Linda Besemer
Biographie
1957 née à South Bend, Indiana
vit et travaille à Los Angeles, CA
Formation
1983 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphie
1981 BFA, Indiana University, Bloomington
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowegan
Yale University Summer Program, New Haven
Expositions personnelles
2014 Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, Californie
2013 Sine Language, Nevada Museum of Art, NV
2009 Slabs + Sines, Galerie Richard, Paris
2008 Sine, Sine Everywhere a Sine, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Cohan & Leslie, New York, NY
2002 Cohan & Leslie, new York NY
2001 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach
Collections de Groupe (sélection)
2016 Painting Into Three Dimensions, Galerie Richard, New York, NY
2014 25 years, Galerie Richard, Paris
2013 Hors Frontières - Abstractions, Galerie Richard, Paris
Between Known and Unknown, Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalogue)
Forms of Abstraction, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, Ca
XYZ: The Geometric Impulse in Abstract Art, coll. Jessica Holonen et Emily Joyce, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2011 Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art
2010 Permissions, Highways Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca
2009 In Bed Together, Royal T, Los Angeles, Ca
Small is Beautiful, June Lee Contemporary Art, Seomi & Tuss Gallery, Séoul, Corée du Sud
Synthetic, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
PULSE Miami, Galerie Richard, Paris
2008 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
California Video ("Strip" avec Erika Suderberg), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles,CA
2007 OpArt : Then and Now, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
La Vida Privada: Coleccion Josep Civit, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Fundacion Beulas; Huesca
Proteus Gowanus Gallery ("Strip" avec Erikq Suderberg), Seoul Art Cinema & Art Sonje Center, Séoul
Festival Miden ("Strip" avec Erika Suderberg), Kalamata
Experimental Film and Video Festival, ("Strip" avec Erika Suderberg), Seoul Art Cinema & Art Sonje Center, Séoul
Renderyard Film Festival, ("Strip" avec Erika Suderberg), Théâtre Roxy, The Escape Gallery, Londres
18th Festival Internacional de curtas-metragens de Sao Paulo, Brésil. 23 août - 1 septembre
The Compass of Resistance International Film Festival: Radical Reels: Five Minutes of Mayhem! ("Strip avec Erika Suderberg), Cube Microplex, Bristol
Video Art Start From Zero, Festival Miden, Alekton Artspace, Athenes
Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Summer Stock, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Hotel California, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
SouthwestNET: Painting, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
, CA
New Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Op…ish; An Attempt at hyper-extension of the pure visual experience, Sampson Projects, Boston
In the Abstract, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
L.A., Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY
2004 New Geometries, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2003 One Word: Plastic, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
2002 Annual Exhibition, American Academy, Rome, Italie
Sight Mapping, APT Gallery, Londres
Vignettes : Modern and Contemporary Art from Colorado Collections, Colorado University Art Gallery, Boulder
Sight Mapping, Konsthallen-Bohuslans Museum, Udevalla, Sweden, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
The Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
ColorLove, Johnson County Community College, Kansas City, KS
Prima facie, New Abstract Painting, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New In Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland
2001 Furur scribendi, Works on Paper, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
MCA Chicago Benefit Art Auction, Chicago
The Dreams That Stuff is Made Of, Selections Show, Frankfurt International Art Fair, Francfort-sur-le- Main
Works on Paper, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Irlande
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Glee, The Alrdrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary
Inventional, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Works on Paper from California, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Luminous, IKON, ITD / Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, Escondido Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Muscle : Power of the View, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
CAART, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
1999 Five Continents and One City : New Paintings from Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America,
Palacio de Los Condes de Santiago de Calimaya, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico
Millennium Madness, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell
Pasadena Adjacent, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles
Hot Spots : Los Angeles, Houston and Miami, The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro
The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh
Postmark : An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe
Local Color, The Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, La Verne
1998 Polysemy, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Color Fields, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State L.A., Los Angeles, CA
10 x 20, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphie
8.1-29.98, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
6130, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Spot Making Sense, Grand Art, Kansas City, KS
Women’s Work : Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, The Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem
The Box, Marcia Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Push, Miller Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sex Industry, Stux Gallery,New York, NY
Push Internet, Miller Fine Art
1996 On and Off the Wall, The Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange County
Red, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
After, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Gift of Vision, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1995 Detachable Stroke #14, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach
1994 Constructed Views, Woodbury University Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Flow, Cerritos College Fine Arts Gallery, Cerritos
1993 10 x 10, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
A Carafe That is a Blind Glass, Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Save the Penis, New Langton Arts Center,San Francisco
Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
The Central Image, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles
Bibliographie
2012 Decade: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012. Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (illustrations), NY
Extreme Abstraction, 2.0 . Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (illustrations).
2006 Colpitt, Frances. Linda Besemer, ArtUS , mars/avril 2006, édition 12, p.4-5
2005 Miles, Christopher, Optical Illusions to bulge the eyes, LA Weekly. 2005 novembre: E28
Hirsch, Faye. Abstract Generations, Art in America. octobre : 123
Baron, Joan Boykoff and Reuben M. Baron. Doors and Floors, War and More : Reflections on the Amory Show '05
artcritical.com, mars (illustrations)
Stein Greben, Deidre. Return of the Blob, ARTnews, Vol. 104, No. 4, avril: 102-103 (illustrations)
Orden, Abraham. Circus with a tent, Artnet.com (illustrations)
Binstock, Jonathan. Sam Gilliam: Retrospective, Washington, DC, The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The University of
California Press (illustrations)
2004 Johnson, Ken. Art in Review: Linda Besemer, The New York Times, 2004, 3 décembre.
2003 Millet, Ann. Greensboro, North Carolina, Art Papers, mars/avril 2003
Patterson, Tom. Giving Plastic a Chance, Winston-Salem Journal, 16 novembre. One Word Plastic, Art Reviews, Dwell, octobre. (illustrations)
Colman, David, Getting in Line, Elle Décor, août/septembre: 56-60, (illustrations)
Patterson, Tom. The Word: Once again it’s ‘plastics,’ this time in the gallery, Winston-Salem Journal, 14 septembre: F3
Doll, Nancy M. One Word: Plastic, One Word: Plastic, Greensboro, NC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, catalogue de l'exposition
One Word: Plastic, articles, Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum
Rubinstein, Raphael. A Quiet Crisis, Art in America, mars: 39-45
2002 O’Sullivan, Michael. The Corcoran Biennial: Dramatic License, The Washington Post, 27 décembre, 2002 LB.
Site Mapping, Konstallen-Bohuslans Museum, Modern Painters, hiver
Bick, Andrew, et al. Sight Mapping. Konstallen-Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Suède (catalogue de l'exposition)
Thorson, Alice. Shifting Colors: ‘ColorLove’ presents a gallery of ideas in abstraction, The Kansas City Star, 29.10: K-1, K-10
Knight, Christopher. Surface and Color in Abstract Group Show, Los Angeles Times, 9 août 2002: F28-F29
Valdez, Sarah. Linda Besemer, Time Out New York, Issue 348, 30 mai - 6 juin (illustrations)

