Bird Cloud 2005

Exhibit Dates: December 10, 2005 until April 16, 2006

Description: This exhibition consists of an installation of a sculptural form and related drawings:

Slowly moving and undulating across nearly 30 feet of gallery wall, bird cloud is comprised of thousands of fine arching wires each weighted with a narrow wooden form. The installation, or wall drawing, is the primary work in Anne Lindberg's installation. This subtle gesture likens itself to flocking birds, a moving cloud, animal or human hair, a gust of air, dust in a corner, a cloud of rain, a spider web, or the falling branches of a tree - all references and phenomena made out of numerous microscopic parts and conditions that change, move and reorder themselves over time. No reference fixes itself in the mind, the sense of what this massive surfaces means seems to continually change and shift. Each filament renders a mark on the wall and hovers near yet away from the wall, creating hundreds of fine shadows and a quietly breathing surface. The pattern and repetition of elements moves across the wall, changing in density and formation on the wall. The color incrementally shifts from dark graphite gray to a warm white, with a gradation in between that swells, condenses and scatters.

Approximately 16 drawings accompany the wall installation. Each subtly different, they form an abstract sense of time as the "cloud" form in each drawing appears to shift in the space of the drawing. Each drawing is made with ink on vellum, and relates to one another in composition, form and materiality. As a way to study cluster formations, flocking birds and other phenomena of change, Anne makes these drawings as she fabricates the individual elements of the wall installation, bird cloud. The drawings allow her to investigate potential configurations, sensibilities and densities that occur in the wall sculpture.