KARIN MAMMA ANDERSSON

"To make a concentrated feeling for something, you have to reduce it to the few small things that can tell a story. Then you can make your own history. "

Mamma Andersson

It has been great seeing Karin Mamma Andersson's new prints at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. Following the style of a very Nordic painting tradition: landscapes, interiors, relationships, and dramas, she is very much inspired by theater and film. Andersson’s artistic plot is influenced by fables, myths, pop music, and art history. Her desolate landscapes, foreboding sense of calamity, and introspective figures relate to the drama in paintings by Munch, Van Gogh and Hopper. She creates these empty scenes that despite the lonely feel, they are painted so richly that life exudes from them. They are on view through May 30th.