The work Bank of America is a geometric, seemingly abstract painting based on the logo of Bank of America which is in itself a simplified version of the American flag. Rendered in all red on a white background (rather than the red, white and blue of the original logo) the work references classic post-war painting from Frank Stella to Jasper Johns while at the same time the drips of red paint allude to the complicity of financial institutions like Bank of America in the repression and violence that runs below (and sometimes above) the surface of modern capitalism.

Gardar Eide Einarsson works with found and appropriated source materials in order to think about the images that surround us and the work they do to interpellate us. 

Ideas around personal liberty, belonging, inclusion/ exclusion and propaganda are explored with a view to what role culture plays in ideological systems and how artists and art institutions both are implicated in the dominant structures while at the same time perhaps offering a way around and outside them. How do we as individuals navigate the course between our own personal freedom and our inscription in the symbolic structure of the societies we exist within?

He addresses this subject matter through diverse media such as installations, paintings, sculptures etc. in a deadpan and often humorous way and with an awareness of the institutional context of contemporary art.