Linda Leslie Brown
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WORK WITH HOLES      

The new Wall Holes series (above slide show) was begun during the summer of 2016 and greatly enlarged during my Artist in Residence fellowship in July and August at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) in North Adams, MA. Exposure to the fellowship cohort of bright, ambitious contemporary visual, visual and sound artists, poets and conceptual writers was galvanizing. I had the benefit of immersion in the environment of Mass MoCA, one of the foremost exhibiting institutions of contemporary art in the country.

This new series is made of similar materials and is created using similar techniques to those in the Work with Holes, but because the works are wall mounted instead of free standing, they incorporate several interesting new visual and conceptual effects. Viewers seem to feel freer to approach the pieces quite closely, to inspect the partly hidden interiors and peer into the holes. Perhaps because of viewers' tendency to see a painting, which is wall-mounted, as either a window or a mirror, and because these colorful pieces may read as paintings from a frontal position, I have noticed that the illusionistic effects produced by the juxtaposition of forms is more pronounced. The reactions of viewers seems to have a more narrative quality, as the repurposed objects call to mind a new definition of their use as they cling to the wall and to one another. One critic was taken with the symbolism of the prosthetic use that these objects suggest, as hybridized body-like forms with mysterious functions.

"Chimeric is Linda Leslie Brown’s largest, most ambitious indoor installation to date. She further develops the compelling ideas explored in Nurse Log (Members Gallery, Kingston Gallery, 2012), and the relationship between her gallery installations and her outdoor, site specific installation work is increasingly fruitful."
— Mary Bucci McCoy, "Chimeric: A Poetic Ecology of Energy"

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