Based on the cover of a book about the problems of American policing as seen through the lens of the Los Angeles Police Department from the 1992 riots and onwards, the painting The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing continues Einarsson’s exploration of art and painting’s  ability (or not) to contain and describe the political world it exists within. All other information is removed and the only text remaining is this now loaded four letter word “blue” which brings to mind both recent conservative and/ or right wing pro-police rhetoric as well as pure formal references to the actual color and it’s usage by other artists through art history. 

Gardar Eide Einarsson works with the notion of subcultures and how to access these environments. He addresses this subject matter through diverse media as installation, paintings, sculptures, etc. The notion of subversion and the undermining of the establishment is present, yet without being an aspiration of the artist, this points to the classical notion of the artist’s position in society. All his works relate to the anti-institutional and to the interference of concepts of freedom and the structures and organizations in society. The artist makes apparent the communicative strategies of inclusion and exclusion dominant in the culture we live in and the parallel systems existing on the border of the well known society. With a view on the institutions of society, Einarsson explores how they are negotiated and how ways are found to escape them and work with different degrees of belonging and non-belonging.