Program happening via Zoom
Free; registration required
Ann Cathrin November Høibo (Norway, born 1979), I know you less everyday, 2018, handwoven wool, silk, cotton, jersey, plastic, nylon, and wood, 86 1/4 x 66 1/4 x 1 1/34 inches. Collection of Lise Stolt- Nielsen. © Ann Cathrin November Høibo. Photograph by Thomas Tveter
Arngunnur Ýr (Iceland, born 1962), Skaftafell–Pia II, 2021, oil on birch panel, 48 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist. © Arngunnur Ýr. Photograph by Bára Kristinsdóttir
Join artists Ann Cathrin November Høibo and Arngurnnur Ýr as part of a series that invites Maine-based and international artists to share insights about their artistic practices and works on view in The North Atlantic Triennial: Down North exhibition.
November Høibo’s intricate handwoven textiles abstract the Norwegian landscape while Ýr’s vibrant landscape paintings conjure theatrical fantasy while exploring the rapid changes taking place as a result of climate change in Iceland’s glacial fields. This conversation will center landscape and abstraction as a source of artistic inspiration.
Arngunnur Ýr is a visual artist who lives in Iceland and San Francisco. She has her BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and MFA from Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA. She has also studied at the Icelandic School of visual Art and Rietveldt Academie, Amsterdam, Holland. She has exhibited worldwide in the last thirty years, and her works are in international collection of banks, businesses, museum and private collectors. Collections include Mills College Art Museum, Reykjavík Art Museum, Kópavogur Art Museum, Hafnarfjörður Art Museum, Árnes Art Museum OECD, EFTA, Microsoft, NIKE, Hótel Rangá, Icelandair, and many more.
Conversation moderated by Triennial Curator Markús Þór Andrésson
Markús Þór Andrésson is Chief Curator of Exhibitions and Public Engagement at Reykjavík Art Museum. He studied Art at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 1997–2001 and Curatorial Studies at the CCS Bard College in USA 2005–2007. He has curated numerous art exhibitions, written about art and worked on documentaries and TV programs on art.