White Room: Joan Linder

Joan Linder has been examining her environs in paintings and drawings since 1996. She has depicted seemingly disparate subjects, including her family members, office machinery, eighteen-wheelers, buildings, radio and television towers, businessmen, and furniture. These subjects are taken directly from her immediate surroundings and depicted in a straightforward manner. In her White Room, Linder presents scroll-like drawings of trees, each 15 to 17 feet tall. Drawn with monochromatic pen and ink in short, linear strokes that do not hide mistakes, these works embrace the intervention of the artist’s hand. Linder has had solo exhibitions at various spaces in New York, including Riva Gallery, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, and the Queens Museum of Art. Her work has been featured in many group exhibitions at such venues as Caren Golden Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, PPOW, and Art in General. She holds a MFA from Columbia University and a BFA from Tufts University.