“My current paintings take us into the midst of the plastic soup that we swim in. The sky is still blue, but we are choking in the useless material boiling away in our seas and on our shores. We let it go down the drain. We make it momentarily invisible when we flush it down the toilet. But it cannot go away. It stays swirling around in our waters. It fills vast areas of land. It gets washed up on our shores. It will eventually reappear in our food. It will not decay in our lifetime. We will go before it does. It comes in all colours and shapes. There is so much variety to delight in. It has been created and expended with no stinginess of mind. But it is no good – except as a concept.
I can hardly go and pick it all up myself. There are very small stretches of actual places where I can do this concretely. But as I do so, I simultaneously gather an endless collection of shapes, colours and textures. What an abundance of materials to set minds in motion.
We need a huge change in our priorities if we are to go on from here in a healthy way. I paint to make visible the places where energy is stored and released. It is the human will that vibrates in the elements. Here is what I have. This is my contribution”.
Learn more: http://kristiinauusitalo.fi/
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1959, lives and works in Helsinki, Finland
STUDIES
1986–1988 Master of Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art,
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1978–1982 The School of Fine Arts Academy of Finland, Helsinki
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Arktikum , Rovaniemi, Finland
2017 Künstlerhaus FRISE, Hamburg, German
Nordic Art Gallery, Antibes, France
Gallery Aura, Turku, Finland
Gallery Harmaja, Oulu
Gallery Himmelblau, Tampere
2016 Gallery Heino, Helsinki
2013 Galleria Heino, Helsinki
2012 Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki
Gallery Harmaja, Oulu
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 More Women, desing sublime, Girls’ Club, Available Space
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Real Celebration, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi
2016 From Heino with Love,HAM, Helsinki
2015 Women’s Weapons: Lipstick and Tears, Sara Hilden Art Museum,
Tampere, Finland
2014 Festen ,Gallery Forum Box , Helsinki, Finland
2012 Little Languages / Coded Pictures, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York ,
With friendly support of Elbkulturfonds Hamburg / 2016-17