Linda Fleming (born in 1945, in
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the second-most populous city in Pennsylva ...
, Pennsylvania) is an American sculpture and university professor. She is currently teaches at
California College of the Arts (CCA). She lives and works in
Benicia, California, as well as maintaining studios and homes in the Smoke Creek Desert in Nevada, and in Libre, Colorado.
Biography
She attended
Peabody High School and received a full scholarship to
Carnegie Mellon University.
In 1967, Fleming moved to New York. She connected with the early
SoHo
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London. Originally a fashionable district for the aristocracy, it has been one of the main entertainment districts in the capital since the 19th century.
The area was develo ...
art scene in lower Manhattan. Her work was included in the last exhibition of
Park Place Gallery
The Park Place Gallery was a contemporary cooperative art gallery, in operation from 1963 to 1967, and was located in New York City. The Park Place Gallery was a notable as a post-World War II gallery for both its location and that it supported a ...
, a co-operative founded by artists Dean Fleming,
Mark di Suvero
Marco Polo di Suvero (born September 18, 1933, in Shanghai, China), better known as Mark di Suvero, is an abstract expressionist sculptor and 2010 National Medal of Arts recipient.
Biography Early life and education
Marco Polo di Suvero was bor ...
, Frosty Myers, Tony Magar, and Tamara Melchert, among others.
After Park Place Gallery closed, Fleming left NYC for Colorado with Dean Fleming. There they co-founded Libre, an artists' community. As a founding member of Libre, Fleming contributed to the structure of the community and the by-laws by which it is still governed. She has continued to spend a portion of her time living and working at Libre since 1968.
Fleming is primarily a sculptor although drawing is an important component of her work. She works in steel, wood, rubber, felt and paper. Her sculpture can be identified by intricate patterns resembling lace, tendrils of smoke, or webs. Her work has been exhibited across the United States, and is included in the collections of the
Oakland Museum of California
The Oakland Museum of California or OMCA (formerly the Oakland Museum) is an interdisciplinary museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California, located adjacent to Oak Street, 10th Street, and 11th Street in Oakland, Cal ...
in
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
, the
Albuquerque Museum in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, the
Laumeier Sculpture Park in
Sunset Hills, Missouri, the
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at
Stanford University. and the
Sheldon Museum of Art
The Sheldon Museum of Art is an art museum in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. Its collection focuses on 19th- and 20th-century art.
History
Sheldon Art Association
In 1888, The Sheldon Art Assoc ...
at the
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska. Chartered in 1869 by the Nebraska Legislature as part of the Morrill Act of 1862, the school was known as the Univers ...
.
Places
Fleming works in both urban and remote spaces. Her practice, while not site-specific, draws from the desert and mountain environments surrounding her studios. The cyclical migration between these spaces is a catalyst for the development of her work. She divides her time between Colorado, Nevada, and California.
Teaching
Fleming is a Professor of Fine Arts and the current Chair of the Sculpture Department at
California College of the Arts
California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California. It was founded in Berkeley, California in 1907 and moved to a historic estate in Oakland, California in 1922. In 1996 it opened a second campus in Sa ...
, Oakland, CA. She was awarded CCA's Distinguished Faculty award in 1993.
[Page at CCA, http://www.cca.edu/academics/faculty/lfleming] Additionally she has held teaching positions at the
San Francisco Art Institute, the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) is a private college specializing in the visual arts and located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MCAD currently enrolls approximately 800 students. MCAD is one of just a few major art schools to offer ...
,
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University (commonly referred to as San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers 118 different ...
, and the
Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
References
External links
Linda Fleming’s WebsiteArtist's page at CCA
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1945 births
Living people
American women sculptors
American contemporary artists
California College of the Arts faculty
Artists from Pittsburgh
San Francisco Art Institute faculty
Minneapolis College of Art and Design faculty
San Francisco State University faculty
Maryland Institute College of Art faculty
Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts alumni
Sculptors from Pennsylvania
21st-century American women artists