Linda Valdez

azlindavaldez@gmail.com
lavaldez@cox.net

Artist’s Statement
My art explores the existential threat to grace and beauty under a patriarchal, profit-driven system that devalues nature and female energies. I begin with photography, which offers true and exquisite detail. Then I look beyond the objective truth of any one photograph. My original photographs become the colors of my palette. My finished images include elements from five to ten original photographs, which I have cropped, tinted, merged, and otherwise digitally distorted to portray the tension between beauty and the selfishness that puts it at risk.
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My work was included in the Tucson Museum of Art 2020 Biennial. It has been shown around the state as part of the Arizona ACLU’s In This Together traveling exhibition (2018-2019), as well as at the Herberger Theater Center galleries, Phoenix Airport Museum, and Raices Taller 222 Gallery in Tucson.