Abstract Painter Tine Lundsfryd lives and works in a humble, minimally furnished 3 story building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. She and her husband (also an artist) purchased the building in 1997, and it currently houses their private studios. Upon entering their art-haven, one is overtaken by its immense tranquil beauty. Much like her paintings, Tine Lundsfryd’s personal surroundings feel largely quiet, ambitious, deliberate and pure.
Tine works primarily with compact structures. She begins each painting by drawing a grid, eventually building a skeleton of equally spaced vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines. Geometric shapes, abstract symbols and ornaments are positioned together tightly, creating a rhythm of clustered movements and color sensations, drawing her viewer into depths on the picture plane. Her inspirations come from abstract designs and symbols (both religious and non-religious), ornaments (carved, drawn, painted or stitched), as well as movements, shapes and forms found in nature. Floor tile mosaic patterns and American wall stenciling have recently been a strong source for the artist.
In 2004, Vogue writer Dodie Kazanjian describes what Lunsdsfryd achieves with her paintings as “the dream of every nonrepresentational painter.” Of her own work, Tine states, “It is my aim to disperse loci of interests… so there is not one hierarchical center, but a variously distributed spatial idea of focal points…. My paintings become abstract metaphors for the way I perceive the world. From a depiction of a crowded space, to a depiction of my inner thought processes, as well as the construction of a substance or idea.”
Originally from Nykóbing, Falster, Denmark, Tine emigrated to the United States in 1990 to attend the New York Studio School and Parsons School of Design, where she earned her MFA in painting. To date, she has exhibited in New York at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Artpage, Diamantina, The National Academy, Artist’s Space, Sideshow and A.I.R. Gallery. She has also exhibited in Italy at the ISA in Monte Castello di Vibio.
Currently, Tine is preparing for a solo exhibition at Lori Bookstein Fine Art scheduled for January 2011. She will also exhibit with We-Are-Familia at Fountain Art Fair in New York City this March.
