About the artist

Linda is an Oakland, California-based abstract painter known for both large and small works that explore the formal expressive qualities of color, shape, and pattern through techniques of collage, inlay, flatness, fragmentation and layering of forms. Motivated by a desire for continual reinvention, and working in a range of media that includes acrylic, watercolor, gouache, flashe, and oil- her deeply personal paintings amplify the open-ended improvisation that defines their making.

Linda received the Alma B. Shapiro residency award at Yaddo in 2017, two Pollock-Krasner awards, most recently in 2021, and the Kent Fellowship at MacDowell in 2022. She founded and taught the CCA New York Studio class in Brooklyn (2008-2018), and has taught at Anderson Ranch since 2016. In 2014, she co-organized the Painting Expanded symposium at CCA, and in 2013, created Studio Visit, a book of 100 studio visits in the Bay Area. Her work has been reviewed in Art In America, Art Forum, Art Practical, KQED, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Squarecylinder. Other residencies include Kriti, in Varanasi, India, Art Omi, and Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, India. Her public mosaic River, 2021, is at SFO in the International terminal. She is a Professor and Chair of Painting & Drawing at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives and works in Oakland.