Anders Moseholm

Oil and Acrylic on Canvas

Anders Moseholm

I have always been painting and playing music. I grew up in a very small village in a province in Denmark. I realized that I had to get out.

In 1989 I enrolled at the Royal Art Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. The larger city gave me a lot of possibilities and for a long time I studied both art and played music. The similarities in the basic elements of music and visual art complemented each other.

In the beginning at the academy I was working with formal monochrome painting inspired from U.S. abstract expressionists. Color and nothing but the color.

Despite the hardcore conceptual tendencies at that time, I felt attracted to the more sensible idea of the American conceptual painter Ad Reinhardt. Something he called, “a feeling of rightness in good artwork.” A kind of intuitive uncalculated but nevertheless , a present and factual quality. Therefore, I extended my experiments. Now I became focused on the references in the color. Somehow I found it challenging that I always saw a motif occurring.

Influenced by German painters like Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer and U.S. artists like Mark Tansey and Ross Bleckner, I experimented with figurative painting. Trying to open doors they didn’t open. But because of the low priority at the Royal Art Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen then again I had to get out .

In 1994 I lived in New York and went to the School of Visual Arts and in 1998 I had my first solo exhibition in New York in the Art Projects International gallery. The exhibition was reviewed in Art in America by art critic Jonathan Goodman.

In 2004 I created the project “Nothing, Nothing At & Nothing Beside.” It was a dialogue between installation of the design/interior objects and paintings of the interior. The project was shown in the design store Lost City Arts on Cooper Square in New York. The musician/composer Benjamin Koppel made compositions for the exhibition and performed with the jazz musicians Alex Riel and Tommy Anderson at the vernissage. The project was sponsored by the Danish Jazz Association.

Besides exhibiting in the USA, my works have been exhibited internationally, especially in China, France and Germany. However, during that time I have also been focused on developing my own expression in my artwork by working in my studio and exhibiting in galleries in Sweden and Denmark.

I am inspired by ambience and atmosphere. I am inspired by spaces that look simple but are complex. Keywords for me are calculated coincidence, network, ambiguity … I am inspired by what seems like one thing, but also turns out to be some else. Like an everlasting existential dilemma. You cant have green without red and red without green. I am inspired by twisting historic, geographic site-specific references. I primarily work with painting and try to create a meditative structure of imagery which communicates a mental state of movement and presence as I experience the contemporary age.

Danish Artist Now Represented
By ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries

Paintings by Anders Moseholm, a Danish artist who describes his works as “improvisations and interpretations…romantic, beautiful and scary,” may now be seen at ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, his first representation in the Southeastern United States.

According to the artist, rather than recreate a place, “I am trying to create a mood – a sense of motion, an authentic emotional scene.”

Moseholm, who trained at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (MFA) and the School of Visual Arts in New York City, has exhibited internationally since 1997, including solo and group exhibitions in China, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and the United States. His work is included the such important Danish collections as the Vejle Kunstmuseum, the Skive Kunstmuseum, the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Arts Foundation, as well as private and corporate collections in China, Europe and the United States.

Gallery owner and director Virginia Miller, who has introduced artists and art movements to South Florida since 1974, says that “Moseholm has an extraordinary ability to capture the ambience—the sheer energy—of a city, or the romance of an opulent interior. Experiencing his paintings is an emotional trip.”