Linda Fleming

Education: Carnegie Mellon University

Selected Exhibitions: "Perishable Industry", Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO "Galileo's Daughters, Sculpture and Daughters", Linda Durham Fine Art, Galisteo, NM Chicago Navy Pier, Pierwalk, Chicago, IL

Selected Collections: Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, CA Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Berkely Art Museum, Berkely, CA

Selected Awards: Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc. Pollock-Krasner Foundation Distinguished Faculty Award, California College of Arts and Crafts

Linda Fleming

"Transformer"
15'6"x15'6"x15'2"
Steel
1997

Artist Statement:
To make is to move thought from possibility to physicality. To leak vapor into the dense. And for me it expands the brain, the arena for thought, into the material world. Making creates a physical place where I can move ideas around like kids play with blocks. It is a place where I can linger with my favorite thoughts, walk around, pick them up, put them over there. Working clears away the time to think so I prolong the labor with complexity, intricacy, repetition, all the while finding a place in brute stuff to house the tracery of activity. I stay and build as long as I can. Then lose the focus, wander off. It is preposterous. It means everything. It means nothing. To Make.