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Join us for a conversation with painter Judith Linhares.
Judith Linhares will join us via Zoom from New York.
Rooted in the California Bay Area counterculture of the 60s and 70s, Judith Linhares (born 1940, Pasadena, California) was one of the artists selected by Marcia Tucker to show in the landmark exhibition Bad Painting (The New Museum, New York, 1978). Her early career saw her studying at the California College of the Arts, before teaching and exhibiting in San Francisco. She moved to New York in 1980, where she taught at the School of Visual Arts and also New York University. Her paintings explore imaginative worlds of dream-state reverie, and in her recent exhibition “The Artist as Curator” at the Sarasota Art Museum in Florida (2022), it was noted:
“With roots in abstract painting, Linhares’ work reconsiders the expressive possibilities in figuration and narrative. She uses her observation and formal skills to imagine a realm of her own making through layered brush gestures that fill the composition, expressing monumentality and directness…The women, sometimes represented in groups, own their real estate. They are not posing for the viewer but are more likely to be involved in personal reverie, possessing the agency to climb, lounge, eat, and exist as they please.”
“I have had a long-time commitment to painting, with a ten-year break where I worked mainly in drawing and sculpture. In these years I felt the pressure of history and could not find the way to claim my own dialogue with the “masters”. I have come to define painting as a path to consciousness, I am constantly finding new revelations in my search for formal invention. I have taught in a wide range of institutions. I have always found teaching rewarding, to be with developing artists in their moment of discovery is a gift”.
Dougal McKenzie (born 1968, Edinburgh, Scotland) has been a Lecturer in Painting at Belfast School of Art since 2011 and is currently course director of the BA Fine Art programme. Following his undergraduate studies at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, in 1990 he gained a place on the MA Fine Art course at the University of Ulster at Belfast. With a strong interest and involvement in artist-led projects in Belfast, from the early to mid-nineties he was a co-founder of Six-into-18 and also served on the first Catalyst Arts committee in 1994. He was a shortlisted prize-winner at the John Moores 23 Exhibition Liverpool in 2004, and also showed in the 2012 John Moores. He was selected for the MAC International in 2014, and his solo exhibition ‘A Dream and an Argument’ took place at the MAC in 2017. McKenzie says:
“I have always been interested in painting’s motivational force – its capacity for observational critique, its ability to challenge perceptions, its offer of dialogue and debate. For me it has never been a silent art form, it only comes to life once picture and content come into contact with the audience. The work and activities of Thomas Lawson and Judith Linhares have always exemplified this for me.”
To mark the end of New Exits: 10 Years of Painting Shows and continuing our Conversations about Painting series we are hosting two “in-conversations” led by painter and exhibition co-curator Dougal McKenzie, with Thomas Lawson and Judith Linhares.
This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the practices of these two central figures who have played a significant role in the critical discourse around painting from the 1970s onwards and continue to produce work that confirms painting's place in the world.
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Thomas Lawson in conversation with Dougal McKenzie
Judith Linhares in conversation with Dougal McKenzie
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