There was a show at LACMA not long ago that dealt with kinesthesia in art--visual forms that produce aural, tactile and other cross modal responses. Typically, as that show made clear, this type of art is abstract and traces itself back to Kandinsky and modern art. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing, because our “been there/done that” reaction can stop further engagement. In its ability to create a cross modal experience that is not stale, that is able to move from the visual to other senses, the very long 124-inch scroll of abstract marks made by Judith Lindenberg stands out.
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Smaller sheets of painted marks are spliced together into a gallery-length horizontal band that reads like a huge musical score: opening softly, building a theme, and raising to a crescendo. Like densely packed notes moving briskly on a staff, the colored, alternatively drippy, chalky, tendrilly “tones,” though purely abstract, enter the senses directly and communicate in ways that language and literal narrative can’t
(TAG, Santa Monica). |
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