"Sisters" - Anki King
Paintings and drawings

About the "Sisters" project
Trygve Lie Gallery is proud to present Norwegian artist Anki King with her most current work "Sisters". The oldest of three sisters, King has created a series of paintings and drawings based on the relationships between siblings. In all relationships there is a certain tension and it is exactly this space King makes visible in her work. The images appear still, but are highly charged with dependency and rivalry. Connection and rejection hold them suspended in eternal wait for what might happen next.

Anki King is currently living and working in New York and exhibits frequently both in Norway and in USA. This year she has solo exhibits in both countries. Recently her work was included in the permanent collection at the Appleton Museum and she is invited to exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in the Dominican Republic this summer.

Artist Statement
I grew up in a small town in Norway at the end of a road with forest all around. I spent hours playing by myself on mossy grounds under large pine trees. In the long dark winters you would find me sprawled on the living room floor, drawing.

It became clear in conversations with my family that I remember very little of being a child. I consider my childhood a happy one but it still left marks; reminders carried in body and mind. Being the first child of a new generation made me feel so much part of everything that I did not consciously store what happened – I simply was it. This realization inspired a strong urge to find the missing memories and to visualize them through my craft as a painter.

The first childhood works came from guilt based memories – they were the most accessible. These paintings are much smaller than my usual full size figures, no larger than 40”x 30”. They are strange, dark and gray with fragmented imagery, like the memories themselves. Each memory feeds and ties to another and new lighter images appear. It is not spelled out visually what each memory is about; the work is left open for interpretation to trigger the viewers own memories.

My larger paintings contain mature life size figures in full view. The human form is here used as a way of expressing emotional memories and emotions are an essential force in my work. I am less interested in making a picture of something than of making something visible.

Artist Resume
Born near Oslo, Norway 1970
Lives and works in New York City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2010 Galleri Athene, Drammen, Norway
2009 Galleri Svae, Gjovik, Norway
2009 Sisters, Trygve Lie Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Remembrance, Something Unexpected Art Gallery, Nyack, NY
2007 Alternate Reality Self Portraits, CFEVA, Philadelphia, PA
Search Galleri A Minor, Oslo, Norway
2003 Bikers Soppen MC, Brandbu, Norway
2001 Couples Eldorado Gallery, Stroudsburg, PA
2000 City Visions The Norwegian Church Gallery, New York
1999 Hanging Out Log-On-Café, New York
People Cherokee Phoenix Gallery & Club, New York
1998 City People The Gershwin Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2008 Fall Exhibition, Preston Contemporary Art Center, NM
Beneath the Skin, Chashama Gallery, NY
International Juried Show (Whitney Curator Carter Foster), Visual Art Center of NJ
Resonance New York, Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery, NY
Paper Works, Manhattan Borough Presidents Office, NY
Life's Unique Journey, Nortwest Cultural Council, IL
2007 Image and Identity (online), International Museum of Women, CA
NANY II (Norwegian Artists in New York), Trygve Lie Gallery, NY
Au Naturel, The Nude in the 21st Century, The Art Center Gallery, OR
2006 Penetrating Empathy, Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Life and Liberty after 9/11, Las Cruces Museum of Art, NM
Small Works Shows, Karpeles Library Museum & Port of Call Gallery, NY
2005 Artistic Fragments: Art 2005, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
International Exhibition of Art on Fans, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
2004 Collaboration, Chasama Gallery, NYC
Norwegian Artists in New York (opened by Mr. Kofi Annan), Trygve Lie Gallery, NYC
2003 Fall Exhibition, Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA
Three Graces, Galleria Galou, Williamsburg, NY
2002 The Art Community Reacts (9/11), Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
New York Underground II, Silvestre Galleries, Surf City, NJ
2001 New York Underground I, Silvestre Galleries, Surf City, NJ
2000 Riverside Artsfest, the Firehouse Gallery, Bainsbridge, GA
Labeled and Ready (juried), The Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
BYOW, International Exhibition, (juried by Ariella Budick, Art Critic for Newsday),
The Stage Gallery, Merrick, NY
2000 Exhibit for Merit Scholarship Winners, ASL, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC
1997 Persona, CB’s Gallery, New York
1996 Hostutstillingen (the Fall Exhibition), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
The Lyrical, the Expressionistic and the Poetic, Juried Exhibit, Denise Bibro Gallery, NYC

