ERLING SJOVOLD EYELETS
Cover image: Erling Sjovold, Leaf-Light (Green) , 2021, Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches.
Front and Back Cover Image: Laurie Fisher, Float 2 , 2020, Oil on canvas, Pages 16-17. 36 x 36 inches
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ERLING SJOVOLD EYELETS
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. 4
Leaf-Light (Red), 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches p. 18 -19
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Along and Away 1, 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 6
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Along and Away 2, 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 8
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Boulders on a Shelf, 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 10
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Boulders, Water Pocket, and Bridge, 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 12
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Half-Light, Juniper, 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 14
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Leaf-Light (Green), 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 16
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Leaf-Light (Red), 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 18
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ADDITIONAL AVAILABLE WORKS
Whitewatermash, 2013 Oil and acrylic on canvas 60 x 48 inches $7500 22
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Rapid Twin 2, 2014 - 2015 Oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 34 inches $5000 24
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Flatwater, 2016 Oil on canvas 24 x 18 inches $3000 26
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Earth and Sky (Graffiti), 2021 Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches $2800 28
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ERLING SJOVOLD
Lives and works in Richmond, VA Education 1990 MFA, Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1984 BA, Art, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Selected Solo Exhibitions 2021 EYELETS, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2016 Old River, New Shore, Lewis Ginter Botanical Society, Richmond, VA 2014 Old River, New Shore, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2012 Old River, New Shore, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2012 Riverviews Gallery, Lynchburg, VA 2011 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 2011 Recent Paintings, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2008 Sun, Sugar, Shadow: Trouble with Time, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007 Open Studio, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation/ Space Program Studios, New York, NY
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Selected Group Exhibitions 2021 Summer in Winter, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2020 Grandeur,Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2020 Arboreal, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2019 Still Waters, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2019 Shore to Summit, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2018 Gather, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA 2018 Byways, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2017 At Home, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2016 Coast and An Overgrown Path, Marcia Burtt Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2015 The Life in the Land, Art by Anna Lindal and Erling Sjovold, Lora Robins Gallery & International Center Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 2014 International Prize – Fabriano Watercolor 2014, Museo della Carta di Toscolano Moderno, Toscolano Maderno, Italy, and Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy 2013 The Pre-Existence of Landscape, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Dreamtime: New Surrealism, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2011 The Art of Influence, East Carolina University, Greensboro, NC 2010 New Light and Rust, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA 2009 Story and Form, Harnett Museum, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 2008 Smoov Brainz and Grave Dubz, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL
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Particularities and Abstractions: Paintings by Christine Gray, W.C. Richardson, Fiona Ross, and Erling Sjovold, Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University, Baltimore, MD Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY Art Club, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL Micromentalists, Fifty/50 Gallery and Dogmatic/Butcher Shop, Chicago, IL Landscape Paintings: Observations and Inventions, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL Views and Visions: Celebrating California, Reynolds Gallery – Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
Related Professional Experience 1999 - present Professor, Department of Art/Art History, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA 1997 - 1999 Assistant Professor – Visiting, Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 1992 - 1997 Professor (non-tenure institution), Painting Department, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA Related Professional Experience 2016 Artist to Artists, Volume 2 (2002-2016): 25 Years of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program and Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Colorado Springs: The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, 2016 2014 “A Commentary by Erling Sjovold”, Exhibition catalog essay for James Mullen Composites: Painting through Photography, The McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University, Jan. 16-Feb. 22, 2014 2007 “Plane Text”, Exhibition essay for Plane Text co-authored with Elizabeth Schlatter, Deputy Director University Museums, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA June1-July 28, 2007 Grants and Awards 2016 Faculty Research Grant, University of Richmond 2013 Bowdoin College Visual Art Department Artist in Residence, Bowdoin College, ME 2013 Residency, Hafnarborg Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Harnarfjorour/ Reykjavik, Iceland 2013 Weinstein International Travel Grant 2012 - 2013 Faculty Research Grant, University of Richmond 2013 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Richmond 2011 Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Amherst, VA 2011 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Richmond 2010 - 2011 Faculty Research Grant, University of Richmond
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2010 US Interior Department, National Park Service Artist Residency – Petrified Forest 2008 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2006 -2007 Faculty Research Grant, University of Richmond 2006 - 2007 Residency, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program, New York, NY 2006 Ragdale Foundation Artist Residency, Lake Forest, IL 2005 Jessie Ball duPont Summer Seminar Fellowship - National Center for the Humanities, Durham, NC
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