You might know what Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Winter sounds like—but what does it look like? The KIA’s Chief Curator, Rehema Barber, will join artist Linling Lu for an in-depth conversation about her artistic practice, which gives color, shape, and form to the music that plays in her studio while she works. Vivaldi is just one of her many musical muses. 

Linling Lu: Musical Meditations, on view through June 5, 2022, contains a series of paintings created from 2019 to the present, many of which were composed during the two-year period of the ongoing pandemic.

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Photo Credit: Colleen Woolpert, Courtesy of Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

MONO PRACTICE presents “Order and Uncertainty: Five Abstract Painters," a group exhibition curated by Timothy App, featuring the work of Power Boothe, Julie Karabenick, Patsy Krebs, Linling Lu, and W.C. Richardson.

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February 19 - June 5, 2022

Linling Lu: Musical Meditations is an exhibition of recent and new works that continues the artist’s investigations and responses to sound and color. Inspired by various musical genres, such as Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites and Japanese Taiko master Eitetsu Hayashi’s drum piece, Fertility of the Sea, Lu channels these musical encounters, creating circular compositions that become physical manifestations of the music playing in her studio.

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Organized by curator, Kristen Hileman, Fields and Formations brings together approximately 70 works by 12 distinguished women and non-binary artists from the Mid-Atlantic region who infuse abstract paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture with emotional and metaphorical content.

Featuring artists: Natessa Amin, Arden Bendler Browning, Carol Brown Goldberg, Alex Ebstein, Alexis Granwell, Jesse Harrod, Maren Hassinger, Jae Ko, Linling Lu, linn meyers, Maggie Michael, and Jo Smail.

This exhibition was on view at The Delaware Contemporary in fall 2021.

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Linling Lu's artwork has been featured in the December 2021 issue of DC Modern Luxury Magazine.

'I hope to exercise and expand the feelings of color from physical, temporary encounters to metaphysical, timeless experiences that nurture a solitary indivudla and heal the damages from the chaos and uncertainty of life.'

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Interior designer, Mary Douglas Drysdale, has included a piece by Linling Lu in a 1920s home in Bethesda, MD, which was recently reviewed by Annapolis Home Magazine.

[Period details are] countered by bright orange modern prints by Donald Judd from the 1980s and a stunning recent work of concentric circles by Baltimore artist Linling Lu.  “They work together because they are both about the line,” says Douglas.  Lu’s giant circles are exciting and unusual yet adhere to a severe order due to the perfection of the circle’s unyielding form. Judd’s lines dare to be casual, to undulate ever so slightly. The circle closes the line into a contained form.  It is subtle tensions such as these that Drysdale employs.

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HEMPHILL is pleased to announce Linling Lu's inclusion in Fields and Formations at The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE. 

Organized by The Delaware Contemporary’s inaugural Curator-in-Residence Kristen Hileman, Fields and Formations brings together approximately 70 works by 12 distinguished women and non-binary artists from the Mid-Atlantic region who infuse abstract paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture with emotional and metaphorical content. The artists, who span five decades in age, share interests in luminous color, repeated forms, the power of materials, and the meditative aspects of making labor-intensive works.

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Linling Lu’s 2020 exhibition at HEMPHILL was reviewed by Timothy App for BmoreArt Magazine.

“It was refreshing, and also enlightening, to view the colorful abstract paintings of Linling Lu in her solo show, One Hundred Melodies of Solitude, at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC. What seemed at first to be formal abstractions expanded into spiritual, cultural, and personal visions”

Read "Concentricities of Color: Linling Lu’s One Hundred Melodies of Solitude at Hemphill" here.

HEMPHILL worked with designer Nestor Santa-Cruz and architect Anne Decker to select artworks by Linling Lu, Steven Cushner, and Amy Pleasants for an interior design project in Washington DC. The pool house was recently featured in Elle Decor Spain.

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Alice Cisterino and Michael McCarthy, DC Modern Luxury

"Whether it's a team of digital-art visionaries or a national showcase of Asian art, DC's art scene is as innovative and intellectually challenging as ever. Enjoy the wild ride this winter." 

Tina Coplan, Home & Design

Linling Lu bridges boundaries, from the Washington Color School to her own cultural heritage.