Tough Love, 2025
Linda Geary is a California-based artist, deeply rooted in her communities in the Bay Area as well as in the legacy of abstraction in painting. She earned a double major in Studio Art and English from the University of San Diego, and an MFA from the University of Delaware. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of an Elizabeth Foundation grant, two Pollock-Krasner awards, the Alma B. Shapiro residency award at Yaddo in 2017, and the Kent Fellowship at MacDowell in 2022. Her work has been reviewed in Art In America, Art Forum, Art Practical, KQED, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and Squarecylinder. Other residencies include Kriti in Varanasi, India, Art Omi, and Sanskriti Foundation in Delhi, India. Her public mosaic River (2021), is at SFO in the International terminal. She is a Professor of Painting and Graduate Fine Arts Faculty at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives and works in Oakland.