Galleri Trine - Trine Røssevold - Scandinavian Contemporary painter artist. Oil painting.

"Promised Land" at Kube art museum

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:32:42 -0800

20.Nov 2010 - 23.Jan 2011 I am showing my most recent paintings at Kube Art museum in the centre of Ålesund, my hometown. This is a large exhibition in many senses. My 15 paintings are shown together with the installations of Lorraine Aaron. We have both worked around the theme "promised land". I have dealt with the subjectmatter in a direct way, rather than a philosophical way. The exhibition also presents a series of portraits. Here the portrayed are being made anonymous by both their clothing and surroundings. Yet I have attempted to portray them as who they are, and how I see them.

First floor view

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:34:35 -0800

View showing grouse-sculpture by Lorraine Aaron, two of my boredom-paintings, and the altar piece "Territory" in the back.

Vault and boredom

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:30:55 -0800

The manipulated vault in the foreground appears like a resigned animal. The springboard in front of the vault has a mirrored surface. Surrounded by the field of bark the piece becomes a mix og memories, ambitions and a sprinkle of surrealism.

Art in art

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 14:26:43 -0800

"Break IV" reflected in Lorraine Aarons manipulated vault.

The mirrors inside the vault gives the room endeless dimentions. It also allows the paintings to blend in with the sculptures. This creates anything from a cool effect.... to an aspect bound for contemplatation.

Birds

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:59:08 -0800

Two artists working around the same theme are occationally ecco each other. Lorraine´s piece "Migration" play well against my "Promise II". This section of the gallery consists mainly of my large paintings, with the solo sculpture in the middle of the floor. All the work here is domintated by a sense of space, strength, religousness. The gallery room har a cathedral-like atmosphere that makes an impact on the work shown there.

Bird elements are present in several of sculptures and paintings in "Promised land".

The Portrait Gallery

Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:05:34 -0800

Four portraits make up the portrait gallery.

There are many portrait galleries around the place. National heritage and portraiture through history are here on display to the public. Wandering through a portrait gallery can be rather tedious with room after room of pompous men with hats. Much can be read into such a collection and the selections made. It defines who is considered important, and who is not. The presentation of the gallery can be used politically. It can state who we should look up to, and make grounds for a common identity. The selection and purpose of the gallery can also be arranged arround different consepts. Examples of this is: nationalism, diversity, dialogues, exploring boundaries of portraiture etc.

My portrait gallery is old fashioned and dramatic lit. It shows four very different people that somehow has an influence on my life as an artist and member of the society. I have chosen to portray these people because they hold a position. None of them are dressed in their private clothes, but they are uniformed by the same kind of track suits that people seeking asylum in Norway, are handed upon arrival. So there u go; a portrait gallery with a bit of a twist.

Portrait

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:55:59 -0800

Having painted human beings into my pictures for years I have taken the step into portraiture. To "use" a model in a painting is about placing somebody in a tableau. The person is there to play a role the same way an actor steps out of himself and enters his character. Yet the actor is chosen for the role due to his abilities, characteristics, and (often) his fame.
When making a portrait the challenges are quite different. Naturally the portrayed person has to look like her/him. External features and characteristics are vital. Yet the portrait has the role of describing the person in focus. Who is he/she? What is his/her status, personality and aura? In other words; you attempt to sum up the person you wish to portray.

Anne Standal is the head of Aalesund art association, and a great person to portray.

Paintress

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:50:31 -0700

About "Nobody"

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:00:10 -0700

This is a painting I have been working on for a very long time. Propably as long as three years on and of. The painting has changed a lot through this time, but my idea of the rythmical repetation of the figure, the birds legs, and the strings stayed with me throughout the process. It is a large painting 150 x 120 cm. I will be showing this at my exhibition "Promissed land" at Kube art museum in Ålesund.

"Nobody", Oil on canvas 150 cm x 120 cm, 2010

Galleri ramfjord

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:11:27 -0700

I have been working om two paintings for the exhibition I am participating in at Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, 2009. The figures are perched on a wire. Like birds. Like humans.

One of two paintings. Painted for the exhibition at Galleri Ramfjord August 2009. Oil on canvas. 120 x 120 cm

One of two paintings made for the exhibition at Galleri Ramsfjord August 2009. Oil on canvas 150 x 150 cm

Ears rarely fall far from the neck

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:08:09 -0700

Another solo-show only three months after the Ear drop is a little tight. My solution to the challende was to make the new exhibition an extention of the previous. However I had to get rid of all that red. I always believed red to be a colour to be used with sobriety. It is so full of dynamite. So I concealed the red, and turned the new paintings into a close up study of skin-tones and change of light. The bar/gallery turend out to suit my paintings fairly well. The simply composed, classical figures appears cool and controlled in the rocky walls of Steinovnen.

Ear drop

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:47:23 -0800

The exhibition "Ear drop" consists of a varied number of paintings, made during the autumn of 2008. The paintings are linked through the subject matter of the falling ears, and the bright read background. The exhibition was fist shown in the gallery Volda Kunstlag, and then moved to my studio in Ålesund for a two day viewing.

The days of getting ready for an exhibition are full of emotions an lack of common sense. Copy and paste the adress below into your URL, and watch a wee video from the exhibition.

Paintress & painting

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:21:19 -0800

Almost done with this new painting... Ears flying everywhere. This is one of the two dodge-painings from my series "Eardrop"

Reactions

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:17:46 -0700

I was commissioned to do a series of charcoal drawings for a psychiatric institution. The given guidelines had to do with the technique, not the content of the pieces. Working my way through the project, I decided to concentrate the series of drawings dwelling on the subject "balance". So in January 2008 I handed over nine charchoal drawings on white MDF-board. "Balance", in many ways, was the foundation of all these pieces.

The paintress

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:30:18 -0800

I refer to myself as the paintress. A female artist, and a painter. Why become an artist, and why paint, one might ask? To me art was somehow a natural choice. Through art my abilities and talents can be combined with intellectual procecces controlled by myself. This is both a great privilege and a personal desire.
Oil painting has been around for 500 years, and is not necessarely an obvious working medium for the artist of today. There are multiple ways for an artist to express oneself, through all kinds of mediums, and through an endless number of crossovers.