GALLERY BERSHAD
LINN MEYERS
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EDUCATION
MFA 1993, Painting; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
BFA 1990, Painting; Cooper Union, New York, NY
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS
Feb 1999 George Billis Gallery, NYC, NY
Apr 1998 St. Peter's Church, NYC, NY
Oct 1997 Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Oct 1997 Zoon, New Haven, CT
Jul 1997 Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
May 1993 Gallery 5417, Oakland, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Dec 2000 Gallery Bershad, Somerville, MA Modern/Modular
Nov 2000 Three Rivers Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Lumenroom
Nov 2000 Bowman & Penelec Gallery, Meadville, PA 8 hour drawings, Part
III
Sep 2000 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2000 Pittsburgh Biennial
Sep 2000 University Art Gallery, University of Ohio, Akron 15xxx
Sep 2000 Carla Massoni Gallery, Chestertown, MD Art Making 2000
Feb 1999 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Not a Theme Show
Feb 1999 Signal 66, Washingtn, D.C. Shimmer
Oct 1999 Freddie Fong Contemporary Art, SF, CA Beyond the Facade
Jun 1998 ArtSpace, New Haven, CT Postmark International
Apr 1998 The Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT Linn Meyers, Betty Garrich
Dec 1997 Gallery 2621, New York, NY Inaugural Exhibition
Nov 1996 Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 144 Inches Square
Jan 1996 The Houghton Gallery, New York, NY Paintings and Works on Paper
Jun 1995 Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY 13th Annual Juried Exhibition
Jun 1995 Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobbleskill, NY National Small Works
Show
May 1994 Frank Bustemante Gallery, New York, NY Art-in-March
Feb 1993 401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA The Bus Shelter Gallery
Nov 1992 California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA Annual Small Works Exhibition
Apr 1992 The One Hour Gallery, Oakland, CA Inside/Outside
May 1991 Robert Pearce Gallery, Greensboro, NC Contemporary Landscapes
CURATORIAL
WORK AND PUBLISHED WRITING
Curator of Aether, a traveling exhibition which will originate in New Haven,
CT in April 2001
Exhibition Designer, Hannah Wilke, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA June
2000
Curator & Exhibition Designer for second & third annual City-Wide
Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Co-founder, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, Ct May 1998
Co-curator and coordinator of A Large Show of Small Works, New York, NY Oct
1996,
Curator and coordinator of The Cooper Union Alumni Painting Exhibition, New
York, NY Jan 1996,
Essay for the catalogue of The Cooper Union Faculty Painting Exhibition Oct
1995,
PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS
Sloan-Kettering, New York, NY
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
AWARDS
AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska Nov 99 - Jan
2000
Artist in Residence, The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY August, 1999
Fellow, The Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY September1996 - March 1997
Barclay Simpson Award, 1993
Excellence in Drawing Award, The Cooper Union,1990
Alex Katz Scholarship to Skowhegan, 1990
Artist's Statement
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The paintings that I make appear as monochromatic fields from a distance and grow into layered webs as the viewer draws near. Each brush stroke is an expression of a moment; the finished work is a record of thousands of accumulated moments in the studio. The repeated mark, whether it takes the form of a painted line, a pin hole or a droplet of paint, must be understood in the context of all of the other marks within the piece. To see one as independent of the others is to understand any one choice in your life without considering what came before and what happened after. By layering fields of marks that are made on transparent vellum or monofilament, I am able to deconstruct the painting process. The marks exist on separate tiers which can be shifted during the construction of the composition; when the painting is complete these tiers are seen simultaneously through each other and the depth that is perceived is not an illusion, but instead it is the reality of the layering within the piece.
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