Linda Geary
Linda Geary (born 1960) is an American visual artist and educator. She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals. Geary is chair of the painting department and a professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Also recorded as Linda A. Geary
Linda Geary
- Name
- Linda Geary
- Born
- 14 February 1960
- Birthplace
- Santa Rosa, California, U.S.
- Education
- University of San Diego, University of Delaware
- Occupation
- Visual artist, educator, printmaker
- Known for
- Paintings, murals
- Movement
- Abstract painting
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation · MacDowell Fellowship
- Languages
- English
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Linda Geary (born 1960) is an American visual artist and educator. She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals. Geary is chair of the painting department and a professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
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She lives in Oakland, California.
Linda Geary studied at University of San Diego and University of Delaware. The recorded working language is English. Employment is recorded with Crown Point Press, Contra Costa College and California College of the Arts. Distinctions recorded are Pollock-Krasner Foundation and MacDowell Fellowship.
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• Name — Linda Geary • Born — 14 February 1960 • Birthplace — Santa Rosa, California, U.S. • Education — University of San Diego, University of Delaware • Occupation — Visual artist, educator, printmaker • Known for — Paintings, murals • Movement — Abstract painting • Website — https: www.lindageary.com/
Biography
Biography
Linda Geary was born on February 14, 1960, in Santa Rosa, California, to parents Therese (née Hassler) and William Geary. She received two B.A. degrees in 1982 from the University of San Diego, in fine arts and English; and received a M.F.A. degree in 1986 from the University of Delaware, in painting. In her early career, Geary worked as a printmaker at Crown Point Press in San Francisco. She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals, which have their roots in collage. In 2021, Geary installed a mosaic mural titled "River" in the international terminal at San Francisco International Airport. Her artwork has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Practical, Art in America, KQED, Huffington Post, The Sacramento Bee, The Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Geary was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2022; a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2021; and the Elizabeth Foundation grant in 1998. Geary is a professor of painting, and the chair of the painting department at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.
Solo exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
• Linda Geary: New Work (2000), Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California • Linda Geary: New Drawings and Paintings (2007), Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California • All The Pink Together: Boom (2013), Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
Group exhibitions
Group exhibitions
• Line as Element: Paintings by Linda Geary, Doug Glovaski, and Seiji Kunishima (1995), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California • Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters (1996), Mills College (now Mills College at Northeastern University), Oakland, California • The Possible (2014), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
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Linda Geary was born on 14 February 1960.
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- 1.Porges, Maria. Linda Geary. Artforum. 2007-02-01.
- 2.Baker, Kenneth. Philip Jarmain extracts beauty from grains of decay. SFGate. September 20, 2013.
- 3.Linda Geary. New American Paintings. 2011.
- 4.Marquis Who's Who. Who's Who of American Women, 1997-1998. 374. December 1996. 978-0-8379-0422-1.
- 5.Breuer, Karin. Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art. University of California Press. 20. 1997. 978-0-520-21061-5.
- 6.Bonetti, David. Return of the abstract at Mills College. SFGate. December 6, 1996.
- 7.Baker, Kenneth. Are they spills or deliberate forms? / Linda Geary's canvases keep it ambiguous. SFGate. October 26, 2002.
- 8.Baron, Jaimie. Faces, furniture, flowers are alchemically transformed at Berkeley Art Center. Berkeleyside. 2022-02-21.
- 9.Linda Geary, MacDowell Fellow in Visual Arts. MacDowell.
- 10.Linda Geary "What Gives". Art Week. 2022-08-31.
- 11.Linda Geary. Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
- 12.Markopoulos, Leigh. Painting Expanded. Art Practical. April 15, 2013.
- 13.Linda Geary: New Work. The San Francisco Examiner. 248. 2000-01-30.
- 14.Baker, Kenneth. Philip Jarmain extracts beauty from grains of decay. SFGate. September 20, 2013.
- 15.San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art: "Ocular Constructions". The San Francisco Examiner. 144. August 13, 1995.
- 16.San Jose ICA. The San Francisco Examiner. 80. July 21, 1995.
- 17.Mills College: "Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters". The San Francisco Examiner. 271. 1996-11-10.
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Linda Geary is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded as painter, printmaker and university teacher.
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