Erik Lindman
Peregrine, 2018-2019
acrylic, collaged canvas, woven and canvas webbing and sisal rope on linen
118 x 75 inches (299.7 x 190.5 cm)
(EL19-03)
Erik Lindman persistently attempts to construct painting anew, calling attention to the reality that surface is always acoming together of materials made to adhere to each other. Lindman reinterprets and repurposes cast-aside foundmaterials in his mixed-media paintings. Using portions of surfaces such as steel or failed paintings, he combinesthem with an awareness of scale and space while adding marks and gestures, asserting the materiality of eachcomposition.
Erik Lindman's work often uses anonymous found surfacesas compositional elements: sheets of painted luan,fragments of plastic armatures, or marred shards of stainless steel are joined, glued, and screwed together, initiatinga cascade of decisions that ultimately articulate value and attention. Cropping, awareness of scale, and use ofnegative space combine with the absorbency, luminosity, and superficial variation of these surfaces. All of thisactivity opens a space within and around the viewer, specifically focusing attention on painting’s culturalramifications and the plain facts of their existence.
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Erik Lindman
Peregrine, 2018-2019
acrylic, collaged canvas, woven and canvas webbing and sisal rope on linen
118 x 75 inches (299.7 x 190.5 cm)
(EL19-03)
Erik Lindman
Pisces, 2018
acrylic, collaged canvas, canvas webbing, sisal rope and luan on linen
90 x 86 inches (228.6 x 218.4 cm)
(EL18-05)
Erik Lindman
Jupiter, 2017-2018
found surfaces (Plexiglas), acrylic and epoxy resin putties and pastes on two joined panels on two joined panels
96 x 96 inches (243.8 x 243.8 cm)
(EL18-06)
Erik Lindman
Untitled, 2018
oil on linen over panel
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (29.2 x 39.4 cm)
(EL18-10)
Erik Lindman
Untitled, 2015-2018
oil and canvas collage on panel in artist's frame
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
(EL18-15)
Erik Lindman
Untitled, 2015-2018
oil, acrylic, Flashe and canvas collage on panel
12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
(EL18-16)
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"My presence as an artist serves as a conduit through which each individual viewer is invited to participate in the shared activity of remaking our world, here and now, out of the things that exist around and within us"
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Erik Lindman's work has, almost since the beginning, involved found objects. He has an eye for materials that might engender a good painterly or sculptural composition. Sometimes they have been included in paintings as compositional elements, while other times they are present only by implication, as a matrix through which an imprint is left, or a series of marks or gestures laid down and built up. In this way these materials do not overwhelm the work with their earlier non-art identities, as with the Duchampian legacy of the readymade, nor do they become fully subsumed into a pictorial logic, as with the Cubist tradition of collage. Rather, they are somewhere in-between, somehow both themselves, and willing actors in an aesthetic narrative.
"The incorporation of found surfaces into painting has occupied a central role in my art practice over the past decade. The primary motivation for this was simply a way to begin, to respond with and against a part of the world, an anonymous armature on which to drape my subjectivity. This action in itself has become a referent: the use of the anonymous is a historical vestige of the avant-garde. The action is no longer novel, not radical, and has been enfolded into the act of painting itself. To this list, I would also add the worksí use of centration as an anti-composition strategy as well as the expired legacy of the monochrome in the West. And yet these strategies are not engaged with for the sake of parody. They simply remain the most efficient means I have discovered to create a space of reflection, out of synch with today but perhaps paradoxically it is this atemporality that engenders their undirected power."
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Erik Lindman
Untitled, 2018-2019
oil on linen over panel
15 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (39.4 x 29.2 cm)
(EL19-04)
Erik Lindman
Natural History, 2019
acrylic and collaged canvas webbing on linen
27 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches (70 x 60 cm)
(EL19-06)
Erik Lindman
Silvered (Black Plastic), 2016-2019
found surfaces (plastic), acrylic, oil, enamel, collaged linen, epoxy resin putty, aluminum flat bar stock, screws and staples on panel
29 x 41 inches (73.7 x 104.1 cm)
(EL19-08)
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