galia linn:
BEAUTY QUEEN,
HEARTBREAKER,
HIGH MAINTENANCE
January 23 to March 20, 2021
Track 16 presents the second solo show by Los Angeles-based artist Galia Linn in the exhibition, Beauty Queen, Heartbreaker, High Maintenance. The exhibition will run from January 23rd to March 20th. The exhibition features an installation of new sculptures and paintings created during this past year. Open to visitors by appointment. The gallery staff will be masked, distanced, and following safety protocols.
Galia Linn’s new body of work intimately addresses how tradition and spirituality are imbued in ritual objects, intermingling the notions of both women’s empowerment and human mortality. For decades, Linn has drawn inspiration from neolithic proto cities located in modern-day Southern Turkey, a society whose burial practices involved entombing the bones of deceased community members below the beds of the living, which suggests that there was no separation between life and death. In addition, evidence shows that men and women were equally treated. This exhibition builds on these ideas yet goes in a more personal direction. Because of the enforced isolation of the past year, instead of reaching outward to use distant societies as inspiration for her work, Linn turned inward, thinking about the relationship between life and death within her own cultural upbringing. The work follows Linn’s larger life-long mission of intermingling art and life and creating a seamless combination of the two.
For inquiries, email info@track16.com.
MARCH 17, 2021
REVIEW BY GENIE DAVIS
Clay bust, household paints on stucco on plywood and decomposed granite.
84 x 58 x 38 inches
GL_0498
Hopkins white. Glazed stoneware.
53 x 21 x 21 inches
GL_0507
Sonora white clay. Glazed stoneware.
54 x 23 x 22 inches
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Black mountain clay. Glazed stoneware.
56 x 26 x 22 inches
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Household paints on cast foam, stucco and plywood and decomposed granite.
47 x 84 x 73 inches
GL_0499
Drapes and horsehair on galvanized pipe.
110 x 109 x 12 inches
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Drapes and horsehair on galvanized pipe.
110 x 109 x 12 inches
GL_0509
Texas white clay. Glazed stoneware.
8.5 x 14 x 6 inches
GL_0479
Black mountain clay. Glazed stoneware.
9 x 13 x 8 inches
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Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
7 x 15 x 8 inches
GL_0481
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
7 x 15 x 8 inches
GL_0510
Sonroa white clay. Glazed stoneware.
8.5 x 12 x 8 inches
GL_0483
Black Mountain clay. Glazed stoneware.
10 x 12 x 8 inches
GL_0484
House paints on stucco and plywood
20.5 x 12 inches
GL_0438
Household paint on stucco and plywood.
24 x 24 x 1 inches
GL_0501
Household paint on stucco and plywood.
30 x 30 x 1 inches
GL_0503
Household paint on stucco and plywood.
96 x 48 x 1 inches
GL_0504
Household paint on stucco and plywood.
24 x 24 x 1 inches
GL_0500
Household paint on stucco and plywood.
30 x 30 x 1 inches
GL_0502
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
5 x 5 x 5.5 inches
GL_0492
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
5 x 5 x 4 inches
GL_0493
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
4.5 x 6 x 4 inches
GL_0494
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
4.5 x 5 x 5 inches
GL_0495
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
4 x 5 x 4 inches
GL_0496
Mixed clay. Glazed stoneware.
3.5 x 5 x 5 inches
GL_0497
Texas white clay. Glazed Stoneware.
19 x 7 x 6 inches
GL_0477
Texas white clay. Glazed stoneware.
4.5 x 9 x 9 inches
GL_0478
Hopkins white clay. Glazed stoneware. 19 x 9 x 8 inches
GL_0476
BUILDING BLOCKS
In the last gallery an intimate viewing wall is set up to display 36 small “test” sculptures created to experiment with unique glazing techniques. Each of these “Building Blocks” is itself a small jewel forged from the earth. The handmade forms comprise an archive of Linn’s material language.
At $300 each, one third of the sales go towards supporting A Room of One’s Own, an artist’s residency for women and women-identified artists of all disciplines living in L.A. District 9 (South L.A.). It provides a studio, stipend, exhibition space, and a mentorship network through Arts at Blue Roof (newly launched as a non-profit).
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE
with an essay by Anuradha Vikram, Nicki Green in conversation with the artist, and a poem by Amanda Maciel Antunes. 108 pages. Softcover.
$31.96
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Galia Linn is a sculptor and site-specific installation artist living and working in Los Angeles. Linn constructs relationships between subject, object and their environments by creating elemental tensions. She has shown nationally and internationally and is part of numerous private collections in Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
Selected solo and group exhibitions include:
The Body, The Object, The Other, Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; GATES. Irrational Exhibits #11, The Bendix Building, Los Angeles, CA; Binder of Women, 2nd edition, The Pit, Glendale, CA; Note to Self, Five Car Garage Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Evidence of Care, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; La Reina De Los Ángeles, Descanso Gardens, CA; Inside, The Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA; Art Beyond Conflict, Bellingham, WA; Experience 19: Touch, El Segundo Museum of Art, El Segundo, CA; Uncommon Terrain, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Clay, Lefebvre et Fils, Paris, France; and Vessels, LA><Art, West Hollywood, CA.
Galia Linn is a member of Binder of Women, an independent platform for female artists based in Los Angeles. In 2016 she founded Blue Roof Studios, a multidisciplinary art hub located in South Los Angeles.
+1-310-815-8080
LOCATIONS
BENDIX BUILDING
1206 Maple Ave, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
HELIOTROPE – opening March 29, 2025
706 Heliotrope Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
ⓘ Wheelchair accessible.
Also open by appointment.
+1-310-815-8080
LOCATIONS
BENDIX BUILDING
1206 Maple Ave, Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Thursday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
HELIOTROPE
(opening March 29, 2025)
706 Heliotrope Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
ⓘ Wheelchair accessible.
Also open by appointment.
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