Art & Lair: Mamma Andersson, April 29 – June 12, 2010. New Works at The David Zwirner Gallery, N.Y.C.

My best friends went to the Mamma Andersson show in N.Y.C. and were kind enough to take some pics for me. ( Thankyou, Scott and Tiffanie!).

The David Zwirner Gallery hosts some of the best modern artists in the world, in my opinion, and I am excited to stop by on my next visit.

Andersson’s paintings embody a duality that is central to Swedish culture: the interplay of rural and urban aesthetics, combined with the notion of the everyday. Her lineage is tied to French painters, Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) and Jean-Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), both known for depicting intimate domestic spaces and luminous pastoral landscapes and gardens. Inspired by filmic imagery, theater sets, period interiors, and her native land where summers are short and winters are long, Andersson’s compositions and moody atmospheres suggest ambiguous narratives that are both familiar and incongruous. In her new work, scenes include a wet and wintery forest, possible acquaintances gathered around a table, empty yet comfortable kitchens and hallways, a sleeping figure (in a painting that gives the exhibition its title). Her paintings also address materiality and the play of light and color, as her seductive, muted, and high-contrast palette is applied with both airy textured washes and thickly rendered brushstrokes.