Anne Lindberg

installation time lapse - Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

2012-02-21T15:14:00.001-06:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAj1AgzaHIM

from 28 December 2011 - January 2, 2012, I installed "drawn pink"

in the galleries for the exhibition Placemakers at the

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

Placemakers is on view through March 31, 2012

http://www.bemiscenter.org/art/exhibitions/placemakers.html

to see the installation process / time lapse, click the YouTube link above

drawn pink at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

2012-01-16T13:19:00.002-06:00

Last Friday, Placemakers opened at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, NE. The exhibition is open thru March 31, 2012.

www.bemiscenter.org

Curator Hesse McGraw assembled a dynamic group of artists: Isabelle Hayeur, Tim Hyde, Anne Lindberg, Cybele Lyle, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jason Manley, Zach Rockhill, Quynh Vantu, Letha Wilson

Placemakers brings together nine artists engaged in interventionist and transformative acts that make places. Working in multiple media – video, photography, installation, sculpture and digital forms – each artist occupies and re-imagines a specific site. The exhibition includes seven commissions of new work and spans 12,000 square feet of the Bemis Center’s first floor and extends beyond the gallery’s interior.

Below are images of the newly commissioned installation I made for Placemakers.

drawn pink
2012
Egyptian cotton thread, staples
35 by 6 by 10 feet

Lofoten Light

2011-10-02T15:39:00.001-05:00

After opening the Extended Drawing exhibition in Oslo September 1st at the Tegnerforbundet, I traveled up to the northern reaches of Norway to the Lofoten Islands for a two-week residency at the Kunsetnerhuset i Svolvaer. I flew from Oslo on a rainy cool Norwegian day to Bodo along the western coast, and then over the Norwegian Sea in a propeller plane to Svolvaer in the Lofoten Islands, who's back is against the North Sea and and beyond to Greenland.

The Kunstnerhuset is a small art center started by a Swedish artist in the 1920s, and now houses four artists at a time to share two studios on the second floor of the hilltop center on Svinoya Island on the edge of Svolvaer. Today, most artists come with support from a joint Swedish/Norwegian association to create exchange between artists from these two neighboring countries in Scandinavia. I went to the Kunstnerhuset with the generous support of a grant from the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program.

Svolvaer village is home to intense cod, herring and salmon fishing industries that fish primarily in the winter from January to April, and tourism in the summer. Svolvaer is the largest community on the Lofoten Islands, and is center for the fishing & drying of "stockfish," a dried cod that is exported to Italy and Spain for the traditional "bacalao" delicacy.

There is much to show and describe about the time in Lofoten, but it is the light that was most memorable, magical, ever-changing and deeply mysterious. Each day & night brought a myriad of light and water conditions, many of which I witnessed from my drawing studio and small single room. I was in Lofoten just before the Autumn Equinox, when the light begins to quickly fall toward the Winter Solstice at which time this part of Norway lies in 24-hours of darkness. I felt a strong tipping and shifting of the light away from summer toward winter.

While in Lofoten, I read Didier Maleuvre's The Horizon, a History of Our Infinite Longing, published in 2011. Maleuvre is professor of comparative literature in Santa Barbara at the University of California. It was a timely choice of books to read, and aptly fueled the drawings I began in Lofoten.

From the Maleuvre's Preface, "The horizon isn't an objective boundary; it isn't really the place where earth and sky weld shut. It marks not the factual edge of the world, but the shifting line where perception trails off. A reflective phenomenon, a horizon bespeaks a beholder - the who, where, and when of its sighting. The "where" in particular: inasmuch as it limits perception, any horizon assumes the presence of a perceiver dwelling within, rather than above, the landscape. The horizon entails a ground-level immanent viewpoint of reality. It forbids the all-knowing proverbial eye in the sky. Not that the sky and what it symbolizes (the beyond, the unseen, the transcendent) is absent. On the contrary: the horizon arises from the action of casting an internal perspective on the faraway."

Indeed, I felt faraway - above the Arctic Circle in a place that sometimes felt Chinese and other-worldly with deep black/green mossy rock jutting out of the sea, continually wet surfaces, and low-lying clouds alternating with transitions to crystal clear sun. As the drawings I made in Lofoten reflect, it was a homecoming of sorts. I am part-Scandinavian descent (mostly Danish) - the Norwegian people, their customs, diet, gentle temperament and landscape felt deeply familiar.

Here are a few of thousands of photographs I took of the Lofoten light: these are shown in the order I took them...starting with the first day.

first day

on daily walk to pier from studio

bridge to next island to the west, Vestvagoy

Vinje, tiny pastoral hamlet on north side of Vestvagoy Island

view from my room

sea eagle siting, largest population on globe is in Lofoten

coming home from fishing, sea eagle boat trip

double rainbow, 10am on my last day -
the final 12 images were all taken the same day

fjord near Vestpollen

north side near Limstrand

near Henningsvar (a place I will return someday, stunning small low islands out in the sea)

view out my studio window on last day

view out my room on last day - taken at same time as previous photograph

northern lights (amateur photograph)

Extended Drawing closes October 2 @ Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway

2011-09-26T11:47:00.002-05:00

Extended Drawing is open for one more week, closing after October 2, 2011 at the Tegnerforbundet, Rådhusgata 17, 0158 Oslo, Tlf: 22423806

Extended Drawing builds freely on Apparently Invisible, an initiative of The Drawing Center in New York City from their Spring Selections exhibition in 2009. Again, artists Susan Collis (UK), Michaela Frühwirth (AT/NL), Elana Herzog (USA), Marietta Hoferer (USA), Sarah Kabot (USA), Anne Lindberg (USA), Janine Magelssen (NO), Chris Nau (USA), Janet Passehl (USA) gathered in Norway to exhibit new work in Extended Drawing.

On September 2, Tegnerforbundet hosted a lively seminar on issues in contemporary drawing and in particular focused upon concepts presented in Extended Drawing. Nina Katchadourian, curator of The Viewing Program at The Drawing Center in NYC, and Sabrina van der Lay, curator at the Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art lead the discussion, and presented work from their curatorial practice as context.

Although the methods the artists use are highly individual, they can nevertheless be seen as closely interrelated. This is due not least to a kind of common “temperature”, which all the works in “Extended Drawing” share. They are distinguished by a refined lack of presumption pitched somewhere between a sensitive delicacy and discreet insistence. It is an idiom that gives rise to something paradoxically vibrant, consistent and thoroughly present.

from essay by Anne Karin Jortveit

Elana Herzog

Elana Herzog

Michaela Fruwirth

Susan Collis

Janine Magelssen (in foreground)

Janine Magelssen

Janet Passehl and Marietta Hoferer

Janet Passehl

Marietta Hoferer

Anne Lindberg

Susan Collis

Sarah Kabot

Chris Nau

Extended Drawing was curated by Janine Magelssen

Extended Drawing opens September 1, 2011 @ Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway

2011-08-23T15:45:00.003-05:00

On Sunday this week, I depart New York City for Oslo, Norway where two of my recent drawings will be in an exhibition entitled "Extended Drawing" at the Tegnerforbundet. A group of international artists who showed together at The Drawing Center in NYC in 2009 in "Spring Selections: Apparently Invisible" will re-gather in Norway to exhibit new work together again.
Stay tuned: on September 4, I will leave Oslo and travel up north in Norway to Svolvaer in the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle for a two-week residency at the Kunstnerhuset i Lofoten. I am grateful to the Lighton International Artists Exchange Program for a grant to support this artist exchange in Norway.
I welcome you to follow this journey on this blog for the next month.