Visions & Revisions
Linda Sok, To paint a Cambodian Picture, 2023. 30 x 23 inches. Silk, air dry clay, dye, ink, print of a painting by Joseph Lindon Smith titled “a Teveda”.
Studio 9D
508 W. 26TH Street, 9D
New York, NY
October 3-12, 2024
What happens when artists look at cultural symbols, inherited histories, and traditional methods of making, and decide to rewrite the script?
Presented by Immaterial Projects, Visions and Revisions brings together the work of three artists who conceptually explore and aesthetically reimagine the past to create new personal narratives.
Adina Andrus
Andrus’ large-scale ceramic wall sculptures feel less like esoteric symbols adorning an ancient temple than the holy inhabitants themselves. It’s as if her efforts to make sense of the constellation of inherited cultural images and symbols has birthed a family of oracles, each with its own secret to share.
Kincheloe’s urgent, repeating forms unspool with undulating patterns and vivid colors that vibrate at a frequency that’s just off axis. There’s something in her searching strokes that both soothes with their decorative flourishes and unsettles with their ceaseless tracing and re-tracing of thought. She’s inviting us to follow, with no guarantee where we’re going.
Sok’s fiber compositions tug at the ambiguities and uncertainties of narrative histories. It’s a kind of exploded personal ethnography in which each thread of meaning is rewoven until the act of searching becomes the artifact itself. We’re left with the feeling that, at any moment, Linda could pull the whole thing together—or apart.
