Linda L. Chappel

Our intrinsic and complicated connections to the wider community of animals and to the landscape are the center of my artwork. I am interested in the persistence and interplay of visual symbols and myths from various cultures and across time. As part of this investigation, the work often combines images from the lexicon of art history with direct observations of nature. Using encaustic, oil, and collage allows me to leave traces of my physical interaction with the art. The layering of images records my understanding of these connections and is one way to contemplate the importance of the relationship to the earth in contemporary society.

Linda Chappel’s formal studies in art began at the University of Madison, Wisconsin where she was fortunate to study in the sculpture department with Dan Reitz, George Cramer, and Truman Lowe.  She graduated from Madison with a bachelor degree in the Fine Arts in 1986. After graduation, she worked in various fields and as a fine artist in Santa Fe and Seattle and showed in a number of galleries, including the OK Hotel and FLN in Seattle.  In 1992 Linda decided to further her studies and came to the University of Arizona at Tucson for a Graduate degree in Art History and was awarded a Master’s Degree in Art History, specializing in Mexican Art History. She is currently a full-time instructor at Tohono O'odham Community College and shows her work throughout the Southwest.

Arts Exchange, January 2015,  College Arts Association Conference, Juried Group Exhibition, New York, New York

Lost and Found, August 2014, Raices Taller 222, Juried Group Exhibition, Tucson Arizona 

Cycles, Jewish Community Center, September 2014, Juried Group Exhibition, Tucson Arizona 

Refractions, April 2014, Tucson Pima Arts Council, three person exhibit, Tucson Arizona

Love Your Mother (Earth) April 2014 The Drawing Studio, Juried Group Exhibition, Tucson Arizona 

Neo-Mimbreno, August 2013, Juried group exhibition, Western New Mexico University Museum and Silver City Museum,  Silver City New Mexico

Mujeres, Mujeres, April 2013, Raices Taller 222, Juried Group Exhibition, Tucson Arizona 

Utopian Dreams, September 2012, juried by Kathryn Hratko, STEP Gallery, Arizona State University, Phoenix Arizona

Neo-Mimbreno, August 2012, Juried group exhibition, Western New Mexico University Museum, Silver City New Mexico

Recollections, November 2011, solo exhibition, Arts Marketplace Gallery, Tucson Arizona

1st- 5th  Annual Staff and Faculty Shows, May 2009-13, juried group shows, Art Institute of Tucson, Tucson Arizona 

Polos de Pueblo, April 2009, group show, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson Arizona 

Twenty-Eight Bowls, November 1990, group show, AFLN Gallery, Seattle Washington

Environments, June 1990, O.K. Hotel Gallery, juried exhibition, Seattle Washington

Choose, June 1989, solo exhibition, AFLN Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Outdoor Sculpture, August 1988, group show, AFLN Gallery, Seattle Washington

Incubator, April 1988, group show, Main Plant, Seattle Washington

Projectors and Receptors, May 1987, Solo exhibition, Reller/Beffle Studios, Seattle Washington

Group Show, February 1987,Reller/Beffle Studios, Seattle Washington

Cathedral Park Art Show, August 1986,open group show, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Peace Park, May 1986, juried group show, Madison, Wisconsin

• Off The Wall, issue #1 and #2, 1991-92, an award for local literary publication, Bumbershoot Festival Opinion Rag, Winter 1998
• Possessed, 1988-1989, issues #1-#4

Linda L. Chappel