Linda Mead: In Disarray

Opening Reception: Friday, September 26 from 6-8pm

Curated by Elie Porter Trubert

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In Disarray explores feelings of impermanence, fragility and unease through imagery combining intaglio printmaking processes and drawing. The works portray a world of chaos while also inviting the viewer to take a closer look and, perhaps, find some beauty in the fray.

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Linda Mead was born in Washington, DC, grew up in Northern Virginia and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She relocated to Germany where she lived for 11 years before moving to Morristown, New Jersey in 2002. In 2007 she began etching at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.

Originally, Mead’s areas of concentration were jewelry and textile design. After spending many years as a painter, she returned to working with metal, etching images in copper plates and working primarily as a printmaker. Her work reflects a sense of unease triggered by the precarious state of the world and the consequences of human behavior.

She had her first solo exhibition, Expand, Disrupt, Disperse, at Guttenberg Arts (2022), Her group shows include: Nothing is Forever, Grover House Gallery, Caldwell, NJ (2023), Made Here, Guttenberg Arts, (2021), “A New Century of War” Frontline Arts, Branchburg NJ, (2017). In addition, she has exhibited with the Book Arts Roundtable (2011-2020). Her work also appears in Booked exhibition catalogs.

Mead received a 2024 fellowship in Printmaking, Drawing and Book Arts from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was an artist-in-residence at Guttenberg Arts in 2021.