Self Knowing in the New Age
A new body of work on canvas 2023-2024
acrylic and oil pastel on canvas
Self Knowing in the New Age combines three previous painting styles to produce psychological portraits about how humanity is affected by a relationship with technology and machines. Where previous portfolios focused on nature and our indelible relationship to the earth, I now turn my search to images that discuss our division from nature and our natural selves. I combine the formal attributes, painterly techniques, the dot, the square, and the portrait to search for images concerning this engrossing and commanding topic.
Conceptual painter, printmaker, installation and digital artist Linda Vallejo’s overarching interest throughout the diverse stylistic and material phases of her career has been and remains the complex social dynamic surrounding individual and group identity. Her work has traced the progress of a narrative launched as an examination of her own heritage and the multivalent legacies of its influence on the sensibilities of her artistic and social consciousness.
--Shana Nys Dambrot, award winning art critic, Los Angeles 2016
Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.
