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Jerry Linton

1009 S. Highland Ave.

Bloomington, IN. 47401

Email: jlinton(at)insightbb.com

(812) 331-8419

 Selected Exhibitions

Jerry Linton

-2007-08 Rose-Hulman Institute, Terre Haute, In

-2002 Aleph Park Ventures, Terre Haute, In

-2001-02 Rose-Hulman Institute, Terre Haute, In

-2000 Purdue University, W. Lafayette, In.
-2000 Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, In.
-1998 Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, In.

-1996 John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, In
-1993 John Waldron Art Center, Bloomington, In.
-1992 International Center, Stanford University
-1991 Midtown Payson Galleries, New York
-1987-90 A.C. Gallery, San Diego, Ca.
-1983-84-85 Union Gallery, Manhattan, Ks.
-1984 Diebler Gallery, Manhattan, Ks.
-1984 Amarillo Competition, Amarillo, TX.
-1983 6th. National Painting Competition, Detroit

-1983-84-85 Kansas 3,4,5, Competitions, Topeka
-1981 Monumental Art Show, Brooklyn, NY.
-1979 Haber-Theodore Gallery, New York, NY.
-1979 The Municipal Building Show, New York
-1978 Bologna International Art Exhibition, Bologna, Italy
-1978 P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY.

 

Education

1985 Kansas State University: MFA
1984 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture                        

Duckm(0012)
Acrylic on Canvas 46"x68" 2000

Guitar (100501)    100"x100"

Wheel

Acrylic on Canvas 46"x68" 1998

About the Paintings

- Cannibal of my own best intentions –  

         This work I do is a compulsion.  The Paintings are a process  that uses chance, intuition,  trial and error within some kind of varying selection process.  I let the paintings evolve by making decisions about what to do next.   This evolution is internally motivated, self reflective, and driven by a process that seeks change and completion.  I produce paintings in what seems like a cycle that's roughly seasonal. Since I don't referee the process from some ultimate endpoint (that is I have no known goal) and the imagery unfolds in an obscured and hidden way I only get to anticipate what the painting will look like when it is finished.  I reuse (cut up and recycle) my previous work in the creation of new work and that has made me a cannibal of my own best intentions.  It's also let me have  the  addictive effect of being a fresh spectator of my own work since each painting carries a bit of the past with it.

Mountain (062301)
Acrylic on Canvas 46"x68" 2001

Acid #9 (080501)

Acrylic on Canvas 52"x72"