Current Works

Kristi’s brilliant work, so pure and emotional, projects the scope, the scale, the perspective of grand space. When I look at her paintings I feel as if I am breathing the air, with no end to the canvas.” Bev Weismann, Iowa City, IA, USA.


All these oils on canvas have been painted since 2005 and exhibited in Norway at a number of galleries. The majority are now in private collections throughout southern Norway.

 

 

 

Steep Mountainsides 1

70 X 50cm

 

 

Steep Mountainsides 2

70 X 50cm

 

 

 

Steep Mountainsides 3

70 X 50cm

 

 

Purple Snow

50 X 70cm

 

 

Flame

50 X 70cm

 

 

 

Snowscape

50 X 70cm

 

 

Layered Red

100 X 80cm

 

 

Winter Mountain

60 X 80cm

 

 

Oval

70 X 50cm

 

 

October Sun 2

60 X 80cm

 

 

Dance 2

70 X 90cm

 

 

Snow Landscape

70 X 90cm

 

 

October Sun

100 X 90cm

 

 

Mother and Child

90 X 60cm

 

 

Figure 1

90 X 70cm

 

 

In Flight

70 X 90cm

 

 

The Bath

70 X 50cm

 

 

Autumn Fields

90 X 130cm

 

 

Mountains and Lake

70 X 90cm

 

 

Valley

90 X 130cm

 

 

Pale Blue

90 X 70cm

 

Fairy Tale

60 X 60cm

 

 

Valley Floor

90 X 130cm

 

 

Warm Sun

60 X 80cm

 

 

Halfwork orange 1

70 X 90cm

 

 

Halfwork orange 2

70 X 90cm

 

 

Raudfjell

70 X 90cm

 

 

Blue landscape

60 X 160cm

 

 

Blue Landscape

90 X 70cm


 

 

Blåfjell 3

80 X 100cm

 

 

Sun on Snow 

80 X 90cm

 

 

Night Light

60 X 80cm

 

Badlands

60 X 80cm

 

Figure in Landscape

80 X 100cm

 

Sun on Snow 1

70 X 90cm

 

Glacier landscape

80 X 110cm

 

 

 

 

White light

100 X 90cm

 

 

Red landscape

70 X 90cm

 

 

Crossing Paths

70 X 80cm

 

 

On Wing

50 X 70cm

 

 

Golden Fields

70 X 80cm

 

 

Global Village

50 X 50cm

 

 

Nestled

60 X 80cm

 

 

Hidden Valley

80 X 60cm

 

 

Brother Mark

1944-2009

 

Brother John,

70th Birthday Celebration

Overview of Site

 

Current Works:

Kristi’s brilliant work, so pure and emotional, projects the scope, the scale, the per-spective of grand space. When I look at her paintings I feel as if I am breathing the air, with no end to the canvas.” Bev Weismann, Iowa City, IA, USA

      All these oils on canvas have been painted since 2005 and exhibited in Norway at a number of galleries. The majority are now in private collections throughout southern Norway.

Early Works:

The first seven paintings are examples of work Kristi Ylvisaker did while in college. The bust and the self-portraits were created while a graduate student. The next group were painted while she lived and studied at Woodstock in 1968  and in New York City 1969-1970. The final two paintings were done during her early years in Norway.

Paintings:

“Everyone Wants Kristi on Their Walls,” the headline proclaimed. And what people want on their walls are the colorful paintings that have become Kristi Ylvisaker’s signature work. These were painted between 1985 and 2004.

Drawings:

Kristi Ylvisaker has illustrated with drawings three published books: A Time for PeaceFor Everything A Season: 75 Blessings for Daily Life, and Beyond the Dead End: A Memoir. In addition, drawings of farm animals have appeared in many of her exhibits. 

Foremothers:

“The daily round on the farm has given me knowledge of the labor and life my great grandmother must have lived,” Kristi wrote about this exhibition created for the 150th anniversary of the major emigration of Norwegians from their homeland.

Family Portraits:

“Family Portraits,” created in 1999 in collaboration with Joan Stuart Ross, Seattle, WA, artist, as a follow-up to “Foremothers,” was exhibited across Norway before being shipped to the United States where it toured in 2000. This page features a number of Kristi Ylvisaker’s contributions to the exhibit.

Through the Tunnel:

Kristi Ylvisaker watched as workmen carved a tunnel through the mountain just across the lake from their farm. The tunnel became for her a metaphor for the painful physical process one goes through giving birth and metaphorically the process of creative or psychological birth. Here are seven of the nine paintings comprising the series.

Nude Truths: An Odyssey in Poetry, Painting, and Prose:

Created in collaboration with her sister, writer Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen, and based on the poetry of Denise Levertov, "Nude Truths," through 24 large paintings, leads the viewer on a cycle from innocence, into the dark places of life, and out into awe.

Cave Paintings:

A recurring theme in Kristi Ylvisaker’s drawings, since she began using her farm animals as models, is inspired by the cave paintings of Lascaux and Chauvet in France. An exhibit of these drawings traveled to the United States in 1995. She has turned the cellar under her home into an ancient cave and also has cave murals in her gallery.  In addition, she did a commissioned cave spa in Des Moines, IA.

Cards:

In 2000 the L.C. Lions Sogndal Løvetann commissioned Kristi Ylvisaker to paint one of the area historical churches. They created greeting cards from the painting, which they sold to aid charity. They also auctioned off the painting. For three more years they had paintings made of the other area historical churches, and after that suggested themes for the paintings.