Larsen Warner is extremely pleased to present Thresholds a group exhibition exploring contemporary abstract painting featuring Sarah Dwyer, Elisabeth Frieberg, Jorunn Hancke Øgstad, Romana Londi and Aimee Parrott.

Thresholds presents a group of artists that push and expand upon the infinite ways that abstraction can be applied and manipulated to develop suggestive, beguiling and thought-provoking work. Despite the diversity of each artists’ practice, Thresholds reflects a tireless and rigorous investigation into the nature and possibilities of abstraction within painting today. Each artist is characterized by their continuously expanding investigation into painting itself, creating diverse and energetic work that seem to vibrate with contrasts of material application as well as diverse compositional and theoretical approaches.

Sarah Dwyer (b. 1974, Ireland) is an artist who lives and works in London. Drawing is at the heart of her process, often combined with painting, printmaking, and sculpture, resulting in reimaginings of the familiar through exuberant colour palettes and lively approaches to mark-making. Dwyer earned a Master’s in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2004 after an MFA from Staffordshire University in 2001. Her work has most recently been exhibited at Brigitte Mulholland, Paris; Fabian Lang Gallery, Zurich; PiArtworks, London; Pigeon Park, Manor Place, London; in three solo shows at Josh Lilley Gallery, London; Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK; Hair & Nails Gallery, MN; Rochester Art Center, MN; Bloomberg Space, London, UK; Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo, JP; Jane Lombard Gallery NY, NY; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK. In Autumn 2025 Dwyer will be presenting her first large scale institutional shows in Ireland.

Elisabeth Frieberg (b. 1977, Sweden) lives and works in Stockholm. An important element in Frieberg’s artistic process consists of visiting places that are personally significant to her and drawing inspiration from the landscape there. Colors and atmospheres from these places – like an investigations into concepts such as scale, rhythm and time – are included as equal parts of her exploratory abstract painting. Recent exhibitions include Blue Green Black Swirl, Kewenig, Berlin (2023); Pink Blue Gold Indian Ocean, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris (2021); White Black Death Gold, Kewenig, Berlin (2020); Her work has been exhibited at Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm (2017); Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2016); Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala (2015); and Fondazione Cini, Venice (2015), amongst other institutions. Her works are included in public collections such as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm; The National Public Art Council Sweden, and the Aguélimuseet, Sala. 2025 will see her first solo exhibitions with Konig Gallery, Berlin and Larsen Warner, Stockholm.

Jorunn Hancke Øgstad (1979, Norway) lives and works in Oslo is a Norwegian artist exploring the language of abstraction through painting and sculpture. 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 commonly found in expressionist, street and pop art practices. Notable solo exhibitions include Downpour, Sandefjord Kunstforening; Triangel, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway; Nye Malerier (New Paintings), Formuesforvaltning, Oslo; a 2019 presentation at Frieze London in Regents Park and ‘Crocodile Tears’ at the Kunsthall Oslo. Notable group exhibitions include Oppgjørets time (The Reckoning of Time), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikkoden, Norway; Kunst bak Glasset, a collection exhibition at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikkoden, Norway; …And Justice for All at VI, VII, Oslo. The artist’s works are in private collections around the world, as well as the esteemed collections of Moderna Museum, Stockholm; The City of Oslo Art Collection; Equinor Art Collection, KORO, Örebro Konsthall, Henie Onstad Art Center and Norway’s National Museum.

Romana Londi (b. 1985, Italy) lives and works in Rome. Since graduating from Central St Martins in London in 2009, Romana Londi has developed a unique approach to painting that is rooted in experimentation beyond simple representation to explore the immediacy of life, fusing conflicting realities in hybrid works. Her notable series, including Happenstance, Sentient, Blushing (Pink as Fuck), and Jetlag, utilize innovative photochromic mediums that react to sunlight and shifting shadows, creating dynamic pieces that interact with their environment. Her latest series, Jetlag (2018–), reflects on the human condition in a post-industrial, digital age, addressing themes of acceleration, potential, and failure. Romana Londi is represented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Brussels) and has been showcased in prestigious group exhibitions worldwide including Planet B, Climate Change And The New Sublime at the Palazzo Bollani in Venice (Italy), 'I am the Beat', Desire Nights at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (Ireland), Memory Shop at the Casa Wabi Foundation in Oaxaca (Mexico), Gaia Has a Thousand Names at the Elgiz Museum in Istanbul (Turkey) and Mademoiselle at CRAC Occitanie in Sète (France).

Aimee Parrott (b.1987, UK) graduated with an MA from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2014. Parrott’s recent body of work comprises paintings and prints. By layering and repeating colour and form she creates a sense of off-kilter rhythm where solid and amorphous substances collide. These translucent layers chart a non-linear movement through time and space. The translation of semi-recalled sensory memories achieved through varying touch, tone and pace encourage an engagement with the work that unfolds gradually and calls to mind the way in which the exterior world impresses itself upon us – not simply as a series of static solid objects but as shifting perceptual fragments.Recent exhibitions include Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London, Group show curated by Sam Cornish Saatchi Gallery, London (2024); The Language of Line, Lyndsey Ingram, London (2024); Waterborne, Parafin Gallery, London (2023).