Linnea Kniaz
Chicago
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Running Bond
Magenta Plains is pleased to present Linnea Kniaz: Running Bond, the artist’s first solo exhibition at Magenta Plains.
Driven by an empirical approach, Kniaz’s paintings, installations, and freestanding sculptures transgress inherent boundaries of objects, architecture, and form—drawing inspiration from multi-faceted artists like Anne Truitt and Ree Morton. Kniaz’s shaped paintings emerge from observations experienced in the process of making and decisions about color, material, texture, and measurements are dictated by the haptics of her studio’s walls, floor, and corners. Momentary reactions to the creases and folds in large rolls of canvas are fostered into form. Surfaces are primed with white wall paint tinted with acrylic orange, red, blue, and yellow followed by small, painterly gestures and additional collaging.
The canvases are stretched over vinyl tubing and threaded with steel rods to build tension, resulting in distortions that ripple and push the canvas into developing irregular perimeters. Through this process, Kniaz’s physical actions engage material limits, creating sculptural problems for the artist to solve. The moments of near-structural failure reveal shadow lines and exposed staples—a suggestion of the hidden formwork and a willful precariousness.
Here, Kniaz’s highly specific palette references Alvar Aalto’s living room in his Experimental House in the Finnish countryside. The architect’s house is an aggregate of material testing, brick patterning, and composition. Running Bond is a reference to the most common bricklaying pattern, a simple offset motif that structurally bonds the individual bricks together. In the case of Aalto’s house, Running also describes the intuitive compositional process as one pattern runs into the next, or even the way that ivy runs wild over a brick surface.
Kniaz’s sculptures are assemblages of readily available building materials: bricks, gutter downspouts, and steel rods painted stock beige colors such as Bone Linen, Heritage Cream, Light Maple, and Herringbone available from GutterSupply, a large Chicagoland distributor. An otherwise suburban colonial palette takes a distant cue from Scandinavian design’s influence on Midwestern architecture.
Kniaz’s whimsical and poetic paintings and sculptures illuminate playful inversions, repetitions, and rephrasings, emphasizing the spatial relationships between one artwork and another as well as the surrounding environment. As a result, hierarchy is blurred, creating an open ecology that provides the viewer with a subtle experience of gradual discovery.
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Feb 22 - Mar 31, 2019
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Installation view of Running Bond
Magenta Plains, New York
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Linnea Kniaz: Running Bond
2019
Magenta Plains, New York
Image courtesy of Magenta Plains, New York
Linnea Kniaz: Running Bond
2019
Magenta Plains, New York
Image courtesy of Magenta Plains, New York
Linnea Kniaz: Running Bond
2019
Magenta Plains, New York
Image courtesy of Magenta Plains, New York
Linnea Kniaz: Running Bond
2019
Magenta Plains, New York
Image courtesy of Magenta Plains, New York
Installation view of Running Bond
Magenta Plains, New York
Artworks
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Green, Breaking into More
Red, Fitting Together
Surface Sequence 12
Red, Shifting Over and Up
Bone Linen Sequence
Green Changing
Framework 12
Blue, Breaking into More
Light Maple Sequence
Yellow, Fitting Into
Red, Coming Down
Orange, Growing Out and From
Linnea Kniaz > <
Green, Breaking into More
Red, Fitting Together
Surface Sequence 12
Red, Shifting Over and Up
Bone Linen Sequence
Green Changing
Framework 12
Blue, Breaking into More
Light Maple Sequence
Yellow, Fitting Into
Red, Coming Down
Orange, Growing Out and From
Linnea Kniaz
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Green, Breaking into More
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
25 x 11.5 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Red, Fitting Together
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
27 x 15 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Surface Sequence 12
2019
Aluminum downspout, acrylic, and steel rod
2 x 13 x 38 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Red, Shifting Over and Up
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
80 x 15 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Bone Linen Sequence
2019
Aluminum downspout, acrylic, steel rod, and brick
7 x 3.50 x 24 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Green Changing
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
34 x 27 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Framework 12
2019
Steel rod, acrylic, vinyl tubing
67.5 x 38 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Blue, Breaking into More
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
27.5 x 12.5 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Light Maple Sequence
2019
Aluminum downspout, acrylic, steel rod, and brick
7 x 3.50 x 24 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Yellow, Fitting Into
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
22.5 x 29 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Red, Coming Down
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
17 x 33 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Orange, Growing Out and From
2019
Acrylic on canvas stretched onto vinyl tubing
80.5 x 27.5 in.
Courtesy of the artist and Magenta Plains, New York
Artists
Linnea Kniaz
Chicago
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