Secrets of the Tides

by Linda H. Post

Linda H. Post creates paintings of women, the sea, mysterious encounters, and uncommon places. These works occupy a mythic place in our consciousness where timeless dramas are played out, questioning what we know about the world. Her imagery is powerful and richly pigmented. She incorporates landscapes, seascapes, people, architecture, and curious details that have never existed together in reality to construct a singularly compelling narrative. In Post’s larger pieces, her viewpoint is just outside the picture plane – one more step and you feel as if you can walk right into the painting. Post’s paintings, while following her own distinctive vision, fall well within the realm of contemporary realism. She has always drawn and painted the figure. Her work is organized around the geometry of patterns and the painterly flow of skies. She creates a realm where women are on the cusp of change and in sync with the natural world, a place where the spirit resides. "Secrets of the Tides" is part of a continuing series of paintings featuring striped, shape-shifting tents. These dramatically lit adolescent girls gaze downward as they walk away from the tents in companionable juxtaposition. Enigmatic, evocative, and mysterious, all of Post’s work asks the question: “What is real?” Post's work has been exhibited in museums throughout the country, most recently including the Danforth Art Museum, MA; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College; Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA; Loveland Museum in Loveland, CO; New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA; Brookgreen Gardens Museum, SC; Customs House Museum, TN. Collections include the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College; Jacob’s Pillow Dance Theater; Boston Public Library; Reader’s Digest; and Equitable Life. One of her two solo shows at Mary Ryan Gallery in New York City was reviewed in the New York Times. She has had seven one-person shows at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA and solo exhibitions at the University of Massachusetts, Wisteriahurst Museum, and Mary Washington College. Her paintings are digitally represented on the moon in The Lunar Codex: A Time Capsule of Human Creativity and included in the hardcover art book about this project. Her work has been featured on covers and in extensive photo essays in The Gettysburg Review, Poets & Artists, American Art Collector, Raw Art Review, American Artist, Cornell University's Epoch literary magazine, and The Artful Mind. Reviews and images of her work appeared in the Boston Globe, the New York Times, Fine Art Connoisseur, Artscope Magazine, and many other national and regional publications and exhibition catalogues. A 24-page color catalogue was published in conjunction with her solo show, “Balancing Acts”, at R. Michelson Galleries. She is a Juried Signature Member of the National Association of Women Artists and a Signature Member with Distinction of American Women Artists.