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LINDA CARMELLA SIBIO at Scope LA Art Fair
May 21 - 25, 2004, ROOM 235
Andrew Edlin Gallery of New York is pleased to announce a
painting exhibition and performance by
Linda Carmella Sibio in
conjunction with the Scope LA Art Fair at The Standard Hotel,
8300 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA. Sibio will give a live
performance of an excerpt from "Panic Attack", a piece she wrote
and debuted at Highways in Santa Monica in 2002.
Sibio's career began at the age of 11 when she started drawing in
the basement of an orphanage in West Virginia(her mother had
been institutionalized for schizophrenia). Talented but filled with
severe emotional disorders she too was diagnosed with
schizophrenia in 1977 while studying painting at Ohio University .
Sibio moved to Los Angeles in 1983. During this period her art
centered around performance and began to deal with social
issues such as homelessness, the plight of the mentally disabled,
prostitution, drug addiction, suicide and haunted Hollywood
apartments.
In 1999 Sibio returned to painting. She began her latest series
using brilliant gouache paint and sumi ink on huge 8' x 4' sheets of
arches watercolor paper. Her bold figures are enveloped by
several thousand meticulously rendered miniature images, a
visual language she likens to Mayan hieroglyphics. Sibio refers to
the artistic vision that guides her asThe Insanity Principle, which
encompasses her perceptions as a schizophrenic, invoking
themes such as fragmentation, hallucinations, interrupters, and
non-linear time sequencing.
The Lannan Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The
California Arts Council have all supported her work. She has been
in prestigious shows such as "Out There" at the Walker Art Center
in Minneapolis and The Asylum series with Franklin Furnace in
New York among others.
Andrew Edlin Gallery will also be showing works by Vahakn
Arslanian, Henry Darger, Tom Duncan, Marc Lamy, Martin
Ramirez, Bill Traylor and Adolf Wölfli at Scope LA.
Further information :
Andrew Edlin - 212 206 9723
www.edlingallery.com
www.scope-art.com
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