Anne Lindberg

Chicago

Stretching individual strands of cotton thread taut from opposing walls, artist, Anne Lindberg, creates a translucent volume of color with varying hues. Individual lines vibrate and pulsate with slightly different tonalities, playing tricks on viewers’ optical nerves. These changes in tone and density elicit the concept of her exhibition sustaining pedal – the first one with Carrie Secrist gallery. As a musical note becomes airborne, a piano’s sustain pedal dampers the instrument’s strings, extending and elongating the life of the note into space, bringing out its full character. The resulting sound, resonant and complex, acts as an acoustic metaphor for Lindberg’s work. This notion of a singular element stretching into the orchestral whole reiterates Lindberg’s examination of the rise and fall of the parallel line.

Likewise, Lindberg’s two-dimensional pieces (graphite and colored pencil on cotton mat board) hold the same aesthetic impulse. Drafted with an architect’s parallel bar, the imagery comprises tightly spaced lines that vary in density and darkness. In the artist’s indexical translation of the three-dimensional into the two-dimensional, the pencil drawings are subject to the uncontrolled internal movements of her body. The exactitude of this mark making ultimately betrays the organic, human aspect of Lindberg’s linear images.

Anne Lindberg

Carrie Secrist

September 7th – October 20th, 2012
835 Washington Blvd
Chicago, IL 60607
USA

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