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Liv Tandrevold Eriksen

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Liv Tandrevold Eriksen (b. 1976, Oslo) is educated from the KHIO Institute of colour in Oslo. She works with acrylic on canvas, not just as a base for a painting, but also as collage, textile work and sculpture.

In the first step of her process, diluted paint is allowed to penetrate the canvas, creating amorphous blobs of colour.In some of her works she experiments with sewn elements as parts of her paintings. When working with sculpture, the canvas is transformed from paintings to sculptural entities, displaying a tug of war between the modernist sculptural object, often in highly regarded materials such as bronze and stone, and the textile material, which is often considered lower in the hierarchy and often related to the realm of the woman.

The canvas is a crucial part of most paintings, making them in some ways partly textile works. In Tandrevold Eriksen’s work this fact is made into an important and explicit point. By connecting and reconnecting with the fragility and the opportunities of the fabric she investigates the material’s inherent possibilities.
Tandrevold Eriksen’s work is acquired by Statens Kunstråd (SE), Norwegian Culture Council (NO), Equinor (NO) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NO).