Exhibition Catalog – Lyndi Sales “(Un)Known Realms” at Nancy Toomey Fine Art

 

Lyndi Sales created the works in her (Un)Known Realms exhibition, at Nancy Toomey Fine Art, with a process that involved the accumulation of thousands of pieces of paper–each with its own unique color combination, gradation, fragmented brush texture, and shape–reconfigured into an abstract composition. Sales works intuitively from the center outwards and her palette is guided by contrasting color combinations and spiraling compositions that come to her through experiences with plant medicine and connections to mythological archetypes.

 

 

Lyndi Sales’s work exists at the interface of art and rationalism, reason and wonder. Working with hand-woven textiles, sculptural installation, intricately cut perspex, and paper and collage works, Sales’s pieces are located in a scientific register where she often interrogates the properties of light or the crystalline structure of chemicals. Her surprising combination of art and science take on new and curious configurations that often illuminate the fragile nature of our existence and temporality. In this exhibition, through the process of deconstruction, in the form of cutting up sheets of hand painted paper and found paper maps, she reassembles the fragments into abstract musings to create depictions of new territories or portals to unfamiliar and undiscovered places.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lyndi Sales

Emotional map, 2022

Acrylic and ink on archival paper

53.5 x 46.5 inches (framed)

 

 

 

Lyndi Sales, born in 1973, is based in Cape Town, South Africa, the country she represented at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. Sales has taught as a visiting lecturer at Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town and University of Stellenbosch. She has held solo shows internationally at Galerie Maria Lund in Paris, M Contemporary in Sydney, and Goodman Gallery and Whatiftheworld Gallery in Cape Town. She has participated in numerous group shows in South Africa, the United States, and throughout Europe. Her work can be found in various major public and private collections worldwide, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C, Texas A&M University, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection at Florida Atlantic University, McGill University, Facebook Offices, FRAC de la Haute Normandie, Soci t  G n rale Art Foundation, France Sasol Sandton, Redbul Hangar-7 in Salzburg, and University of Cape Town.

 

(Un)Known Realms is Lyndi Sales’s fourth show with Nancy Toomey in San Francisco.