Overview

Mark Frygell’s works depart from the history of painting, sub-cultural images and cartoons. He repeatedly manipulates and reworks gestures, references and materials, inspired by different methodologies of painting. His interest lies in concepts such as caricature, the grotesque and the comic.

 

His most recent works explore his own relationship to the figurative painting, the still-life and landscape painting as carriers of collective consciousness, moral symbols and identity. In line with these interests, his reuse of forms, colours, compositions, themes and expressions of a certain painterly language form an important part of Mark Frygell’s method. Starting with quick drawings made directly on the pages in books that he reads, or on different found materials, he then refines and process the motifs, shifting materials and formats before working with oil on canvas. Through these different stages, he explores the motives and finds new shapes and forms.

 

Mark Frygell (b. 1985 in Umeå, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden) has studied at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Austria. His work has been shown in the Moderna Exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and other recent exhibitions include Public Art Agency, Stockholm; Västerbotten's Museum, Umeå, Sweden; and Härnösand Art Gallery, Härnösand, Sweden.

Exhibitions
Installation shots
Works
  • Time on the Jetty
    Time on the Jetty
  • Two in Boat
    Two in Boat
  • The Builder
    The Builder
  • An Outlaw
    An Outlaw
  • At Play
    At Play
  • Drawing by the Pond
    Drawing by the Pond
  • Inner Yard
    Inner Yard
  • On the Bridge
    On the Bridge
  • Piles and Rubble
    Piles and Rubble
  • The Homestead
    The Homestead
  • The Neighbour
    The Neighbour
  • The Solstice
    The Solstice
  • The Tower
    The Tower
  • Tales from the Village in Frames
    Tales from the Village in Frames
  • Red Square
    Red Square
  • The Furnace
    The Furnace
  • Holy Building I
    Holy Building I
  • Holy Building II
    Holy Building II
  • Conservatory
    Conservatory
  • Lobby
    Lobby
  • Place of Worship
    Place of Worship
  • Grow House
    Grow House
  • Meeting Point
    Meeting Point
  • Suburbs
    Suburbs
  • Statehouse
    Statehouse
  • The Bridge
    The Bridge
  • Bipolar Times (Human)
    Bipolar Times (Human)
  • Camp for People
    Camp for People
  • Central Outskirts Sweatshop
    Central Outskirts Sweatshop
  • Blanket Landscape Painting
    Blanket Landscape Painting
  • Sinking Statues
    Sinking Statues
  • Dictatorship Square
    Dictatorship Square
  • Camp for People
    Camp for People
  • Central Outskirts Sweatshop
    Central Outskirts Sweatshop
  • Blanket Landscape Painting
    Blanket Landscape Painting
  • Sinking Statues
    Sinking Statues
  • Blue Valley
    Blue Valley
  • Figure with Round Box
    Figure with Round Box
  • Yellow Group
    Yellow Group
  • Green City
    Green City
  • Orange Couple
    Orange Couple
  • Purple Event
    Purple Event
  • Red Figure
    Red Figure
  • Turquoise Place
    Turquoise Place
  • Awkward Pose
    Awkward Pose
  • Heads
    Heads
  • Oasis
    Oasis
  • Landscape 5
    Landscape 5
  • The pruner
    The pruner
  • The plateau
    The plateau
  • Landscape 1 (Yellow)
    Landscape 1 (Yellow)
  • Landscape 6
    Landscape 6
  • Group Picture (Night)
    Group Picture (Night)
  • Brawl
    Brawl
  • Thinker III (Confusion)
    Thinker III (Confusion)
  • Fermenting Janus
    Fermenting Janus
  • Tall Still Life
    Tall Still Life
  • The Race
    The Race
  • Janus runner
    Janus runner
  • Still Life IV
    Still Life IV
  • Hands
    Hands
  • Hero
    Hero
  • Der Reiter (Mr. Competence)
    Der Reiter (Mr. Competence)
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Events
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