Linda Cunningham

Linda Cunningham’s work is concerned with time, transience and contradictions. She gravitates to architectural and structural remnants of current and previously existing cultures, often posing the veracity of the photo-based transferred images against interpretive, fluid calligraphic drawing line and form. Discarded materials such as twisted steel beams & unraveling copper cable from the former German border juxtapose against poetry inscribed on antique wood doors epitomize the fleeting nature of power and control.

Odetta is pleased to present Linda Cunningham: Whose Land, Whose God? Layers of torn edges and severed forms distinguish Linda Cunningham’s large format mixed media paper constructions. The tactile sensibility of her work comes from her interest in the qualities of materials, observed or found. She transforms found materials, a kind of “Urban Mining,” yet preserves their cast-off qualities. In the wall-constructions she fuses relief elements, such as exposed structural fragments or sand-cast bronze, shaped by the physical process of the pour. Conceptually clear, she casts the bronze forms from military surplus scrap.

Whose Land, Whose God? is the gallery’s 26th exhibition.