"One More Beach Rose Please" opens in New York

Hi everyone,

A few days ago my show “One More Beach Rose Please” opened in New York at Isabel Sullivan Gallery. It will be up until September 28th, so if you are in the Tribeca area do stop by and say hello to Isabel and Timothy at the gallery.

The show features 10 small size paintings that I’ve made over the course of the summer. It’s also my first show with Isabel Sullivan, and the first time that I have a cohesive group of paintings on display in New York.

“One More Beach Rose Please” is a real end of summer show. The paintings were made just on the brink of the end of the holiday here in Denmark, and even though the summer has been a bit longer than usual here, all the signs of autumn closing in are present. I have painted small fishing boats, summer dresses, Antonias’ My Little Ponies, corn fields and the new trees we planted last autumn.

You can see an overview of the works on artsy here and on the Isabel Sullivan Gallery website here, where you can also read further and see all the works.  Feel free to email Isabel about availability and prices on info@is.gallery.

Thanks for reading (and looking!),

Anders

"Wild Range" opens in Los Angeles August 10th

Happy to have four new paintings in the groupshow “Wild Range” at The Pit in Los Angeles. The show opens on August 10th and coincide with The Pit’s 10 year anniversary celebration.

Gallery Announcement:

The Pit is delighted to announce our group exhibition Wild Range at our Los Angeles location. The show will include work by Shara Mays, Anders Scrmn Meisner, James Goss, Hopie Hill, Tracy Thomason, Howard Fonda, Jennifer King, Camila Varon Jaramillo, and Yirui Jia. The exhibition is on display from August 10 - September 14, 2024 alongside James Hayward’s solo exhibition. Join us for an opening party on August 10 from 4-7pm!

For further information, please contact the gallery at info@the-pit.la. 

Photos by Chris Hanke

Shark Smiles and Sunflowers is now open in London


Hi Everyone

Very happy to have my first solo show in London with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery up and running. The show is up until June 22nd in the gallery’s Wandsworth location in London. You can view all the works here.

SHARK SMILES AND SUNFLOWERS

A bunch of sunflowers plucked from a neighbour’s flower bed. The sensuous shadows of marble sculptures in a garden at sunset. The heady scent of a lilac tree on a late summer’s evening. Shark Smiles and Sunflowers, Danish artist Anders Scrmn Meisner’s first solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, presents a playful new series of paintings that explore the emotional value of objects and the power of visual storytelling.

The titles of Meisner’s works are almost as important as the paintings themselves. He builds his compositions from the lines that he jots down in his notebooks and then paints the titles on to the sidebar of his completed canvases. As such, the viewer encounters the work from two perspectives: first as a purely visual image and then with a written prompt that offers a clue into the story that Meisner is imagining. A seemingly simple painting of a vase of sunflowers, for example, takes on another layer of meaning when we read the title, I Stole For You Last Night while Lilac Fragrance, My Blue Eyes, Your Full Moon imbues the painting of a feathery blue, leafy tree with a sense of romantic nostalgia.

To Meisner, these works are all ‘giant postcards of affection.’ They capture specific moments in time, memories of an emotional experience and physical connections. The flat, graphic style of the imagery plays into the postcard aesthetic while the vivid colour palette and Pointillist-inspired backdrops evoke a youthful, summery mood. 

At the same time, Mesiner takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to such nostalgia. View From Expensive Holiday, for example, depicts a nonspecific sunny, seaside landscape while Chiesa La Domenica (Italian for church on Sunday) features a bunch of flowers in a Ferrari-branded pot. Both of these works knowingly play on stereotypes, inviting the viewer into the joke, while the flattened perspective and addition of slightly surreal or unexpected elements, such as the two orange suns in View From Expensive Holiday or the pink high-heels in Chiesa La Domenica, create a sense of intrigue. As Meisner puts it, ‘I am just starting the story. The rest is left to the viewer’s imagination.’

It is this playfulness that makes Meisner’s work so captivating. Each image is simultaneously familiar and open-ended, filled with endless potential. Just as Meisner takes pleasure in allowing himself to paint whatever he feels like, ‘it doesn’t matter how weird it is,’ his work invites us to let our minds wander and dream.

You are more than welcome to email Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery about available work through info@kristinhjellegjerde.com.

