Pam Lins and Roger White on Assembly Under Pressure
Clara Maria Apostolatos speaks with artists Pam Lins and Roger White on assembly as method and encounter, as their practices come together in a joint exhibition.
The exhibition title Laterness suggests a slippery sense of timing—an arrival after the fact, unhurried but under pressure. Those conditions shape the joint exhibition by Pam Lins and Roger White at Uffner & Liu, where the two-person format is less a matter of synchronous affinity than a way of allowing meaning to take shape through delay and process.
White has worked primarily in painting and in making calendars that chart time far into the future. Here, he presents a new body of cut-and-dyed paper works: textured images of everyday life constructed slowly through accumulation and revision. Lins, known for assembling disparate materials into balanced sculptural forms, shows works built from altered USPS flat-rate boxes, pitched off-kilter, with perched hand-made ceramic birds. These are misidentified or fabricated species drawn from an encyclopedic survey of birds, introducing a note of artifice and uncertainty into an already imbalanced architecture.
Across White’s collages, Lins’s sculptures, and a newly produced collaborative work, meaning emerges through surface accumulation where materials are cut, stacked, and reworked until they hold together. Images and their meaning take shape gradually, remaining open to delay and contingency. In the conversation that follows, Lins and White reflect on Laterness as a method and mood, shaped by urgency and slowness, humor and unease.
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