Snow is delighted to present ‘Dog spelled backwards’ - Astrid Strömberg’s first solo exhibition at Snow.

Painting never ceases or stays on the canvas or in the studio. The artist’s story continues to unfold in the arrangement of the works in the space. Astrid Strömberg’s narrative is stretching the observations from her surroundings, the notes from the dog walks, to the imaginary. Strömberg’s work moves effortlessly between flat cartoon like aesthetics and vivid painterly brushstrokes, often with structural elements on the surface of the paintings. She is tracing the fine lines between reality and fantasy, the seriousness and the naive. Simplifying and cropping, zooming into details of her surroundings she uses fragments of figurations to form her narrative.

Vernissage
December 7
6 - 8 pm

Welcome!

Astrid Strömberg (b.1990) is a Helsinki based painter that works with oil painting and installed painting. Her works are included in the Saastamoinen Foundation’s collection at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art EMMA and in the Pro - Artibus Foundation’s art collection. Strömberg has had both solo exhibitions and been part of several group exhibitions in Finland, such as at the Young Artists exhibition at Kunsthalle Helsinki, at Glasshouse Helsinki and at the Taidekeskus Salmela annual young artists summer exhibition. Her exhibition “Dog spelled backwards” at galleria Snow is her first solo exhibition abroad.

Dog spelled backwards is kindly supported by Svenska Kulturfonden. Tack!

Dog spelled backwards

walking

almost like painting

painting

almost like walking

streets, fields, forest.

Touching velvet

ears, stomach, neck

stroking, scratching, patting

perceiving

making a mental note,

taking a photo,

or writing a word

seeing


colors, shapes, sky, gras, flowers, time, dusk, fog

Paint between the walks.

Walk between the paint.

- Astrid Strömberg

Curated by Susanne Johansson