UPCOMING SHOWS IN 2024:

In August I am very excited to be included The Pit’s summer group show in Los Angeles. Im also happy to announce that I will have works in the NADA art Fair in Miami in December also with The Pit.

In Copenhagen I will show four new paintings with Hans Alf Gallery at Enter Art Fair also in August.

PRINTS

I have added two prints to the webshop over at TRBL Studios.


Everything is Amplifed opens at Hans Alf Gallery

My new show “Everything is Amplifed” is now open at Hans Alf Gallery here in Copenhagen.

Thank you so much to everyone who came out for the opening. The show runs until April 27th. For information about the works you are always welcome to get in contact with Hans Alf Gallery on info(@)hansalf.com. You can also see an overview of the show on Artsy here.

My next show “Sharksmiles and Sunflowers” will open at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in London the 23rd of May. To get updates on new available works for that show please join my mailinglist here and you will be amongst the first to know. You are also welcome to email Kristin Hjellegjerde for a preview on info(@)kristinhjellegjerde.com

Read more about Everything is Amplified below.

thanks for reading
Anders

EVERYTHING IS AMPLIFIED

In “Everything is Amplified”, SCRMN revisits something that was vital in his early works; an almost fetishistic obsession with seemingly trivial objects, which are elevated and impregnated with complex stories and personal memories in the artist’s idiosyncratic vernacular. The childhood PEZ dispensers meticulously arranged on a skateboard; an old suitcase; a woman’s pink pumps; a miniature horse; an upright piano – all of these are innocent objects of everyday life that are bestowed with a new and deeper meaning in SCRMN’s peculiar tableaus. And concurrently the picture frame is ceaselessly invaded by trees, shrubbery, twigs, flowers and leaves as constant reminders of a metaphoric wilderness lurking in or around us; a symbolic juxtaposition of nature and culture.

“Everything is Amplified” has two meanings: On one hand, the title refers to the actual amplifiers in SCRMN’s new paintings; on the other, it refers to a more abstract feeling that everything in the show – colors, emotions, objects – are enlarged.

The artist explains this quite poignantly:
“The first painting, I did for the show, was of a guitar amp. There is a lot of nostalgia in guitar amplifiers for me; they remind me of my teenage years, of punk, rebellion, and youthful noise. So that became the impetus for the show. At the same time, the title also refers to the depicted objects themselves, as they are generally enhanced and amplified. In some sense, I have zoomed in on everything in a sort of hyper-sensitive, mescaline teenage fever-dream, where every object is imbued with private emotions and memories. In a lot of ways, “Everything is Amplified” marks a return to the exhibition “The World Was Weird” from 2014 and my obsession with the inherent history of a given object. Back then, American author John Albert wrote that “seemingly unremarkable objects become keys to unraveling memories and the nature of the human experience.” I think that sums up the exhibition quite well.





Upcoming shows: Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Los Angeles

Excerpt from my newsletter February 21

Hi everyone!

2024 is shaping up to be a fun but busy year. So far I’ve spent very little time outside studio since coming back from Colombia in January and now, as my first show of 2024 is getting nearer, I thought I would share some sneak peaks of paintings. These will all be in my upcoming show at Hans Alf Gallery, opening on April 5th here in Copenhagen. The show will carry the title “Everything is Amplified” and will feature paintings of guitar amplifiers and amplified objects in general. I’ve had a lot of fun painting everything from colombian sodas to dinosaurs, Pez on skateboards, cellos, pipes, ashtrays and lilacs. Some of the paintings you can see below.

In May my first solo show in London will open at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, which is a big thing for me, and in June I will head down to Schloss Goerne outside Berlin to participate in the yearly groupshow at the old castle - also with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.

In August, I am also excited about starting my collaboration with Los Angeles gallery The Pit where I will have works in their annual summer group. Needless to say, I got a spring in my step in the studio these days and feeling grateful to see my work travel far and wide this year.

In late August, I will also show new works with Hans Alf Gallery at Enter Art Fair here in Copenhagen for everyone here at home.  

Now enough about plans. I hope to see you the 5th of April for “Everything Is Amplified” at Hans Alf Gallery. Here are some sneak peaks of the new works, you are always welcome to reach out to the gallery about prices and availability on specific works to: info@hansalf.com

Thanks for reading and special thanks to all of you who signed up lately (and long time ago) it means a lot.

