LINDA H. POST FINE ART

It's always exciting to begin a new painting. Solidifying the concept can often take months. This new one combines many of the ideas, figures and settings from my series of the past 10 or so years. It is the largest in scale and very horizontal, at almost eleven feet wide! This is the full-size drawing on canvas, pinned to my studio wall. Before finalizing the sketch, I created a 12" x 12" oil painting on a wood panel of the masked figure on the left, just the head, to see ho

Remember the unfinished painting that my solo exhibit at R. Michelson Galleries, The Willing Suspension of Disbelief, was organized around? When the show came down, the painting returned to my studio for some finishing touches. Once it was back on my wall, I realized that there were still some major elements that had to be changed. That's the thing about sending art out into the world. You look at everything with a fresh perspective. The sky was desperate for more definition.

My latest exhibit, "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief", opened on April 25 in the big, sunlit upstairs gallery space at R. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, MA. This was my 9th solo show at the gallery. Over the course of the next two weeks, as more space opened up in the gallery, my show expanded. By May 10, the opening reception, it was complete. The exhibition was extended twice, finally coming down on May 26. Four of my paintings were displayed in the center of the st