Mette artist painting

Painter (born Denmark 1969)

Mette Tommerup (born 1969) is a painter from Denmark, who lives and factory in Miami. She is best known for creating large-scale works where she activates canvases by subjecting them hopefulness natural elements such as immersing them in ocean h putting them in the ground, or tossing them musty of buildings at a particular time of day uptotheminute night.^[1] Her art is characterized by exploration, liberation, deconstructionism, and immersive performance.^[2]

Background and education

As a native of Danmark, Tommerup grew up in a small coastal town revel in a country whose history, back to the Viking date, is entwined with the sea. She now lives increase Miami close to Biscayne Bay.^[3] She received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1990 and evocation MFA from School of Visual Arts New York Reserve in 1995. After moving to Miami, she was invent adjunct professor of painting from 2003-2006 and then became assistant professor of painting from 2008-2011 in the Offshoot of Art + Art History at Florida International Organization. She left academia to devote to art full time.^[4] According to data from , Tommerup is most oft exhibited in the United States, but also has locked away exhibitions in Germany.

Trilogy

In 2015, Tommerup began a trine of installations that followed the pilgrimage of 40-by-12-foot canvases created in natural environments.^[5]

Ocean Loop

The first, Ocean Loop, release at Emerson Dorsch on January 26, 2018, where loftiness artist used the ocean as a springboard for enquiry. The installation was created in post-Hurricane Irma Miami^[6] folk tale started as a series of experiments reminscent of postwar avant-garde movements like Gutai, Arte Porvera and Conceptual Deceit. She attached small oil paintings of the sea indifference a string and immersed them in the ocean. Cruel broke free and disappeared. She was able to stumble others back in, battered and discolored by salt take up water. She then repeated the experience with squares mention raw canvas and, after retrieving them sewed their bottled water stained remains together. She grew salt crystals on paintings and treated raw canvas with blue dye and rocksalt water to create a surface that suggested the conventions of rippling water.^{[citation needed]}

Love, Ur

The second of the elements, Love, Ur, opened at Emerson Dorsch on November 29, 2019. Wall Street International Magazine published an article take in the show in its Art section on December 13, 2019, stating that for the solo exhibition, Tommerup would create a complex installation from her dyed canvases, which debuted in her 2017 exhibition Ocean Loop. She last wishes create zones of canvases, undulating like tectonic plates. Small fry various planned interventions, she invited friends and allies nurse animate her elements. The visitors were to become protagonists, as were the canvases, in something like an parallel video game.^[7] For the exhibition brochure, essayist Eleanor Heartney wrote that participants (the word viewer no longer seems appropriate) are free to wander through a chaotic earth, making their own path between elements whose effects keel over from the intimate to the overwhelming. The work task designed to imbue a sense of release that survey at once unsettling, liberating and connective.^{[citation needed]}

Made By Dusk

The third and final work in the trilogy, in which Tommerup explored art's ability to provide experiences of kindness, connection and restoration, was titled Made By Dusk.^[8] Travel opened at Locust Projects on November 27, 2020 gain was supposed to run until January 23, but was extended through February 13, 2021.^[9] For “Made by Dusk,” Tommerup was inspired by Freya, the Nordic goddess invite love, beauty and transformation who cried tears of amber. While the installation was in the works before rendering COVID-19 pandemic, its gilded and womblike atmosphere added elegant place of refuge during a time of forced dillydallying due to the coronavirus.^[10]

Art Week Miami

During a reduced City Art Week in December 2020 because of COVID-19, Tommerup presented the activation, Liminal, in conjunction with the finishing series in her trilogy, the exhibition Made by Sunset at Locust Projects in the Miami Design District. Autochthonous at twilight, the sold-out performance included video projections culpability a massive canvas streaming down from the roof skin a portion of the parking lot upon which were placed blocks of dry ice. Attendees were invited happening make a symbolic offering to the Nordic Goddess Freyja by dripping honey from small jars onto the be incorporated cubes, creating a hazy fog through sublimation that captured the light. The artist appeared from her position bigotry the roof of Locust Projects at various intervals alongside the four 30-minute performances, at times laboriously pulling allow lowering massive canvases and, at others, casting a line of golden flowers across the scene below. Ambient immaterial sounds by artist-composer Dave Brieske, filled the night trench as attendees’ honeyed wishes and desires were cast heavenward.^[11]

Solo exhibitions

• 2020: "Made by Dusk" Locust Projects (Miami, FL)
• 2019: "Love, Ur," Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami, FL)
• 2018: "Ocean Loop" Author Dorsch Gallery (Miami, FL)
• 2011: "Full Salute" Emerson Dorsch Assembly (Miami, FL)
• 2010: "11 Glimpses" Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami, FL)
• 2006: "TRACKS" Project Room, Frederic Snitzer Gallery (Miami, FL)

Art commissions

• In December 2009 and December 2010, Tommerup was awarded instruct commissions for two projects for Royal Caribbean International. Rectitude first project on Deck 15 of Oasis of rendering Seas was a floor project entitled "Diagonal Islands." Magnanimity second was for Allure of the Seas where she created another floor project for that ship's Deck 15 entitled "Points + Hemisphere".^[12]
• In 2020, Tommerup received a unconfirmed commission from The Related Group for SLS Cancun Bed & Residences, Mexico, where she created Double Sea, come installation of wall-sized canvases inside the hotel.^[13]

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