About
I believe ART makes the world a better place.
“Place is my source of knowledge. It tells me important things. . . .” Eudora Welty
Linda Dubin Garfield, an award-winning printmaker and mixed media artist, creates visual memoirs exploring the mystery of memory and the magic of place, using hand-pulled printmaking techniques, photography, collage and digital imaging. Her abstract and dynamic works use multiple layers of ink that waver between background and foreground creating a fusion of surface design and abstract expressionism She also creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture.
In 2005 she founded ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other and their community through art. In 2007 she started smART business consulting, helping emerging artists reach their goals and their audience, providing consulting and coaching on the business side of art through individual, small groups, and workshop experiences as well as providing opportunities to exhibit work. She has organized many art exhibit that benefit non-profits such as SELF Inc, The Food Trust, ART for Israel. She also provides art-making memoir workshops for organizations like Gladwyne Library, Main Line Art Center, Delaware Contemporary, First Person Arts, Da Vinci Art Alliance, First Person Arts, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Centers for Older Adults, Simpson House and Atria Senior Living. Today she serves on several non-profit boards, and appreciates her good fortune to be able to make art every chance she gets.
Artist Statement
In the early 90’s, I took a printmaking course and fell in love with the process. Unlike other passionate relationships that fade with time, the passion and love I have for printmaking has only gotten more intense. Several years ago, I started exploring mixed media and have found that combining collage and monotype is another relationship that works for me. I also enjoy combining photography and digital imaging with traditional printmaking techniques. My use of traditional printmaking techniques combined with experimental approaches is a means of expanding my visual language. The possibilities are exponential.
Nature nurtures and inspires me. I combine elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press. I am intrigued by memory and what remains in our mind’s eye. My work reflects scenes from travel near and far. More than a report on how it was exactly, I am interested in my expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape, experience or image. My work has overlapping layers of color and space, shifting relationships with mark making that includes monotype, silkscreen, stencil, image transfer as well as drawing. Inspired by memories from travel, I am creating visual memoirs which offer multiple meanings to the viewer. I create art that is a mixture of what I see with my eyes & the truth of what I see in my heart. I create landscapes based on travel, relying on a combination of memory, sketches, photos and what remains in my mind’s eye to render the essence of place. These landscapes echo the American modernist tradition as embodied by artists such as Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, and Georgia O'Keefe.
My focus on the process, not the outcome, frees me to be experimental. Following my passion and living my dream energizes me to be productive and alive. I feel like I am living out loud. I want to share that passion and joie de vivre with those seeing my work, triggering a memory or experience for the viewer.
Through my art, I strive to create an appreciation for natural beauty and a concern for its preservation.
Watch this YouTube video about my work at the Fringe Festival