Linda Karshan

Guided by what she calls her “inner choreography,” Linda Karshan makes spare, monochromatic, abstract prints and drawings that serve as direct reflections of the process of their making. Though she began her career producing expressive compositions, in 1994 she developed a performance-based method for making work, in which every mark is associated with her rhythmic and regulated breathing, her counter-clockwise turning of the paper, the motion of her entire body, and the musical way in which she counts off increments of time. Based on her studies of psychology and Plato’s theory that the universe is ordered numerically, Karshan’s method results in iterative images of intersecting lines, forming grids, geometric shapes and patterns, and, sometimes, ordered yet loosely scribbled marks repeating across the page.

Karshan's solo museum exhibitions include Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK, and Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain. Her works were featured in group exhibitions at the Courtauld Gallery, London, UK, Kupferstichkabnitt, Berlin, Germany, British Museum, London, UK and Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany, among others. She regularly exhibits with galleries in Europe, and with ART 3 in Brooklyn, NY.

Courtesy of Art 3 Gallery