Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Linda McCord has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Linda is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in Longview, Washington, USA. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 30th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Linda’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her abstract paintings submitted to this competition.
McCord, a self-taught artist, has produced a new body of abstract acrylic art by experimenting with paint formulas to create unusual cells, lacing, textures and sensual colors. The scientific process and new discoveries are what makes her work stand out.
McCord is best known for figurative paintings in watercolor and acrylic. Of her abstracts she says, “The compositional concepts and color theory work the same way regardless of subject matter. What’s different and so addictive is the freedom creating abstract art gives me.” She was a gallery owner for 10 years, and taught painting and printmaking at her local college.
She has taken international awards too numerous to list including the prestigious MiKiHASi Memories Gold Award, an exhibit for her watercolor series, In the 90's. Her art is in private and corporate collections throughout the world.
She is a signature member of ISAP, NWWS, GWS, and CWA. About her work she says, “I design my work around mathematical concepts rather than emotion.”
Making the switch from realism to abstraction has opened an entire new world for me. To be able to create entirely from my inner creative mind rather than relying on props has been such an expressive high, and the adrenaline flow keeps it exciting. Programmed from many years of doing art is color theory, composition, rhythm, and those elements have not changed in my work.
My most recent work is about the thrill of experimenting with acrylic formulas to create the lively movement of bubbles, cells, and carbonation. I like taking risks and looking for new combinations of paint formulas I have never done before. I have discovered acrylic formulas to create even larger more luminous cells, lacing and bubbles and sensual colors. What I love about abstract painting is the freedom it gives me. I often ask, what if I try this? Or maybe if I…
To learn more about Linda and to see more of her art, please visit her website.
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