Summer Holiday" - maleri
Ramfjord International: Lavely Miller - maleri / Maya Kulenovic - skulptur
Begge utstillingene åpner lørdag 18. februar 12.00-14.00. Velkommen!
Hovedgalleriet:
Peter Sutton er en britisk kunstner, som har vært bosatt i Norge siden 2001. Han har sin utdannelse fra England og Wales.
De opplevde øyeblikkene, hendelsene og scenene i maleriene hans har en personlig resonans og spenning. Han gir slipp på motivet i bildene sine, men ikke følelsen, slik at maleriet kan puste.
"Jeg jobber med oljemaling. Maleprosessen min er et svar på øyeblikk i hverdagen. Det er følelsen av historien som er igjen. Gjennom å fremkalle forslag, snarere enn realisme, har jeg som mål å holde maleriet levende og fortellingen åpen. For meg er det viktig å omfavne prosessen med frihet og impulser for å gjøre opplevelsen levende og pustende, fremfor formell og beskrivende. Hvert enkelt verk er derfor en reise og ikke bare et bilde. Jeg håper å gi betrakteren en følelse ut fra en følt erfaring. " - Peter Sutton
Peter har gått inn i flere narrativ til denne utstillingen. I sommer tok han familien med seg på ferie til England, til hans eget barndomssted. Opplevelsen av stedet og stemningene i kontekst med sine barn og ektefelle former bildene i "English Summer Holiday." Idag vokser Peters egne barn opp i det norske landskapet og får sine egne barndomsminner. Peters tilstedeværelse i omgivelsene her, blir som en betrakter.
Ramfjord international:
Amercian artist Lavely Miller graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Studio Art from James Madison University. She holds both master’s and doctoral level degrees in Clinical Mental Health.
Lavely Miller was recently named one of ten finalists for the Bennett Prize, the largest visual Arts Award given to a female figurative realist in the United States. She won 3rd place in 2021’s Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize (Raymar Panels Traditional Art Award category), a top prize at 2013 Art Basel and residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Dacia Gallery in New York City, where she studied under Iliya Mirochnick.
Miller’s paintings have been featured in American Art Collector, Hyperallergic, Fine Art Connoisseur, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, the Washington Post, as well as other publications internationally. Her work is held in various public collections such as the New Salem Museum in Massachusetts, the University of Virginia, the National Center for Transgender Equality in Washington, DC, and the Twenty-First Century Fox and News Corporation Building in New York City. Her work is also internationally privately collected.
Miller’s work contains depths that are “both metaphorical and literal. That the format evokes Renaissance art seems apt…her paintings have an eerie timelessness.” – Mark Jenkins, the Washington Post
Born in 1975, Maya Kulenovic is a Canadian artist born in Yugoslavia. She studied art worldwide at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, England, at the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and at the Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. She is also an alumna of the Goodenough College in London, England.
Since the 2000s, Maya has been exhibiting extensively in Europe, primarily in the Netherlands. There she quickly became known for the emotional force of her work, as well as her compelling and evolving technique. A book on her work, with an introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith, was published by d’Jonge Hond in 2008. She has exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions and over forty group shows Canada-wide, in the United States, the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, and Turkey. Her paintings and sculptures are found in numerous collections around the world.
Utstillingene varer til 5. mars.
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