Rooted in the California Bay Area Counterculture of the 60s and 70s, Judith Linhares combines abstract expressionism with Bay Area figuration to create uniquely irradiant paintings. Judith Linhares (b. 1940)...
Rooted in the California Bay Area Counterculture of the 60s and 70s, Judith Linhares combines abstract expressionism with Bay Area figuration to create uniquely irradiant paintings. Judith Linhares (b. 1940) earned her BFA and MFA degrees from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. She was included in the influential Bad Painting exhibition at the New Museum, organized by legendary curator Marcia Tucker. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants from the National Endowments for the Arts. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others. Her work was recently on view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Contemporary Art: Five Propositions; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Sea Change: Highlights from PAFA’s Collection of 20th-century Art; and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles in All of Them Witches, organized by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons.