Linda Dubin Garfield
Linda Dubin Garfield, EdD (she/her/hers)
printmaker/mixed media artist
610.256.6037 cell
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www.artsisters.org- Founder
www.davinciartalliance.org - Advisory Board Co-Chair
www.smARTbusinessconsulting.org- Founder
GHOST FOREST
Ghost forests are hauntingly beautiful natural landscapes that have been drastically altered by the impacts of climate change. These eerie and poignant scenes have captured the attention of artists seeking to depict the unsettling transformation of these once-thriving ecosystems. In their art, ghost forests are often portrayed as skeletal remnants of what was once lush and vibrant, where the stark contrast between the dead, bleached trees and the surrounding environment serves as a visual testament to the profound shifts in our climate.
Ghost Forest 1
Mixed media- digital photography, monotype and various mark making
Mixed media- digital photography, monotype and various mark making
Ghost Forest 2
Mixed media- digital photography, monotype and various mark making
Mixed media- digital photography, monotype and various mark making
Ghost Forest 4
Mixed media- digital photography, monotype and various mark making
Mixed media- digital photography, monotype and various mark making
I BELIEVE ART MAKES THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE. “Place is my source of knowledge. It tells me important things. . . .
” Eudora Welty
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. Her abstract and dynamic works use multiple layers of ink that waver between background and foreground creating a fusion of surface design and abstract expressionism She also creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture.
In 2005 she founded ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other and their community through art. In 2007 she started smART business consulting, helping emerging artists reach their goals and their audience, providing consulting and coaching on the business side of art through individual, small groups, and workshop experiences as well as providing opportunities to exhibit work.
She has organized many art exhibit that benefit non-profits such as SELF Inc, The Food Trust, ART for Israel. She also provides art-making memoir workshops for organizations like Gladwyne Library, Main Line Art Center, Delaware Contemporary, First Person Arts, Da Vinci Art Alliance, First Person Arts, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Centers for Older Adults, Simpson House and Atria Senior Living. Today she serves on several non-profit boards, and appreciates her good fortune to be able to make art every chance she gets.
Artist Statement
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 have 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. I also enjoy combining photography and digital imaging with traditional printmaking techniques. My use of traditional printmaking techniques combined with experimental approaches is a means of expanding my visual language. The possibilities are exponential.
Nature nurtures and inspires me. I combine elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press. I am intrigued by memory and what remains in our mind’s eye. My work reflects scenes from travel near and far. More than a report on how it was exactly, I am interested in my expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape, experience or image. My work has overlapping layers of color and space, shifting relationships with mark making that includes monotype, silkscreen, stencil, image transfer as well as drawing. Inspired by memories from travel, I am creating visual memoirs which offer multiple meanings to the viewer. I create art that is a mixture of what I see with my eyes & the truth of what I see in my heart. I create landscapes based on travel, relying on a combination of memory, sketches, photos and what remains in my mind’s eye to render the essence of place. These landscapes echo the American modernist tradition as embodied by artists such as Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, and Georgia O'Keefe.
My focus on the process, not the outcome, frees me to be experimental. Following my passion and living my dream energizes me to be productive and alive. I feel like I am 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.
Through my art, I strive to create an appreciation for natural beauty and a concern for its preservation.
Watch this YouTube video about my work at the Fringe Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZn9VIuRU0
” Eudora Welty
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. Her abstract and dynamic works use multiple layers of ink that waver between background and foreground creating a fusion of surface design and abstract expressionism She also creates installations that include public participatory art, especially when she is exploring themes relating to women in today’s culture.
In 2005 she founded ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other and their community through art. In 2007 she started smART business consulting, helping emerging artists reach their goals and their audience, providing consulting and coaching on the business side of art through individual, small groups, and workshop experiences as well as providing opportunities to exhibit work.
