Linda Nagaoka


Shuttle, 2001
oil on canvas
30" x 30"
Shadow Tree, 2001
acrylic, gouache, paper
24" x 19"


Hanging Rock, 2001
oil on canvas
32" x 28"


Resurrection Tree , 2001
acrylic, gouache, paper
24" x 19"

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Artist's Statement

I collect material for my paintings by being an urban gardener, growing plants in my apartment, taking photographs of flowers and trees, and cutting out pictures from magazines and making collages. Japanese woodblock prints and ancient scrolI paintings with their delicate and strong graphic design seem to influence the way I order and compose.

Narratives involving stories of explorers, alpinists, whalers and religious saints (St. Jerome in particular) and their tales of survival in formidable lands fascinate me, and often serve as the basis for my own personal landscapes: compressed images of flowers, trees and, mountains without human figures. The Renaissance painter, Joachim Pantinir, is of special interest to me. His romantic landscapes demonstrates the seductive power of nature over man.

The sensation of wilderness I seek has a beauty that is comic and tragic. I've found it in the wild lakes of the Adirondacks or in television science shows, but just as much in the man-made landscape of Central Park and even in the Disney or Coney Island fantasy theme park version of nature.


Linda Nagaoka

 Education
1999 Alfred University School of Art and Design, Painting & Sculpture.
1982 University of California at Berkeley, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Dramatic Arts/Dance

Selected Exhibitions

2002

Group Show,Majority Rules, Part I, Free Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Group Show, Landscape,Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Touchy Feely,collaboration with David Brody, eyewash @ Front Room, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Larry Walczak
2001

Group Show, Minimal to Excess: Works on Paper by New York Abstract Artists,Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA Cur. Mery Lynn McCorkle
Mir 2, participant in Ward Shelley's collaborative multimedia installation/performance, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show, Made in Brooklyn,Cono's Pizzeria, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Chris Martin
Group Show, Art for Air,benefit exhibition, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Simon Lee & Eve Sussman
Group Show, Out of Hibernation,im n iL, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Il Lee & Eung Ho Park
2000

Group Show, Pierogi 200 at Yard Sale,cheap art sale/performance with David Brody, Downtown Arts Festival, New York, NY Cur. Barbara Pollack
Group Show, @ The Artist's Studio,PPOW, New York, NY Cur. Wendy Olsoff & Jason Murison
Group Show, Checked,Museum of Modern Art Coatroom, NY, NY Cur. Cindy Tower
Group Show, Super Duper New York,Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Joe Amrhein & Greg Stone
1999

Group Show, Art for Park,benefit exhibit, Brooklyn, Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Cur. Joe Amrhein
Voyage Platform,participant in Ward Shelley's performance/sculpture, Berlin, Germany
Group Show, Prominence: New Faces in Video,Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Group Show, Robert Turner Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Group Show, How Do I Look?,Town Hall, Alfred, NY Cur. Carlos Szembek
1998

Group Show, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1995

Group Show, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY Cur. Ann Agee.
1993

Group Show, Dinner, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, NY Cur. Kim Dickey

Residencies
1999

Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York

Contact Information
179 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel: (718) 384-3483
email: lindamidori@yahoo.com