Event Title:

Organization:

  Visual Arts

  San Francisco

Start Date:

  3/1/2026

End Date:

  4/13/2026

Start Time:

  12:00 PM

End Time:

  6:00 PM

Event Info: 

  March 1 - April 13, 12PM-6PM, reception Sunday, March 22, 3-5PM.

A Library of Ideas is 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, Event is free, open to the public during regular library hours. There will be an artist reception on Sunday, March 22 from 3 to 5 pm. 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 and represent the conceptual and physical model for Fleming's large-scale sculptures. The model is 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 in Fleming's large-scale outdoor sculptures.

Linda Fleming is an American sculptor whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Her works are in international collections in Moscow, Russia Bagdad, Iraq Sydney, Australia and Seoul, Korea. 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.

"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."

http://www.benicialibrary.org/gallery

Location:

  Marilyn Citron O'Rourke Art Gallery at the Benicia Public Library

Room:

Address:

  150 East L Street

Phone:

  707-746-4343

City:

  Benicia

State/Province:

  CA