The artist with her work, Violet Red with White (2019) at GAVLAK Los Angeles.
LINDA DANIELS
Lives and works in Lompoc, California
Linda Daniels received her B.F.A. from the California College of the Arts in December 1975. Her work was first professionally exhibited in a group exhibition in 1981 at the University Art Museum Santa Barbara California. From 1981 to 1983, Daniel's work was included in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Barbara.
In 1984, Daniels moved to New York City. The artist's first solo exhibition there was in 1988 at fiction/nonfiction gallery. She has subsequently had solo exhibitions in New York City in 1989, 1991, 1993, 2001, 2002 and 2009. From 1984 to present, Daniels's work was included in numerous group exhibitions in New York City and Los Angeles. Linda Daniels's art has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum International, Arts Magazine and Art in America. In 1991 she received a Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts.
EDUCATION
1975 B.F.A., California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 A.M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York , NY
2001 Large Drawing With Ornamentation, Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York,
NY
1993 Jose Freire Fine Art, New York , NY
1991 fiction/nonfiction, New York , NY
1989 fiction/nonfiction, New York , NY
1988 fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Disorderly Construct, The Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Ulterior Motif, curated by Naomi Cohn, The Painting Center, New York,
NY (catalogue)
2000 Linda Daniels and Tamara Gonzales: A Few of My Favorite Things, Cheryl
Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
Paintland, curated by Terry R. Myers, Schmidt Contemporary Art and Lemon
Sky: a project space, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Summer Pleasures, Qualita Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV
1996 Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in
Painting, curated by Sue Spaid, Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Strappy Sandals and Skinny Belts: The Hyperfeminine Position in
Painting, curated by Sue Spaid,
The Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
The Joy of Painting, Here, New York, NY
Pleasant Pebble, curated by Mary Jones and Janice Krasnow, The Work
Space, New York, NY
1994 Hunk, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY
Sourball, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Bedroom Pictures, curated by Terry R. Myers, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA (catalogue)
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, curated by Terry R. Myers, Amy
Lipton, New York, NY
1991 Group Exhibition, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
1990 Building Beliefs: Paintings by Linda Daniels, Marilyn Lerner and Linda
Swanson, curated by Terry R. Myers,
Coup de Grace Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Selections
, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
1989 Invitational with Gallery Artists , fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
1988 Split Plane, fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
1988 Invitational, John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Linda Daniels, Robert Feintuch and Stephen Westfall, fiction/nonfiction,
New York, NY
Rigor, curated by Stephen Westfall, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
1985 The Non-Objective World, alternative space, New York, NY
1984 Small Works: New Abstract Painting, curated by Tom Hudspeth and Ron
Janowich, Lafayette and Muhlenberg
Colleges, Pennsylvania, PA (catalogue)
1983 Newcomers: 1983,
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Of This Time, Of That Place, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada
1982 Santa Barbara Artists, alternative space, (under the auspices of the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
SFMoMA), San Francisco, CA
The Santa Barbara Show, curated by Marcia Tucker, University Art
Museum, Santa Barbara, California, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 William J. Simmons, Ulterior Motif (exh. cat.), The Painting Center, New
York (with illustration).
2009 Joe Fyfe, "Linda Daniels", Pic of the Day, artcritical.com, May 23, 2009
(with illustration).
2000 Ken Johnson, “Linda Daniels and Tamara Gonzales: A Few of My Favorite
Things,” New York Times, Aug. 11, p. E35.
1993 Jenifer P. Borum, “Linda Daniels”, Artforum, October, p. 94 (with
illustration).
Terry R. Myers, “Linda Daniels”, Lapiz, May, p. 28 (with illustration).
David Pagel, “Painting’s Make-Up”, essay for the exhibition at Jose Freire
Fine Art, New York City, February.
Carmine Iannaccone, “Bedroom Pictures,” Art issues., January/February, p.
42.
1992 David Pagel, “Bedroom Pictures,” Los Angeles Times, November 19, p. F-
6.
Terry R. Myers, “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bedroom Picture?,” in
Bedroom Pictures (exh. cat.), Asher/Faure,
Los Angeles (with illustration).
Robert Mahoney, “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out,” Arts Magazine,
April, p. 91.
1991 Shirley Kaneda, “Painting and Its Others: In the Realm of The Feminine,”
Arts Magazine, Summer, pp. 58-64.
Reprinted in Terry R. Myers, ed., Painting: Documents of Contemporary Art,
Whitechapel Gallery, London, and
The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2011, pp. 72-80.
Alisa Tager, “Colors”, Lapiz, no. 80, pp. 62-65.
1990 Peggy Cyphers, “Linda Daniels,” Arts Magazine, February, pp. 99-100.
Terry R. Myers, “Linda Daniels,” Tema Celeste, January-February, pp. 68-69
(with illustration).
1988 Stephen Westfall, “Linda Daniels,” Art in America, June, pp. 164-65 (with
illustration).
Calvin Reid, “Linda Daniels,” 108: A Review, January-February, p. 3.
1984 William Zimmer, "Can small works carry it off?,” in Small Works: New
Abstract Painting (exh. cat.),
Lafayette and Muhlenberg Colleges, Pennsylvania (with illustration).
1983 Suzanne Muchnic, “Promising ‘Newcomers’ at Muni,” Los Angeles Times,
July 31, p. 80- 81.
Marlene Donahue, “A Diverse Group,” Artweek, 13, p. 5.
1981 Robert McDonald, “Marcia Tucker Selects,” Artweek, July 20, p. 16.
William Wilson, “New Wave Gets Its Foot On The Shore,” Los Angeles
Times, July 12, p. 80-81.
GRANTS
1991 The National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting
