Linda Fry

Linda Fry

My paintings often begin by combining images that refer to a world in which there is an unknown potential for abundance with an internal landscape of dreams, meditative states, and the comforts of home life. I develop these compositions by first assembling a collage or set of drawings. The paintings’ images reveal themselves in unexpected contexts

I work with oil paints, watercolors, and various drawing mediums.

I received an AS Degree at Moorpark College, and a BFA in Drawing and Painting at California State University, Long Beach, (June, 2012).

My work has been shown at:

  • DA Gallery, Pomona
  • Vacant Storefront @ Gallery Expo, Long Beach
  • Vision Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Artist Co-Op Gallery, Long Beach Open Studio Tour

Loft Art Gallery, 405 S. Mesa Street, San Pedro, CA. “New & Old” (Group Show, March, 2023)

Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill, CA – Group Show, entitled “Rooted” (featured painting at the front entrance) Saturday, August 7 – October 9, 2021.  

Loft Art Gallery: Eight Recent Paintings. October, 2021 – solo exhibition in a room adjacent to the main gallery.  

Loft Art Gallery, S. Mesa St., San Pedro, CA Group show – March, 2020. This show included Michael Stearns, Richard Stephens, Joy Gonzalez, Carol Hungerford, Linda Fry, and Bill Mohr. A couple days after being hung, the pandemic canceled any official opening.  

Loft Art Gallery, S. Mesa St., San Pedro, CA Group show, curated by Juri Koll. October, 2019.

Long Beach Mid-City Open Studio Tour –  June 1-2, 2019. Artist Co-Op, 1330 Gladys Ave., Long Beach, CA. Front lobby: Four large paintings. 

Vision Gallery. Solo Exhibition. October 19 – October 27, 2012. 401 W. Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90020. 

Vacant Storefront, curated by Nicole Street, Gallery Expo, 4321 Atlantic Avenue, one Beach, CA 90807. Other featured artists included Kelsey Livingston, Liliana Rodriguez, Atsumi Okono, and Wayne Nichols.  

O.M.S. One Momentous State. CSULB BFA Drawing and Painting Senior Exhibition. May 6 – May 10, 2012.   

Published Art

MacQueen’s Quinterly, edited by Clare MacQueen. On-line literary magazine. Issue no. 10, October, 2021. One painting, “Night and Day.” http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ10/Contents-MacQ10.aspx#VisualArts

Collaborative Projects  
Cover Art and Cover Art Direction, Thoughtful Outlaw, a chapbook of poems by Bill Mohr. The Inevitable Press, Laguna Beach, 2000  
Rules for Building a Labyrinth / DA Art Gallery, Pomona (collaborate painting on a letterpress broadside production of a poem by Bill Mohr) Sold at the exhibition. October, 2000.  
 
Put Your Ears On, poetry video,  Contributed art work to a recorded poetry reading by Laurel Ann Bogen. 1997.  
Wings / That Which Takes Flight, award-winning poetry video, 1996  
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
“My paintings are often inspired by first composing a collage in which potential subjects interact by sharing the space created within in the painting.  The interaction and relationship of the figures in my paintings to each other and their surroundings do not compare to our usual reality, yet one that is my individual construction. I believe that these paintings also respond to a place in my unconscious that deals in an imagined space. By combining imagery from the public world with an internal world of dreams, meditative states, and the comforts of home life, I strive to depict an empowering balance in the daily transitions each of us must undertake.” – Linda Fry  
 
My paintings often begin by combining images that refer to a world in which there is an unknown potential for abundance with an internal landscape of dreams, meditative states, and the comforts of home life. I develop these compositions by first assembling a collage or set of drawings. The paintings’ images reveal themselves in unexpected contexts.    
 
BIOGRAPHY  
 
Linda Fry is an artist based in Long Beach, CA. She has a BFA in Drawing and Painting from CSU Long Beach, and has exhibited her work in group shows at the dA Gallery in Pomona, the Vacant Storefront Show in Long Beach, and the Loft Gallery in San Pedro. In addition to contributing to “Figure Works,” curated by the late Dominic Cretara, she has had a solo exhibition of her work at the Vision Gallery in Los Angeles. She has also contributed original art work to a video of Laurel Ann Bogen’s poem, “Wings That Take Flight ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5atOtUjJv4