LINDA EKSTROM

e-mail ekstrom@religion.ucsb.edu

ACADEMIC

BA College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara 1982

MFA University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996

Visiting Scholar, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1996-present

Lecturer in the College of Creative Studies, Studio Art, UCSB 1998 to present

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001 Beneath Memory Frumkin Duval Gallery

1999 Deep Sleep of Resemblance Sherry Frumkin/Christine Duval Gallery

1998 children of memory - University Art Museum, UCSB

1997 Transcriptions - Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1996 a space for memory - Holocaust Remembrance Week, UCSB Gallery 1434

1990...from the fire and Garden - OuterSpace Gallery,

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1989 Fire, Water, Night Sky, Cross and Gold - Puccinelli Gallery

1986 ARTSEEN, Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Triptych Wall -

site specific sculpture, downtown Santa Barbara

1985 Recent Works - OuterSpace Gallery, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1982 Resolved/Unresolved: Installation - College of Creative Studies Art Gallery,

University of California, Santa Barbara

1982 In Search of Ancient Sisters - temporary site specific sculpture,

University of California, Santa Barbara

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2002 memory/in/voice, Installation created for Yom Ha-Shoah, collaboration with

Richard D. Hecht, April, 2002, Hillel and Jewish Student Center, Santa Barbara

2000 memory/in/dwelling, Installation created with Richard D. Hecht,

for Yom Ha-Shoah, April, 2000, University of California, Santa Barbara

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 Metaphorical Books, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro

2004 City Dialogues, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park

2004 Sacred Texts of the World, Minneapolis College of Art and Design

2002 Girl Talk; Encina Gallery, Sacramento, CA

2001 Year End LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 So Cal(led) Books: Diversity in Artist’s Books from Southern California,

New York Center for the Book, New York

2001 Out of Line, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara

2001 Theory or Faith, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001 Spun, The Living Room: Special Projects in Contemporary Art, Santa Monica

2000 Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium,

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

2000 Within Our Walls: The Museum at Pomona College, Montgomery Gallery,

Pomona College, Claremont CA

2000 Mathesis, Cerritos College, CA

2000 Faculty Exhibit, University of California, Santa Barbara,

1999 So Cal(led) Books: Diversity in Artist’s Books from Southern California

San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco

1998 trans-, Quotidian Gallery, San Francisco

1999 Open and Closed: Artists Contemporary Books as Sculpture,

Fullerton College Gallery

1998 Significant Others, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1998 Charity2, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1997 Second Biennial Artist’s Books Juried Exhibition, Athenaeum Music and

Arts Library, La Jolla California

1997 Group Exhibition - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside. California

1997 Testimony - Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA (catalog)

1997 The Uncommon Book: I thought hope was home - Sun Valley Center for the

Humanities, Sun Valley, Idaho

1997 Seeking Balance - Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California

1996 Reproducing Nature - Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1996 Score - University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

1996 Un Ange Passe - Reynolds Art Gallery, Westmont College, California

1995 Investigations - Gallery 1434, University of California, Santa Barbara

1995 Small Images - Atkinson Art Gallery, Santa Barbara City College

1995 Retrospective: Awards in the Visual Arts, Individual Artist Program -

Ro Snell Gallery, Santa Barbara
1994 Individual Artist Program:Traveling Exhibition - Elverhoy Museum and Channing Peake Gallery

1993 Faculty Exhibition - Atkinson Art Gallery, Santa Barbara City College

1993 Prints - selected by Ro Snell, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara

1993 CHAIRity - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1992 Un Ange Passe - Reynolds Art Gallery, Westmont College, California

1992 AMDG: Exhibition in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco

curated by Terrain Gallery, San Francisco

1989 Faculty Exhibition - Atkinson Art Gallery, Santa Barbara City College

1989 AIDS CAP - Frameworks Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

1988 Assemblages - Arpel Gallery, Santa Barbara, California

1987 Art Walk - Open Studios, UCSB Alumni Association,

1987 Dionysian Revel III: Garden of Earthly Delights

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1987 All California 86 on a Small Scale - Laguna Art Museum, California

selected by Howard Fox (catalog)

1985 X-Change - traveling exhibition, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,

Anchorage Alaska, Moskow Idaho (catalog)

