Biography
Linda Sikora resides with her family near Alfred NY where she has a studio practice and is a professor at Alfred University. Educational background: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University (BFA) and University of Minnesota–Minneapolis (MFA). Professional activities -lectures, exhibitions, public collections – are national and international.
Artist Statement
Service and display are platforms for culture and behavior. To serve, to display (make visible) and to store (preserve, hold) – are scalable gestures in the world. These gestures occur in close proximity at individual/private levels and also occur at larger scale societal, global levels. They are the conceptual underpinning of functional subjects such as teapot or jar which in my practice are presented as individuals or, within larger ‘prototype groups’. Pottery form can be familiar and congenial; it can readily disappear into private, personal activities and places. But this is only one aspect of the work that, through its intelligence of aesthetic, stance and lineage, can also excite and awaken attention thereby reflecting back to the viewer their own imagination and societal context. Invisible or visible, or oscillating back and forth between these states, the functional pottery fosters both attention and inattention.
More information about Michael can be found at: sikoralinda.com
IG: @sikora.studio