Linda Fleming (CCA Faculty) in solo exhibition Aerious
Brian Gross Fine Art, 248 Utah Street, San Francisco
March 4 – April 29, 2017
In her newest body of work, Linda Fleming has continued her exploration of sculptural forms that simultaneously define an interior space and an exterior topography. Fleming’s multicolored powder-coated steel sculptures are comprised of a lacework of flowing linear patterns cut into the steel. This patterning reveals the dynamic inner spaces of the forms and creates a heightened sense of light and shadow within and around the works. Fleming’s sculptures are meditations on the metaphysics of geometric forms. In them, she combines layers of color with the latticework cutouts to create optical effects in the viewer’s eye that change as the sculpture is viewed from different vantage points.
On view will be Dusk, Apogee, and First Light, all recent monumental works whose complex geometries and architectures allow them to defy the weight of their materials. Also on display will be Fleming’s polychrome dimensional wall reliefs, which continue her exploration of color and shadow through precisely spaced layered panels that project off the wall to activate the space around them, and one of her signature chrome-plated wall reliefs.
Additional works in the exhibition include large pastel drawings that explore linear forms and a group of three maquettes for full-scale works, which Fleming has editioned for the first time. Made of laser cut plywood, the maquettes invite the viewer into the artist’s process for creating her larger free-standing sculptures.
