Linda Post

Born Fall River, Massachusetts USA
I make paintings of powerful women, the sea, mysterious encounters, and uncommon places. These works occupy a mythic place in our consciousness, and question what we know about the world.
Most of the settings of my paintings are imaginary. Many are composites of remembered places from my childhood. I also chronicle my environment and all my travels in photographs. I combine landscapes, seascapes, people, architecture, creatures and all sorts of odd details that have never existed together in reality. I have always drawn and painted the figure, but I love the geometry of patterns, and creating skies on the cusp of change.
Especially in my larger work, my viewpoint is just outside the picture plane – one more step and you feel as if you can enter the narrative of the painting.
Birds, especially seabirds, have long been choreographed into my work, sometimes as companions, other times as avatars of change, growth, or escape. The conjunction of women and birds placed in enigmatic landscapes evokes an especially vivid dream, and asks “what is real?”

University of Rochester, BA

Linda H. Post's paintings, pastels and monotypes have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the country and reside in important museum, public and private collections. She has had two solo shows at Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City, seven one-person shows at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA and solo exhibitions at the University of Massachusetts, Wisteriahurst Museum, and Mary Washington College. Her paintings are digitally represented on the moon in The Lunar Codex: A Time Capsule of Human Creativity and included in the upcoming hardcover art book about this project.
Post has been featured in extensive photo essays in Poets & Artists, American Art Collector, Raw Art Review, American Artist, and The Artful Mind magazines. Color reproductions of her work have appeared on the covers of The Gettysburg Review, Cornell University's Epoch literary magazine, The Artful Mind, and the hardcover book, Return of the Great Goddess. Reviews and images of her work have appeared in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Fine Art Connoisseur, Artscope Magazine, and many other national and regional publications and exhibition catalogues. A 24-page catalogue was published in conjunction with her solo show, “Balancing Acts”, at...