SEATTLE, WA.- The Frye Art Museum presents the exhibit Ginnungagap: Recent Work by Sigrid Sandström through September 10, 2006. Sigrid Sandström's art explores the various ways we claim land (linguistically, mythically, or physically), as well as the motivations for such claims (exploration, property, sense of self, manifest destiny). The raw material for these explorations is the landscape of Sandström's home country, Sweden. Dramatic scale shifts and purposely awkward surface treatments create powerful images that question how we understand the nature of Nature. Ginnungagap, a Swedish mythological reference to a place between fire and ice, includes Sandström's recent paintings, sculptures, projected works, films, and works on paper.

Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Sandström received her MFA from Yale University in 2001. She currently lives in Red Hook, New York, where she teaches at Bard College. Ginnungagap is organized by chief curator Robin Held and will be accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.