Adam Linn: Edge Crush

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.