Linnéa Gad’s work speaks to the engulfing sublimnity and emotional ambivalence of landscapes that are in a state of both physical or perceptual erosion. Translating her painterly processes into printmaking, in this aquatint Gad creates an image in the copper plate by simulating wave movements with the acid, emulating the sea as well as depicting it. When printed, the variations from dark to light blue show the rhythmic waves of acid as it washed over the plate: where it has rested continuously and where it has passed over—a micro-mirroring of the sea and salt that erodes coastline to rock to sand.
Linnéa Gad, b. 1990, Stockholm, Sweden, is an artist working across painting, sculpture, printmaking and installation. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2022. Her solo shows include Erratics at Spencer Brownstone Gallery in New York (2019), Luster Pit at RØM in Copenhagen (2018), and Mound Remover at New Release in New York (2018). The artist has recently participated in group shows at The Jewish Museum in New York (2022), The Lenfest Center for the Arts in New York (2021) and SixtyEight Art Institute in Copenhagen (2021). She is the recipient of grants from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022. Gad was a part-time lecturer at Parsons The New School for Design in 2022 and is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of The Arts. The artist’s first publication "Kalk" is to be released by Danish RSS Press.
Aquatint
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