Linda Hutchins



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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (300 KB PDF)
February 20, 2009  /  Portland, Oregon

Media contact: Wendy Miller, 503.235.4681
Artist's website: www.lindahutchins.com

Linda Hutchins Receives Jurors' Choice Award
at Tacoma Art Museum's 9th Northwest Biennial

On view January 31 - May 25, 2009

[Hutchins'] works have a fluidity that belies their precision and are an act of true virtuosity.
— Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art, Tacoma Art Museum

Portland-based artist Linda Hutchins was honored as the recipient of Tacoma Art Museum's 9th Northwest Biennial Jurors' Choice Award during the exhibition's opening reception on January 31, 2009. She is one of 24 regional artists, selected from 543 applicants, to have work featured in the exhibition. The curators invited Hutchins to create Lineal Silver, a 9 x 12 ft. installation, on site at the museum. Over a three-day period, she scraped countless undulating lines onto a free-standing wall, using only a silver spoon that is a family heirloom. "The spoon leaves a trace of actual silver as I walk from one end of the wall to the other. It deposits a vestige of the past as well as the present," says Hutchins, "Drawing with this spoon links the physical line with the metaphorical lineage of ancestry." The exhibition is on view through May 25, 2009, and is accompanied by a full-color illustrated catalogue with essays by co-curators Rock Hushka, Curator of Contemporary and Northwest Art at the Tacoma Art Museum, and Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Contemporary Art and Special Projects at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

    • Illiterature—curated by Mark Carter
    • February 14 - March 21, 2009
    • Arena 1, Santa Monica, California
    • Featured artists include Michael Joaquin Grey, John Himmelfarb, Linda Hutchins,
    • Yael Kanarek, Greg Milne, Mike Patten and Masako Takahashi
    • "It is Beautiful Here" textiilinäyttely / textil utställning / textile exhibition 2009
    • May 9 - September 27, 2009
    • Fiskars, Finland
    • Featuring 34 artists, designers and craftsmen invited from Sweden, France, Lithuania, China,
    • South Africa, Japan, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Belgium, Germany and the United States.

about the artist

Hutchins received a BSE in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and a BFA in Drawing from Pacific Northwest College of Art. In addition to two fellowships from the Oregon Arts Commission, she has received grants from the Regional Arts & Culture Council and participated as an artist-in-residence at Caldera. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including 4Culture, the King County Public Art Collection, the Multnomah County Public Art Collection and Museum of Contemporary Craft. Her past exhibitions have garnered national press coverage, including a cover article in American Craft Magazine, a review in Art in America and critical attention on the blog PORT. She is represented by Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland, Oregon.