saffron fog
Shelter in Place Gallery
solo exhibition
part of Light and Shadow curated by Caroline Kipp
June 2021
video of installation
Sun spilling through morning mist inspired Anne Lindberg’s “saffron fog,” a light-filled installation where color is suspended in a glowing atmosphere. Made with fine pastel rubbed and brushed into the surface of the paper, these wall drawings were slowly built, pass by pass to reach their intensity and variations.
With its sense of clarity and connection to the sun, yellow has symbolized wisdom, imagination, intellect, and life-affirming hope across religions, continents, and eras.Yet yellow’s ability to grab attention can also serve as a warning; veering into hazards, mania, illness, deceit, and decay. Lindberg reflects that “throughout the pandemic, our collective responses of hope and despair, science and contradiction, seem to make yellow a fitting color for the moment.
Light and Shadow, curated by Caroline Kipp is a fundraiser for CERF+ (The Artists Safety Net). Artists included in Light and Shadow: Inga Adda, Nathaniel Bearg, Christina Bothwell, Yétúndé Olagbaju, Walker Roman, Leigh Suggs with prints by Amos Kennedy, Jr.
Christina Bothwell has generously donated her exhibition work for auction to benefit CERF+. All proceeds from this auction will be matched by an anonymous donor, and added to the COVID-19 Response Fund at CERF+, the Artists Safety Net. The auction will end on June 28th, and is being jointly organized with the James Renwick Alliance for Craft.
In life and in art, you can’t have light without the dark. In every imaginable medium, artists throughout history have explored the themes of light and dark visually, or in the content of the work itself. The radiance of light has expressed spiritual illumination, and the thirst for transcendence. Darkness, the unknowable and frightening within ourselves and the world. In Light & Shadow, the featured artworks bridge the dichotomy, and rest in that generative space between.
Throughout the exhibition a concurrent print sale and an auction will fundraise for CERF+, to help those who need some light in the dark. CERF+ was started by artists for artists in the craft community as a grassroots mutual aid effort in 1985 and has since emerged as the leading nonprofit organization that uniquely focuses on safeguarding artists’ livelihoods nationwide. Funds raised from the print sale will be matched by an anonymous donor, and added to the COVID-19 Response Fund at CERF+, to support their continued valuable work. If the past year has taught us anything, it is that without one another, there is no light.
