ISCA GALLERY

Tron Meyer
PIPEDREAMS
18.08 - 17.09.22

ISCA is delighted to present PIPEDREAMS, Tron Meyer’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. 

Meyer takes on a decidedly more intuitive and free flowing process in this new series of vibrant paintings and evocative sculptures. Instead of a fixed idea or sketch, Meyer starts each piece with a sense of a figure or a title - and from this creates a more fluid path with the possibility of changing positions with each layer of paint or plaster that is added. 

‘It is almost as if I am creating a starting point, only so that I can fail and break whatever preconceptions I had going into the work and arrive at more unfamiliar grounds. All along I nurture doubt and instability as factors that make sure I have a continuously changing approach to each work, and as an almost aligned experience I am observing how a painting or a sculpture talks right back’.

Meyer emphasizes color as a lead component to both his paintings and sculptures in this exhibition, with vibrant combinations and contrasts arranged with figures that together can often create contradictory tones. Playing with depth, dimension and temperature of color the works are characterized by traces of applied paint from thin spray to thick brush strokes.

Tron Meyer (b. 1983) holds an MA from KhiO - Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Visual Arts and an MA in Architecture from AHO - The Oslo School for Architecture and Design. His current work is engaged in sculpture, painting, architecture and design with an interest in both the resonance and friction between the genres. Recent exhibitions include: Python Place, Norway Pavillion at London Craft Week (2022); Andre Bordsetting, Pyton, Oslo (2020); Design Miami / Basel, Patrick Parrish Gallery, Miami (2019); Mars, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York (2018); FOG Design+Art San Francisco and  Design Miami, Patrick Parrish Gallery (2017); Letters to the Mayor: Oslo Architectural Triennale / Storefront for Art and Architecture, Oslo (2017); Foursquare Staircase, extended architecture, Gallery ROM, Oslo (2017). His works have been collected by The National Gallery, Oslo and The City of Oslo Art Collection. Tron currently lives and works in Drammen, Norway.