I work mainly with painting, but also sometimes with graphics and illustrations. My paintings revolve around a number of themes which it usually is about stories and tales. My image moves among other things whether it; times we do not own themselves, Illusions, and explorations, which is a collaboration with Mattias Alenius researching the memory cell.
My paintings are an attempt by the shapes, lines, and movements. I'm looking shapes in the scene, breaking up happy figurative, sometimes leading to the paintings become more abstract.
DISTANCES / MOVING / INTIMACY In movement, in time, in space and in mind. But also in shapes, surfaces and colour. To be changing but at the same time being secure. One surface against another, a shape that turns through an incident just as movements in life affect each other. While we are closer than ever to those physically far from us, it is also possible to distance ourselves from the people nearest to us. Through our different touch points we can follow the every day lives of our far away friends without having to be an active part in them. At the same time this can make us estrange ourselves from those closest to us but enable socialising at a distance. Where a look meets someone’s back, a greeting meets a nod and an intimate secret is stored in the cloud. A longing for intimacy can in thoughts and actions lead us closer to each other.
Exhibitions / CV
2022 Galleri Backlund, Open Call, (group exhibition), Göteborg, Sweden
2022 Persona Galleri, Kalmar, Sweden
2021 Affordable art fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 Galleri Ekdahl, Karlstad, Sweden
2020 RiverCity Gallery, Göteborg, Sweden
2019 Galleri Lux, My moments in pop cult (group exhibition) ÖSTERSUND
2019 Aero Kunsthal, Danmark (Group exhibition)
2019 galleri Abante, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Galleri 70, Halmstad, Sweden
2018 Galleri Profilen, Galleri och ram, Gävle,Sweden
2017 Galleri Gillet, Norrtälje, Sweden
2017 Södertälje konstförening, Sweden
2017 Byhuset, Rödön, Sweden
2017 Galleri Lohme, Malmö, Sweden
2016 Galleri REMI, Östersund, Sweden
2016 Konstfrämjandet Sörmland, Eskilstuna, Sweden
2015 ABANTE GALLERY, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Galleri Hultmans Internationella Jury salong (Represented by painting in the series Illusions)
2015 GALLERI WESTERLIND, Nyköping, sweden
2014 GALLERI ISMENE, Trondheim Norway (group exhibition)
2014 COLOUR OF BIATHLON 2014 i samarbete med Biathlon sweden.
2014 SPÄNNVIKSFESTIVALEN
2014 FILMKONST (MOVIEART), Galleri Mono, Östersund (group exhibition)
2013 COLOUR OF BIATHLON i samarbete med Lars Bolin Gallery, Biathlon sweden och Clarion Grand.
2013 Gallery D12, Uppsala
2013 Sörgården, Dorotea (group exhibition)
2012 Gallery Stadsbacken, Sundsvall
2012 Gallery Lierne, Norway
2012 Lars Bolin Gallery, Östersund
2009 Gällivare City Museum
2007 Gallery Joker, Norrtälje
2006 Konsthyllan Ostersund.
2005 Galleri Tängtorpet, Östersund (group exhibition)
2004 Konsthyllan, Östersund
Inlandsresan: (art project)
2017 Sorsele
2017 Gällivare konsthall
2016 Borgafjäll snowcamp
2016 Gäddede Musik och kultur / Gäddede turistbyrå, Gäddede
2010 issue of the graphic novel, "Sweet smell of success"
EDUCATION:
1989-90 School of Art,
Image and shape. Väddö Fhsk.
1990-93 Bachelor of art (BA) in art education
Umeå University.
PRESENTED BY
Östersunds kommun
Norrbottens Landsting
Jämtlands Landsting
Krokoms kommun
Mittuniversitetet (Miun)
Karlstad kommun
Region Värmland
Lennart Samor is a member of KRO (The Artist nationwide organization) and KC NORD
