Announcing Threads: Anne Lindberg + H.L. Hix
The Archive Gallery at ‘T’ Space, Steven Myron Holl Foundation
Rhinebeck, NY
opening September 5 - 13 December 2026
To inhabit the light-responsive physical space designed by architect Steven Holl for the Archive Gallery at ‘T’ Space, artist Anne Lindberg and poet H. L. Hix position their site-responsive installation Threads.
Throughout their lives as makers, Lindberg and Hix have explored the experiential space identified by philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s declaration that “What can be shown cannot be said,” Lindberg by opening what can be shown onto what cannot be said, Hix by orienting what can be said toward what cannot be said.
Almost from the beginning, their work has informed one another’s creative process. Across more than thirty years, many books and notes and images have passed between Lindberg and Hix, silently building affinity, attunement, and history. Prior collaborations in the 1990s and in 2015 prepare for Threads, and ever-deepening artistic friendship infuses it.
Immersive in scale and meaning, Threads developed through a period of intense daily exchange, during which Hix sent variously sourced passages of text to elicit intuitive, associative responses from Lindberg.
Drawing on that dialogue, Hix composed long thirty-syllable verbal “threads” to appear as light-gathering physical text on the walls of the gallery. Lindberg will build an ephemeral tonal cloud of color and light by pulling thousands of threads taut across the span of the architecture, creating a pair of sculptural forms positioned to allow visitors to walk under and around them. Together the threads, Hix’s by catching and reflecting light, Lindberg’s by activating and animating color, will engage the constantly changing light and shadow conditions in Holl’s architecture to create a dynamic, evocative environment for the viewer. Lindberg will build an ephemeral tonal cloud of color and light by pulling thousands of threads taut across the span of the architecture, creating a pair of sculptural forms positioned to allow visitors to walk under and around them. Together the threads, Hix’s by catching and reflecting light, Lindberg’s by activating and animating color, will engage the constantly changing light and shadow conditions in Holl’s architecture to create a dynamic, evocative environment for the viewer.
H.L. Hix (b. 1960, Stillwater, OK) is the author, translator, or editor of more than forty books, including poetry collections such as The Severity of the Perfect Circle and Bored in Arcane Cursive Under Lodgepole Bark; collaborative translations of contemporary Estonian and Lithuanian poetry, such as Terribly in Love, by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė; essay collections and hybrid works such as Say It Into My Mouth; a “testamentary” memorializing persons killed by gun violence, American Outrage; a “sayings gospel,” Teacher’s Teachings; a novel, The Death of H. L. Hix; and anthologies such as the NEA-commissioned New Voices.
Hix earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas, taught for fifteen years at Kansas City Art Institute, and currently is Professor in the Philosophy and Religious Studies Department at the University of Wyoming, with a joint appointment in the Creative Writing Program. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, received a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, held a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship at Yonsei University in Seoul, and taught as a visiting professor at Shanghai University.