Linda Gall, "Dance Me to the End"

Linda Gall

Dance Me to the End

8 color screenprint on Coventry Rag

Price range: $400 through $845

Dance Me to the End showcases Linda Gall’s complex and clever visual dialogue. Her genteel porcelain figurines appear as visitors from an earlier era, drawing us into an irreverent yet historically significant environment.

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Year
2013
Edition of
50
Dimensions
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Authentication

Signed, numbered, and dated on the front by the artist. All Haystack editions come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

About the Artwork

Dance Me to the End showcases Linda Gall’s complex and clever visual dialogue. Her genteel porcelain figurines appear as visitors from an earlier era, drawing us into an irreverent yet historically significant environment.

Produced in collaboration with the artist and Forth Estate at Axelle Editions — a renowned printmaking studio active from 2005 to 2015 — Dance Me to the End is an 8-color screenprint made using serigraphy, a process in which ink is pressed through a mesh screen one color at a time, building the composition layer by layer.

Curator's Note

Linda Gall’s Dance Me to the End operates at the intersection of the comic and the catastrophic — a pairing that is both the hallmark of her practice and the source of its enduring unease. A structure in freefall, a crowd of composed bystanders, two pairs of figures in dance: the composition presents these elements with equal weight, refusing to privilege one register over another.

Gall’s porcelain figurine are drawn from the decorative traditions of 18th-century European ceramics. A towering yet collapsing building dominates the composition. The yellow structure appears destabilized crumbling precariously toward a group of very well-dressed bystanders. These figures stand as if they are safeguarding what remains, or bearing witness to the last moments of an empire clearly in freefall.

About the Artist

Linda Gall (b.1949, Columbus, OH) creates complex images via painting, drawing, and printmaking. Gall often finds inspiration in quiet corners of daily life and derelict industrial areas, creating a quirky and irreverent visual dialogue to transform her environment.

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