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me with Woofus

me with Woofus

Hollow Dogs and Holy Remnants

"Hollow Dogs and Holy Remnants" is a group of sculptures made of antique hand-made quilts and encrusted with, paint, beading and once-loved costume jewelry. They are husks of animals that were once magnificent when there bodies were in inhabited. The empty forms, with the material trappings, are evidence of these lives. These pieces are on display at The Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta from May 17th thru June 30th

Laughing Coyote

Laughing Coyote

Thursday, March 11, 2010

I want viewers to enter a stage setting where the objects are ordinary but can’t be put to use or fully understood: animal attire left open for a human body to occupy, or animal forms endowed with human attributes. Like items from a sixteenth century curiosity cabinet, my objects aim to provide evidence of another reality. With my paintings and sculptures, I want this reality to impress itself on viewers in a way that competes with mundane experience, just as myths lend greater depth to the perceptions of our senses. I produce alter egos for both human and non-human animals that emphasize their interrelation of identity—an interrelation that also speaks to the deep interconnectedness of life in the age of catastrophe in the natural world by global warming and other manifestations of the physical intrusion of humans in the natural world.
My paintings develop as narratives or as stills from an event that is about to happen or has just taken place in an order of experience parallel to—even immanent within—but nonetheless distinct from our mundane experience. They offer access to a surreal landscape wherein familiar characters appear and operate in unexpected and inscrutable ways.
I want the sculptures that I make to function as containers for spirit. Sometimes bare, sometimes adorned, they create a space to be filled with unfamiliar and elusive intensities: an animal energy that suffuses what is human, and a humanity that resides in objects and beasts.
The resulting work aims to provide the substance of things both feared and hoped for, the evidence of things unseen.

3 comments:

  1. I am so thrilled to be able to visit your blog. You are such an inspiration to me! Thank you Dean for sending it to me.

    I have 2 blogs: www.janicelaverne.blogspot.com (just a few postings of my art) and www.oscarcurzon.blogspot.com (more daily life and art process)

    Thank you Linda... LOTS!!!

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  2. I am so glad that Dean sent this to me. I love your work, it is really special. The next time I am in Florida I really want to see more of your work in the flesh. Ginger

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  3. Thanks for sharing. It is great art work and I love the dogs ( wolves?)
    grt, Helmi

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White Crow Cabinet

White Crow Cabinet

Linda Hall's Cabinet of Curiosities at Tallahassee Museum

"Linda Hall's Cabinet of Curiosities" is an exhibition that opened on August 15th and run through November 7 2010. It features watercolor paintings, collections of my favorite things and mixed media sculptures. The exhibited paintings are inspired by medieval bestiaries. The sculptures by that function as "containers of spirit" and explore the interrelation of humans and animals.

We Are What We Endanger

We Are What We Endanger
Detail

White Girl and Turtle Cabinet

White Girl and Turtle Cabinet

Quilted Baby Mamma

Quilted Baby Mamma

Big Night, Detail

Big Night, Detail