In Anne Lindberg's large-scale works, the artist creates meticulous, abstract drawings as rendered in discrete graphite lines on cotton board. The line's pitch and modulation plays with one's field of vision, creating a dynamic flux and a rich array of perceptions. This optical illusion of movement, albeit subtle, results from Lindberg's variance in line density, alignment and mis-alignment, physical pressure and the drawings' sheer scale. As one views the work, there is a reverberation, a sense of kineticism, of vertigo and of suspended time and motion. The systematic nature of the work also brings to bare reference to seismographic charts, waveforms, medical imaging and musical notation.
The artist's interest lies in tapping a "non-verbal place" to provoke emotional, visceral and perceptual responses from her viewers. The immense scale of the drawings overwhelms the viewers' field of vision, and the lines appear to undulate into three-dimensional space. An extension of Lindberg's sculptural works, the artist expresses her interest in the optical and spatial phenomenon that develops as the lines span the outer reaches of our peripheral vision. The works also reference the corporeal presence of the artist - her heart rate, respiration and psychological states - so easily transmitted through the body to the tip of the graphite and onto the cotton mat board. Her collective body of work is an iteration of an age-old desire to understand self in place.
Lindberg's work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad including the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, The Drawing Center, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and venues in New Zealand, Quebec and Japan. She has had solo exhibitions at Dolphin Gallery as well as at other venues including Dennos Museum, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Belger Art Center, and University of Texas.
Lindberg has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, most notably the Charlotte Street Foundation Award; two ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Grants; and a Mid-America/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She was Visiting Artist-in-Residence/Head of Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan in 2005 and taught for nine years at the Kansas City Art Institute. Anne Lindberg received her BFA from Miami University, Oxford, OH in 1985 and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI in 1988.
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