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Linda Adato (b. 1942)

Linda Adato was born in England in 1942 and studied at Hornsey College of Art. She emigrated to the United States in 1962 and received her MA from UCLA. She is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists where she served as treasurer from 1995 to 2002, and she teaches printmaking at the Silvermine School of Art. Adato is a master of color intaglio. Her work is distinctive for its delicate synthesis of composition, subtle use of color, classical elegance, and personal interpretation of the architecture of New York City chambers and ancient ruins in Spain, Italy, Turkey and her own backyard in New Rochelle. She has been making color etchings for over twenty-five years and has mastered the a la poupee, one plate method of color printing. Her subtle use of color, together with her precise wiping of each section of her compositions, demonstrates her technical perfection in this process. In Ascend, a color etching, the vertical shafts of steel and glass of an exterior staircase contrast with the lower profiles and decorative lines of older buildings. In the etching, Marking Time the viewer is inside a dark chamber looking through a decorative Islamic arch onto a courtyard that is in blazing sun with shadows of other arched openings reflected on the left wall. Adato has exhibited her prints throughout the United States and Europe. She has received many awards including the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Graphic Artists, Boston Printmakers, Print Club of Albany, Audubon Artists, and Connecticut Graphics Arts Center. Artist's statement: I love the process of etching, of working the plate through the stages of hard ground line etching, using aquatint for tones and soft ground for texture. Taking a proof at each stage you can see where you've gone and what can be. I start the image abstractly from the geometries of things around me, their configuration of line, form, shadow, etc. In the journey from drawing to final print, I do not so much execute the initial idea as I develop it in the course of the intaglio process. I am sometimes surprised by the "realistic" image.

Selected and One-Person* Exhibitions Silvermine Guild Galleries 1979, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1997* Architecture in Contemporary Prints, Pratt Graphics Center, 1983 Petit Format de Papier, Belgium 1983 60th and 61st International Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia 1984, 1985 Small Forms of Graphic Art, Lodz, Poland 1985 Hudson River Museum 1986* Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1987 Walt Kuhn Gallery 1987* Brownson Art Gallery 1987* International Biennial Print Exhibit, Taiwan 1987-88 Intermational Miniature Art Exhibit, Toronto 1987-88 Entrance Gallery, Fordham University, NY 1988* Annual's National Academy of Design 1988, 1990, 1992 Boston Printmakers 1989, 1990, 1993 US-UK Print Connection, London 1989 Saint Peter's Church 1989* Modern Times through the Concerned Eye Katonah Museum 1992 International Print Biennial, Silvermine 1994, 1996 Architecture in Contemporary Printmaking, Boston Architectural Center 1994 Bridge Gallery, White Plains, 1994* Chappaqua Library Gallery 1995* Drawing the Lines: New York City Subways, The New York Transit Msueum 1997 3rd British International Miniature Print Exhibition 1997 The Old Print Shop 2002*

Selected Permanent Collections Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Newark Public Library, Newark, NJ New York Public Library, NY Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Norwalk Community Technical College, Norwalk, CT

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