Art Exhibit - Linda Fleming, A Library of Ideas
The Marilyn Citron O’Rourke Art Gallery at the Benicia Public Library is pleased to present Linda Fleming, A Library of Ideas, an exhibition of the artist’s sculpture maquettes, offering an intimate look at the small-scale models that precede and inform her celebrated large-scale works. The exhibition will be on view from March 1 through April 13, 2026, and is free and open to the public during regular library hours. There will be a reception for the artist on Sunday, March 22 from 3 to 5 pm to which the public is invited. Admission is free.
Known for intricate drawings and airy, lattice-like constructions that transform with light and shadow, Fleming’s practice spans sculpture, drawing, painting, and works on paper. Her maquettes—often crafted in wood and paperboard—are three-dimensional drawings that represent the conceptual and physical model for Fleming’s large-scale sculptures, while being artworks in their own right. The model serves as an investigation into structure, geometry, patterns, perception, and the play of light. Her exhibition highlights how ideas take shape in the studio, revealing the evolution from concept to monument and the poetics of space found in Fleming’s large-scale outdoor sculptures.
Linda Fleming is an American sculptor (born in Pittsburgh, PA) whose work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States. Her works are in international collections in Moscow, Russia; Bagdad, Iraq; Sydney, Australia; and Seoul, Korea, as well as the U.S. She has held several university teaching positions and is retired from California College of the Arts, where she was honored as “Distinguished Faculty.” A longtime figure in the Bay Area arts community, she has mentored generations of artists.
Fleming maintains studios in Benicia, California, the Smoke Creek Desert in Nevada, and southern Colorado. Her seasonal travel between these spaces with artist and spouse Michael Moore inspires the development of her work.
“My works hint at the co-existence of the mundane and the cosmological where two realities simultaneously exist, including the possibility that the past is also present. The structures are diagrams of thought that provide a glimpse of the strangeness beyond the everyday world, opening a place where thought becomes tangible, history leaves a trace, and information exhales form.”
