LINDA STOJAK AS OF NOW
Linda Stojak Railyard Arts District | 1613 Paseo de Peralta | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 | tel 505.988.3250 www.lewallengalleries.com | contact@lewallengalleries.com As of Now cover: Untitled (Visage 24), 2022, oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches September 30 - November 12, 2022
Linda Stojak is regarded for her highly nuanced, evocative representation of the female figure. In her transcendental paintings, Stojak empowers her women to narrate their own intimate stories, despite being locked in a state of suspended animation. Situating spare figuration within gossamer, liminal space, Stojak’s sumptuous canvases insinuate complex mysteries and hidden subtext within her spectral treatment of the female form. Veiled in mystery, Stojak’s paintings speak in a quietly haunting and melancholic voice –conjuring unsettled apparitions and faded, shifting recollections. Caught between dream-like realms, the enigmatic women she paints impart muted, layered histories. Through these illusory solitary forms, she explores both identity and anonymity, as memories become archived and devolve over time into a state of uncertainty. Stojak muses, “These paintings deal with moments in time where you cannot move forward and you cannot move backward.” The textured surfaces in Stojak’s compositions convey tangible residue of the emotions and ambiguities that inhabit uncharted psychic terrain. By obscuring facial features and eliminating environmental details, Stojak allows the viewer to focus on the simultaneous liberation and entrapment of the figure embedded within the transitional void. Implementing thin washes, thick layers, controlled drips, and scraping with a palette knife, Stojak intensely works the surface of her canvases with a gestural application of paint. She palpably manipulates the visual narrative as it unfolds, allowing each feminine aura to emerge through the addition and subtraction of pigment. Whether confined in a pitch-black catacomb or a light-filled chamber, Stojak renders each shrouded portrayal with care and grace. Elegantly excavating the subconscious, Stojak opens portals to unexplored passages and furtive dimensions of the human mind.
Linda Stojak: As of Now
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3 Untitled (Figure 129), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
5 Untitled (Figure 134), 2022 Oil on canvas, 70 x 40 inches
6 Untitled (Figure 136), 2021 Oil on canvas, 32 x 32 inches
7 Untitled (Figure 133), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
8 Untitled (Figure 131), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
Untitled (Figure 122), 2021 Oil on canvas, 61.75 x 62 inches
12 Untitled (Figure 139), 2021 Oil on canvas, 32 x 24 inches
13 Untitled (Figure 126), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
14 Untitled (Figure 121), 2021 Oil on canvas, 62 x 61.75 inches
15 Untitled (Visage 24), 2022 Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
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17 Untitled (Figure 127), 2022 Oil on canvas, 32 x 32 inches
19 Untitled (Figure 130), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 36 inches
20 Untitled (Figure 124), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
21 Untitled (Figure 138), 2021 Oil on canvas, 36 x 48 inches
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23 Untitled (Figure 125), 2022 Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 inches
24 Untitled (Figure 132), 2022 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
26 Untitled (Visage 25), 2022 Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 inches
27 Untitled (Figure 135), 2021 Oil on canvas, 72 x 48 inches
29 Untitled (Figure 137), 2022 Oil on canvas, 62 x 60 inches
30 Untitled (Figure 128), 2022 Oil on canvas, 32 x 32 inches
The Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville, FL
2005
EDUCATION
2004
1998 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Linda Stojak, Herter Art Gallery, U of Mass, Amherst, MA 2000 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2007
2019
1996
1997 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
b. 1955
2017
2011
Linda Stojak: Redux, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Linda Stojak: Tether, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY From the Moment Past, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Linda Stojak, Molloy College Art Gallery, Rockville Center, NY Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2013
2012
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2022
1999 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006 Why the Nude? Contemporary Approaches, The Arts Students League of NY, New York, NY 2003 The Perception of Appearance, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA 2001 Degrees of Figuration, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ 2000 Pictura Lucida, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Toblach Grant: Artist Residency, International Academy for Painting & Digital Photography, Toblach, Italy 2000 Leeway Foundation Grant (Achievement Award), Distinguished Achievement Award, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship As of Now, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM It’s ok to do nothing, Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA Look Away, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Silent Voices, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Waiting for a Moment, Stux + Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Brown University, Providence, RI Molloy College Art Gallery, Rockville Centre, NY
2015
1991 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Points of Turbulence in Contemporary Art, Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Timely & Timeless, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
1980 Pratt Institute, New York, NY, MFA
1995 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
Linda Stojak 2001 Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, BFA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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