Upstate Diary November 26′ Art Review by David Ebony

November 7, 2026

“In this collaborative exhibition, multi-disciplinary artist Anne Lindberg and poet/philopsopher H. L. Hix have created an evocative site-specific installation of luminous wall texts and glowing clusters of yellow cotton threads that are tightly stretched across the room. At once visually stimulating and intellectually engaging, Threads, organized by ‘T’ Space director and curator Susan Wides, offers a compelling merger of light, color and poetry. Lindberg has used thread in her work for decades, and here the hundreds of strands, suspended just overhead, traverse the space at a gently sloping diagonal like sunbeams streaming through the windows of the Steven Holl-designed gallery. Because of her preferred material, Lindberg is sometimes regarded as a textile artist. However, she typically uses the material as a means of drawing in space, or in a sculptural way to indicate illusionary or imaginative spaces. Fundamentally conceptual, her approach appears in some ways akin to Fred Sandback’s in his use of tautly stretched yarn from floor to ceiling, or from wall to wall, to suggest spare but intricate spatial relationships.  In this particular partnership of artist and writer, Lindberg’s cotton strands serve as Word Threads corresponding to 54 lines of text by Hix attached to the walls. Hix wrote some 200 lines of poetry during their collaboration. Laser-cut in translucent Plexiglas, about one-inch high and an eighth-inch thick, the passages of cursive script, arranged horizontally in a fluid composition on the walls, have a shimmering iridescent quality as they reflect and refract the yellow tones of the threads and the natural, ambient light in the room. The phrases, each comprising thirty syllables, are culled from various sources and touch upon a variety of topics, from climate change and the phenomenology of light and color to the works of Agnes Martin. They often impart rather cryptic, poetic musings, such as “Does the infinite give the luminous its luminosity, or does the luminous illuminate infinity?” and “Words float across my experience, revealing its surface, but sink into my experience of my experience.” The words and phrases arose from a daily exchange of texts between artist and writer that lasted thirty days in early 2026. The goal was to respond to each other in as spontaneous or intuitive way as possible. The rows of poetic phrases reverberate visually with the groupings of countless threads suspended overhead; and reading the thought-provoking lines adds to the transcendent possibilities of Threads as a uniquely immersive experience.”  — David Ebony