March 6 - 28, 2015

We are pleased to announce Linda Martinellos first solo exhibition with pm Gallery.

Linda Martinellos practice is equally indebted to the long trajectory of landscape art as it is to the fictitious and real histories of places that have inspired it. Her drawings and collages are composites of observations and memory based on geographic and geological details encountered in travels. This new series of works entitled Chambers of Indefinite Extent is based on recent travels to cenotes across the Yucatn peninsula in Southeastern Mexico. These drawings continue her research into the links between history and geography, and its political involvement with space, place and landscape.

Martinellos brush-strokes are combined with multiple layers of deep elemental tones and fierce black lines. Her hybrid painting/drawing technique combines rich oil paints with wet graphite onto layers of cut mylar. Revealing themselves from under the mylar, the intense colours insinuate memory and shadows. Clean cut windows peer through the layers of mylar, inviting a more intimate examination of the surface. Trish Boon