Untitled drawing
Linda Fleming
Created : 1982
Donated : 2003
Medium : Drawing/mixed media
Dimensions: 37 1/4 inx29 3/4 in
Located: 2nd Floor,North Hallway
Linda Fleming has been making sculpture for forty years. This drawing references her three-dimensional work, in which she incorporates materials (steel pieces, wooden planks, beams, bolted steel plates, and other remnant forms) whose past histories and characters are indirectly implied, allowing the revelation of their raw state, as well as their transformative capacities for new forms and imagery. Fleming elaborates:
“I use materials that retain an aspect of their origins to create forms that become new things. These forms refer to structures around us. Their scale and materials invoke shelter, implements, and models for investigating the physical world. They attempt to define without naming. They refer to the place where the object exists and the place evoked by the history of its components. There is the simultaneous existence of the past and present, and the superimposition of realities.”
Her intricate drawings and large-scale wood and metal works create places of space, light and shadow that intimately invite the viewer in. Fleming studied art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the San Francisco Art Institute. Her works are exhibited widely in public spaces, galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, Miami, Santa Fe and the Bay Area. Fleming received awards from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Art Matters, and the Athena Foundation. She was also given the California College of Art distinguished Faculty Award, where she teaches sculpture.
