cycles of seeing by Anne Lindberg

Artist Residency - July 10 to November 9, 2020

In year seven of Manitoga’s artist residency program, Anne Lindberg’s luminous large-scale drawings cycles of seeing were installed in the main House. At Manitoga, Wright was keenly aware of the seasonal cycle and rhythms of nature, of the daily and often barely perceptible changes in color and light in the landscape and within the house. Nature was the inspiration for Manitoga’s design, and it framed the rituals of everyday life here as woodland footpaths followed the arc of the sun and the home’s furnishings and wall panels changed with the turn of season.

CYCLES OF SEEING

In this two-part drawing series, Lindberg’s palette of thousands of colored parallel lines transitioned from cool to warm as summer became fall at Manitoga, reflecting concerns of time, sequence and causality. Lindberg’s works unfolded at the pace of her step as she pulled lines across a pliant mat board, and she found context for her work within a long tradition of other “walking artists” including William Wordsworth, Rebecca Solnit, and Virginia Woolf. “Like these artists, philosophers and writers, I use walking as time to encourage a fluid state of perceptions, to contemplate place, and to affect change and adaptation as it informs incremental, moment-to-moment decisions in the making of my work.”

To Lindberg’s list of walking artists, we might add Russel Wright who routinely walked his seventy-five acres of woodlands over many years, observing, mapping and refining Manitoga’s footpaths and trails and placing his house and studio as part of a mindful and orchestrated movement through and dialogue with nature. Lindberg’s deliberate and measured pace informed the scale of her work as Wright’s was the measure of Manitoga. 

ANNE LINDBERG AND GLENN ADAMSON IN CONVERSATION

On September 30, 2020 Anne Lindberg spoke with Glenn Adamson, an independent curator/writer and host of Design in Dialogue, an online interview series co-presented with Friedman Benda Gallery. In conjunction with Lindberg’s exhibition cycles of seeing at Manitoga, the conversation focused first on Lindberg’s work in general through images of her intricate drawings and site-specific installations made with fine chromatic threads, and then transitioned to her two-step drawing intervention at Manitoga. Lindberg and Adamson both embraced the intersection between contemporary art, architecture, craft and design.

ABOUT ANNE LINDBERG

Artist Anne Lindberg makes immersive installations and drawings that tap a non-verbal physiological landscape of body and space. Her work has been in solo and group exhibitions at such places as The Drawing Center (NYC), Tegnerforbundet (Norway), SESC Bom Retiro (Sao Paulo), The Mattress Factory, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Museum of Arts and Design NYC, CAM Raleigh, US Embassy in Rangoon Burma, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Akron Art Museum, Cranbrook Art Museum, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, and the Omi International Art Center, among others. Lindberg is a recipient of awards including a 2011 Painters & Sculptors Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, Lighton International Artists Exchange, Art Omi International Artists Residency, and a Mid-America National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Lindberg earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art; she lives and works in Ancramdale, New York. 

2020 ARTIST RESIDENCY HOST COMMITTEE

Lead Sponsors / David McAlpin & Nanci Heller McAlpin, Marilyn & Jim Simons

Sponsors / Tom Krizmanic, Gary & Laura Maurer

Supporters /  Allison Cross & Henry Nye, Doug & Ellen DeNicola, David Diamond & Karen Zukowski, Lyn & John Fischbach, Melissa Meyers & Wilbur Foster, Fred & Anne Osborn, Frederic C. Rich, Bill Roos & Scott Olsen, Jonathan and Diana Rose

Artist Residency Program support also provided by the Manitoga Leadership Council and Design Circle, Sarah Little Turnbull Foundation, Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, PCLB Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Photos from top: cycles of seeing 01 at Manitoga; cycles of seeing 02 at Manitoga; Anne Lindberg in her studio, Ancramdale, NY; cycles of seeing 01; cycles of seeing 02; Lindberg’s palette of pencils.