About

Norwegian painter Jorunn Hancke Øgstad is an artist exploring gender through the language of abstraction.

Using fabric dye, resin and plastics on unprimed canvas, the artist mimics watercolor, spray paint and print processes, often within the same work, co-opting techniques most commonly found in expressionist, street and pop art practices.

Øgstad's new works for Frieze feature bleaching and blocking processes, traversing historical periods in art and design, and finding inspiration everywhere from 19th century spiritual abstraction to the work of female contemporaries.

Set against a …