“Stockholm is visually rich and in this new series of original oil paintings I explore and celebrate it using the various elements, including the sculpture, architecture, clouds and the sea, that make it one of the world’s most beautiful cities.”

During February Lindberg-on-Sea Art Gallery has the pleasure to present the exhibition ‘Sea and the city’ by American born artist Brandon Kralik.

For this exhibition Kralik has chosen to portray the beauty of our capital from his own dual perspective – both from the familiar view as one of the city’s citizens as well as with the attentive observation of the visitor.
Kralik has for some of the motifs used well known sculptures which are spread in the urban space and which have also lent their names to the paintings.
In these paintings the sculptures are moved into the foreground so that the viewer often sees them from behind with the water and the city silhouette of the opposite side in the background.
Common for all Kralik’s artworks is that Stockholm’s surrounding waters always has the leading role during milder and more blooming seasons.
In the winter months, and particularly during the special times in which we have now lived for the most part of a year, Kralik’s intention is that his art will act as a window towards a lighter and more accessible existence, symbols of hope with the promise of a new start:

“Paintings can provide us with what is missing.
They quietly seep into our consciousness and shine their light into our living environments. During long, dark winter months indoors it is easy to forget how the history, the art and the nature that we share harmonize in a unique urban aesthetic. These paintings are here to remind us of brighter days and give us faith and hope that things will get better.
Spring is coming and long summer days are just around the corner.”

Read more about Brandon Kralik and view his artworks

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