LINDA STILLMAN

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I am interested in the passage of time in nature. I use different media to record, display and celebrate the ephemerality and beauty of the natural world. For my leaf collages, I arrange leaves or fragments of leaves in patterns contrasting the biomorphic forms of nature with geometric forms. I record the changing colors of the seasons and comment on invasive plants and climate change.

My flower stain drawings are made from flower petals, rubbed onto paper, creating traces of their ephemeral color while containing small remnants of the flowers. Many record what is flowering in my gardens. In my “Daily Sky” project, I paint, draw or photograph a small section of the sky each day in an ongoing series, started in August 2005, and continuing indefinitely.

Bio:

Linda Stillman is a New York artist who works in various media, investigating ideas about nature and the passing of time. Her work has been featured in many group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the country and abroad including the Brooklyn Museum, the Dorsky Museum, Hunter College Art Galleries, the Arts Club of Chicago, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. 

Stillman has had solo and 2-person exhibits at the Arsenal Gallery in NY’s Central Park, the Hammond Museum in North Salem, NY (virtual), the IceHouse Project space in Sharon, CT, the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, R&F Paints in Kingston, NY among other venues.

She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Mark program, the Wave Hill Winter Workspace and The Studios at Mass MoCA. 

Stillman’s artwork has been reviewed in numerous publications including the New York Times and Hyperallergic. Her art is included in many collections such as the Dorsky Museum and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Stillman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the School of Visual Arts and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA).