In the Bendix Building…Track 16 presents Resurgence by Los Angeles-based artist Galia Linn in its 10th floor gallery space. An opening art party was held on Saturday March 23, 2024. The show runs through May 25, 2024. There are two other art parties at TSALA & 515 (both on the 5th floor. CLiCK HERE to find out more about those exhibitions.
Galia Linn
Resurgence is curated by Emma Gray, founder of Five Car Garage. This new body of work explores the themes of internal landscape and play through both sculpture and work on canvas. The canvas pieces are a continuation of the theme that Linn often expresses in her practice: sanctuary. In previous works, the artist created sanctuary spaces where people might come and reflect together, paving way for a resurgence. Now, the sanctuary turns inward, and the works reflect individual, inner landscapes, yet still sanctuaries, nonetheless. An internal landscape, for Linn, is not simply a fanciful location, but contains a map of the self, populated with past memories and projected hopes–a site for bubbling the unconscious: an internal sanctuary.
Galia Linn, Untitled [Interior Landscape series], 2023 Acrylic gel and paint on canvas. 23 x 20 inches.
Linn’s interest in natural landscapes pushed the artist into years of experimentation with watercolor landscapes, focusing on trees because of their ability to grow in areas razed by human activity. Trees equal rebirth. She eventually began to abstract these landscapes by using the same techniques she uses for her sculptures: heavily textured and liquid layered glazing. Organic colors are layered while wet, allowing the paint to mix in its own way. When glazing clay in the kiln, the process becomes the catalyst–or alchemist–that bonds the layers of glazes and the clay together. In these new paintings cracked surfaces bleed color, with marks concentrated towards the bottom, allowing for a sense of luminosity towards the top. The works transform through this process to quiet meditations full of stains, smudges, and soft marks. Linn states that she does not control this process, but only offers guidelines.
Bendix Building
Home to artists, designers and creators, the Bendix Building was built in 1929. The gothic Revival style structure has made its mark with its signature Bendix rooftop sign towering 150 feet above the ground. You will find many galleries in this iconic building.
On view: March 23, 2024 – May 25, 2024
What: Resurgence, Galia Linn
Where: Track 16 Gallery, Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave, Suite 1005, LA, 90015
When: Running through May 25, 2024
Website: https://www.track16.com/
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