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Linda Geary (born 1960) is an American visual artist and educator.[1] She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals.[2][3] Geary is chair of the painting department and a professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives in Oakland, California.[4]
Linda Geary | |
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| Born | February 14, 1960 Santa Rosa, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of San Diego, University of Delaware |
| Occupation(s) | Visual artist, educator, printmaker |
| Known for | Paintings, murals |
| Movement | Abstract painting |
| Website | www |
Linda Geary was born on February 14, 1960, in Santa Rosa, California, to parents Therese (née Hassler) and William Geary.[5] 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.[5]
In her early career, Geary worked as a printmaker at Crown Point Press in San Francisco.[6] She is known for her large scale abstract paintings and murals, which have their roots in collage.[7][8][9] In 2021, Geary installed a mosaic mural titled "River" in the international terminal at San Francisco International Airport.[4]
Her artwork has been reviewed in Artforum,[1] Art Practical,[10] Art in America, KQED, Huffington Post, The Sacramento Bee, The Mercury News, and the San Francisco Chronicle.[8] Geary was awarded a MacDowell fellowship in 2022;[11] a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2021; and the Elizabeth Foundation grant in 1998.[12]
Geary is a professor of painting, and the chair of the painting department at the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco.[4][10]
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Solo 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[15][16]
- Abstraction Absolved: 10 Bay Area Painters (1996), Mills College (now Mills College at Northeastern University), Oakland, California[17]
- The Possible (2014), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
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