Anne Lindberg: Of all colors

20 September 2024 - 4 January 2025
  • Opening reception: Friday, September 20, 5-8PM
     
    Of all colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range…. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright thin quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm: blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling.” - William Gass
     

     
    We are pleased to announce Anne Lindberg: Of all colors taking place at SECRIST | BEACH this fall. Of all colors marks New York-based artist Anne Lindberg’s fourth solo show with SECRIST | BEACH and will be presented concurrently with MANIFEST, a survey of artworks and inspired studies/drawings by artists and architects exploring themes of light, color and space.
  • For Of all colors, Anne Lindberg will create a sweeping horizontal sculpture made with thousands of lengths of fine cotton thread pulled taut from wall to wall under the gallery’s bow truss skylights. With a gap at the artist’s eye level, the form will deepen in dark blue hues and gradually fade to white or almost white. Flashes of hot color will appear to float within the gradient of blue. In addition, 13 new drawings made with graphite and colored pencil on mat board will pick up elements compositionally and chromatically from within the thread installation. Ranging in scale and number of panels, Lindberg’s drawings explore the luminous possibilities of hue. Intermittent bold bands of contrasting color shift imply a layered space while referencing changes in light that come with time of day, viewpoint and atmosphere.

     

    Blue, and the concept of blue, has a beguiling history, cultural significance, phenomenological radiance and scientific profundity. From artists to philosophers, scientists and astronauts, blue is by unequal measures intangible, mysterious and indeterminate. Scarce in nature, blue eludes perception emotionally and physically but is also everywhere - making it a symbol for the ideal - verging on the utopian. Whatever this color evokes in an individual, one of the most powerful elements is its ability to create meaning-making which, by definition, designates the way in which people interpret the world around them.

     

    Anne Lindberg has been exploring the color blue for much of her artistic career. As a young artist, she traveled to Kyoto several times to work with traditional indigo dyers where she became fascinated with indigo’s unique ability to generate beautiful slow gradations from deep blues to hints of the lightest blues. It was Lindberg’s early experience watching cloth being lifted out of an indigo dye pot and its exposure to oxygen changing the yellow-ish green color of the fermented liquid dye into deeper and deeper shades of blue with each successive dip that formed the underpinnings of her lifelong interest in color. In recent years, Lindberg has been considering the semiotics of color, or how color can be used as a signifier for meanings associated with socio-emotional, cultural, environmental and political significance.

     

    Searching for ways to visualize the mysteries of visual and spatial experience is a compelling way of working especially in times of social, environmental, and economic change. Color, particularly blue, has an inherent intrigue in human vision; it exists beyond our grasp as it holds constant conversation with adjacent colors in both time and space. Imagining a world without color, and particularly blue, underlines its significance in the whole of human experience.

     

  • Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
     Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
  • Anne Lindberg
    two suns, 2023
     
  • Anne Lindberg
    moving, one after another, 2023
  • Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
    Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
  • Anne Lindberg
    forbidden color, 2023
  • Anne Lindberg
    inseparable, 2023
  • Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
     Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
  • Anne Lindberg
    reveal, 2023
  • Anne Lindberg
    altostratus, 2024
  • The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for...

    The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural … The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

    - Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

  • Anne Lindberg
    reflect, 2024
  • Anne Lindberg
    unattainable hue, 2024
  • Anne Lindberg
    two moons, 2024
  • Anne Lindberg
    crazy day, 2023
     
  • Anne Lindberg
    cloud cover, 2023
  • Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
     Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
  • Anne Lindberg
    takes longer, 2024
  • Anne Lindberg
    apparition eclipse, 2022
  • Anne Lindberg
    passing, 2024
  • Anne Lindberg
    shadow light, 2024
  • Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
    Installation view of Of all colors. Secrist | Beach, September, 2024.
  • Anne Lindberg
    indistinguishable, 2023
  • Anne Lindberg
    ask the river what it carries, 2021
  • Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not… All colors around specific associative ideas,...

    Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colors are not… All colors around specific associative ideas, psychologically, material and tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they after all, are in actual, visible nature, what is most abstract. 

    - Yves Klein

  • New York-based multimedia artist Anne Lindberg makes sculpture and drawings that tap a non-verbal physiological landscape of body and space, provoking emotional, visceral and perceptual responses. She works with an expanded definition of drawing languages, and is influencing the resurgence of drawing in contemporary art. In works that range from site-specific ‘drawings in space’ made from fine chromatic thread to large-scale drawings of graphite and colored pencil, Lindberg generates experiences that transcend language, slow time, and tap into something at the core of us, with the belief that a kind of alchemy can exist in everyday life. The line(s) as a geometrical shape, central to her works, is formed in drawings as well as textile installations. Practice as a response to the two and three dimensions, conceptualized to question the flow of time, opens a possibility to anchor an experiential effect for the viewers. In July 2024, Iowa-born Anne Lindberg was selected by the The Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation and the Des Moines Airport Authority to complete a large-scale site-specific installation for the new terminal of the Des Moines Airport. Fourteen of Lindberg’s drawings were recently purchased by the U.S. Consulate in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia through the Art-in-Embassies program. A five-story mirrored glass wall drawing (9x60 feet on each floor) was commissioned for NYU Langone Health’s new women’s health center at the Citicorp Building in New York, NY, completed in 2023. Lindberg was commissioned by the GSA Art-in-Architecture program to create a four-story 270-panel 60x60-foot art glass wall, titled "curtain wall", for the Richard Bolling Federal Office Building in Kansas City in 2013. Lindberg’s work is also held in the collections of the Nevada Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Akron Art Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rachofsky Collection, Collection of Christy and Bill Gautreaux, Spencer Museum of Art, NYSE Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City, Niwako Kimono Company, among many others. Lindberg’s first monograph was released in late 2022 by Durer Editions (Dublin, Ireland).

     


     

  • Anne Lindberg Monograph 
    published by Dürer Editions, 2022