Linda Stojak "From the Moment Passed"
Stephen Haller Gallery
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Linda Stojak is an artist of exceptional impact. Hers is an intensely personal work - paintings that might be called "psychological self-portraits." Her indelible images deal with feminist issues of power and identity. In her new series, as in her best-known work, Stojak confronts the self, identity, and the female body.
Critic Michael Amy has written that Stojak’s paintings give “the illusion of almost intangible flesh, as open as a wound.” He described the “flesh-like surfaces of her pictures – rich epidermises filled with the history of their own generation.”
Aside from the underlying narrative impact of the work, Stojak is also focused on quite painterly concerns. Art in America critic Edward Leffingwell has written of Linda Stojak’s paintings that they are “as formally compelling as they are moving.”
Stojak’s work consists mostly of a solitary figure emerging from a contrasting ground, a field of relentless palette-knife-wide strokes of oil paint obsessively worked and reworked until the brushstroke itself becomes the search for meaning - painterly explorations of the body and the existential themes incorporated there: a rumination in paint on life’s great themes – birth, death, and sexuality.
Hers is a technique both sensual and gestural, an example of the expressionistic played against the conceptual. Linda Stojak’s work is suffused with a profound humanity. In the words of critic Michael Amy: “her figures offer a remarkable evocation of our very lives.”
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from January 13, 2011 to February 19, 2011