SOLO SHOW - ERIK LINDMAN
I conn'd old times,
I sat studying at the feet of the great masters,
Now if eligible O that the great masters might return and study me. *
The paintings presented here are an extension of the six paintings first shown at Hannah Barry Gallery last year in the show "New Work, New York". These works were not planned as a group or cycle but never the less find their conclusion with this current installation.
Two Crosses mark the space of the gallery. Cutting a found picture frame in four sections, the works are some of the most direct I've made. The Crosses are iconic, anonymous, and also "like a painting collapsing in on itself".
The goal is for artwork to possess its realization eo ipso.
Beauty and truth are anonymous: their (mis)translation in this world embodied through, and within, material is the subject of this show.
Erik Lindman
* Walt Whitman, "Starting from Paumanok"
List of works installed clockwise left to right:
F1
2010-2011
Oil, satin, plaster, commercially dyed cotton on canvas
99 x 78 cm (39 x 31 ins)
Sails
2011
Oil on canvas
99 x 78 cm (39 x 31 ins)
promo
2011
Oil on wood and canvas
42 x 31 cm (16 ½ x 12 ins)
EL/EK
2010
Oil and synthetic polymer emulsion on silk, laid on canvas
102 x 76 cm (40 x 30 ins)
Cross
2011
Wood
112 x 76 cm (44 x 30 ins)
Cross
2011
Wood and canvas
104 x 76 cm (41 x 30 ins)
Paragraph
2010
Oil and enamel on canvas
99 x 78 ¾ cm (39 x 31 ins)
Bed
2011
Oil, enamel and paperboard on plywood
50 x 43 cm (20 x 17 ins)
Bridge
2010
Oil, shellack, plaster, satin on canvas
104 x 73 cm (41 x 29 ins)
Pier
2010
Oil and synthetic polymer emulsion on satin adhered to canvas
102 x 76 cm (40 x 30 ins)