Peeled Paintings, New York Magazine, 3 juin (illustrations)
Smith, Roberta. A Profusion of Painting, Very Much Alive, The New York Times, mai 10, 2002 Linda Besemer
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA and Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York, NY.

 Essays by John Yau and David Batchelor (catelogue), The Amory Show: Sex Violence, And Yes, Beauty Too, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, 16 mars 2002: 60-63
Ollman, Leah. Scribes of Precision and Obsession, Los Angeles Times, 11 Janvier, 2002: F29, F30
Row, D.K., Two Hands Clapping: Exhibits at PICA and PAM Complement Each Other, The Oregonian, 12 avril
Ellerston, Karin, New in Town, éditorial, The Portland Mercury, 25 avril 2002
2001 Pence, Elizabeth. Everyone’s a Critic: Linda Besemer @ Angles Gallery, Coagula Art Journal, novembre 2001 Miles, Christopher. Linda Besemer, Artforum.com Critics’ Picks/Los Angeles, octobre (illustrations)
Frank, Peter. Linda Besemer, Raymond Saunders, LA Weekly, Art Picks of the Week, 12-18 oct.
Solomon, Deborah. Tastemaker, New in Town, Dives into a Caldron, The New York Times, 2 mai: 1 - 9
Dambrot, Shana Nys. Inventional at Angles, d’ART International, hiver 2001, Vol ; 4, Number 1: 38-39
2000 Dailey, Meagan, Glee: Painting Now, ARTFORUM, décembre 

