Studio Gallery: Anki King, Making the Invisible Visible
| 10/1/2009 | to | 10/31/2009 |
Anki King grew up in a small town in Norway at the end of a road with forest all around. She spent hours playing by herself on mossy grounds under large pine trees. In the long dark winters you would find her sprawled on the living room floor, drawing.
After completing her arts education in Norway, King moved to New York in 1994. Over the last 20 years she has created a body of figurative paintings, and later sculpture, in an abstract, expressionistic style. First the images were inspired from photographs, then later freely from memories and thoughts, especially from childhood.
King considers her childhood a happy one yet it still left marks; reminders carried in body and mind. Being the first child of a new generation made her feel so much part of everything but she did not consciously store everything that happened. This realization inspired a strong urge to find the missing memories and to visualize them through her craft as a painter.
The first childhood works came from guilt based memories - they were the most accessible. These paintings are much smaller than King’s usual full size figures, no larger than 40″x 30″. They are strange, dark and gray with fragmented imagery, like the memories themselves. Each memory feeds and ties to another and new lighter images appear. It is not spelled out visually what each memory is about; the work is left open for interpretation to trigger the viewers own memories.
The larger paintings contain mature life size figures in full view. The human form here is used as a way of expressing emotional memories, which are an essential force in King’s work. She is less interested in making a picture of something than of making something visible.
Anki King’s work has frequently exhibited both in Norway and the USA. Exhibition venues include the Katonah Museum of Art, Karpeles Library Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Tokyo, and Las Cruces Museum of Art in New Mexico. Her work is included in many private and public collections. Most recently her work was acquired for the permanent collection at the Appleton Museum of Fine Art in Florida. She teaches and lectures at institutions including The Art Students League of NY, NurtureArt Inc., and the online school Sessions.edu.
For more information you can contact the artist at www.ankiking.com
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Comment by Kenneth — 10/1/2009 @ 3:11 am