Drammen Art Association's exhibition 2024
In collaboration with the Drammen Museum, the Drammen Art Association organizes an annual exhibition.
In 2024, DKF has planned two different exhibitions where they have invited the artists Berit Myrvold and Sigrid Øyrehagen to the main exhibition in the Lychepaviljongen, as well as inviting Eiker Arkiv to create an exhibition about historical printing techniques which will be shown in the Museum building.
UNKNOWN AREA - COLORED
Drammen Art Association's exhibition 2024 at Drammens Museum shows two visual artists who are different in their artistic expression, but in some areas also quite similar.
Berit Myrvold's paintings contain a symphony of colours. The colors play against each other in a playful game and give us an insight into a beautiful experience. The subjects in the pictures are often from a room where the interior plays a significant role. In this interior there are colorful draperies, flowers and other things that belong to a room. Berit's pictures are built up with various patterns, dots, squares that form a fine structure in the picture surface and give us a unique pictorial world.
Sigrid Øyrehagen is known for her colorful monotypes. The motif circle is landscapes, gardens, flowers and interiors. In this exhibition, Sigrid shows large collages. Sigrid makes collages from surplus from her own graphics production and prints specially printed to become material for collages. The result is an exciting visual expression with a special character.
Drammen Art Association would like to thank the artists and Drammen Museum for their cooperation.
Drammen Kunstforening
Chairman Andor Roksvåg
It was in the newspaper. Looking back at newspaper and the historical images of the art of letterpress printing.
This exhibition is a collaboration between Drammen Art Association, Grafisk Museum Buskerud and Eiker Archive.
Newspaper cartoonists and photographs were of great importance for the visual expression in books and newspapers. The Drammen region had cellulose and paper factories that produced the paper, while the book and newspaper printers relied on the expertise for the visual expression. The lower part of Buskerud can refer to a long newspaper and book history. The first paper factory was established in 1805, the printing houses in Drammen are even older.
The exhibition of printed clichés that have been used in local newspapers and books became an opportunity when Eiker Arkiv took over Drammen Museum's cliché collection that had been stored at Austad farm, as well as clichés from other publications.
The printing methods used in this exhibition are set on machines from the 1950s.