Judith Linhares
Judith Linhares (b. 1940, Los Angeles, CA) grew up cavorting among the beach towns and mountainsides of Southern California and studied art in Oakland, California during the political and social revolution of the 1960s.
Her paintings, comprised of loose-limbed, unabashed women who climb, dig, ride naked on horseback and delight in drunken revelry, transpired out of an era of liberating changes catapulted by feminism, conceptual art and performance as practiced by Terry Fox and Linda Montano and the transgressive sentiments shared by underground cartoonists, Robert Crumb and S. Clay Wilson in the 1970s.
Fueled by the permissive, psychedelic atmosphere of the decade, Linhares began to investigate the relationship between the conscious and unconscious and would continue to record her own dreams in journals for the next 50 years.
For Linhares, the elemental narratives of dreams, myths and fairy tales continue to provide inspiration for kaleidoscopic compositions that teeter between fantasy and reality. Her dream journals were recently acquired by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C.
Linhares has been based in New York since 1979, following her inclusion in the seminal Bad Painting exhibition, curated by Marcia Tucker at the New Museum, alongside fellow painters Charles Garabedian, Joan Brown and Ed Carrillo. Linhares’ works have been acquired by numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum, New York, NY; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; and The Berkeley Museum of Art.
PRESS
09 / 10 / 2020
Observed in life and reinvented in paint – an interview with Judith Linhares
by Sandino Scheidegger
02 / 14 / 2019
“Judith Linhares, “Hearts on Fire,” at P.P.O.W.,New York”
by Clayton Press
01 / 20 / 2018
“Review: Judith Linhares paints the joys of life, on her own terms”
by Sharon Mizota
08 / 29 / 2017
“Judith Linhares Receives $25,000 Artists’ Legacy Foundation Artist Award”
