LINNEA VEDDER
The Doubly Balanced Sky: Explorations in Windows and PairsMay 23 - June 22, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, May 23, 6-9pm
“When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
In The Doubly Balanced Sky: Explorations in Windows and Pairs, the exhibition is not just housed within the backspace of the gallery but conceptually folded into its architectural front. Here, Vedder presents a new project that engages the window as metaphor and material, a site of potential, a surface of illusion, and a recurring dyadic form.
Constructed at the scale of the gallery’s front-facing windows, the works suggest a doubling, not simply of image or form, but of gaze and its constitutive other. The window, long held as a framing device for vision, becomes an index of the simulacrum: a place where meaning is not found behind the surface but entangled within it.
Small watercolor studies hang on the walls, meditations on form, color, and gesture. At the center, a fabric painting hangs suspended, comprised of dyed textiles quilted together, then painted upon. This piece resists easy classification: it is both object and performance, an act of construction that simultaneously undoes itself. The quilting, a process rooted in domestic labor and collective memory, becomes a practice of theoretical deconstruction, where layers obscure, reveal, hold, and fragment.
The exhibition foregrounds the symbolic resonance of the pair. As a number, two is often understood as balance, opposition, or relation. But Vedder’s handling makes the pair unstable, a dialectic in motion rather than a fixed dualism. Vedder’s work does not offer resolution; instead, it traces the contours of encounter between interior and exterior, self and other, presence and representation.
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Linnea Vedder works primarily with painting and sculpture. Working with fabric, textiles, quilting, and dyed materials, she constructs richly textured surfaces that blend abstract and figurative imagery. Her rigorous and meticulous process centers on uncovering the spiritual within the quiet moments of everyday life.
Linnea Vedder is a New York-based artist born in Madison, Wisconsin. Her work has been shown at Lubov, Jack Hanley, The Kitchen, Essex Flowers, Exit Art, The BoomBoom Room, Spare Room Projects, and Live with Animals, among others.
Constructed at the scale of the gallery’s front-facing windows, the works suggest a doubling, not simply of image or form, but of gaze and its constitutive other. The window, long held as a framing device for vision, becomes an index of the simulacrum: a place where meaning is not found behind the surface but entangled within it.
Small watercolor studies hang on the walls, meditations on form, color, and gesture. At the center, a fabric painting hangs suspended, comprised of dyed textiles quilted together, then painted upon. This piece resists easy classification: it is both object and performance, an act of construction that simultaneously undoes itself. The quilting, a process rooted in domestic labor and collective memory, becomes a practice of theoretical deconstruction, where layers obscure, reveal, hold, and fragment.
The exhibition foregrounds the symbolic resonance of the pair. As a number, two is often understood as balance, opposition, or relation. But Vedder’s handling makes the pair unstable, a dialectic in motion rather than a fixed dualism. Vedder’s work does not offer resolution; instead, it traces the contours of encounter between interior and exterior, self and other, presence and representation.
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Linnea Vedder works primarily with painting and sculpture. Working with fabric, textiles, quilting, and dyed materials, she constructs richly textured surfaces that blend abstract and figurative imagery. Her rigorous and meticulous process centers on uncovering the spiritual within the quiet moments of everyday life.
Linnea Vedder is a New York-based artist born in Madison, Wisconsin. Her work has been shown at Lubov, Jack Hanley, The Kitchen, Essex Flowers, Exit Art, The BoomBoom Room, Spare Room Projects, and Live with Animals, among others.
