Andreas Eriksson

Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, the understated works of Andreas Eriksson shift between paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and sculptures. Heavily influenced by his immediate locality, Eriksson lives in a forested bank of Lake Vänern, Sweden, with remnants and markers of this landscape populating his oeuvre. Organic forms such as leaves, stars and mountains reappear, abstracted, collaged, and often fragmented. The works are fragile in tone, laying testament to the intimacy between the artist and this landscape, whilst also speaking to the wider vulnerability of this oasis amidst contemporary planetary conditions. Eriksson cites Edvard Munch and Albert Oehlen as key references, which is readily tangible in the poetic sensibility of his work.