About

In Erik Lindman’s new works, the artist creates fresh abstract forms with a fine attunement
to painterly details, constellated around various found surfaces and their treatment as
compositional elements, surfaces, and supports. The majority of these new works are on
primed or linen-wrapped panel that are affixed with thin sheets of aluminum or steel
sheetmetal (or occasionally other flat, less-identifiable building materials), which are
disguised and revealed to varying degrees by the application of paint on and around them.
Colors and forms tend to accrete in the center of the painting, framed by …