Three new installations by Linda Cunningham in early 2009.

Including an installation on the 2nd Floor Mezanine of the Bronx Musuem of Art.

In these New York images, photo-based laser transfers, mesh with drawing and collaged elements. Remnants of architectural structures, and found materials construct layered images of architectural change as a precariously ordered balance on the edge of entropy, neither sequential or discursive.

This series uses similarly complex collaged layers based on photo transfer images of the rapidly disappearing Hudson River structures known to many New Yorkers.

Drawing and collaged images of resonant historic structures are meshed with found materials. Text is sometimes used as a structural and iconographic element constructing and deconstructing layered images. "The ruptures of history and accumulated catastrophes have made the ruin a witness, not to the past but a paradigm of the present."

Using images from the street, 19th C land-marked architecture and found materials, this work exposes contradictions inherent in recent history, time and change.  21st C signage, Bronx poetry and rubbings from plaques merge with photo transfers and drawing posing the past against the restored, regenerated present.

Tree-like sculptural forms constructed from twisted steel angle, destroyed man-made structures, are posed against a layered dry-wall landscape relief with a horizontal recessed form emulating a dark river.. Each panel changes in time and focus constructing a visual narrative with no clear beginning or ending of the absent past and currently changing face of the land with impinging developments.

Twisted steel beams, unraveling underground copper cable, sand-cast bronze forms, dry wall, construction materials, elements from the former East German border.

Linda Cunningham is a New York City based artist who exhibits extensively both in New York and in Deutschland, most recently at 2 x 13 Gallery, Chelsea, NYC and Haven Gallery, Bronx, NY.

Her monumental public sculptural installations & alternative memorials are permanently sited in Cologne, Kassel, Bad Hersfeld & Cornberg, Germany, & Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J. Temporary installations were formerly at the CUNY Graduate Center on 42nd St across from Bryant Park, in Tribecca & at UN Plaza, New York 1997-1998, now on extended loan to Wright State University, Dayton Ohio. She is the recipient of grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts, Pa Council on the Arts, Fulbright Senior Research fellowship, Berlin, Arts International Kade Collaborative Works, and the John Anson Kittredge Foundation.

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Contact:

Linda Cunningham
305 E 140th St.
Bronx, NY 10454
718-401-8144
646-327-8281
llcunning@verizon.net