Anders Scrmn

Work sizes from top to bottom:

Beethoven, Lingerie and Sunflowers
145x125 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Pez on Skateboard
50x70 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Nashville Skyline
105x90 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Piano Nap
135x150 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Blue Girl
85x90 cm
Acrylics on canvas



Upcoming show + Enter Art Fair

Happy to announce that I will show 15 new paintings at Hans Alf Gallery in early Autumn. The show will open on the 22nd of September 2023. Before that I will show new large scale works at Enter Art Fair in August - also with Hans Alf Gallery.

Soft Like Andalusian Cotton

(this was my november newsletter that I sent to mailinglist subscribers early November. If you would like one too next time please sign up here. Thank you!)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been back in the studio for a few days after 5 weeks of travelling through the south of Spain, which was wonderful. We’ve been up in the mountains, in small towns without roads, at the beach, in parks, at roman ruins and eaten lots of food. Our base was our “home away from home”, Sevilla. The city has had a huge influence on me and the art I make. Many of the patterns and the colours I use all have their roots in the city, la sevillana, el flamenco and the heavy influence of the mudéjar architecture and decorative culture. I first moved there when I was 20, and since then I have lived there in periods with Carolina. Sevilla is a returning theme in my life and I love that city.

Even though winter is on its way in Denmark, it is great to get back to the studio I must admit. Especially since I have a show opening at Tinimini Room Gallery in Dordrecht, Holland on the 10th of December that I need to finish. Tinimini Room is founded by dutch artist Ralf Kokke, who happens to open a show in Copenhagen at Hans Alf Gallery on 2nd of December. So do go see it if you are in Copenhagen, and if you are in Holland I hope to to see you at my show on the 10th of December, everyone is welcome and I will be there to chat and say hi.

The show will be titled “I’m soft, like Andalusian Cotton”, and will feature a small selection of my new gouache paintings. But more about that when we get closer to the date. I will send out an overview of all the new paintings when the show opens in early December to you all.

While I’ve been working on the december show in Holland, I’ve dived further into my obsession with patterns, which are now hanging on the walls of the studio. I also made a lot of new drawings while in Sevilla. Some of pure patterns, but some of Male Strippers taking a cigarette break and Amateur Performances of Evita.

I have added new vases to my webshop here by the way, and after having it closed during my absence in October, now its open again with both ceramics and limited edition prints just in time for the holidays!

Thanks so much for reading. If you are interested in any of the new drawings or have any questions, dont be shy to just reply to this email.

All the best,

Anders

Riding The White Stallion - September Newsletter

(this is my September newsletter that I sent to mailinglist subscribers early September. If you would like one too early October please sign up here. Thank you!)

Hi everyone

So my show “Apricots and Freshwater Pearls” at Hans Alf Gallery is closely coming to an end. August has been one of those months that run by you like a well trained Amsterdam pick pocketer who just realized he robbed the local ganglord.

There are, to be exact, 8 days left to see the show. The gallery is open today (friday) from 12-18 and Saturday 12-15. Next week, the gallery is open and the times to visit are from tuesday to saturday 12-18. Those will be the last days that all these paintings will get to hang next to each other, before they ship out to live in new homes. I take great satisfaction thinking about that and I am thankful to everyone who came out to see the show and maybe even picked out their personal favorite. Gracias. If you want more information about the show and to see a list of the last available works, the team at Hans Alf are available on info@hansalf.com.

The last month I’ve been making some new works and some of them are shipping out to Korea when they are dry. Two of these will be available at my friends Unglamouse when they open up in Seoul later in September, along with some of my works on paper. Below in order of appearance “La Hamaca”, “Art Dealer With Pet Bird”, “Selfportrait as the artist making eggs”, “Checking Eyebrows” and “Riding the White Stallion”. All 35x45 cm.

This month Im working on paper with my old favourite weapon of choice, the gouache. I’ll take some pictures for my October newsletter as the walls fill up. September will also be the month of the great big family relocation to Sevilla where we will reside, ride horses, study patterns and look at the Autumn fall on the Guadalquivir.

Hope you get a chance to see Apricots and Freshwater Pearls before it closes on September 10. More news in October about a show in Holland in December.

Thanks for reading,

Anders

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