Cat Throwing up, Bird on Plate

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir is an Iceland-born, New York-based artist. Graduated from Icelandic Academy of Arts in 1999 and as a master of New York School of Visual Arts, MFA Program lin 2003, she has held exhibitions in numerous countries and received international praises. Influenced by pop art, minimalism, expressionism, and other alternative art movements, Adalsteinsdottir’s signature style is composed of deflated background created by neat, horizontal brushes and repeated handmade wallpaper pattern like thematic melody. Revealing cruelties in adult world with fairy-tale-like elements, she expresses emotionally charged moments in calm manners, and carries profound existential interrogation with scenarios deprived of depth. Absurdity, melancholy, indifference, and dream-like atmosphere with coercion of diverse components become her artworks’ key