Linda Plaisted

Artist Statement

Linda Plaisted is an award-winning American multi-disciplinary artist whose exploratory practices include photography, collage, painting and encaustic. Her work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States. 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 myth, using traditions of
collection, synthesis and reinterpretation. Approaching her work as both artist and
historian, she employs her unique visionary practices to reveal the untold stories of
women and Mother Earth; an effort to heal ancestral wounds and restore equilibrium. Layering pieces from her original photography and paintings with
found images, ancestral documents and gathered ephemera, she creates photographic mixed media pieces with translucent veils of narrative and dreamlike layers of time and memory bleeding through one another. Like dreams, these pieces can be simultaneously clear and ambiguous yet offer a map to a liminal world where fresh myths are created; informed by the past, while envisioning a transcendent future.