StoneRoots 5770 InvBluGr is a photographed landscape turned vertically. The upturned shoreline mirrors human bodies and the reflections cultural and political shifts. Lin, the Taiwanese-born daughter of scientists and a long-time New York resident, experiences dual cultures, familiar to anyone who instinctively recognizes the displacements of translation. The work also mirrors climate change, the instability of which increasingly turns us sideways.
BoulderStoneRoot5777 PinkAquaShimmer, 2025, 54 x 50 inches
The paint is equally doubled in its implications. Acrylic has been swapped for oil. Yet the soft repetitive strokes melding charcoal or acrylic in Lin's earlier work here stacks small, linear brushstrokes into dense networks of texture. The color is attended to in simultaneous contrasts that vibrate the eye, while shapes evolve as solid and volumetric as bodies.
Overturned5717 InvPinkIceBlue, 2025, oil on panel, 20 x 24 inches
A landsdcape that says it's overturned, translated from the many photos Lin takes of her experiences kayaking. Here, a wing-like form flays open, overturning Soutine's carcass of beef! The image feels important, containing the overlay of solid and ephemeral in repose, landscape as body, shell, or shroud.
StoneRoots5770 InvTurqBl, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches
Channeling Ingre's Monsieur Bertin, the branches become gnarled hands reaching out from the painting as the head literally splits in two. Andrea mentioned Gustave Klimt instantly conjuring the patterns of Dagobert Peche for me, as if their patterns inflated as forms tumbling from the body.
BoneBranch5007, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 11 inches
The presiding spirit of the exhibition, the first in this sequence of paintings, presenting a flatter body that Lin returns to in her most recent work. The bucolic scene of a river and wood, re-envisioned as a ganglia of internal organs, represents both the ease with which experience is digitized and the way in which those processes yield new images that amplify our world in ways we don't even know.
