EYELETS:
ERLING SJOVOLD

June 10 - July 12, 2021

Erling Sjovold’s new series, EYELETS, exists as a visual diary of walking and wandering, as these works are rendered elements of Sjovold’s necessitated bipedal journeys over this recent pandemic. As a pun on the word islet, and in connection with his many walks to Belle Isle in Richmond, VA, Sjovold expresses how isles appear in unexpected ways throughout the city: via planet and climate, private and public boundaries, homes, rooms, windows, personal space, and even within the self. He expresses how these physical boundaries often translate to internal isolation phenomena of memory, desire, and imagination. In this way, his paintings exist as meditations on these themes. Sjovold sees these little windows into his walks as informal conversations, which can exist as private and speculative exchanges between environment and artist, and ultimately from work to viewer.

Sjovold received his BFA from U.C. Berkeley in 1984 and his MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1990. He has exhibited consistently in group and solo capacities since 2007 on a national scale. His grants and residency awards include the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program, the Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Jessie Ball DuPont Summer Fellowship at the National Center for the Humanities, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship. He taught at SCAD (1992-1997), Indiana University- Bloomington (1997-1999), and has been an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond in Virginia since 1999.

Erling Sjovold

Along and Away 1, 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

Erling Sjovold

Along and Away 2, 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

Erling Sjovold

Boulders on a Shelf, 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

Erling Sjovold

Boulders, Water Pocket, and Bridge, 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

Erling Sjovold

Half-Light, Juniper, 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

Erling Sjovold

Leaf-Light (Green), 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

Erling Sjovold

Leaf-Light (Red), 2021

Oil on canvas

16 x 16 inches

$2800

ADDITIONAL AVAILABLE WORKS

Erling Sjovold

Whitewatermash, 2013

Oil and acrylic on canvas

60 x 48 inches

$7500

Erling Sjovold

Rapid Twin 2, 2014-2015

Oil and acrylic on canvas 

40 x 34 inches

$5000

Erling Sjovold

Flatwater, 2016

Oil on canvas

24 x 18 inches

$3000

Erling Sjovold

Earth and Sky (Graffiti), 2021

Oil on canvas 

16 x 16 inches

$2800

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