Overview
Stephen Friedman Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson. Rooted in the rural landscape surrounding the artist’s home and studio in Medelplana, Sweden, this new series of large-scale paintings continues Eriksson’s sustained exploration of landscape painting as topography and visual contemplation.
This body of work takes inspiration from the woods that the artist walks in each day with his dog. It is a dedication to the dense thickets and clearings, the knots of branches and felled trees that he passes daily. His delicate patchworks of feathered brushwork respond to the macro undulations and micro textures of his surroundings as they shift with the weather and the passing of time.
Alongside the paintings, Eriksson has produced a collection of photographs of the same landscape. He notes that he approaches his photographic response as he does his painting, and both bodies of work hold a poetic quality and a quiet emotional intensity. The photographs are printed in a small edition of hand-bound books, published in Japan.
