Marit Geraldine Bostad

Sep 18

Marit Geraldine Bostad is a Norwegian abstract colourist living and working in Horten, Norway.

If you are interested in Marit’s work please contact Dayton Clark (dayton.clark@sia.edu)

Artist Statement

Through a series of paintings on canvas, Marit Geraldine Bostad investigates the themes that are central to her artistic research, the inner psyche, memories and human interaction. She blends her colours by pouring paint directly onto the canvas using a variety of tools, seldom using the paintbrush - to create diverse, versatile effects with broad expressive strokes. Marit Geraldine explores the Nordic Colour tradition in a bold new direction, blending tone to tone pastels with sparks of fluorescent, manifesting her own personal psychic state onto the canvas. She builds up and breaks down the diverse elements of her experience and brings them together in a new plastic dimension. Through this, she expresses universal archetypes that transcend the particular conditions of her own life, setting the scene for the audience to bring their own meaning to her work.

Biography

Marit Geraldine Bostad (1976) is an abstract colourist who works and lives in Horten Vestfold County, Norway. She investigates themes such as the inner psyche, memories and human interaction through her series of paintings. She blends colours by pouring paint directly onto the canvas using a variety of tools, seldom using the paintbrush - to create diverse, versatile effects with broad expressive strokes. Marit Geraldine explores the Nordic Colour tradition in a bold new direction, blending tone to tone pastels with sparks of fluorescent, manifesting her own personal psychic state onto the canvas. She builds up and breaks down the diverse elements of her experience and brings them together in a new plastic dimension. Through this, she expresses universal archetypes that transcend the particular conditions of her own life, setting the scene for the audience to bring their own meaning to her work. In July 2020 Marit Geraldine was honoured to be among the 30 shortlisted artists chosen for the Ashurst Emerging Artist’s Prize. This achievement recognises Marit Geraldine’s submission to the prize- a series of paintings evoking the light and nature of Ålesund, Norway a town where the artist spent her childhood summers surrounded by mountains and fjords.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions: Nordic Breeze, Artsy.com exhibition with Daniel Raphael Gallery, London, UK (2021); Art in the Church Room, Sentrum Church, Horten, Norway (2021); Utspring, KHAAK Kunsthall, Ålesund, Norway (2019); Artist in residence at Saatchi Art Lounge TOAF LA, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California, USA (2018); Colors from New York, Casa Vital, Altea, Spain (2018); Made in New York, Artsy.com, New York, USA (2018); Offspring, Artsy.com, New York, USA (2018); Deconstructed Impulses in Constant Change, Artsy.com, New York, USA (2017); Pop-up Brakkene, Karljohansvern, Horten, Norway (2016); Pop-up Galleri Tinghus, Tinghuset Horten, Horten, Norway (2016); Come Closer, Traktern, Horten, Norway (2014)

Group Exhibitions: Kunst for Selvstendighet - Auction, Traktern, Horten, Norway (2020);
Abstractly Speaking: Six + One, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, New York, USA (2020); Christmas Exhibition, KHAAK Kunsthall, Ålesund, Norway (2019); SCOPE Art Miami, SCOPE Art Show, Miami, USA (2019); Group Show, The Edit Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2019); Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Battersea Evolution, London, UK (2019); The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Southampton Row, London, UK (2019); Fall Group Exhibition, Artilleriverkstedet, Horten, Norway (2019); Spring Exhibition Gallery Fineart, Oslo, Fine Art Oslo, Oslo, Norway (2019); Mana Decentralized, Mana Contemporary, New York, USA (2019); Fresh Art Fair, Fresh Art Fair, Cheltenham, UK (2019); The Originals Show, The Drang Gallery, Padstow, Cornwall, UK (2019); The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK (2019); Clio Art Fair, Manhattan, New York, USA (2019); International Women, 107 Bowers Gallery, New York, USA (2019); Holiday Group Show, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, New York, USA (2018); Christmas Exhibition, Young Jamieson Fine Art, Marlborough, UK (2018); Merry X-mas, Galleri Fineart, Oslo, Norway (2018); Curators have to eat too, Laguna Art Gallery, California, USA (2018)