1984 Group Show - Women’s Building, Santa Barbara, California

1983 December Group Show - Risser Gallery, Pasadena, California

1983 Pacific States Print and Drawing Exhibition - University of Hawaii at Hilo,

selected by Charles Garabedian (catalog)

1983 California Mystique: Contemporary Women Painters - McPhee Union Art

Gallery, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, selected by Sandy Ballatore

1983 Western States Figurative Realism - Cypress College, Cypress, CA (catalog)

1981 Big Paintings - College of Creative Studies Art Gallery, UC Santa Barbara

AWARDS and RESIDENCIES

Currently - Artist in Residence, The Center for the Study of Religion, UCSB

2004 Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Grant, UCSB--Capturing the

Bird: Material Forms of the Word in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson

2003 Erasmus Institute Faculty Seminar, “Religious Hermeneutics and Secular

Interpretation.” Led by Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University

1996-1999 Visiting Scholar, Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

1996 Abrams Award, artist grant - UCSB Women’s Center

1995 Abrams Award, artist grant - UCSB Women’s Center

1995 Un Ange Passe, cash award - Westmont College

1994 Un Ange Passe, cash award - Westmont College

1993 Individual Artist Program, grant - Santa Barbara County Arts Commission

1986 ARTSEEN, grant for site specific work - Santa Barbara Museum of Art

CATALOGS

1983 “Western States Figurative Realism”- Cypress College

1983 “Pacific States Print and Drawing Exhibition” - University of Hawaii, Hilo

1985 “X-Change”- Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1986 “All California ‘86 on a Small Scale”- Laguna Art Museum

1997 “Testimony”- Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College

2000 “Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium”

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

2004 “City Dialogues at Barnsdall Art Park,” LA Cultural Affairs Department

2004 “Sacred Texts,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design

COLLECTIONS

Alan Chasanoff Extensive collection of artist’s books as sculpture

Scripps College Library, Special Collections

University of California at Santa Barbara, Special Collections Davidson Library

University of California at Los Angeles, Rare Books and Special Collections Library

Carnegie Mellon University, Special Collections Library

Pomona College Museum, Pomona College, Claremont

Simon Wiesenthal Center Library, Tolerance Museum, Los Angeles, California

LIMITED EDITION BOOKS - hand to mouth press, Linda Ekstrom

1994, Poetry in the Hand: selected poems by Joyce Carol Oates, edition of 20

1994, The Kidnapping, edition of 20

1994, O, the night of the weeping children, a poem by Nelly Sachs, edition of 20

1995, Taboos: based on Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud, edition of 20

1996, Abu Steve is Coming Out of Retirement, by Richard D. Hecht, edition 100

1996, The Disappeared, by Richard D. Hecht, edition of 100

1996, Jerusalem, poems by Jehuda Amichai, commemorating Amichai’s reading

UCSB edition of 85

1997, Testimony - edition of 45 - Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College

PUBLICATIONS

Articles Published

1989, “Fire and Water: an artist explores the message of these two primal symbols”

Modern Liturgy Magazine, Vol. 16 no. 2, Resource Publications, Inc.

1997, “Space, Memory and Place” Environment and Art Letter, Vol. 10 no 1

1997, “Gober’s Mary fires debate on art, religion” National Catholic Reporter, Dec. 5

1998, “Jewish women take another look as identity as ‘people of the book’”

National Catholic Reporter, February 6

1998, “Angels a sure winner but exhibit raises doubts on Church’s view of art”

National Catholic Reporter, May 8

Books Illustrated

1990, Words Around the Fire, Gail Ramshaw, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1990, Death Sourcebook, ed. Ginny Sloyan, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1991, Words Around the Table, Gail Ramshaw, LTP , Chicago

1991, Melodious Accord, Alice Parker, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1992, Paschal Mission 1992, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1995, Words Around the Font, Gail Ramshaw, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1995, The Psalter, (ICEL translation) Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1995, Psalms for Morning and Evening Prayer, (ICEL) LTP, Chicago

1995, I Will Lie Down This Night, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1995, Triduum Sourcebook, Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1996, The Canticles, (ICEL translation) Liturgy Training Publications, Chicago

1998, The Lectionary, three volume ritual book, cover and inside art, LTP, Chicago

