Tree With Vines
A native Floridian, Linda Carpenter has been photographing the landscape
since 1978 when she began exploring the landscape with infrared film.
“Tree With Vines” is one of many infrared images completed
between 1978 and 1990. “I grew up in Florida, and so have an affinity
for nature.”
Carpenter’s photographs have been included in museum collections
and numerous juried and invitational exhibitions in Florida and the
United States, including the University of Oklahoma Museum of Art; the
Greenville County South Carolina Museum of Art; the Center for Photography
at Woodstock, New York; The Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, N.Y.;
the Cornell Fine Arts Center of Rollins College; the University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL; LaGrange, Georgia, the Florida Capitol Galleries Complex,
Tallahassee, FL, and others.
An instructor at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park, Florida, Carpenter
teaches intermediate and advanced classes in Infrared Photography, The
Art of Photographing People, and Interpreting Self and Family. She also
has curated exhibitions on photographers Judy Dater, Jerry Uelsmann,
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Robert Fichter, and other artists. And she has
received grants from the Florida humanities Council (1999), United Arts
of Central Florida (1999), and also completed an international photographic
residency at the Atlantic Center of the Arts (2002).
“My images emanate from an intuitive response to visual elements
in the environment that stimulate my imagination. Sometimes, usually
long after the image is first conceived, I discover new meanings underlying
the obvious visual details. Certain motifs gradually emerge.”
Recently Carpenter has been working on a series of “dysfunctional
landscapes” related to icons that alter the meaning of, or challenge
our perceptions of, the natural landscape.
“My ideas about the landscape have changed over the years. I
am no longer interested in romantic, idealized images, but now enjoy
looking for stark vistas where something has been left by man.”
Carpenter has a bachelor of arts degree in English from Florida State
University and a master’s degree in liberal studies from Rollins
College.
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