Beautiful and difficult, poetic and troubling, seductive and confronting, Linda Vallejo’s artworks function as powerful gifts. Vallejo’s oeuvre is remarkably diverse. The apparent diversity in Vallejo’s art is unified by three enduring characteristics: resonant conceptual underpinning, impressive strength of purpose, and a consistently high level of craft
BETTY ANN BROWN, ART HISTORIAN, CRITIC, AND CURATOR
Paintings
2008–2010
Electric Oak: Full Moon in Daylight, 2008 | 48 x 60 in | oil on canvas
Electric Oak: Arco Iris, 2009 | 48 x 48 in | oil on canvas
Electric Landscape: Joshua Tree I, 2008 | 48 x 36 in | oil on canvas
Electric Nude I, 2010 | 40 x 30 in | acrylic on canvas
Electric Vision, 2010 | 60 x 48 in | acrylic on canvas
Electric Oaks on the Hillside, 2008 | 60 x 84 in | oil on canvas
Electric Oak: Fall Equinox, 2008 | 24 x 24 in | oil on canvas
Electric Oak: Spring Equinox, 2008 | 24 x 24 in | oil on canvas
Vallejo’s The Electrics comprises a sequence of images, painted and drawn, that capitalizes on the relationship between two visual tropes, one a mainstay of the 1960s and ‘70s, the other ubiquitous in these times. Vallejo describes The Electrics series as “images fusing Hippie Psychedelia[sic], spiritual vision search, and digital imagery.” In this regard, the artist is not simply conflating the aesthetics – the popular aesthetics – of a half-century ago with those of the current era, but highlighting the actual continuity between the two.
PETER FRANK, ART CRITIC, CURATOR, AND POET
Digitized ephemera from exhibitions, publications, and special projects, hundreds of art images with details, and a video library.
