Galerie Adler New York would like to introduce you to some of the most eccentric and beguiling creatures you have ever met. Icelandic artist Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir shares her amazing creatures with New York through drawings, installation and animation.

With their often absurd gestures and facial expressions, Sigurdardottir’s performers cavort across the paper in their colorful shimmies, hiked-up ankle socks, and fluffy tutus. Disproportionate limbs add to these creatures’ comical yet fragile appearances, also highlighted by gently drawn tufts of hair, ominous puddles of ambiguous liquid and colouring directly reminiscent of blood. Indeed, the viewer feels abducted into the figures’ realm of emotions. Sometimes it seems they have just waded through knee-deep pools of blood in now stained socks. As the artist herself describes, “The contrast between horror and beauty and the state of mind you get in when you don’t know when something is disgusting, beautiful, sad or funny… Have you ever started laughing when something sad happens?”

Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir is astonishing at creating a simulacrum to the world of our own, though these creatures feel, at first fleeting look, so far removed from our surroundings. Yet, there remains a mysteriously accessible relationship formed between the viewer and the works. For the viewer, the images of these creatures show a friend and a foe, a comic relief and a villain, the vibrancy of childhood play or the darkening presence of adulthood. These dichotomies provide an everlasting attraction to the reverberating unsettled voice that whispers visual expressions and excitement to the eyes.

Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir was born in Reykjavik, Iceland and currently lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and Reykjavik,Iceland. She graduated in 2004 with her MFA from Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Scotland. She was rewarded in 2006 the Woollen Glove and the Svavar Gudnason painting award. Her work is represented in various Collections.