LINDA STARK
2020-05-11Spanning the last decade, this selection of Stark’s works on paper incorporates techniques such as piercing, kissing, and collage, and exemplifies her tendency to utilize the full physical potential of her materials. Each drawing or painting on paper, like her paintings on canvas, is the result of highly virtuosic techniques that often require long periods of time to execute. These pictures reflect personal experiences, visions, and sensations that give rise to iconic images. Each is like an amulet charged with devotional fervor.
Stark’s work is notable for the laser-like focus with which it is conceived and made, but she is unafraid of taking on themes with broad reach: the metaphysical and political ramifications of gender, the power of the female gaze and body, the roles played by animals in human lives and dreams, and the mythological and spiritual dimensions of the natural world. Her project, which has evolved over the course of four decades, represents not only a complete rethinking of how materials like paper and paint can function as physical substances, but the sustained elaboration of an entire worldview suffused with curiosity, mysticism, humor, and criticality.
Opposite – Spectacled Cobra Emoji, 2018
Exhibition runs through to June 3rd, 2020
David Kordansky Gallery (Frieze Viewing Room)
5130 W. Edgewood PL.
CA. 90019
Los Angeles