ARTICLES WRITTEN OR LECTURES PRESENTED ON THE SUBJECT

“Sacred Books and Sacred Subversions: Linda Ekstrom’s Altered Bibles”

Richard D. Hecht; “Journal of Contemporary Midrash”, 2000

“Sacred Books and Sacred Subversions: Linda Ekstrom’s Altered Bibles”

Richard D. Hecht; presented at the American Academy of Religion, March 1998, Claremont, CA;

presented at the Interdisciplinary Humanites Center; May 1998, UCSB

“Shredding the Bible at Westmont College?” Robert H.Gundry;

presented at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, January 23, 1996

GUEST LECTURES OR PAPERS PRESENTED

Symbol Language in the Work and Practice of Contemporary Artists, Form/Reform:

National Conference on Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, California

Unveiling the Sacred in Contemporary Art: Interpreting Christian Boltanski, Anselm Keifer,

and Wolfgang Laib Linda Ekstrom, Richard Hecht, The Cultural Turn,

February 2001, UCSB

Unveiling the Sacred in Contemporary Art: Interpreting Christian Boltanski, Anselm Keifer,

and Wolfgang Laib” Linda Ekstrom, Richard Hecht, October 2000, Western Humanities Alliance,

Nineteenth Annual Conference; “The Pious and the Profane: Religion and Public Culture”

Material Memories  Spring 2000, The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Symposia in

Jewish Studies, Interdisiplinary Humanities Center, UCSB, video

SmART talks October 2000, The Helen Rosenberg Memorial Lecture Series,

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum , Santa Barbara, California

Art and the Body: the body politic and the body private - Spring 1996,

University of California, Santa Barbara California

Dialogue: Linda Ekstrom and Judith Hoffberg discuss the artist’s book

May 1997, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica California

Testimony, a discussion of feminist concerns in religion and art- November 1997,

Religious Studies Department, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California

Testimony, discussion of bookworks - December 1997, Art Studio Department,

Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California

Lecture and Bookbinding Workshop, Art Studio Department, Pomona College,

Claremont California- directed the students in the binding of Testimony

The Book-Work and Process - April 1998, Cal State Long Beach

presentation and studio visits with graduate students, CSLB Art Studio Department

Religion and Material Forms- May 1998,

Department of Religious Studies UCSB

ADDITIONAL
Currently - Artist in Residence, The Center for the Study of Religion, UCSB

1998 to 2001: Serving as Public Art Liaison on the committee for the Los Angeles

Cathedral, Our Lady of the Angels, concerned with the art and furnishing

for the interior and exterior

1987 to 1997: Freelance illustrator of books and publications

1990 - 1993: Member of the Design Review Committee, for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles,

concerned with the design and renovation of worship spaces and art commissions

1984 - 1985: Member of the Exhibition Committee, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

1981- 1982; Gallery Director, UCSB Women’s Center Art Gallery

RECENT TEACHING

2004 Spring Quarter

College of Creative Studies
Course: Words in the Hand: Introduction to Letterpress Printing
A studio course introducing the student to letterpress printing. The page is analyzed as a system of space where text is arranged to create literal and metaphorical meaning. Folios, books and paper sculptural will be treated as pages that are divided, folded, turned and manipulated into structures for holding words. Here the artist will learn that letterpress printing provides a certain level of commitment for the words we choose to frame and fix within time and space. A course reader, visits to the Arts Library and the Special Collections Library and a field trip are required components of the course

2004 Winter Quarter

College of Creative Studies
Course: Projects: Artist’s book, Print and Text-Based Art Forms
Artists continue to contribute to the future of the book by exploring the book format and book related works in a broad diversity of forms and expressions. This course is for students who are willing to dedicate the time and focus to create a substantial work. Each will operate independently while also acting as part of a team contributing thoughtful discussion to the projects of all participants. Reading material, discussions, slide presentations and print and book making materials and techniques will be tailored to support the development of the participant’s projects.

2003    Fall Quarter

College of Creative Studies
Course: The Altered Book as Hermeneutic
In the academic institution the visual artist has the unique role in which research becomes an opportunity to construct meaning in visualforms.To read is to interpret, yet that interpretation need not always be in the form of more words. We will examine the book as a cultural and symbolic object. The texts of the books and how we define meaning will result in the altered forms the books will take. These altered books will avoid clever and trite solutions, focusing instead on hermeneutics. Each altered book in its sculptural form will serve as an interpretive model of the book’s meaning.