She has organized many art exhibit that benefit non-profits such as SELF Inc, The Food Trust, ART for Israel. She also provides art-making memoir workshops for organizations like Gladwyne Library, Main Line Art Center, Delaware Contemporary, First Person Arts, Da Vinci Art Alliance, First Person Arts, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Centers for Older Adults, Simpson House and Atria Senior Living. Today she serves on several non-profit boards, and appreciates her good fortune to be able to make art every chance she gets.
Artist Statement
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 have 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. I also enjoy combining photography and digital imaging with traditional printmaking techniques. My use of traditional printmaking techniques combined with experimental approaches is a means of expanding my visual language. The possibilities are exponential.
Nature nurtures and inspires me. I combine elements of nature, texture and design along with the magic of the press. I am intrigued by memory and what remains in our mind’s eye. My work reflects scenes from travel near and far. More than a report on how it was exactly, I am interested in my expressive and passionate response to the color and pattern of the landscape, experience or image. My work has overlapping layers of color and space, shifting relationships with mark making that includes monotype, silkscreen, stencil, image transfer as well as drawing. Inspired by memories from travel, I am creating visual memoirs which offer multiple meanings to the viewer. I create art that is a mixture of what I see with my eyes & the truth of what I see in my heart. I create landscapes based on travel, relying on a combination of memory, sketches, photos and what remains in my mind’s eye to render the essence of place. These landscapes echo the American modernist tradition as embodied by artists such as Arthur Dove, Milton Avery, and Georgia O'Keefe.
My focus on the process, not the outcome, frees me to be experimental. Following my passion and living my dream energizes me to be productive and alive. I feel like I am 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.
Through my art, I strive to create an appreciation for natural beauty and a concern for its preservation.
Watch this YouTube video about my work at the Fringe Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZn9VIuRU0
PAPER PANORAMAS
It has been almost 2 years since I have done any traveling. Since there is no new travel, I am left with remembered images and my imagination to create imaginary landscapes. I create art that is a mixture of what I have seen with my eyes and the truth of what I see in my heart. Through my art, I strive to create an appreciation for natural beauty and a concern for its preservation.
Nature's Narrative 5
Mixed media
Mixed media
Dreamscape 3
Mixed media
Mixed media
Countryside Collage 1
Mixed media work on paper
Mixed media work on paper
NOTES OF NOSTALGIA
Notes of Nostalgia: Melodic Memories
Mixed media work on paper
Mixed media work on paper
Notes of Nostalgia: Musical Memoirs
Mixed media work on paper
Mixed media work on paper
Notes of Nostalgia: Voices from the Past
Mixed media work on paper
Mixed media work on paper
ELEGANT DECAY
Finding beauty in things that are falling apart or decaying brings me joy. I see rust and appreciate the patterns, I see peeling paint and wonder at the layers. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. I make beautiful images out of photographs of decaying things. I then Photoshop them and have an archival pigment print made and then add various mark-making techniques to embellish the final version.
South Philly Doorway 2
Archival Pigment Print plus mixed media embellishments
Archival Pigment Print plus mixed media embellishments
South Philly Doorway 1
Archival Pigment Print plus mixed media embellishments
Archival Pigment Print plus mixed media embellishments
Linda Dubin Garfield
Linda Dubin Garfield, EdD (she/her/hers)
printmaker/mixed media artist
610.256.6037 cell
Www.LinkedIn.com/lindadubingarfield
www.instagram.com/garf21
Www.Facebook.com/lindadubingarfieldart
www.lindadubingarfield.com
www.artsisters.org- Founder
www.davinciartalliance.org - Advisory Board Co-Chair
www.smARTbusinessconsulting.org- Founder
Linda Dubin Garfield, EdD (she/her/hers)
printmaker/mixed media artist
610.256.6037 cell
Www.LinkedIn.com/lindadubingarfield
www.instagram.com/garf21
Www.Facebook.com/lindadubingarfieldart
www.lindadubingarfield.com
www.artsisters.org- Founder
www.davinciartalliance.org - Advisory Board Co-Chair
www.smARTbusinessconsulting.org- Founder
