Judith Linhares’ subjects are often figures and animals set in a dream-like narrative. Her fables and allegories, depicted in a raw and immediate style, feature dark outlined figures against luminous backgrounds. With broad, bright brushstrokes she creates personal mythologies from a fascinating collection of distorted barnyard animals, flowers and haunting figures.
Judith Linhares has exhibited her paintings at Gallery Paule Anglim for over twenty-five years. At age 17 she moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, where images of cartoons and pirate movies had helped form the core of her visual language. As a young woman she admired artworks shown at the Ferus Gallery and gave allegiance to the bohemian spirit of Wallace Berman and his circle of beat artists. Her unmistakable figurative style of painting developed fully in Northern California, where exposure to painters as diverse as Peter Saul and Elmer Bischoff combined with strong influences from Outsider Art and an inspirational stay in Mexico.
The artist now teaches and maintains her studio in New York. Her works are represented in distinguished collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Yale University Art Gallery, the Oakland Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Chase Morgan Bank and the Bank of America.
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