The following information is from Jean-Pierre Jonsson, Art Collector and Designer, who describes the work of Katrin Fridriks, born August 9, 1974 in Reykjavik, Iceland, as "happy art, very big, colorful paintings" that are figurative and abstract.

Jonsson included the following text in a review of Fridrik's work by Dr. Jeanne S. M. Willette, an art historian who teaches contemporary art and critical theory in the Art Department of Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.

This is the future.
Everything else is the past.

Katrin Fridriks is taking painting into the next millennium, breaking away from the old fashioned notion that painting should be a static object, contemplated in the pure white cube and...