Growing up in West Virginia and orphaned at an
early age, Linda Carmella Sibio started drawing at age 11.
Since 1985, Linda has worked in various art media and performance
art.
Linda
assisted in starting The
Los Angeles Poverty Department - a performance
troupe in Los Angeles' Skid Row, and has an interest in those
living on the fringes of society, particularly those with mental
illness. Her art demonstrates how those experiences effect culture
as a whole.
Linda
moved to the desert 20 years ago after quietly slipping out of the
psych ward of a Los Angeles-area hospital. In the desert,
Linda has found a place where she can create in isolation. In
addition to paintings and performance works, Linda created a
workshop called The Insanity Principle, taking symptoms of
insanity and transposing them into techniques for making
experimental art. Linda teaches in the Hi-Desert, supported through
Andrea Zittel's Hi-Desert Test Sites. Check the
site in Fall 2018 for new dates.
In this
episode Linda also talks about her desert neighbors and a
harrowing experience of being followed home after a night of
meditation.
Linda's work has been seen at the United
Nations, Brussels Contemporary Art Fair, VSA Arts at the Kennedy
Center, REDCAT in Los Angeles and more. She is represented by
Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York where her latest work, 'The
Economics of Suffering' as well as a performance piece titled,
'Emotional States of Zero' will be on exhibit beginning January
2019. A fundraiser for the exhibit, with limited
capacity due to space, will be held in Los Angeles, with a
reception afterward at a private residence, on Sunday September 16,
2018, from 2-4 p.m. If you are interested in attending the
fundraiser or making a donation, please email: bezerkpro@gmail.com
for more details and information.