NYAB Event - Linda Matalon "echo echo"

Linda Matalon "echo echo"

Blackston

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Blackston presents echo echo, Linda Matalon's first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Matalon's exhibition presents a range of two-dimensional works where spatial relationships, temporal associations and material process interplay within and between works to evidence the sublime in art-making. In Matalon's works on paper, complex surfaces, while subtle at first glance, are worked with a rigorous hand: drawing with wax, scraping, graphite, mark-making and rubbing are all integral to the work, as is physicality and time. A sculptural approach to building up or breaking down surfaces, distress and erasure is clearly at work, but in the precarious balance between mark and surface, a delicacy prevails: a balanced territory where space and time flatten and expand.

The works in this exhibition speak to liminal space, where the resonance between pieces adds to the inherent contingency of any individual piece. Further, in showing her work Matalon mixes pieces and mediums from different time periods to generate a new, comprehensive whole.

Beyond an evidence of process, one sees Matalon's works as metaphorical landscapes - in many ways psychological mappings - where light and dark contrasts nod to a romanticism possible in post-minimal work, or to the exaltation possible in art. In the vein of Barnett Newman's essay on the potential of the sublime to exist without a reliance on pre-existing rules and codes in Western art-making, Matalon charts her own territory.

A catalogue has been produced in conjunction with the exhibition, with an essay by Elena Tavecchia.