Linnea’s residency in 100W’s second floor studio expanded this room’s 60 x 40’ dimensions into a collection of spaces scaled to the intimacy of her work, which pursues materials in ripstop fabric, colored pencil, nuts, bolts, metal strapping and chain. She also produced a set of video works documenting the world of a street intersection visible from one studio window looking south.

Olivia Smith is director of Magenta Plains Gallery in NYC, has exhibited Linnea’s work, and is a longtime friend of this residency program. She and Linnea unravel various threads in this conversation.