RHINEBECK, NY.- ‘T’ Space will present Threads, a site-responsive installation by artist Anne Lindberg and poet H. L. Hix, conceived for the light-responsive Archive Gallery designed by Steven Holl. The project marks a significant evolution in Lindberg’s practice through the integration of language as a co-equal presence within the work, realized in dialogue with Hix’s poetic voice. Set within the distinctive spatial context of Holl’s architecture, the installation extends Lindberg’s exploration of light, perception, and material into a new interdisciplinary field where visual and verbal threads converge.
At the heart of Threads is a profound synthesis of sculpture, poetry, and architecture—a dialogue that has long animated the mission of ‘T’ Space and the Steven Myron Holl Foundation. The exhibition continues a lineage of interdisciplinary collaborations that have brought visual art and poetry into conversation at ‘T’ Space, including projects by Richard Tuttle and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (Hello, The Roses in 2015), and by Brice Marden (Cold Mountain Drawings in 2019) with the poetry of Hanshan aka Cold Mountain. Threads expands that tradition through a deeply collaborative work that could not exist within any single discipline alone.
Almost from the beginning of their lives as makers, Anne Lindberg and H. L. Hix have informed one another’s creative process. Across more than thirty years, books, notes, and images have passed between them, silently building affinity, attunement, and history. Collaborations in the 1990s and again in 2015 marked moments of especially active interchange in this ever-deepening artistic friendship.
Developed through a recent period of daily correspondence, Threads emerges from this sustained artistic exchange. Lindberg draws thousands of fine, colored threads across the volume of the gallery, forming suspended tonal planes of color and light that shift with changing daylight. Hix’s concise verbal “threads” appear as reflective, three-dimensional text in Plexiglas on the walls. Material and linguistic threads move in parallel, creating an environment in which seeing and reading unfold together.
Visitors are invited to walk beneath and around the suspended thread structures, experiencing the work through duration and perceptual awareness as natural and architectural light animate both material and text. Meaning is not fixed or illustrative; rather, it is carried across visual and verbal threads, formed through attention, movement, and time.
Within Steven Holl’s architecture and the constantly changing conditions of light and shadow in the Archive Gallery, Threads creates a dynamic and evocative environment that invites viewers into the space between what can be seen and what can be said.
Anne Lindberg (b. 1962, Iowa City, IA) is a multi-disciplinary artist who works within expanded definitions of drawing, sculpture, and textile in two and three dimensions. Her most recent exhibitions include The Textile Museum at George Washington University Museums, Academy Art Museum, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, September Gallery, Everson Museum of Art and Hangar Y (Paris). A five-story glass drawing was commissioned for NYU Langone Health and Lindberg is currently working on a large-scale glass wall and sculpture commission for the Des Moines International Airport.
Collections include Everson Museum of Art, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Detroit Institute of Art, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, U.S. Consulate in Dhahran, The Rachofsky Collection, Christy and Bill Gautreaux Collection, NYSE Chicago, Richard Bolling Federal Building, Vanderbilt University, Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City among others, and numerous private collections.
Lindberg is the recipient of awards including a 2011 Painters & Sculptors Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, Lighton International Artists Exchange grant, Art Omi International Artists Residency, American Institute of Architects Allied Arts and Crafts award, and a Mid-America NEA Fellowship. She holds a BFA from Miami University and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Lindberg is represented by Bienvenu Steinberg & C Gallery (NYC), Secrist Beach (Chicago) and Haw Contemporary (Kansas City).
H. L. Hix (b. 1960, Stillwater, OK) is the author, translator, or editor of more than forty books, including poetry collections such as The Severity of the Perfect Circle and Bored in Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark; collaborative translations of contemporary Estonian and Lithuanian poetry, such as Terribly in Love, by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė; essay collections and hybrid works such as Say It Into My Mouth; a “testamentary” memorializing persons killed by gun violence, American Outrage; a “sayings gospel,” Teacher’s Teachings; a novel, The Death of H. L. Hix; and anthologies such as the NEA-commissioned New Voices.
Hix earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas, taught for fifteen years at Kansas City Art Institute, and currently is Professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at the University of Wyoming, with a joint appointment in the Creative Writing Program. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, held a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship at Yonsei University in Seoul, and taught as a visiting professor at Shanghai University.
