Exhibition
'Environmental Memorial'
25 Feb 2023 – 26 Mar 2023
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 13:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 13:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 558 Saint Johns Place
- New York
New York - 11238
- United States
An installation of sculpture and large paintings, Linda Cunningham confronts our harmful relationships with both urban and natural landscapes.
About
Linda Cunningham’s work confronts our relationships with both urban and natural landscapes. Her tangible work, the canvases and sculptures, tell of the frayed nature of this relationship. Torn edges and severed images evoke our 21st century participation in a precarious process of transience and change. The artist often poses the veracity of the photo-based transferred images against interpretive, fluid calligraphic drawing lines and forms that seduce the viewer to take in what is often a discomforting, underlying content.
This exhibition presents several large paintings, made during the past two years. Two paintings, with their voraciously swirling applications of paint depict the force of the elements that have become unpredictable and destructive. The forbidding, rugged edges and the awkwardness of the shapes of the sculpture pieces in the installation "...like time and change" give an immediate impression of where we are heading on this planet. The work is made of sand-cast bronze and steel components, and it is paired with the painting Clear Cut, a devastated landscape of left-over, cut down pieces of what was once a powerful tree. The work in the exhibition does not preach or accuse. It offers a clear-eyed view of this moment in our human history.
Bio
Bronx-based artist Linda Cunningham's work was featured in an alternative documenta Kassel, Germany, the Bronx Museum, the American University in Paris, and in galleries in Europe and New York. She has executed many public sculptures, commissions and is the founder of the Bronx Art Space. https://www.lindalcunningham.com/
Gallery hours: Thurs.-Sun, 1-6pm