Upcoming shows: Copenhagen, London, Berlin and Los Angeles

Excerpt from my newsletter February 21

Hi everyone!

2024 is shaping up to be a fun but busy year. So far I’ve spent very little time outside studio since coming back from Colombia in January and now, as my first show of 2024 is getting nearer, I thought I would share some sneak peaks of paintings. These will all be in my upcoming show at Hans Alf Gallery, opening on April 5th here in Copenhagen. The show will carry the title “Everything is Amplified” and will feature paintings of guitar amplifiers and amplified objects in general. I’ve had a lot of fun painting everything from colombian sodas to dinosaurs, Pez on skateboards, cellos, pipes, ashtrays and lilacs. Some of the paintings you can see below.

In May my first solo show in London will open at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, which is a big thing for me, and in June I will head down to Schloss Goerne outside Berlin to participate in the yearly groupshow at the old castle - also with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery.

In August, I am also excited about starting my collaboration with Los Angeles gallery The Pit where I will have works in their annual summer group. Needless to say, I got a spring in my step in the studio these days and feeling grateful to see my work travel far and wide this year.

In late August, I will also show new works with Hans Alf Gallery at Enter Art Fair here in Copenhagen for everyone here at home.  

Now enough about plans. I hope to see you the 5th of April for “Everything Is Amplified” at Hans Alf Gallery. Here are some sneak peaks of the new works, you are always welcome to reach out to the gallery about prices and availability on specific works to: info@hansalf.com

Thanks for reading and special thanks to all of you who signed up lately (and long time ago) it means a lot.

Anders Scrmn

Work sizes from top to bottom:

Beethoven, Lingerie and Sunflowers
145x125 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Pez on Skateboard
50x70 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Nashville Skyline
105x90 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Piano Nap
135x150 cm
Acrylics on canvas

Blue Girl
85x90 cm
Acrylics on canvas



Upcoming show + Enter Art Fair

Happy to announce that I will show 15 new paintings at Hans Alf Gallery in early Autumn. The show will open on the 22nd of September 2023. Before that I will show new large scale works at Enter Art Fair in August - also with Hans Alf Gallery.

Soft Like Andalusian Cotton

(this was my november newsletter that I sent to mailinglist subscribers early November. If you would like one too next time please sign up here. Thank you!)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been back in the studio for a few days after 5 weeks of travelling through the south of Spain, which was wonderful. We’ve been up in the mountains, in small towns without roads, at the beach, in parks, at roman ruins and eaten lots of food. Our base was our “home away from home”, Sevilla. The city has had a huge influence on me and the art I make. Many of the patterns and the colours I use all have their roots in the city, la sevillana, el flamenco and the heavy influence of the mudéjar architecture and decorative culture. I first moved there when I was 20, and since then I have lived there in periods with Carolina. Sevilla is a returning theme in my life and I love that city.

Even though winter is on its way in Denmark, it is great to get back to the studio I must admit. Especially since I have a show opening at Tinimini Room Gallery in Dordrecht, Holland on the 10th of December that I need to finish. Tinimini Room is founded by dutch artist Ralf Kokke, who happens to open a show in Copenhagen at Hans Alf Gallery on 2nd of December. So do go see it if you are in Copenhagen, and if you are in Holland I hope to to see you at my show on the 10th of December, everyone is welcome and I will be there to chat and say hi.

The show will be titled “I’m soft, like Andalusian Cotton”, and will feature a small selection of my new gouache paintings. But more about that when we get closer to the date. I will send out an overview of all the new paintings when the show opens in early December to you all.

While I’ve been working on the december show in Holland, I’ve dived further into my obsession with patterns, which are now hanging on the walls of the studio. I also made a lot of new drawings while in Sevilla. Some of pure patterns, but some of Male Strippers taking a cigarette break and Amateur Performances of Evita.

I have added new vases to my webshop here by the way, and after having it closed during my absence in October, now its open again with both ceramics and limited edition prints just in time for the holidays!

Thanks so much for reading. If you are interested in any of the new drawings or have any questions, dont be shy to just reply to this email.

All the best,

Anders

Riding The White Stallion - September Newsletter

(this is my September newsletter that I sent to mailinglist subscribers early September. If you would like one too early October please sign up here. Thank you!)

Hi everyone

So my show “Apricots and Freshwater Pearls” at Hans Alf Gallery is closely coming to an end. August has been one of those months that run by you like a well trained Amsterdam pick pocketer who just realized he robbed the local ganglord.

There are, to be exact, 8 days left to see the show. The gallery is open today (friday) from 12-18 and Saturday 12-15. Next week, the gallery is open and the times to visit are from tuesday to saturday 12-18. Those will be the last days that all these paintings will get to hang next to each other, before they ship out to live in new homes. I take great satisfaction thinking about that and I am thankful to everyone who came out to see the show and maybe even picked out their personal favorite. Gracias. If you want more information about the show and to see a list of the last available works, the team at Hans Alf are available on info@hansalf.com.

