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Man with Towel
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| California artist Linda Christensen works in the figurative mode of early Richard Diebenkorn. Despite roughly-painted, obviously suggested figures, Christensen is not a realist and is at heart an abstract painter manipulating broad design zones of painterly color to suggest rather than define solitary female figures in a variety of environments including domestic interiors, a carwash, a beach. Her canvases, though of different sizes, tend to be relatively large, averaging four by five feet. and, there is a darkness of mood, a feeling of loneliness and alienation.
Christensen's painting, "The Snack," oil, 48 x 36, has flat areas of color, broken only by energetic brushstrokes, to suggest forms and build a semi-flattened space. Five larger shapes of blue, blue-green, burnt sienna and white, plus the figure and chair in which she sits with her back to us, are the dominate design elements in this work.
Christensen grew up on the California coast in Scotts Valley. Even as a child, she was interested in art. She ultimately attended San Jose State College to study fine art, but marriage and child-rearing interrupted this direction in her life for ten years. Christensen continued her art education in 1985 at the University of California at Santa Cruz, studying with Patrick Aherne and Robert Chiarito. She resumed her painting career full-time in 1992.
From Southwest Art Magazine, April 2003
By Bonnie Gangelhoff
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