Tone Aanderaa CV

Membership
NBK (Norwegian Visual Artists), LNM (National Association for Painters, Norway), BKFH (Visual Artists of Hordaland County, Norway), Harding Puls (Hardanger, Norway)

Education
MFA, Pratt Institute, New York 1987-89
BFA, Pratt Institute, New York 1983-87
Private Studies w/Stephen Rettegi (oil painting), New York 1977-78
Pedagogical studies, Bergen College 2001-03

ART SANCTUARY (in collaboration with husband Ignace Clarysse)
2011 - Art Sanctuary's 'Enchanted Garden' - International Art Exhibition - opened to the public the Summer of 2011; 20 artists from Norway, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and Denmark, were invited to exhibit and perform in a large and beautiful natural garden, in Ste-Marie-Geest, 30 minutes from Brussels, Belgium. ART SANCTUARY Blog: http://art-sanctuary.blogspot.com/

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2010 - 'Tone Aanderaa Dreaming in Wallonia' - Galerie d'Art Passion, Stockay Saint-Georges, Belgium
2009 - 'Tone Aanderaa Encounters...' (w/guests) Hardanger Folkemuseum, Utne, Norway
2007 - 'Art Sanctuary - virtually' - A 3D site based on Tone Aanderaa's 'painted world' was created in SL in collaboration w/WieBenIk Beaumont - including changing exhibitions, concerts and readings.

2001 - 'Tone Aanderaa - Sanctuary', Galleri Parken, Bergen, Norway
1997 - 'Tone Aanderaa', Galleri Puls, Hardanger, Norway
1995 - 'Tone Aanderaa', Galleri Parken, Bergen, Norway
1994 - 'Tone Aanderaa Bilder', Agatunet, Hardanger, Norway
1993 - 'Tone Aanderaa - Bakom Nynner Måne' ('Behind The Moon is Humming')- Galerie Unique, Eidsvoll, Norway
1992 - 'Tone Aanderaa - Liminal II' - Galleri LNM, Oslo, Norway
1989 - 'Tone Aanderaa - Liminal' - Hardanger folkemuseum, Norway
1989 - 'Tone Aanderaa - Liminal' - Higgins Hall, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2011 - ART SANCTUARY's 'Enchanted Garden': 20 international artists exhibiting in a big and beautiful natural garden (http://art-sanctuary.blogspot.com/)
And:
- 'Contrasten' - Galerie Lijn 3, The Netherlands
- 'Expositie' - Gemeenthuis, Duiven, The Netherlands
- 'Kunst in de Kerk', Tongeren, Belgium
- 'For Ever UnForgettable', Gavere, Belgium

2010 - Indigo Gallery, Molenstraat 18, 6121 XG Born, The Netherlands
2009 - 'Belgium Encounters Norway...' Curator: Tone Aanderaa;- Hardanger folkemuseum & Hardanger Kulturgalleri, Norway
2005 - 'Hardingpuls' - at Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle & St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, USA 2005
2002 - Global Vision (Web gallery)
2002 - 'Hardingpuls', Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Harding Puls, Norway
2000 - 'KONTRASTER'; travelling exhibit with LNM (The National Association for Painters, Norway)

1997 - Vestlandsutstillingen - (West Norway Annual Art Exhibition, Norway)
1994 - Høstutstillingen - (The National Annual Art Exhibition, Oslo)

1995 - The Ibsen House, Skien & Lillehammer Kunstforening, Norway1994 -1994 - 'Women Light Up The Night' - Berlin, Germany
1993 - Alumni International, - Schaffler Gallery og Pratt Manhattan Gallery, N.Y.
1992 - 'The Triannual Drawing Exhibition of Scandinavia'
1990 - 'MELLOM ROMMENE' - Bergen, Norway
1989 - 'Ninth Annual Symposium', Higgins Hall, Brooklyn, New York 1989
1988 - 'Walking Art Show', Higgins Hall, Brooklyn, New York 1988
1987 - 'Emerging Artists', Gregg Galleries, New York 1987

Commissions
1999 - > Tone Aanderaa has since -99 worked with the musical group Secret Garden, and her paintings can be seen throughout their website www.secretgarden.no, as well as on the groups's DVD (-99). In collaboration with the animators Lettere Animert her painting Moon Gate was made into an animation (introduction on DVD).
Secret Garden's website also features several Flash animated elements from Tone Aanderaa.'s art work, done in collaboration with the Streaming Media company Tappedinto.
Other commissions include CD covers, posters, design of cultural prizes, etc.

