Ignite 2024
Oil painting 2022
TINSEL PAINTING:
” … The special tinsel technique was introduced in Renaissance Italy and later spread as a domestic craft among American women between 1850 and 1890. Eken became fascinated with the techniques during a visit to The Folk Art Museum in New York in 2012, and later introduced the medium in her practice. In minute detail she paints a reverse image on the back of a glass plate, leaves areas transparent and adds coloured, glittering tinsel. Then the subject is built up as layers in reverse order, working from the outside in. ” (Tekst by Henriette Noermark)
AFTERBEAT 2018
Horsens Kunstmuseum
Resistance 2018
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Can 2016
V1 Galler, Copenhagen, DK
PRESS RELEASE
“…Eken has been working with tinsel painting for the past 5 years gradually challenging the often very refined finish of the tradition making space for a more gestural expression. Breaking the mold by translating the tools of the original male painter Jackson Pollock through an old feminine folk art tradition. The result is a series of radiant expressive works…”
Tinsel paintings 2014
