Linden Eller

Linden Eller (b.1984, Phoenix, AZ) spent her youth in the urban Sonoran desert before moving to Southern California to obtain her BA in Studio Art. She’s since lived and worked across Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the northeast region of the US.

Linden’s work explores a dichotomy between memory architecture and the present experience. Fully enamored by mixed media, she uses a variety of materials to create, including paper, found fragments, transparencies, sewing thread, paint, pencil, ink, and pastels. In honoring the “now,” she often will incorporate items from her immediate surroundings, such as plants, petals, tea leaves, receipts from pockets, scattered desk papers, even elements from her beverage or snack. This also supports her aim to increase sustainability in creation - giving purpose to the plain, trash bound items, and renaming them as curious offerings of texture, or poignancy.

Her work acts as a gentle nudge to loosen our hold on the past, celebrating the science that memory is full of alterations, renewals, and inaccuracies. Embracing intuition, experimentation, and play, many parts of her process are intentionally unplanned - an exercise in mindfulness and acceptance of each moment and decision. She thinks of her...

BA in Studio Art, Drawing and Painting
Azusa Pacific University, Los Angeles, California, 2006

Paralleling
2024 - SOLO
The Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury VT

Rhythms of Motherbaby
2022 - SOLO
Eric Fischel Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

First Summer
2022 - SOLO
Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff AZ

Let Happen
2020 - SOLO
The HeArt Box Gallery, Flagstaff AZ

Go Again Home, Can't You
December 2019 - SOLO
New City Studio, Phoenix, AZ, USA

stARTup Small Works 2019 - GROUP
The Midway Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA

Little Small, 2019 - SOLO
Chehalem Cultural Center, Newburg, Oregon, USA

Little Small, 2018 - SOLO
Maebashi Works, Maebashi, Japan

Recent Works, June 2017 - SOLO
John Hill Estate - Hunua, New Zealand

Sleep/Swim, 2016 - SOLO
Tiapapata Art Centre, Samoa

Mayday, 2015 - GROUP
Thessaloniki, Greece