YOUNG SWEDISH VOICES
Artworks by
Mia Enell • Jenny Granlund • Anna Svensson
January 25 thru February 25, 2005

Mia Enell	MIA ENELL. Often, in the works of Mia Enell, we encounter small, intense figures placed to striking effect at the center of large monochrome fields. With what minimal means, Enell constructs her archetypes. Odd, unexpected juxtapositions of figures and forms seem to be arrived at by means of free association, thus evoking a link, perhaps, to the ongoing lineage of Surrealist-inspired art. In other works, all quiet, curious and subtle in her distinctive manner, she ranges from watercolor, drawing, oil paintings, to photography and video work, smoothly shifting gears in the process. In realizing moods of isolation and sensuality, she, with wit and precision, reveals affinities with such artist contemporaries, as Francesco Clemente, Roland Topor and Enzo Cucchi.
Anna Svensson	ANNA SVENSSON. Here is an inventive artist whose vivaciousness and courageous thrust are remarkable for one so young. Swirling forms resonate in their changing patterns, colors and collisions. In their irrepressible sense of movement they escape their flat existence on the wall to reach the viewer and, thereby, realize the artist’s visions. In her remarkable freestanding works, she intrigues by creating eye-catching ‘space within a space’ structures. She carries you away with her commanding lines, attractive forms and colors, and she is not afraid to be playful. Director of Sweden’s Ystad Art Museum, Dr. Thomas Millroth, reminds us: “Lustre and lust have the same word stem. This sensuous aspiration for freedom governs Anna Svensson’s work.”
Jenny Granlund	JENNY GRANLUND succeeds in building up texture and themes on the paper surfaces of her monumental pencil works in such a way as to draw the viewer into vast, complex landscapes. The majority of her works, charged as they are with energy and rhythm, are executed in pencil! Drawn from wellsprings of our very existence, elemental symbols, historic art themes, and elaborate ornamentation combine to profound effect in these large spaces. They invite one into a joyful journey in Jenny Granlund’s unique graphic world. Though they are clearly born of a spontaneous longing for freedom, close scrutiny reveals, however, a thorough organization at base and a firm discipline. In works using color, another aspect of her vision emerges equally strong.