Trevor Shimizu
Press release
VI, VII is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by American artist Trevor Shimizu in Norway.
In a practice that has spanned two decades, Shimuzu has produced video and paintings that have shifted away from portraiture in recent years to landscape paintings which capture nature, freely painted from every day life.
The artist lives an hour north of New York City, in upstate New York. Abstracted works like Ocean and Birds (2019) captures light on water in loose brushstrokes obfuscating any reference to detail. Representing tidal pools, Reef 1& 2 (2019) evoke the fertile, darker side of life by the sea, their broad strokes suggestive of life beneath the water.
The exhibition is part of a larger project that draws Edvard Munch’s graphic works into dialogue with the painting practice of a living artist whose work is expressive, energetic and timely, in much the way Munch’s was. Nine works by Munch will be presented in the space from May 23, for a number of days mid way through Shimizu’s exhibition.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Trevor Shimizu (b. 1978, California) lives and works in New York. Solo exhibitions have taken place at La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels (2022); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2020); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Portugal (2019); 47 Canal, New York; Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich; The Green Gallery, Milwaukee; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo and Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2013), amongst others. The artist has participated in group exhibitions at Stuart Shave Modern Art, London (2023); White Columns, New York (2015, 2011); the Whitney Biennial, New York (2014); and the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2012).
Shimizu’s work is included in public collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
‘Edvard Munch: Landscapes’ will open to the public by appointment on May 23. For additional information contact Esperanza Rosales: +47 902 79 862 / office@vivii.no
Trevor Shimizu, Cliff Above Beach, 2020
Oil on canvas
109.22 × 137.16 cm (43 × 54 inches)
Oil on canvas
109.22 × 137.16 cm (43 × 54 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, Turtles, 2019
Oil on canvas
162.56 × 172.72 cm (64 × 68 inches)
Oil on canvas
162.56 × 172.72 cm (64 × 68 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, Ocean and Birds, 2019
Oil on canvas
162.56 × 172.72 cm (64 × 68 inches)
Oil on canvas
162.56 × 172.72 cm (64 × 68 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, Ocean and Birds, 2019
Oil on canvas
162.56 × 172.72 cm (64 × 68 inches) (64 × 68 inches)
Oil on canvas
162.56 × 172.72 cm (64 × 68 inches) (64 × 68 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, February 2023 (sunrise), 2023
Oil on Canvas
54 × 67 inches (137.16 × 170.18 cm)
Oil on Canvas
54 × 67 inches (137.16 × 170.18 cm)
Trevor Shimizu, Reef (1), 2019
Oil on Canvas
76 × 55.88 cm (29 ⅞ × 22 inches)
Oil on Canvas
76 × 55.88 cm (29 ⅞ × 22 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, Cloud and Water (3), 2020
Oil on Canvas
58.42 × 58.42 cm (23 × 23 inches)
Oil on Canvas
58.42 × 58.42 cm (23 × 23 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, Reef (2), 2019
Oil on Canvas
76 × 55.88 cm (29 ⅞ × 22 inches)
Oil on Canvas
76 × 55.88 cm (29 ⅞ × 22 inches)
Trevor Shimizu, Roadside Forsythia, 2023
Oil on Canvas
11 ½ × 20 ½ inches (29.21 × 52.07 cm)
Oil on Canvas
11 ½ × 20 ½ inches (29.21 × 52.07 cm)
Trevor Shimizu, Roadside Forsythia, 2023
Oil on Canvas
11 ½ × 20 ½ inches (29.21 × 52.07 cm) (29.21 × 52.07 cm)
Oil on Canvas
11 ½ × 20 ½ inches (29.21 × 52.07 cm) (29.21 × 52.07 cm)