2003    Summer Session

Art Studio
Course: 2D Introduction to Artmaking
Introduction to contemporary materials, methods and theories and practices based in two dimensional artmaking. Composition, form and color theory are discussed and explored through a variety of 2D media as well as in relation to prominent historical movements and artists in 2D art. The course was structured weekly by three hours of formal lecture and six hours of studio practice.

Religious Studies
Course: Religion and Contemporary Art, taught with Richard Hecht
Seminar course, slide lectures and discussions of reading material around the course reader, evaluation and grading of student paper or project, organization of field trips to various art venues

2003 Winter and Spring Quarters (Course extending over two quarters)

College of Creative Studies
Course: The CCS Press Presents a Limited Edition Book
Providing a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary study between artists, writers and others through collaboration on the production of a fine quality, limited edition artist’s book. Preliminary research will include viewing and analysis of artist’s book in the Special Collections Library. Poetry, selected from CCS students will inspire the thematic core and visual direction of the book. Following the development of a cohesive design, each student will participate in the typesetting and printing of text, the creation of original art, as well as, the binding of the book. Created in an edition of 36.

2002 Fall Quarter

College of Creative Studies
Course: On the Same Page
A studio and theory course covering the basics of letterpress printing, with an emphasis on traditional and experimental methods for using handset metal and wooden type. Including a broader discussion of diverse textual forms in modern and contemporary painting, collage, printmaking and installation art, as well as, posters, artist’s books and a variety of other printed matter. In addition to individual work, the students will participate in a collaborative print project for exchange and for inclusion in the CCS print archive. Course reader required.

2002 Summer Session

UCSB Department of Religious Studies
Course: Religion and Contemporary Art, taught with Richard Hecht
Seminar course, slide lectures and discussions of reading material around the course reader, evaluation and grading of student paper or project, organization of field trips to various art venues

Art Studio
Course: 2D Introduction to Artmaking
Introduction to contemporary materials, methods and theories and practices based in two dimensional artmaking.
Composition, form and color theory are discussed and explored through a variety of 2D media as well as in relation to prominent historical movements and artists in 2D art. The course was structured weekly by three hours of formal lecture and six hours of studio practice.

2002 Spring Quarter

College of Creative Studies
Course: Other Words
Lecture/studio course structured around the work of artists, such as, Emma Kay, Sophie Calle, Glenn Ligon and others, who use text as a visual component in their artwork. The students used the work of such artists as the starting point from which to create individual narratives (biographical, fictional, alternate persona, etc.) Course reader included.

2002 Winter Quarter

College of Creative Studies
Course: Religion and Contemporary Art, taught with Richard Hecht
Seminar course, slide lectures and discussions of reading material around the course reader, evaluation and grading of student paper or project, organization of field trips to various art venues

2001 Fall Quarter

Art Studio
Course: Lower Division Print
Studio course, introduction to the theory and practice of making prints with emphasis on technical fundamentals, demonstration of technique, class discussion and evaluation of student work

College of Creative Studies, UCSB
Course: Material Page
Studio course in bookarts, introduction to page design, fundamentals of setting metal type, letterpress printing and photopolymer plate process, exposing, developing and printing.

2001 Winter Quarter

2000 Fall Quarter

Art Studio
Course: Lower Division Print
Studio course, introduction to the theory and practice of making prints with emphasis on technical fundamentals, demonstration of technique, class discussion and evaluation of student work

College of Creative Studies
Course: Centerfold
A studio course in the theory and practice of artist’s books. Including an introduction to page design, fundamentals of setting metal type, letterpress printing, and photopolymer plate process.

2000 Summer Session

Department of Religious Studies

Course: Religion and Contemporary Art, taught with Richard Hecht
Seminar course, slide lectures and discussions of reading material around the course reader, evaluation and grading of student paper or project, organization of field trips to various art venues

2000 Spring Quarter

2000 Winter Quarter

Art Studio
Course: Lower Division Print
Studio Course, introduction to the theory and practice of making prints with emphasis on technical fundamentals, demonstration of technique, class discussion and evaluation of student work

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