Linda McConaughy

Linda McConaughy
Rocky River, Ohio, USA

STATEMENT

I grew up on the west side of Cleveland in a family of makers and artists. I moved to the East Coast after college, and recently returned to the Cleveland area after a career as an art educator and art program supervisor in Baltimore, Maryland. I create artworks that reflect a desire to attend to and decode dialogue with place and time. I pivot between work that looks inward and outward, forward to what is possible, and backward to ways the past frames the present.

My work includes many media: recycled materials, wood, and collected/found objects. My work takes the form of collages, assemblages, and constructed cabinets/boxes. I am inspired by artists Hannelore Baron,
Ingrid Ellison, Joan Mitchell, Olafur Elaisson, and work associated with the Fluxus movement.

My work has been exhibited locally at The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, YARDS, and nationally in many juried exhibits. I am a recipient of a 2023 Ohio Arts Council Award of Excellence.

BIO

Linda McConaughy recently returned to the Cleveland area after a career as an art educator and art program supervisor in Baltimore, Maryland. She creates artworks that reflect a desire to attend to and decode dialogue with place and time. The space around us is full of opportunities for decoding–even the smallest, most humble elements hold vast potential for investigation. She considers her work to be a visual record of an unscripted dialogue between the constructed and the natural world. Her work includes many media: recycled materials, wood, paint, collage, and collected/found objects. Her work has been exhibited locally at The Artist Archives of the Western Reserve, The Morgan Conservancy, and nationally in many juried exhibits.

ARTIST CONTACT

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