About

David Linn was born in Palo Alto, California and grew up in Los Altos Hills. He began painting shortly after birth and has paused only occasionally to pursue other interests such as music composition and performance, mountain climbing, and designing objects that fly. He received an MFA in painting from Brigham Young University, and currently resides with his family at the foot of a mountain in Utah. He cites influences as divergent as Baroque masters and American Luminists to contemporary Conceptual Site and Earthwork artists. David's paintings can be found in various museum, corporate, and private collections throughout the US and beyond. From 2000 through 2024 he was represented by the Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe, NM as well as various galleries in San Francisco and New York.  

"My work is born out of a need to articulate for myself the terrain of a passage through mortality and to explore broader events and implications of the human spiritual existence and journey- elements forming deep currents that flow beneath the observable world. The symbolic environments and objects in my work are fragments of a visual vocabulary I've gathered along the way, and evidence to me what I feel most acutely. The paintings become created objects of devotion- personal expressions of a process that is verbally inexpressible. My work has evolved into a meditation on themes of searching, passage, and purification through these internal wilderness places- a landscape where events and objects assume multi-layered symbolic significance and actions become ceremonial in nature".