At UPL, we believe that displaying art enhances the library experience for our patrons, staff, and volunteers. When we see art in our community spaces, we’re inspired to engage with it and make art of our own. We seek to exhibit the work of diverse voices that reflect the communities in which we live.

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Lin Price | Life is but a Dream

April 28 to June 27, 2025

ARTIST STATEMENT

The paintings in the exhibition are part of a series I worked on from 2007-2013, that features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains.  It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I’ve chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them.  The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear – as dreams and life often are.

BIOGRAPHY

In Lin Price's paintings themes of renewal, loss, and the passage of time appear in scenes of realities that are rearranged by memory and the mind's eye. Her studio is in the Finger Lakes region of New York State and it sits on a hilltop surrounded by derelict fields, woodlands, and an assortment of wild and domesticated animal and human life.

Lin's solo exhibitions include: AXOM Gallery, Rochester, NY; Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY; SUNY Cortland/Dowd Gallery; and SUNY Onondaga, Syracuse, NY; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY; and Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Recent group and invitational shows: The Painting Center, NY, NY; Rochester Contemporary (ROCO), Rochester, NY; SUNY Cortland, Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY; Silverman Gallery, Rockville, MD; Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute, Utica, NY; Memorial Art Gallery/Museum, Rochester, NY.

Lin received a BFA '90 Ithaca College; MFA'95 painting Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, in Annandale, NY.  Awards and residencies include: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)/SOS grant; New York State Council on the Arts Fellowship through CAP of Tompkins County, NYFA/MARK program; Elaine DeKooning Memorial award/Bard College; Saltonstall Residency.

Lin taught all levels of painting and drawing at Ithaca College 2002-2020.  She also worked as a museum educator at the H.F. Johnson Museum of Art/Cornell University, 1990-2002.

ARTIST RECEPTION

Please join us for a reception welcoming and celebrating Lin Price, Saturday June 14th from 10:30 am - 1:30 pm. Refreshments will be served. All are welcome.