Lucy Nordlinger 'Untitled Collage V'
Drawer 4- Untitled Collage V. Dye, bleach, acrylic and sewing on canvas and linen. 12” x 14”. 2020
Artist Statement
My work explores the poetics of the terrestrial and the cosmic, using sewing and collage to facilitate points of contact between the two. Symbols, gestures, spaces, and images converge-- the way they might in a dream, forming a language of their own. Gesture and tactility are key components of my practice. Rather than rendering an object into an image, I am interested creating something tangible out of the ethereal. I dye, paint, and bleach bits of fabric, responding to the shape and tactility of each piece of canvas. The permeable quality of the dyes allow for any gesture or brushstroke to disappear, sinking into the fibers of the canvas. The artist’s hand emerges instead, in the gestural quality of the hand-sewing that appears throughout the works, bringing the terrestrial and the cosmic together.
Artist Bio
Lucy Nordlinger is a painter and assemblage artist from the Carolinas. She received her MFA from the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in 2018 and is currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has recently been featured in the New American Paintings MFA Annual Issue #141, Afternoon Magazine, and Dovetail Magazine online.
Drawer 4- Untitled Collage V. Dye, bleach, acrylic and sewing on canvas and linen. 12” x 14”. 2020
Artist Statement
My work explores the poetics of the terrestrial and the cosmic, using sewing and collage to facilitate points of contact between the two. Symbols, gestures, spaces, and images converge-- the way they might in a dream, forming a language of their own. Gesture and tactility are key components of my practice. Rather than rendering an object into an image, I am interested creating something tangible out of the ethereal. I dye, paint, and bleach bits of fabric, responding to the shape and tactility of each piece of canvas. The permeable quality of the dyes allow for any gesture or brushstroke to disappear, sinking into the fibers of the canvas. The artist’s hand emerges instead, in the gestural quality of the hand-sewing that appears throughout the works, bringing the terrestrial and the cosmic together.
Artist Bio
Lucy Nordlinger is a painter and assemblage artist from the Carolinas. She received her MFA from the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in 2018 and is currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has recently been featured in the New American Paintings MFA Annual Issue #141, Afternoon Magazine, and Dovetail Magazine online.
Drawer 4- Untitled Collage V. Dye, bleach, acrylic and sewing on canvas and linen. 12” x 14”. 2020
Artist Statement
My work explores the poetics of the terrestrial and the cosmic, using sewing and collage to facilitate points of contact between the two. Symbols, gestures, spaces, and images converge-- the way they might in a dream, forming a language of their own. Gesture and tactility are key components of my practice. Rather than rendering an object into an image, I am interested creating something tangible out of the ethereal. I dye, paint, and bleach bits of fabric, responding to the shape and tactility of each piece of canvas. The permeable quality of the dyes allow for any gesture or brushstroke to disappear, sinking into the fibers of the canvas. The artist’s hand emerges instead, in the gestural quality of the hand-sewing that appears throughout the works, bringing the terrestrial and the cosmic together.
Artist Bio
Lucy Nordlinger is a painter and assemblage artist from the Carolinas. She received her MFA from the Leroy E. Hoffberger School of Painting in 2018 and is currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has recently been featured in the New American Paintings MFA Annual Issue #141, Afternoon Magazine, and Dovetail Magazine online.