ABOUT THE ARTIST 

Linda Bayer’s innate predilection toward art left no question as to her chosen course of study. A graduate of Ridgewood School of Art, Bayer enhanced her studies with an internship with artist Winslow Eaves, a workshop with Wolf Kahn and brief coursework at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. 

While attending art school, Bayer worked as the artist for several design firms, which led to a career as a designer. In 2006, Linda took a five year sabbatical from her design work to focus on making and showing her own work, which was well received in a variety of galleries and exhibitions. It was in these fruitful years, peppered with awards and accolades, that Linda’s unique artistic voice took form and was realized in her “Beyond the Pale” and “Waters” series. 

Linda drew on her creative voice a decade later when upheaval entered her life, using art to process her reality and emotions. This practice ushered in her new body of work “Ebenezers.”  These ongoing works are more honest, personal and have been meeting others on a similar level.

ABOUT THE ART

While trying to recognize and fit the puzzle pieces of my life together, I created 3 simple drawings as a remembrance of the seismic internal shifts occurring within. Using only the calligraphic scribblings already established in my previous work as communication from the transcendent, The Three Ebenezers gratefully depict the paradoxical nature of intense emotions:

Ebenezer #1 - Angry or devastated but rescued and soothed

Ebenezer #2 - unmoored, looking for answers while assured of an emerging plan of true safety and security

Ebenezer #3 - Earthbound but with a new and thrilling level of awakening.

Sometime later I realized that these 3 “diary entries” were to be the basis of a whole new body of work … many stones of remembrance, able to encompass multiple sources and mediums, all fitting under the magnanimous umbrella of the first three Ebenezers. Much of this new work continues to build on the foundations of my earlier “Beyond the Pale” and “Waters” series with their calligraphic scribblings underpinning the recognizable world. These scribblings (sometimes represented by vibrating wires) have become a visual vocabulary to deal more freely with emotions and spiritual concepts veering into the abstract.