Fine Art
Thread and Graphite Art
Image courtesy of Anne Lindberg.
Sometimes all you need in art is a bit of subtle reflection. Anne Lindberg, the American visual-arts artist, masterfully accomplishes her objective of finding “beauty disturbance through shifts in tool, layering and material to create passages of tone, density, speed, path and frequency within a system”.
Using thousands of parallel lines made from colored thread, graphite and colored pencils, layers are shown shifting subtly into soft color palettes that “vibrate”. It’s an elegance that is unique and atheistically pleasing!
Every one of Lindberg’s room-sized installations take hours upon hours of pain-staking patience in order to create an optical feast.
What’s the same with each installation is that they’re all made up of Egyptian cotton thread and staples.
Thread drawing 14, 2012. Rayon thread, 31″ H 28″ W. Image courtesy of Anne Lindberg.
Lindberg manages to blur the lines between architecture and sculpture… color and light manipulates hundreds of thin strands to create a movable screen.
Anne Lindberg, In Tandem 05, 2016. Shown in a solo exhibition at Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, Missouri, 2016. Image courtesy of Anne Lindberg.
Lindberg’s new Tandem collection is a great example of contrasts as the pairs of rounded forms are shown mirroring each other… but not precisely.
