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Ron Linden (born in 1940, Chicago, Illinois) is a California abstract painter, independent curator, and an associate professor of art at Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, who lives and works in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles.

File:Ron Linden, photography by Ronald Dunlap.jpg
Ron Linden, photography by Ronald Dunlap

Background

Linden received his Bachelor of Fine Art and Masters in Fine Art at the University of Illinois. His classmates included artists: William Wegman (photographer), Guy Goodwin. Louise Fishman, William Mahan, Al Loving, Robert H. Cumming, Gerald Hayes (artist), and more. Linden also attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1972 Linden relocated to California. He worked as a set painter in the Hollywood film industry for 25 years.During this time he helped establish artist communities in Pasadena, downtown Los Angeles and San Pedro, California. In 1978 Linden received the individual artist's grant in painting from National Endowment for the Arts.

Criticism and Commentary

In 1975, Jeff Perone wrote in Artforum magazine about Linden's work in "Both Kinds: Contemporary LA Art": "... Precious Objects Are Precious Objects And My Personal Preferences From Diebenkorn 1945 To Linden 1975 Means The Same Thing;. The Works Resemble Each Other Closely, Only Linden'S A Little More Loose In Technique And Tighter In Concept It Does Not Matter How Far The Distance Traveled, Chronologically Or Psychologically. The New Looks Like The Old, And The Good Things, New Or Old, Are Tradition, As In The New Tradition, A Tradition That Looks Good. Linden Is Expressing Himself, Goddamnit."[1]

Also writing on the "Both Kinds: Contemporary LA Art" in Artweek, Judith Dunham observes:. "Linden works with acrylic and graphite, combining both to make a sooty, crusty, intentionally rough and ugly surface He limits color to graphite blacks and grays Warm Acrylic Neutrals And So That The Motions Of Painting Are Paramount In The Final Products. "

In the Los Angeles Times, Suzanne Muchnic writes: We read them but can not be sure we grasp all their meaning. (The artist draws on literary sources but does not reveal them.) Instead of putting us off, Linden pulls us into wonder. If all else fails, the paintings work Abstract Compositions As. They Are Built Of Various Combinations Of Acrylic, Wood And Fabric In Gray, Black And Ochre. " [2]

"Ron Linden Is A Significant Painter Because He Resists Convenience And, Sometimes, Even Himself. But Integrity Will Out. In The End, Linden Makes The Difficulty Of Making The Difficult Look Easy Look Easy," Writes Peter Plagens, In The Catalog Essay For the Cue Foundation.[3][4]

Mario Naves writes "Picasso's Ghost," about the paintings by Ron Linden exhibited at the CUE Foundation, in the New York Observer, January, 2008: Riddles by the ghost of Cubism and Pop's cool ironies, painter Ron Linden's milky investigation of surface, space and denuded biomorphism are only nominally sensual -. Paint-as-stuff chases after painting as intellectual pursuit Mr. Linden's gift is that brainy impatience doesn’t quell a fractured and elusive poetry - if anything it engenders it.[5]

Influences

Early in his career Linden was highly influenced by other contemporary artists in his sphere. The abstract expressionism of Willem de Kooning,Philip Guston, the neo-dadaist Jasper Johns and in particular Richard Diebenkorn permeates the minimalist style that Linden is known for.

In literature, Minds Meet by the meta-fiction writer Walter Abish has been cited as influencing Lindens experimental style, as well as the avant-garde novelist Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Charles Olson.


Exhibitions

Solo

  • 2016 Warschaw Gallery, in the MEANtime, San Pedro, Ca
  • 2014 Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, CA
  • 2013 California State University, Dominguez Hills, Ron Linden with Craig Antrim
  • 2010 GALLERY 478, San Pedro, California
  • 2008 Cue Project,Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY[6]
  • 2007 Jancar Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 2002 Storage,Santa Monica, California
  • 2001 Storage,Santa Monica, California
  • 2000 Gallery 478,San Pedro, California
  • 1989 Ovsey Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1987 Ovsey Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1986 Ovsey Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1985 Ovsey Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1983 Ovsey Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1982 Downtown Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1981 Downtown Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1979 LAICA (Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art) Los Angeles

