Pia Brix-Thomsen  25.okt - 16.nov 2003
Born 1964 in Vejle, Denmark

PAINTERLY PRIMITIVE FORCE FROM DENMARK

The painter Pia Brix-Thomsen is neither particularly Nordic by looks nor in her art.
   She is like a gipsy- a citizen of the world, who with great passion becomes absorbed and paints vigorous sonorous canvases, wish in between glow like fire. From the very beginning a painterly primitive force has flowed from Pia’s work, from every single composition, living in close harmony with the dialog of light and colour. Pia Brix-Thomsen’s works can be seen and experienced as pure paintings living their own lives as small independent personalities with their own story.
   They are also painterly stories about time here and now, the far too evanescent time that vanishes before we can grasp the moment. Pia Brix-Thomsen embraces time with her art, which can very well take the spectator’s breath away when the red colour of lifeblood asks the golden sun to dance. Or when colours meet in more subdued intensity and let light live almost spiritually and religiously on the canvas, so breath taking and emotional that the mind resorts to meditation and absorption. Experience the silence and joy of a painter, who by colours can narrate from the land of light.

Journalist Vibeke Kruse, reviewer of Art and Culture at Vejle Amts Folkeblad.

EDUCATION

1988 – 1992 The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Odense, Denmark

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003 Galleri Elenor, Oslo
2003 Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois
2002 Galleri Aakjaers, Vejle, Denmark
2001 Galleri Ho, Viborg, Denmark
        Galleri Nouvelle, Horsens, Denmark
2000 Galleri Ho, Viborg, Denmark
        Galleri Uggerby, Denmark
        Jyllandsposten, Denmark
        Skjern Radhus
1999 B&O, Hobro, Denmark
1998 Galleri Capela, Juelsminde, Denmark
1997 Galleri Capela, Juelsminde, Denmark
1994 Vejle Amts Kunstforening

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002 Winter group exhibition, lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2002 Vejle Kunstmuseum
2000 Kunstbraenderiet, Vejle, Denmark
1996 Tide, Spinderihallerne Vejle, Denmark
1992 Kunstneriske Bypass, Vejle, Denmark
1991 Tuscania, Italy
1990 Galleri Toldboden, Kerteminde, Denmark

GRANTS

1992 Carlsberg Idelegat