KRISTINA ERIKSSON
With a silent palette and a harsh approach, Kristina Eriksson’s works are hard to categorize. As quiet thoughts, or contemplations, her paintings inhabit a strong sense of intimacy, and their reduced elements of forms speak of overpainting and deliberations. Her sparse production of works reflects the artist’s strict approach; not many paintings are approved. Her paintings are strongly expressive in their withdrawal from the viewer’s eyes, they are hard to catch but, nevertheless, make a mark. The motif, often reduced in color and form, equally weighs on and is embedded in the background layer that almost forms a subtle landscape in its overpainted state. There is a poetry to be found in this almost sacred yet austere world. Kristina Eriksson offers the viewer an escape into something else; a pause and the insight that material things are just material, they won’t last. Her paintings prove that peace is to be found in that conviction. In some works, the artist has added scribbles. Short sentences that seem like private thoughts come across with an inimitable humor, as a reminder of that darkness is a prerequisite for light.
Kristina Eriksson, born 1948 in Stockholm, currently lives and works in Höganäs, Sweden. Kristina Eriksson holds a BFA and MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, 1974.
Kristina Eriksson’s work has been shown at Sven-Harrys konstmuseum, Stockholm; Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm; Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm; Halmstads konsthall; Konstmuseet in Skövde; Kabusa Konsthall; Galleri Sylvia Enget, Stockholm; Arnstedt, Östra Karup; Thomas Wallner, Simris and at Krognoshuset, Lund among others.
Kristina Eriksson’s work is in the permanent collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Malmö konstmuseum; Stockholm Regional Council; Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg, among others.