January 14–February 11, 2023
Steve Turner is pleased to present Edge Crush, a solo exhibition by New York-based Adam Linn featuring new paintings that depict stretched, twisted, condensed and collapsed domestic spaces. The edges of his paintings serve to confine the image within, undermining the common notion that there is a world of implied imagery beyond the perimeter of a canvas. Linn reveals and conceals, giving objects anthropomorphic traits that get intertwined with the main figure so as to blur the distinction between the animate and inanimate and to make the main figure almost indiscernible. Like a warm taffy pull, locks, keys and zippers stretch into impossible articulations that defy their conventional material constraints and entirely lack straight lines. According to Linn, his distorted compositions aim to disrupt the heteronormative assumptions aligned with the idea of home.
Adam Linn (born 1995, Pittsburgh) earned a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design (2017) and has completed residencies at the Vermont Studio Center; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado and the Distillery Program at the Brewhouse Association in Pittsburgh. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles; Ortega y Gasset Projects, New York; Martha’s Contemporary, Austin; Eve Leibe, London and JPS, Hong Kong. He is currently pursuing his MFA in painting and drawing from SUNY Purchase.
Born 1995, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in New York
Education
2017
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Edge Crush, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2022
Curtain Call, JPS Gallery, Tokyo
2019
Sugar In The Tank, Imagebox Gallery, Pittsburgh
Group Exhibitions
2022
Figuring, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Honey in the Hive, Shin Haus of Shin Gallery, New York
Art Central, Hong Kong (with HKCEC)
Eve Presents II, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
Himerica, Eve Leibe Gallery, London
Ortega Y Gasset Flatile Exhibition, Brooklyn
2021
Art for Change, PERSAD Benefit Acution, Pittsburgh
Not Just Another Anthropecentric Love Story, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
Borough Baroque, 5-50 Gallery, Queens
2020
Sit…Play Dead, Super Duchess Gallery, New York
Seeking Truth, Distillery Group X Exhibition, Brewhouse Association, Pittsburgh
2019
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 107th Annual Group Exhibition, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Witness, G I CW Gallery, Pittsburgh
Soak Rinse Repeat, Dual Exhibition with Bridget Quirk, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Print Group New 2019 New Members Exhibit, PullProof Studio, Pittsburgh
2018
The End, Framehouse and Jask Gallery, Pittsburgh
Fragmented Realities, Nonfinito Gallery, New York Sight Lines, Butler St. Lofts, Pittsburgh
2017
Circles Without Breaks, Local Project, Long Island City, New York
Radiant Hall, Framehouse and Jask Gallery
Some Day My Prints Will Come: Senior Printmaking Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Bibliography
2022
Gorny, Liz. “Why a pink pussycat sits at the heart of Adam Linn’s deeply tonal, coloured pencil practice,” It’s Nice That, April
“Aritist Of The Week,” LVL3, September
2021
The Coastal Post: Remote Visits Part VII
2020 “Anniversary Edition 20,” ArtMaze Mag, Issue 20