Public Commission and purchases
2005 - Eide Omsorgshjem, Odda, Norway
2004 - The County Hospital, Fylkessjukehuset, Voss, Norway (waiting room; murals)
1997 - 1989 - 2001 - 'Hommage to the South Bay' Art Without Walls, New York Arts Council - Gateway National Park, New York
1995 - Troll Platformen, Norsk Hydro, Norway
1995 - Bergens Tidende, Norway
1992 - Kulturprisen i Kvinnherad, Norway
1989 - Jondal kommune, Norway
1989 - 'Contemporaries', illustrations (author: Susan Heuman), New York, USA
1988 - Brooklyn hospital, Children's Ward (murals), USA

Tone Aanderaa - Published Works and Writings:
2012, 2011, 2010 - 'Calendars w/paintings' - Art Sanctuary Publications
2009 -10 - 'PUST- Fugler puster annerledes'; Poems and photos- an Art Sanctuary Publication
2009 -10 - 'Poe-Etiske voggesanger; og andre Epistler fra et Mørkt Fastland' - Poems and drawings - an Art Sanctuary Publication
2004 - 'DET STORE PUSLESPILLET' - novel (Fantasy), Eide Forlag,
1993 - 'Håpets Harpe' - novel - translation (author: B.J.Hoff)

Other related experiences and activities
Curator; 'HUMAN-sign-HUMAN'; Galleri Sandven, Hardanger 1994
Curator; 'EARTH-sign-EARTH'; Galleri Sandven, Hardanger 1992
New York Times Magazine; (presentation) 1989
Worked for artists Herman Cherry and L.Alcopley, New York 1986-89
Talks, causeries, and essays

Teaching Experience:
1996 - 2004: Lektor; (art and art history) at Art & Design dept. Norheimsund vgs., Norway
1994 - 97: Teacher; at Jondal Art School, Norway
1990 - 97: Coach; Summer Art School and art courses, Norway
1990 - 94: Adult Education; Extensive courses for Folkeuniversitetet, Norway

Critiques and Mentions
"She has a humorous sting to her brushstroke and fun on her agenda, Tone Aanderaa… Funny, colourful and illogical 'dreams' makes for images of both realistic and surrealistic character…" (Reidar Storaas)'Sanctuary' (2001)

"Sanctuary and dream;
An air of dream and fairy tale, quiet and afterthought characterizes Tone Aanderaa's images. Birds, animals and flowers live in secret gardens.
- There is an indefinable space between dream and reality, a world in itself. My images are like tableaus, that could also be fragments of a story, she says.
We encounter imaginary landscapes, with castles, a lonely boat, a mysterious well, and a door or a trail into the unknown. "
(Sissel Hamre Dagsland, Bergens Tidende)

Rudolf Baranik (1989): "Tone Aanderaa has written: 'Every part of the landscape is given a name which evolved with the language and goes back to the misty past - and I relear; the metaphors are everywhere....'The metaphors "confess themselves" to the eyes and soul of this young artist as they do to the few whose sensitivity comes out to meet the call of the fjords, the glaciers, the mountains - the severe beauty of the Nordic lands, but more than that - the memories. A romantic like Tone Aanderaa would be in communion with the spirit of her surroundings in any corner of the world, but she is lucky to be tied to her ancestral land, to fish in its waters, to build in its woods, to dream and to paint everywhere.The iconography, the visual language in which artists speak as a spontaneous outgrowth of this meeting, the artist's sensibility of life/death/world is frought with danger. The true artist who does not shy away fromthe powerful emotions which envelop the psyche may from time to time be swept away by drama and sentiment. But the risk has to be taken, as it was taken by Munch; I believe that his famous work, 'The Scream' is on the side of obvious melodrama, yet he had to not fear even that in order to be able to create the very verge, - the most haunting expressionist statements in art history, be it death-beds, voices in moonlight, young girls on bridges, jealousy...Like Munch, Tone Aanderaa had to do some sentimental work in order to do the more restrained yet more powerful pieces; ('House', 'Sheep', 'In the Window', 'Exit' 'Black Lake', 'Death of a Rooster'...and 'A Horse and a Boat' are good examples among the best.) Thus, from an inner sensibility, working under the spell of her Nordic homeland, working within a tradition and yet in full awareness of the the language of contemporary art, Tone Aanderaa createas a rare unity, seldom achieved by young artists. Looking at her moody and powerful paintings and works on paper one feels that this art comes to us as a must - no maneuvering and no strategies - simply voices heard by the artist which we hear now, voices which are memorable and beguiling." (Rudolf Baranik, 1989 (collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Hirschhorn Museum, etc)

The 'Liminal' has been a theme for me for most of my life;
This indefinable space between here and there;

This 'Meantime' is magical,
a place where one can wander in and out of open doors,
dream and reality are no longer separate;
Time is suspended,
the clock ceases to tick.

"When the soul wishes to experience something she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image." (Meister Eckhart)