The last month I’ve been making some new works and some of them are shipping out to Korea when they are dry. Two of these will be available at my friends Unglamouse when they open up in Seoul later in September, along with some of my works on paper. Below in order of appearance “La Hamaca”, “Art Dealer With Pet Bird”, “Selfportrait as the artist making eggs”, “Checking Eyebrows” and “Riding the White Stallion”. All 35x45 cm.

This month Im working on paper with my old favourite weapon of choice, the gouache. I’ll take some pictures for my October newsletter as the walls fill up. September will also be the month of the great big family relocation to Sevilla where we will reside, ride horses, study patterns and look at the Autumn fall on the Guadalquivir.

Hope you get a chance to see Apricots and Freshwater Pearls before it closes on September 10. More news in October about a show in Holland in December.

Thanks for reading,

Anders

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In fine Company at The Darling

Im happy to be part of the rotating art collection at The Darling Design Guesthouse here in Copenhagen. The design guesthouse is curated and designed by Uffe Buchard and features some of the most famous danish furniture designers and a long list contemporary artists like Amalie Jakobsen, Asger Dybvad Larsen, Bo Rune Madsen, Tal R, Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Cathrine Raben Davidsen, Josefine Winding, Christian Lemmerz, Mie Olise Kjærgaard and more. You can see more about The Darling here.

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Featured in Brask Studio Visits VI

Jens-Peter Brask is a Danish art collector, curator and book publisher based here in Copenhagen. I first met Jens-Peter in 2013-14 around the time I was preparing for my show “The World Was Weird”. Jens-Peter is a curious art lover who visits artists all around the world and I have always been happy to welcome him in my studio. Earlier this year in April we had fun working together on a huge mural on Valby Hallen and now I am happy to be featured in his latest book “Brask Studio Visits VI".

The book features a large group of artists:
A Kassen, Ammon Rost, Amy Bessone, Anders Scrmn Meisner, Anna Stahn, AVPD, Bennett Williams, Brian Rochefort, Chloe Wise, Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, Craig Costello, Daniel Gibson, Danny Fox, Diana "Didi" Rojas, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Eva Koch, Evren Tekinoktay, Hilary Pecis, Iván Navarro, James Ulmer, Jeremy Shockley, Jon Pylypchuk, Kinga Bartis, Maiken Bent, Maria Rubinke, Martin Bigum, Martin Paaskesen, Mathias Malling Mortensen, Peter Birk, Russell Nachman, Sharif Farrag, Shepard Fairey (OBEY), Taylor McKimens, Torben Ribe, Ursula Reuter Christiansen og Victor Ash.

Two new linocuts prints. "Wendy and Designer Rugs".

The scandinavian summer light is getting sucked out of the sky faster than my daughter drank her chocolate milkshake today. It always surprises me how fast it changes here. It’s only 20.00 as I write this but already dark enough for me to look out the window to look for Carolina who is still out in the garden unwilling to put the spade down. Always planting something. Seeds are like sending yourself letters that will arrive in spring.

A few weeks ago I revisited my big green steel press after the gallery had picked up the paintings for Enter Art Fair. I wanted to do two smaller prints this time (20x30 cm). The first one I did was “The Wendy Flight” which is a Peter Pan reference. The other one is a “Designer Rug” which is lifted from my recent interest in fabric patterns. I think I will be making lots of patterns this winter.

The prints are available over in my webshop here.

enjoy september

scrmn

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New works for Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen

It’s the end of summer and I am happy to show a lot of new paintings at this year Enter Art Fair in Copenhagen with Hans Alf Gallery.

Most of this year the family have resided outside the city and early this summer we redid the countryside studio and painted it a crispy light blue with leftover paints from the big mural in Valby. All the new paintings were painted up here in June and July in the blue studio.

You can find all the visitor info about Enter Art Fair here. It opens thursday the 27th and runs through Sunday the 30th of August here in Copenhagen.

Enjoy the last days of summer.

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Hello Philemon and Blue Kimono - two new limited edition linocut prints

Back in April I took a leap and bought a huge avocado green printing press. It’s an old school german steel “druckpresse” that can do etchings and linocuts and all other intaglio prints. Since then I have been working on two new prints and here they are.

They are now available from my webshop here.

They are printed with Charbonnel Etching ink and at one of them I couldn’t control myself and added some red gouache detail. It’s been a lot of fun to get into the art of print making again and now I know where to buy “grease” for mechanical machinery.

The two prints are named “Hello Philemon” (edition of 24) and “Blue Kimono” (edition of 8)

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