Tulmer, jan, 90's Art in Los Angeles, Art + Text, Volume 71: 42-51 

Zimmer, William. Serious Abstract Paintings with a Non-Serious Message, The New York Times, 31 déc. ZOO 06, août.
Purple House Ltd., Londres: 166-167 (illustrations)
Pagel, David. Pushing Paint: Luminous, Los Angeles Times, 28 juillet
Rubinstein, Raphael. America’s Best, Art in America, juillet, p. 39 - 40
Gamblin, Noriko. The Next Wave: Painting in Southern California, Esconditio Centre for the Arts, Escondido, California (brochure de l'exposition)
Knight, Christopher. Catching the Next Wave of Painters, Los Angeles Times, 20 juin
Pincus, Robert L. Next Wave Shows the Versatility and Talent of Southern California, San Diego Union-Tribune, juin
Fark, Bill. The Next Wave, North County Times, 2 juin
California Artists Show Diversity in Museum Show, North County Times, 9 juin
Anderson, Maxwell, Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh Davies, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller, and Lawrence Rinder. Whitney Biennial (2000) .Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue de l'exposition)
Siegel, Katy. Biennial 2000: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Artforum, XXXVIII, No 9, mai, p.171-173
Thorson, Alice. Wit and Whitney: Having Some Fun With Mediums And Materials at the 2000 Biennial Exhibit, Kansas City Star, 9 avril
Muchnic, Suzanne. CAA Unveils Revamped Art Collection With Emphasis on Works by Local Artists, Los Angeles Times, 19 avril
Kimmelman, Michael. A New Whitney Team Makes Its Biennial Pitch, The New York Times, 24 mars, p. B29-B31
Siegal, Katy. The Max Factor: Whitney Biennial 2000, Artforum, mars, p. 110-117 

Knight, Christopher. Not Enough Reasons to Celebrate, Los Angeles Times, 26 mars
Hammond, Harmony. Lesbian Art in America. Rizzoli Press 

Richard, Paul. Whitney Sampler: For Browsers, Biennial 2000 Goes Down Easy, Leaves No Aftertaste, The Washington Post, 31 mars
Pagel, David. CAART: Themes Out of School. The CAA Foundation, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA (catalogue de l'exposition) 

Duncan, Michael. Linda Besemer at Angles, Art in America, mars, p. 138-139

Iannaconne, Carmine. Linda Besemer, frieze, Vol. 51, mars
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Beauty and The Contemporary Sublime (Aesthetics Today). Allworth Press, fév. 

Cotter, Holland. With a Nervy Sense of Today, The New York Times, 25 fév.

Gluckstern, J. Muscle, Friday Magazine, 2000, p. 11-12

Siegel, Katy. The Long List, Artforum, janvier 

Hickey, Dave and David Pagel. Ultra Lounge / Color Fields, ARTPIX, CD Rom, Houston, Texas
1999 Ferguson, Bruce. Five Continents and One City: New Paintings from Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America. Palacio de Los Condes de Santiago de Calimaya, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico (catalogue de l'exposition)
Wright, Leslie. RE-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Bucksbaum Center of the Arts, déc. (catalogue de l'exposition) 

Vogel, Carol. Choosing a Palette of Biennial Artists, The New York Times, 8 décembre.
Pagel, David. Deep Inconsistency, Los Angeles Times, 3 décembre, p. F28 - F29
Hickey, Dave. Best of 90s, Artforum, décembre
Thomas, Mary. Imaginations Burn in Hot Spots, Pittsburg Post-Gazette, 14 août
Shearin, Graham. New Academic Geography: Three Cities Surveyed in the Center for the Arts, Ticket, 22 juillet
Grachos, Louis, Bruce Ferguson and David Pagel. Postmark, Santa Fe, NM (catalogue de l'exposition)

