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.
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.