© Linda Dubin Garfield, *Ice and Blue 4*, Monotype, 20” x 20”, 2013

May 10, 2023

Amie Potsic interviews Linda Dubin Garfield about her climate change exhibition and the launch of her retrospective monograph on the occasion of her 80th birthday.

© Linda Dubin Garfield, *Sunrise on the Sahara Remembered*, Mixed media on paper, 12” x 12”, 2022

Linda Dubin Garfield is an award-winning artist whose colorful works on paper combine traditional printmaking, mixed media, and technology based on her love of exploration, the mystery of memory, and the magic of place. Garfield creates visual memoirs 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 abstraction. She also creates installations that include public participatory art, which investigate themes relating to women in today’s culture. Inspired by her background in social work and seeing the effects of climate change across the globe, Garfield’s artistic practice focuses on compassion for others and furthering environmental protections through her own unique visual language and collaborative spirit.

Garfield earned an undergraduate degree from Temple University in Education and went on to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and with mentor Moe Brooker. She has attended the artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center and received a grant from the Leeway Foundation in Philadelphia. Garfield is the founder of ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other through art and regularly provides educational seminars for artists. She was also the presenter of collaborative and restorative public art projects through the Philadelphia Fringe Festival for ten years. An active member of the Philadelphia artist community, she has exhibited her work extensively with recent exhibitions at The Delaware Contemporary, DaVinci Art Alliance, The Banana Factory, and The Noyes Museum of Art.

Artist Statement
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. The fluid space of memory, influenced by time, place and experience, forms the foundation of content for my work. I merge aspects of experience and observations with imagined and remembered sensations to create non-objective work that reflects life and memory. My work has overlapping layers of color and space, shifting relationships with mark making that includes monotype, silkscreen, stencil, image transfer, collage as well as drawing. Inspired by travel, I am creating visual memoirs which offer multiple meanings to the viewer.

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. These landscapes are created from memories and what remains in my mind’s eye.

LINDA DUBIN GARFIELD

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Banner Image: © Linda Dubin Garfield, Patagonia Remembered 2, Mixed media on paper, 12” x 12”, 2022