AWARDS AND HONORS
2008 Drawing Bodies Competition, Certificate of Achievement/Article in American Artists Drawing
Magazine summer 08
Winner of Topten Exquisite Expressions, Artrom Gallery, Italy
2007 Drawing Center Registry
Nude of the Month, May, www.barebrush.org
Image "Family" seleceted for May in the Norwegian Consulate General's 2007 calendar
2003 Accepted into the two year program at Creative Artists Network (now Center for Emerging
Visual Artists)
OCA Grant for Exhibit “Bikers”
2001 Honorable Mention in the Mason Scholarship Competition, The Art Students League, NY
2000 Finalist in the Artist’s Magazine Portrait Competition
1999 Merit Scholarship, The Art Students League, NYC

BIBLIOGRAPHY (selection)
2008 Pa Hjemmebane (Home With), Magasinet, Dagbladet
Hot i New York (Hot in New York), Oppland Arbeiderblad (Norwegian statewide paper),
by Helge Rønning Birkelunds
Drawing Bodies, American Artist Drawing Magazine, (summer 08)
2007 Anki King at Gallery A, film article for Opplandssendinge by Roger Johnsen
King-Kunst i New York (King-Art in NY), Avisen Hadeland (Norwegian local paper)
Fra Queens til Oslo (From Queens to Oslo), Oppland Arbeiderblad, by Per Øyvind Skjønberg
Søkende Anki (Searching Anki), Avisen Hadeland, by Håvard Krogsrud
2005 Ins and Outs Magazine, LIC Art Gallery, NY.
2004 Magasinet, Dagbladet; 2 page spread in (natl. newspaper, Norway) by Maria Borja
Annan Apnet Norsk Utstilling, Aftenposten (natl. newspaper, Norway), by Kristin Nilsen
Kofi Annan besokte Anki, Avisen Hadeland
Kofi Annan Greets Norwegian Artists, Norway Times, NY by Espen Tjersland
Annan aeret Norske Kunstnere, NRK, Norwegian
Cover of Viking Magazine, Painting: Broken Mannequin, by Jim Olson
2003 Anki fra Harestua er Kunstner i New York, NRK Oppland by Ingvar Midthun
New Yorker paa Sopptur til Hadeland, Oppland Arbeiderblad, by Per Oyvind Skjonberg
2002 Newsday, article with picture, NY, by Peter Simunovich
Oppland Arbeiderblad: Anki will paint the Biker Boys (Norwegian statewide newspaper)
by Marit Reistad
Art of Healing redefined by Sept. 11, Times Union by Timothy Cahill
2000 Artist’s Magazine, December issue, by Sandra Carpenter
Black Book: Art & Fashion, , September issue
New York Times, Review of BYOW at Stage Gallery by Helen A. Harrison
Paintings appeared in the independent movie ”The Trade”
Oppland Arbeiderblad, King of New York, by Per Oyvind Skjonberg
1998 Album cover for “Funkhouse”
1997 New York er min inspirasjon, Oppland Arbeiderblad, 2 page article by Anne Bjertæs
1996 Article in Aftenposten(national newspaper, Norway) by Helle Benedicte Berg
Review of Hostutstillingen in Hadeland (local newspaper, Norway) by Siv Ellefsrud

COLLECTIONS
2008 Appleton Museum, Florida, USA
2005 Collection of M. Benavides, USA
2004 Collection of P. Myhrvold, Norway
2000 The Habsburg Collection, USA
1998 The Tessler Collection, USA/Holland
1998 The Gershwin Hotel, USA

EDUCATION
1995-2000 The Art StudentsLeague of New York
1992-1994 Oslo Tegne og Maleskole (Oslo Drawing and Painting School), Oslo, Norway
1991-1992 Nybu Videregaene Skole, Drawing, Composition and Painting Lillehammer, Norway
1990-1991 Gran Videregaende Skole, Drawing, Composition, Painting and Sewing, Gran, Norway

EXHIBITION DETAILS
Where: Trygve Lie Gallery, The Norwegian Church at 317 East 52nd Street, New York (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
When: Opening Reception Tursday March 12, 6-8 pm. Exhibition on view thru April 23.
Info: Call (212) 319-0370
Opening hours: Monday – Thurs: 12-7pm, Friday - Sun: 1-5pm.
Subway: 6, E or V to 51st/53rd St. & Lexington Ave.

Admission is free, and the exhibit is open to the public.

The exhibition was opened March 12 by Ms. Kristin Iglum, Consul of Press, Culture and Information, The Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York.