Bio

Linda Stillman is a Hudson Valley artist who works in various media, investigating concepts of time, memory and nature.

She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Mark program, the Wave Hill Winter Workspace and The Studios at Mass MoCA. 

Her work has been featured in many group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the country and abroad including the Brooklyn Museum, the Dorsky Museum, Hunter College Art Galleries, the Arts Club of Chicago, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum. 

She has had solo and 2-person exhibits at the Arsenal Gallery in NY’s Central Park, the Hammond Museum in North Salem, NY (virtual), the IceHouse Project space in Sharon, CT, the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, R&F Paints in Kingston, NY among other venues.

Stillman’s art work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Hyperallergic, Albany Times Union and the New York Times and Hyperallergic. Her art is included in many private and public collections such as the Dorsky Museum and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 

Stillman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the School of Visual Arts and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA). 

Statement

I am interested in the passage of time in nature and ways to preserve fleeting moments of beauty. I work on different projects and in different media.

In my “Daily Skies” project, I document the sky each day in an ongoing series, started in August 2005, and continuing indefinitely. In my “Botanicals project” I make collages with leaves, drawings with flower petals as the pigment, as well as cyanotypes with leaves and flowers.

I celebrate the beauty of plants around me and hope viewers look more carefully at nature and think about the effects of our changing climate. I consider my art a collaboration with nature.