Exhibitions: Linda Whitaker
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Linda Whitaker: The Floor of the Sky
September 4th 2009 – October 11th 2009
"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky."
--Willa Cather, Death Came to the Archbishop
Curator David Hundley, an independent design consultant and the exhibit designer for the show "Hearst the Collector" at LACMA, sees Whitaker's works play out in front of him every day in New Mexico. Linda Whitaker's oil pastels were created in 1985-86 and 1990, when the artist was the recipient of two residencies from the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos. Rendering the shapes and colors in a style reminiscent of early modernists such as Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove, Whitaker's powerful landscapes remain fresh and vital.
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