Memory Mapping

Linda Cunningham Lilian Kreutzberger Karin Waskiewicz

Codex Project is pleased to announce ​Memory Mapping, an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Chatham. Linda Cunningham’s mixed media painting and sculpture fashioned from “urban mined” materials is presented in conversation with the 2007-2012 drawing and painting series of Lilian Kreutzberger, as well as with Karin Waskiewicz’s layered and carved painting. In distinctive yet harmonious ways, all artists explore issues of time, transience and memory as they gravitate toward architectural structures of previously existing societies and ever-evolving landscape. Our “memory maps,” born from particular places and characterized by their own architectures and landscapes, must perpetually adapt and transform as those places transform over time.

The tactile sensibility of Cunningham’s work is born out of the Artist’s transformation of her found materials, as well as its new historical preservation. So too, through her canvas Kreutzberger aims to synthesize her research of the futility, dilemmas and challenges of modern utopias and the role that urban spaces play within them. Moments in which the reality does or does not match the previously imagined are both source and the condition of the work itself.​ Karin Waskiewicz pushes her process of sedimentation and erasure in new directions, all in terms of scale, subject and medium. After applying multiple layers of acrylic paint, the Artist carves back into the built-up surface, transforming the layers into three-dimensional woven textures. In this way the work reinvents itself into subtle, yet surprising landscapes.

Linda Cunningham is a New York City-based artist working with mixed media painting and sculpture fashioned from “urban mined” materials. She exhibits extensively both in New York and Germany, and most recently with Odetta Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 2017 & 2015 and the Bronx Museum 2016/17 and 2010. Recent one person exhibitions include Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, the Fundacion Euroidiomas, Lima, Peru, StattMuseum, Cologne Germany, and the 2 x 13 Gallery, Chelsea, NYC. Her monumental public sculptural installations & alternative memorials are permanently sited in Cologne, Kassel, Bad Hersfeld & Cornberg, Germany, City of Sculpture, Hamilton, Ohio, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J. and Lancaster, Pa. Temporary installations were formerly at the at sited at UN Plaza, New York, Westchester Square, Bronx, NY, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, CUNY Graduate Center on 42nd St across from Bryant Park, and in Tribecca. She is the recipient of grants from the Bronx Council on the Arts, Pa Council on the Arts, Fulbright Senior Research fellowship, Berlin, Arts International Kade Collaborative Works, and the John Anson Kittredge Foundation.

Lilian Kreutzberger was born in the The Netherlands. She received her MFA from Parsons New School, New York, and graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, the Hague. Kreutzberger’s work has been exhibited at the Gemeente Museum, The Netherlands; the Royal Palace, Amsterdam; World Expo 2010, Shanghai; The Last Brucennial, NY; The Kitchen, NY and her work is included in major collections. Kreutzberger was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and Mondriaan Fund grants, the Buning Brongers Award and nominated for the Royal Award for Contemporary Painting. She was selected for residencies at Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, ISCP, Brooklyn, Eyebeam, Brooklyn, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Mana Contemporary, New Jersey; and Existentie, Ghent, Belgium.

Karin Waskiewicz was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania. She received her Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts from University of Iowa and her Bachelor of Fine Art from Kent State University. She has had solo shows at Darci Gallery, NY (2016), Levitt Gallery, Iowa City, IA (2014) and Margaret Thatcher Projects, NY (2013). She has received awards from the NARS Foundation (2015) and her work has been included in collections and exhibitions across the country. Her work was highlighted in many notable online publications, including Design Milk and Beautiful Decay. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Codex Project is a traveling pop-up gallery founded in 2018 by Elizabeth Chatham and Daniel Gabbay. It provides collaborative spaces for interdisciplinary artists in various venues around New York City. Codex Project believes it is necessary to supply exposure for skilled artists who push the boundaries of message and medium - regardless of sex, age, race or career maturity.