Linda Mead: Pay Attention

Burial, 2025, Multiple plate intaglio print, 23 ½ x 39 ½ inches

In Pay Attention, Mead continues her exploration of unease, contradiction, and the precarious state of the world. She uses the mediums of intaglio printmaking and drawing in an attempt to give form to the undulation and constant state of flux in which we live, from the frenetic and fevered to the still, steadied, and silenced.

Linda Mead was born in Washington, DC, grew up in Northern Virginia, and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She relocated to Germany, where she lived for 11 years before moving to Morristown, New Jersey in 2002. In 2007, she began etching at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.

Originally, Mead’s areas of concentration were jewelry and textile design. After spending many years as a painter, she returned to working with metal, etching images in copper plates, and working primarily as a printmaker. Her work reflects a sense of unease triggered by the precarious state of the world and the consequences of human behavior.

She has had two solo exhibitions: In Disarray, Center for Contemporary Arts, Bedminster, NJ (2025) and Expand, Disrupt, Disperse, Guttenberg Arts, Guttenberg, NJ (2022), Her group shows include: Nothing is Forever, Grover House Gallery, Caldwell, NJ (2023); Made Here, Guttenberg Arts (2021); and A New Century of War, Frontline Arts, Branchburg NJ, (2017). In addition, she has exhibited with the Book Arts Roundtable (2011–2020). Her work also appears in Booked exhibition catalogs.

Mead received a 2024 fellowship in Printmaking, Drawing, and Book Arts from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was an artist-in-residence at Guttenberg Arts in 2021.