“As Seen From Below” Fine Art Exhibition

A collaborative exhibition between Linus Klassen and Reese Plakholm, As Seen From Below, focuses on themes of a bodily nature in expressive and organic forms. Drawings and prints demonstrate the use of enthusiastic chance processes to engage the materials into naturally inclined images.

Klassen's work engages with body motion invigorating an obsessive drawing process to instruct mark making. Automatic, labour-intensive, persistent repetition lead ballpoint pens to blackout shiny drawing surfaces with inky scribbles and splots that generate visions of bodily imagery: hair, veins and blood vessels.

Plakholm’s work is inspired by the knowledge of climate change and the state of our footprint on the earth today. Different methods of printmaking such as monoprint and cyanotype are utilized to create intuitive imagery of plants and wildlife. In times of peril and distress, these expressive forms ground the artist, and ultimately the viewer, with an empathetic response towards humanities’ plight.

The exhibition showcases how body, mind and earth are rooted together whilst human forms mimic that of nature through physical and theoretical routes. Like the artists’ mind the viewer is allowed to roam free, have automatic play, and prolonged engagement with viewing these obsessive dedication of mark making procedures.