Linda Chappel

Statement
My artwork focuses on landscape, wildlife and the myths that humans form to mediate our interaction with nature. Through my work I explore how human's relationship with nature shifts and changes. In my current work, I approach how animals travel between this world and the next, how they occupy a space in both our present time and in a realm beyond the one that we as humans are aware of on a daily basis. My concept drives my work I often work in various media and forms including painting, printmaking, 3d assemblage and sculpture.

Biography
Linda Chappel is currently an instructor at Tohono O’odham Community College in Sells Arizona and works on her paintings and sculptures in her Tucson studio. Her formal studies in art began at the University of Madison, Wisconsin where she was fortunate to study in the sculpture department with Dan Reitz, George Cramer and Truman Lowe. She graduated from Madison with a bachelor degree in the Fine Arts in 1986. After graduation, she worked in Santa Fe and Seattle and showed in a number of galleries, including the OK Hotel and FLN in Seattle. In 1992 Linda decided to further her studies and came to the University of Arizona at Tucson