Linda Ekstrom
Linda Ekstrom received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from UC Santa Barbara, where she is now a visiting scholar; she is also on the faculty of Santa Barbara City College. She has had ten solo exhibitions in 17 years, has been in many group shows, and has received grants and awards for her work.
On Exhibit
Vault
Carpinteria, 2000
Silk organza and bible text
"My artwork and practice is focused around issues pertaining to religion and the sacred -- the sacred as manifested in art forms and as structured in ritual and memorial spaces. The book serves as a focus of memory, and the main book of my tradition, the Bible, has become central to my work. The Bible is a book inherent with rich symbolic meaning -- one that holds the words from which the institutional systems have sustained themselves. The altered bibles can be
understood as a feminist visual critique on the patriarchal tradition. I subvert the sacred text by reordering and scrambling known arrangements. What remains can no longer support the predominantly male construct of the text."
The Kidnapping
Carpinteria, 1995
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