Group

  • 2015 Warschaw / Winter, San Pedro, CA
  • 2014 Warschaw /. Winter,San Pedro, CA
  • 2014 Kamikaze @ POST, Los Angeles, w. Elizabeth Medina
  • 2014 ex-cerpt, Craig Antrim & Ron Linden, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
  • 2013 14:…Featuring, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
  • (Southern) California Drawing, Orange Coast College Arts Pavilion Gallery, Costa Mesa. CA
  • 2012 PSST: Art in San Pedro, 2000 – 2012, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA
  • 2009 Mt. St. Mary's College, Brentwood, CA, "Insight/Inside LA"
  • 2007 Warschaw Gallery,San Pedro, California
  • 2006 Riverside Art Museum,Riverside, CA, Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980
  • 2006 The Brewery Project, "praxis", Los Angeles
  • 2004 Santa Monica Museum of Art, "Incognito"
  • 2002 Arts Manhattan, "Close Proximity", Manhattan Beach, California
  • 1999 Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 - 1974
  • 1998 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
  • 1992 Laguna Art Museum,Laguna Beach, California
  • 1991 Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
  • 1990 Angles Gallery, "Squaresville", Santa Monica, California
  • 1989 Riverside Art Museum, "The Metaphoric Chair’, Riverside, California
  • 1988 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • 1987 Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 1986 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • 1985 Ovsey Gallery,Los Angeles, California
  • 1985 Design Center of Los Angeles, "To the Astonishing Horizon", L.A. Visual Art ‘85
  • 1984 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • 1982 Laguna Art Museum, "Changing Trends: Content/Style", Laguna Beach, California
  • 1982 Mt. St. Mary's College, "3 Painters", Los Angeles, California
  • 1982 Orange Coast College, "Painting", Orange, California
  • 1982 MoMA PS1, "Critical Perspectives", Long Island, New York [7]
  • 1981 Art Center College of Design, "Decade: L.A. Painting in the Seventies", Pasadena, CA
  • 1978 Baum-Silverman Gallery, "The Subject is Object", Los Angeles, California
  • 1975 University Art Museum, "Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles", Berkeley, CA
  • 1973 Fine Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge
  • Curator / Director, TransVagrant Projects, Los Angeles (2009–present)[8]
  • Curator / Director, Warschaw Gallery, a project partly funded by the California Redevelopment Agency, San Pedro, CA (2005–present)[9]
  • Gallery Director, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA (2000–present)[10][11]

Awards and Citations

  • 1978 National Endowment for the Arts, individual artist's grant in painting

Academic Positions

  • Los Angeles Harbor College, Gallery Director and Adjunct Faculty (2000–present)
  • Long Beach City College, Adjunct Faculty (2002–present)
  • University of California at Irvine, Graduate Faculty (1989-1993)
  • San Francisco Art Institute, Visiting Artist (1978-1979)
  • Vancouver College of Art, Visiting Artist (1977)
  • Art Center College of Design, Faculty, Pasadena, CA (1974-1976)
  • California State University, Northridge, Adjunct Faculty (1972-1973)
  • Bradley University, Assistant Professor of Art, Peoria, IL (1968-1972)

References

  1. ^ Jeff Perrone, "Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles", Artforum, Summer
  2. ^ Suzanne Muchnic, L.A. Times, March 27, 1981
  3. ^ Plagens, Peter: Curator'S Catalogue Essay, Ron Linden Solo Exhibition Curated By Peter Plagens , CUE Art Foundation, New York, NY December, 2007
  4. ^ http://cueartfoundation.org/ron-linden/
  5. ^ Mario Naves, New York Observer, "Picasso's Ghost", Ron Linden @ the CUE Foundation, 2007
  6. ^ "Ron Linden catalogues. 2007". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  7. ^ "Critical Perspectives: Curators and Artists (January 17–March 14, 1982)". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  8. ^ http://www.randomlengthsnews.com/winter-reflects-the-season-of-cool-at-warshaw/
  9. ^ http://diversionsla.com/?p=2754
  10. ^ http://www.randomlengthsnews.com/hyung-mo-lee-a-witness-to-change/
  11. ^ https://thephotoexchange.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/los-angeles-harbor-college-fine-arts-gallery/
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