ARTIST STATEMENT
Linda Plaisted is an award-winning, classically-trained American multi-disciplinary artist whose exploratory practices include photography, collage, encaustic, and painting. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. She has also illustrated book and magazine covers for major publishers and contributed to art and literary journals.
As a pioneer in contemporary photomontage, each piece of artwork she creates tells a story by pushing beyond the boundaries of medium into mythology using traditions of appropriation, synthesis and reinterpretation. She employs these visionary practices to tell the untold stories of women; healing ancestral wounds. Layering pieces she has collected from her original photography and paintings, found images, ancestral documents and collected ephemera, she creates digital mixed media pieces with translucent veils of narrative and dreamlike symbolism.
Einstein said, “People who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Her work represents these layers of time and memory bleeding through one another to create a thinly-veiled liminal space where our ancestors and ourselves can reunite, creating new mythologies for the future.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Linda Plaisted was born in Pennsylvania in 1967, educated at the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Temple University and George Mason University, where she earned degrees in Fine Art, Illustration and Literature. A 2002 Magna Cum Laude graduate of GMU, her final portfolio was recognized as the most creative in her graduating class. As a pioneer in contemporary photomontage, she founded Many Muses Studio in Washington, DC in 2000 as a place to explore the marriage of many media. Having lived in the DC area for over twenty years, she currently lives and works in Frederick, Maryland. After a recent health hiatus, she is seeking studio space to pursue larger mixed media projects that will expand on her current practices in illuminating the untold stories of women and healing ancestral wounds by giving voices to the unheard.
© Linda Plaisted