Linda PicosClark

Seeing the possibilities of change has been a constant in my life. My training to “see” started very young. My family left Mexico City, leaving behind the comfort of a vast network of aunts, uncles, and cousins. We arrived as strangers in Los Angeles with new smells, noises, and a funny language to learn. I became adept at observing and avariciously digesting the new. Moving every few years and never quite settling, I learned to expect, and need change. Within this change, art became the natural path that fulfilled my craving for the new. The more I learned about contemporary art the more confident I was to push my own limits as an artist. My work has been non-objective and non-illustrative but is lately transforming to more landscape like qualities by incorporating biomorphic forms. The forms in my paintings communicate the constant change of environments and perhaps longing for the old.

Change is inevitable, insuppressible and constant. The Entropy series is demonstrates this more explicitly than my previous work. Loosely based on the second law of Thermodynamics, the idea of order and the various levels of degradation of order and energy.

“The idea of evolving energy, changing of matter is what I want to convey in my art. My work is process driven and I try to adhere to the stages of entropy, from organized matter, the stable square white canvas to the degradation of matter where several layers of paint are applied and the chemical reactions and gravitational force become the predominant art maker. From this stage, I reorganize, utilizing the components of the chaos to create a new form or reordered of form utilizing traditional and non-traditional painting tools.

My interest is not in capturing a particular moment in time but in capturing the transition of time. Perhaps that is why in a traditional sense my landscapes as they have been called are "wrong". They are not either water, sky or land but the melding of the ideas of them. Each viewer brings their own personal affection to them. They are the landscapes we whizz by in our cars, or fly through.

Studies and Awards

Born: San Tome, Venezuela
Resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Education

California State University at Long Beach, B.F.A. Drawing/Painting
Encaustic Painting with Paula Roland
Encaustic Painting Montserrat College, Beverly, Mass.
Esmeralda: Institute of Plastic Arts, Mexico D.F.
Independent studies, Lithography, Mural and Oil Painting.

Awards:

Young Talent Award of Los Angeles County Museum
UCLA Printmaking Award
Long Beach Art Association California, Category in Drawing