Linda Dubin Garfield Bio

Linda Dubin Garfield

Linda Dubin Garfield, an award-winning printmaker and mixed media artist, creates visual memoirs exploring the mystery of memory and the magic of place, using hand-pulled printmaking techniques, photography, collage and digital imaging. She also creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture.

Artist Statement-Earth Waves

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

-Marcel Proust

In the early 90’s, I took a printmaking course and fell in love with the process. Unlike other passionate relationships that fade with time, the passion and love I had for printmaking has only gotten more intense. Several years ago, I started exploring mixed media and have found that combining collage and monotype is another relationship that works for me. In my latest work, I am combining photography and digital imaging with my other techniques as well as adding other materials. The possibilities are exponential.

Nature nurtures and inspires me. I combine elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press. When I like a subject, it stays with me. I am intrigued by memory and what remains in our mind’s eye. The scenes from travel near and far inform my work.

The scenes from travel near and far inform my work. For my series of 16 works on paper entitled Earth Waves, inspired by Maya Lin’s land installation Wakefield at Storm King Art Center, I wanted the images to undulate as both land and water. I wanted to blur the lines between land and sea. The imagery rises and falls, as do mountain ranges and ocean waves, sweeping the viewer into the rich color and texture, providing a place for reflection and convergence. I used many layers ink rolled through the press in traditional montoype printing as well as collage and other media such as colored pencils and oil pastels.

I am interested in my expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape or image. My work is informed by an accumulation of such scenes and the pleasure I get from the creative process. Rather than representing every detail, I am evoking the hidden and revealing the atmosphere, creating personal visual memoirs.

My focus on the process, not the outcome, frees me to be experimental. Following my passion and living my dream energize me to be productive and alive. I feel like I am now living out loud. I want to share that passion and joie de vivre with those seeing my work, triggering a memory or experience for the viewer.

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