06/03/2026
Final week to see Linnea Paskow, “Ecstatic Collapse” at Equity Gallery, presented concurrently with Carol Diamond, “Go Ahead, Make Me” in the Equity Gallery Project Space and Aaron Brodeur, “Is it going good in the garden?” in the Equity Gallery Courtyard. The gallery is open daily through Saturday, 12–6 PM.
Additionally, please join us for the closing reception on Saturday from 3–5 PM. Light refreshments will be provided as the artists lead tours of their respective shows.
In “Ecstatic Collapse,” Linnea Paskow's inaugural solo exhibition in Equity Gallery, the artist debuts a cycle of vibrantly colored works painted on salvaged drop cloths that loosely correspond to the classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—not as illustrations of elemental conditions, but as “energy states” emerging from environmental overload.
Needing space to act out the psychic push/pull of mind vs. emotion whilst resisting a complacency culminating in a disquieting stasis, Paskow spread 6 × 9 ft. drop cloths across the rooftop of her Bushwick home and let it rip with a Pollock-like chromatic storm that paid homage to both abstract action-painting techniques and earlier narrative mythologies—albeit through an unabashedly feminist lens. Fragments accumulate throughout the works—plastic debris, rooftop skies, animal forms, and gestural marks—pressing against one another until a fragile order begins to emerge. Images surface and dissolve within dense fields of color and texture, at times vivid and immediate, at others slipping back into the surrounding atmosphere.
For Paskow, “the work circles a wound”; a chromatic storm where destruction, color, and elemental force become vehicles for spiritual transformation. The paintings “resist resolution,” they remain “suspended between coherence and unraveling” as “beauty can arise from visual excess.”
Featured Work:
Slide One: Linnea Paskow, "Slurp Flower (Earth)," 2025, mixed media (acrylic and oil) on drop cloth, 72” x 108” (6’ x 9’)
Slide Two: Linnea Paskow, "Low Signal (Water)," 2025, mixed media (acrylic and oil) on drop cloth, 72" x 108" (6' x 9')