New Release Gallery is exhibiting Linnea Gad’s exhibition titled “Mound Remover” at its New York venue.Linnea Gad’s sculptures, prints, paintings and installations, transform images and materials to recognizable yet ambiguous landscapes. In the series, “Mound Remover,” the artist continues with the same streak. Her works are inspired by growing up partly in the archipelago on an island where her father was a seaplane pilot. The artists vision of an island landscape from above is ingrained in her. For her, landscape is an overwhelming visual experience where the brain has to abstract from an abundance of information.“It is with an anxious joy I look down at a landscape. In the obscurity of distance, I meet the itching edge of my capacity to think and feel,” said Gad. In these works one can see visual language, great distances simplify shapes, bringing softness and faded colors to the palette.Even in the neighborhood of the gallery, Gad was struck by the topographical history of Collect Pond and subsequently the mound next to it. “The popular pond, long gone with contamination; a sterile version recently resurrected. This loop of environmental disharmony in observing a specific locale has greatly molded Gad’s developing exhibition across the street,” said the gallery.These works reflect the idea of multiples (copy machines, slip casting, etching) but rather than making identical works, she identifies the mark making and integrity of the process to create, instead, unique pieces.For the porcelain works series, she forms shape and textures in clay, then transfers it to a plaster mold to make a porcelain slip cast. This process adds and removes layers of information to the objects. There is also a set of aquatints as well as large-scale toner transfers on silk, which visualizes a printout of a reading on Visual Tourism and proposed museum islands in Abu Dhabi. Linnea Gad (b. 1990, Stockholm, Sweden) received her BFA from Parsons School for Design as a JP Morgan Chase Scholar from 2009 - 2013. Gad’s work was the subject of a solo exhibition “Luster Pit” at ROM in Copenhagen (2018), “Soliloquy” at 6BASE in New York (2017), and “Currently Remodelling” at SBG31 in Stockholm (2016). She has also been the recipient of residencies and programs including the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program and Neo New York at The Cooper Union for Advancement of Science and Art in 2014.The exhibition is on view through June 10, 2018, at New Release, 60 Mulberry Street, NY, NY 10013.For details, visit: http://www.newreleasegallery.com Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com Founder: Louise Blouin
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