Linda Warren Gallery
1052 W Fulton Market
312.432.9500
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Lora Fosberg, "You Can't Fall Off the Floor," 2010
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Opens Friday June 25, 2010 (6–9pm)
June 25, 2010 – Aug 21, 2010
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–5pm)
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“Epic in scale and addressing issues that in other hands could have become sanctimonious — deforestation, advertising speak — Lora Fosberg's most recent show at Linda Warren makes use of the artist's characteristic objects (trees intact and felled) in the form of linocut collages, in addition to paintings of cityscapes invaded by funny, dark truisms and slogans. In combination with the spectacular, 40-foot-long text-based collage piece that acts as centerpiece, the show strikes a balance between satire, warning, and reflection with an appropriately mythical and monumental scope.”
Monica Westin, Flavorpill
Linda Warren Gallery says: New elements for Lora Fosberg's third solo show at the gallery are exciting large-scale linoleum cut collage pieces that are influenced by a recent personal encounter with a large Anselm Kiefer wood cut. A large percentage of her work, as before, depicts trees and forests, either caressed and revered or chopped down, mauled and obliterated. Fosberg will also envelope the viewer with her wonderfully adaptable, site- specific, 40 ft. long text-based piece entitled "You Can't Fall Off The Floor." Using hundreds of pieces of hand made paper with hand painted text, each adhered to the wall individually, Fosberg draws from what she calls “the air of now” – words she's heard from the moment – from other "artists, art critics, politicians, literature, song lyrics, [her] mother, [her] brother, [her] lover...the man on the street" and transcribes them into "history paintings."
