David Linn

David Linn was born in Palo Alto, California, and grew up in the hills of the South Bay peninsula. He began painting shortly after birth and has only occasionally paused to pursue other interests such as music composition, mountain climbing, writing poetry, and designing objects that fly (sometimes). He recently received an MFA in painting from Brigham Young University, and currently resides at the foot of a mountain in Elk Ridge, Utah. He cites influences as divergent as Baroque masters and American Luminists to contemporary Conceptual Site and Earthwork artists. David’s work has been exhibited widely and may be found in various museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the country. “My work is born out of a need to articulate for myself alternate worlds and states of being – a spiritual existence forming deep currents that flow beneath the observable world. These created internal worlds seem at times more real than my physical environment because they are evidence to me of what is felt more acutely. My work has evolved into a meditation on themes of searching, passage, and purification through these internal wilderness places – a landscape where events and objects take on a multi-layered symbolism and actions become ceremonial in nature.”