Linda Cunningham

ODETTA GALLERY presents KISOK: NEW WORKS BY LINDA CUNNINGHAM AND LEVAN MINDIASHVILLI

Edge of Change, installation overview: Cross-sections of 200 & 300 year old trees felled by “Sandy”; a metaphor for our imperilled beneficent environment.

Installation on view at ODETTA Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, November, 2015 — January, 2016

Cunningham and Mindiashvili share a deep admiration for the language of buildings and surfaces in ruins, both ancient and modern. Well traveled, they have spent time touching these walls, and have read from their destination’s kiosks. This tactile knowledge filters back into their work in torn pages, layers, metallic bits, and shards of information, precariously juxtaposing ancient against industry, governments and the onslaught of Nature.

Installation sizes vary from 4ft 3 in. wide to 4ft high; 8ft x 5ft canvas, acrylic & pastel and pastel, ink; 70” x 68” collage, in background

Unexpected materials, found and manufactured, perch precariously on torn edges and bifurcated sheets of large paper. Here, fluid calligraphic lines are posed against the veracity of photo-transferred images and the tactile sensibility of history emerges. The deteriorating, hulking remains of the Ruhr Valley coal and steel industry, or abandoned waterfront areas in the Bronx, are both cautious and optimistic as they succumb to the vitality persisting in vulnerable stands of old trees.

Edge of Change (detail), Cross-sections of 200 & 300 year old trees felled by “Sandy"; a metaphor for our imperilled beneficent environment;
Installation sizes vary from 4ft 3 in. wide to 4ft high; 8ft x 5ft canvas (right wall), acrylic & pastel and pastel, image transfer, ink; 70 in. x 68 in. collage, (left wall)

Edge of Change (detail), 8ft x 5 ft, Canvas, pastel, acrylic, ink tree shard, images of trees and electric wires felled by hurricane “Sandy” in Woodlawn cemetery with tree shard and cross-sections of 200 & 300 year old trees also felled by “Sandy".