Collins, Tom. Look Ma' No Hands!, Geronimo, mars 

Lopez, Ruth. Material Witness, Perspective, mars / avril
Rinder, Larry. twistfoldlayerflake, janvier (brochure de l'exposition)
Roche, Harry. twistfoldlayerflake, Artweek, mars

Narwocki, James. twistfoldlayerflake, New Art Examiner, mai
Scheer, Apollinaire, Prying Our Minds Open: TwistfoldLayerflake, Express, février 1999, p. 19
Duncan, Michael. Testing the Fabric of the Color Field, D'Art International, hiver.

Brown, Elizabeth. HOT SPOTS: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, The Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC (brochure de l'exposition)
1998 Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Notes on Being Framed By A Surface, ART + TEXT, été: 42 - 45

Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Linda Besemer, ART PAPERS, automne, p. 29 

Milavanovich, Marco. Linda Besemer, Art Press International, automne.
Pagel, David. Linda Besemer, Art issues, été.

Frank, Peter. Pick of the Week: Color Fields, LA Weekly, 8 janvier 

Linton, Meg. Polysemy, Artweek, décembre. 

Pagel, David. Color Them Retro, Los Angeles Times, 16 août
1997 Pagel, David. Spot Making Sense. Grand Arts, Kansas City, MI (catalogue de l'exposition)

Fleming, Jeff. Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting, South East Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (catalogue de l'exposition). 

Howell, George. A Box, ART PAPERS, novembre - décembre

Nichols, Jonathan. A Picture of Insecurity, Broadsheet (Australie), Vol. 2, No. 3, printemps 

Twardy, Chuck. Daughters of the Revolution: Contemporary Feminist Painting 
Reweaves the Old Themes in New Images, News & Observer, juillet

 Paterson, Tom. The Ways of Women, Winston-Salem Journal, 27 juillet. 

Thornson, Alice. Grand Arts Show Brings Sense and Style to the Summer, Kansas City Star, 4 juillet
1996 Cutajar, Mario. Linda Besemer, ART + TEXT, Vol. 54, été, p. 77 - 78

Pagel, David. Wet Paint, Los Angeles Times, 29 février, p. F12 

Frank, Peter. Pick of the Week, L.A. Weekly, 14 mars

 Curtis, Cathy. Vertical Inclinations, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, 24 septembre

 Blaschy, Barbara D. Geek Love: Flowers Bloom On and Off the Wall, O.C. Weekly, 20 - 26 septembre

 Yassein, Edward. Vision: The William Small Jr. Collection. Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (catalogue de l'exposition)
Gomez, Pat. Detachable Stroke #14. Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA (catalogue de l'exposition) 

Action Station: Linda Besemer, Sally Elesby, Zingmagazine, automne

How We Talk About Abstraction Now: Linda Besemer, David DiMichele and Jonmarc Edwards, ARTWEEK, septembre

 Anderson, Michael. A Carafe that is a Blind Glass, Art Issues, été 

Jones, Amelia. A Carafe that is a Blind Glass. Weingart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue de l'exposition)
Pagel, David. Smart and Sensuous, Los Angeles Times, 12 février
Prix & Récompenses
2004 The Graham L. Sterling Award, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 

2002-03 The Rome Prize, American Academy à Rome, Italie 

2001-02 The George A. and Eliza Howard Foundation Fellowship pour la peinture 

1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Emerging Artist Award Nominee, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 

American Express, New York City, New York, NY 

Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA 

Progressive Corporation, New York, NY
Panza Collection, Lugano, Suisse 

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Prudential-Bache Securities, New York, NY 

Chase Manhattan, New York, NY
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 

The University of Arizona Museum, Tempa, AZ
Collections publiques (sélection)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
American Express, New York, NY
Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
Progressive Corporation, New York VCity, NY
Panza Collection, Lugano, Suisse
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
Prudential-Bache Securities, New York, NY
Chase Manhattan, New York, NY
Sony Corporation, San Francisco, CA
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
The University of Arizona Museum, Tempa, AZ