Linda Rotua Sormin is a New York-based artist and 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellow. We interviewed her about her work and creative practice in March 2026. The following is excerpted and edited from the artist’s responses.
Each work stands as a radiant tribute to Queer life resistance and community, celebrating its bombastic, glittering glory with longing, reverence, and exuberance.
The usual material hierarchy placing painting above textile arts is reversed, both literally and metaphorically.
These works are maximalist, celebrating visible, queer, and conscientious life with a studied virtuosity that responds to the clarion call of Sylvester’s notorious falsetto.
The artist in this review, Jen P. Harris, combines a painted canvas with a woven layer over it.
… the gaze in these works turns “looking” into a confrontation with presence,
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Harris works directly with fabric, allowing cloth to register handling, repetition, and the accumulated codes that settle into cloth over time.
Manfredi extends a painterly lineage of bold brushwork and nuanced edge into a desert-informed vocabulary