Elliott Linwood

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Full Name	Elliott Linwood
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Jul 14, 1956(1956-07-14)
Age	68
Birthplace	Lowell
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Cancer

Elliott Linwood Biography

Elliott Linwood is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on July 14, 1956 in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States. Linwood was born on July 14 1956, in Lowell and went to Billerica Memorial High School located in Massachusetts prior to moving into New York City when he was 19 years old. Linwood came out as gay just prior to the AIDS epidemic hit. Being tested positive in HIV HIV virus during the 80s led him to engage in advocacy for this disease. Linwood was a researcher in the area of electronic publishing for the majority of his time. He graduated with dual bachelor’s degree in sociocultural studies and the philosophy field at New York University (NYU) in 1982. He then attended in the University of Chicago through 1983. He was awarded two master’s degrees in the fields of Arts and Education at San Francisco State University’s (SFSU) Interdisciplinary Arts Program in 1993. He was enrolled in the New College School of Law in San Francisco through a state-funded HIV empowerment grant. He was appointed an attorney in California attorney in 2002.

Linwood is most famous for his huge-scale photo grids that are made up of images found or original taken from the natural world and the Internet film, cult and magazine advertisements. Linwood’s cross-referencing installations are composed of fabricated and found objects. The two bodies of work share common characteristics, like the non-linear perspective and the indexical connection between the objects and images that are displayed, which reveal things that aren’t within the frame they are forming. His sculptures, Initiation and Resistance, as well as the projection Citizen Pan, were displayed in A Living Testament of the Blood Fairies at Artists Space in New York in 1997, an exhibition Frank Moore curated around text-based work.

Describing the phenomenon of witnessing several prominent Bay Area theorists using body art and other types of performance to demonstrate the gaps between subcultural concerns and dominant cultural assumptions, Linwood coined the term “Stand Up Theory” to highlight how these performance artists highjacked the mic to seduce, ambush, and educate their audiences. Linwood’s sculptural works deploy these strategies. Of Initiation, a sculpture referencing AIDS and made of honey, Tamblyn wrote, “The piece adroitly expressed the melancholic sensibility that the disease evokes by capitalizing on honey’s association with seduction, entrapment and preservation.”

Linwood was influenced by the work of Christine Tamblyn, a feminist media artist and critic, who was Linwood’s instructor and mentor at SFSU. Tamblyn studied under Allan Kaprow, the originator of Happenings and Life Art, at the University of California San Diego. Through Tamblyn’s tutelage Linwood learned about the performative aspects of Life Art. In a 1991 interview with her Linwood wrote, “In her role as art instructor, Christine Tamblyn teaches that happenings, process-oriented conceptual art, body art, feminist art, persona art, even documentation art . . . can all be considered ‘Life Art.” At NYU Linwood was also introduced to works of anthropologist Gregory Bateson which analyzed rituals using cybernetics and systems theory models. These ideas, combined with his practical knowledge of computer programming and design of index and list publications, informed his art practice.

Holland Cotter in the April 1997 issue of Art in America wrote of the show: “The bittersweet tone was created by pieces by Elliott Linwood which opened the exhibition. One of them was a slide projection of the words of Sir J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan: ‘When the first baby laughed for the first time, it was broken into thousands of pieces, and spread throughout the world. And it was the start of fairies. The fairies are dying today because children are aware of things that they can’t accept or laugh with anymore.'” Bill Arning in the December 10 1996 issue of the Village Voice, wrote about Linwood’s work. Village Voice also wrote about Linwood’s work for the show, “This synthesis of queer political satire, camp humour dark tales of children and magic makes us ready to experience a unique AIDS exhibition unlike anything New York has seen before.”

Elliott Linwood Net Worth

Elliott Linwood is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Elliott Linwood 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Elliott Linwood (born July 14 1956) is an American conceptual artist who is known for his photo grids of large size and cross-referencing sculptures. The artist is based out of San Diego, California.

Linwood was a writer his articles for High Performance Magazine in Los Angeles and for The Bay Area Reporter, The Sentinel and PhotoMetro in San Francisco from 1990 to 1994. Some of the artists and writers Linwood wrote about are Christine Tamblyn, Nao Bustamante, Sheree Rose, Millie Wilson, Carrie Mae Weems Diamanda Gallas The Theory Girls, Jerome Caja, Cliff Hengst, Paul Monette, Sapphire, Dodie Bellamy, Kevin Killian, Justin Chin, The Hittite Empire, Joe Goode and others.

Film director Dereck Jarman’s movie Blue, also influenced work that Linwood presented in “Share Your Vision,” for which he won first place and an award. This outreach exhibition was organized to raise awareness about CMV retinitis, a preventable condition that causes blindness in people with compromised immune systems. Organized by Visual AIDS and Roche Pharmaceuticals, the show was presented at Artists Space in New York City in 2003. An homage to Jarman’s film (consisting entirely of a blue lit movie screen with dialog of the artist visiting doctors about his loss of sight) appears in Linwood’s Halos, which reads as blurred silhouettes like dark pupils immersed in a field of iris blue light.

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