Linda Wandt
New York native Linda Wandt has been in Austin for seven years, and
loves it. She holds a BA in Studio Art from The University of Texas at
Austin with a concentration in oil painting and black and white film
photography. Her paintings tend to be bold, bright and expressionistic
portraits, exploring a narrative or posing questions about inner
psychology and reality to the audience through surreal means.
snarko!
snarko!'s paintings push the limits of figurative, textural and
narrative expression while retaining an unbreakable sense of
compositional purpose.
A true abstractionist, snarko! means every single run, drip, or
splatter, manipulates them with as precise intention as the subtlest
watercolor wash, and extracts from them the very essence of each subject.
snarko!'s work is at once a contradiction of the terms expression and
order and a perfect synthesis of the two. While working at a relentless
speed, she is always in perfect control of the chaos that she creates.
From concept to execution, an artwork can take as long as two months to as little as two minutes.
snarko!'s paintings work at many different levels of viewing, from the
bold statement of a cursory glance to a rich world of texture and detail
for the viewer willing to linger longer. There's a narrative in every
piece, whether it's the story of a Japanese ghost, an entire lexicon of
a tarot deck, or the wandering of an errant fan brush.
