Linda Carey received her MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Arizona. She has taught drawing at the Columbus College of Art & Design, the College of William & Mary, and at various art centers. She has exhibited both in solo and group shows on the east coast and mid-west, and in Ireland and France. She has been the recipient of four International Residency Fellowships in France and Ireland, and is a member of the Midwest Paint Group which exhibits throughout the midwest and east coast. She spends several months every year in Italy painting and making pilgrimages to see Italian art. Below she describes her current interests in the studio:

"I have been incorporating reproductions of Italian paintings from Antiquity and the Early Renaissance into still-life settings for several years. Though I admire the narrative genius of early Italian art, my primary interest is visual. Aside from the pleasure of spending many hours staring at these images, they create a stage set and a mood for my arrangements of objects. The attempt to harmonize two different worlds…past and present, flat and dimensional, landscape and still-life, imagined and real… is a problem of my own making that I feel compelled to solve."

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