Erik Lindman
In conversation with Joe Fyfe
Erik Lindman and Robert Motherwell are two artists who, though born seventy years apart, share an interest in using found materials to generate compositional decisions in their work. This can be traced back to their shared lodestar Picasso, and the collage technique he developed at the turn of the last century.
— Alex Bacon, Art historian, curator, and publisher
On the occasion of 'Open Edges: Erik Lindman & Robert Motherwell', a duo show at Almine Rech Brussels on view from March 11 to April 18, 2026, Erik Lindman and Joe Fyfe discuss the making of the exhibition and the practices of both artists.
Erik Lindman (b. 1985, New York, NY) lives and works in New York. He earned his BA from Columbia University (2007) and received a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship in 2006. Recent exhibitions include ‘Singing in Unison,’ The Scully Tomasko Foundation, New York, NY, US (2019); ‘The Surface of the East Coast: Différance,’ Le 109, Nice, France (2017); ‘Painting or Not,’ Kaviar Factory, Henningsvær, Norway (2017); ‘Pour une Grammaire du Hasard,’ Kunsthalle FriArt Fribourg, Switzerland (2012). His work is held in the collections of Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; SYZ Collection, Geneva, CH; Danjuma Collection, London, UK; Kaviar Factory, Henningsvaer, Norway; and Peter Marino Collection, US. Lindman was honored at the Hirshhorn Museum “Artist x Artist” Gala in 2019.
Robert Motherwell, one of the great painters of Abstract Expressionism, is renowned for his work in painting, print and collage that combined a new visual language of gestural abstraction with the dialectical nature of the human psyche. Deeply informed by Henri Matisse, Motherwell strove to liberate color and line from its strict descriptive role and demonstrate its potential as a device by which profound emotions could be expressed through simple means. Throughout his oeuvre, Motherwell's work is defined by pervading dialogues between European modernist traditions and a distinctive and fresh American approach to art making; pure abstraction and figuration; as well as formal and emotional modus operandi.
