Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby

Collaborative Mt. Tamalpais Drawings #4

2017

Collaborative Mt. Tamalpais Drawings, 2017

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In conjunction with KADIST’s 2017 exhibition If Not Apollo, the Breeze, artist and filmmaker Lynn Marie Kirby performed Transmissions, a video and live reading created with longtime collaborator Etel Adnan. Inspired by time spent together in Paris, the piece incorporated open-ended conversation about the oracle, Mount Tamalpais (a subject of long-standing fascination for Adnan and the subject of hundreds of works), and a suite of collaborative drawings. The drawings, made in India ink and created spontaneously, are remarkable evidence of two lives, minds, and hands in dialogue. Executed simply and without fuss, they cut to the core of memory and mark-making across time. Though Adnan, 93, is not able to physically travel, the works represent a wandering–if homebound–spirit.

Visual artist, poet, and essayist Etel Adnan writes what must be communicated through language, and paints what cannot. While her earliest paintings favored pure abstraction, she is perhaps best known for her landscape works inspired by her long obsession with Mount Tamalpais. Her work has been published and displayed around the world. Moving between narratives of geographic and domestic landscapes, Lynn Marie Kirby explores traces of a human presence through the residue of light, history, and listening. With a background in cinema and conceptual performance, she works with shifting recording technologies, creating film/video hybrids, drawings, and installations that become records of certain times and places. Using methods such as site interruption, writing, and collaboration, her projects manifest at the intersection of events and archives, looking at the links between public and private, biographical and system ecologies.

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Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby Collaborative Mt. Tamalpais Drawings #4

Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby

Collaborative Mt. Tamalpais Drawings #4