Anne Sophie Lorange- Visual Artist

Born in Boston, MA, Lorange grew up in the U.S. and moved to Norway as a teenager. Moving to Norway was back then a challenge, trying to adapt to a new culture. These experiences led to a deeper understanding of identity and also of not belonging. Through her artwork, she is constantly exploring the beauty of existence, of emptiness, silence, and of the in-between. Her paintings, outdoor drawings and installations, all convey to the observer an abstract language of relationships between the seen and unseen, presence and absence, isolation and togetherness, emptiness and presence. Her artworks balance between solid structures and intuitive lines, shaping the invisible into emotional landscapes where the observer can exist within a freedom of space.

With a bilingual background, she explores states of interpretation, in-betweeness and identity. Her narrative invites the spectator to a dialog between the inner and outer existence working with liminal states and in-betweeness. Touching aspects of femininity, belonging and identity through a multi-faceted narrative of liminal states and unintended interpretations, the work is spontaneous and fresh in a raw and delicate sense, confronting the spectator with a direct physicality, while revealing an ambiguous notion of an in-between state of freedom and creative power.

MFA 2013, University of Plymouth,UK, Transart Insitute Berlin,NY.

Einar Granum og Nydalen Kunstfagskole

MSC,2002,(siv.øk.) BI, 2002 Oslo

Awarded:

-Transart Institute scholarship/Berlin, accredited by Plymouth University, UK

"My current goal is to further explore the openness of language, without borders, or translations. I am concerned with the complexities of human nature. A feeling can either divide us or connect us, drawing us closer together. How can painting exist as a visible bridge into space, where we can see one another clearer? I want the observer to exist beyond words, beyond writing, beyond definitive answers, or the border of one’s own body. Painting is a sensory experience, and when I apply paint to the canvas it’s as if each color has its own feeling and becomes animated. I am constantly in the center of something fleeting, yet entirely concrete."

Member NBK, LNM, UKS, BKIB & Tegneforbundet

Education

2011 - 2013

MFA, University of Plymouth

Transart Institute, NY/Berlin

2005 - 2010

1998- 2002

Einar Granum & Nydalen kunstskole

Master of Science (siv.øk), BI

Other

2019 - now Painting teacher, billed kunstutdanning, hovedlærer maleri 2.år, Nydalen Kunstskole

Awards

2013

Scholarship University of Plymouth, awarded in 2011,2012 and 2013

2013

2012

Juried Art Winner, Painting, Artslant.com

Public Procurement

2018. Det Norske Kulturåd (Red Velvet, Golsa)

2017 Seewasserwerke/ Vannverket, Horgen, Zurich, Switzerland

Exhibitions

Solo

2019

2017

2016

2015

Alone/together with perfumer Rasa Gundersen, Gallery TM51, Oslo

Empty Spaces, Gallery TM51, Oslo

Traces of absence, Ekely, Edvard Munch Studio

Passages Unknown, Ekely, Edvard Munch Studio, Curated by Joakim Borda-Pedreira

Group

2020

2019

2018

2017

2014

2011

Signaler, Bærum Kunsthall

Kunst Rett Vest, Tofte

Bærumsutstillingen, Bærumkunsthall

Kunst Rett Vest, Henie Onstad, Sandvika

GIFC, Velvet Ropes, Gallery Golsa, Oslo

Kunst Rett Vest, Drammen Kunst Museum

Oslo Open

Østlands Utstillingen, Kunstbanken Hedmark & Østfold Kunst Senter

Kunst Berlinallee, Berlin, Curated By Z. Ramirex

After Kippenberger, Marzia Frozen Gallery, Berlin, Curated by Z. Ramirex

Contact Me

0047 47010711