Sorcha Dallas

Despite a penchant for knives, Linder Sterling has never been one for staying in the kitchen. In the late 1970s and early ’80s, she was the singer in the lively post-punk band Ludus; in 1991, she took photographs of fellow Mancunian and close friend Morrissey during his world tour. Often calling herself simply Linder, the feminist collagist and performance artist has also participated in numerous exhibitions, including last year’s Tate Triennial. Picking up where Martha Rosler’s X-Acto left off, Linder’s collages – the most famous of which is on the cover of the Buzzcocks’ 1977 single Orgasm Addict – layer images from pornographic and “women’s” magazines, cutting through the surfaces of consumer culture in ways that expose its sexist selling strategies. This exhibition – centered around thirty collages from the past three decades – is Linder’s first solo show in the United States, whose long history of equating women with consumer goods should add extra bite to her critiques.