Featured Creator: Linnea Moritz
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Linnea Moritz is an artist specialized in the hundred year old practice of cubism; an art style specialized in capturing the essence and energy of an object, scene, or person, rather than focusing on the physical representation as we see it. Linnea oscillates between bizarre and serious, simple and complex, funky pop culture and being an old master. While quarantining in her old yellow Swedish farmhouse, she developed the project ‘Picasso’s toilet’; a collection of thousands of endless cubist dribbles on toilet paper. The toilet paper project caught attention from artist magazines, and even art collectors, leading to a breakthrough in Linnea’s style and artistic confidence. 

According to Linnea, cubism is an artform of extreme iteration, and a painting is never finished until it feels right. Each object, shape, and color is placed there for a reason – to communicate a coherent picture. She mentions that in order to cubistically express an emotion, one ought to surrender to any ideas of how things should feel or look, and instead see things for what they really are.

Linnea, like Picasso, was also trained classically. She has done hundreds of realistic observational drawings in order to be able to create the abstract cubism. Indeed, one cannot simplify something without a firm understanding of the object that is desired to be simplified. Similarly, one cannot teach a subject without mastering it.

This summer, she has gone deep into the New York City art scene – she was selected twice to exhibit at the Van Der Plas Gallery in Lower East Side, in the art exhibits Rays of Light and Flight of the Butterfly, which have virtual gallery tours post-show. Van Der Plas is a core part of the contemporary and underground art scene in New York. She also presented her artworks at the Pim Comedy at Ample Theatre, and took part in a an collaborative art event in Long Island City, Queens.

Linnea believes that the way forward for the art industry is selfless collaboration, and co-creation of amazing projects across industries. She wants to exist in a New York art world that is inclusive and accepting of new ideas – one that does not limit talent, no matter where it hides.