P·P·O·W is pleased to present Banshee Sunrise, Judith Linhares’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. Known for her lush scenes of uninhibited women communing with nature and reveling in their independence, her animated still lives and intimate portraits of animals, Linhares draws from childhood memories of California, literature, poetry, and dreams to create her unique and irradiant worlds that fuse paint and psychedelic figuration into a covert bond. In Banshee Sunrise, Linhares presents a new body of paintings which express the collective anxiety of America’s current moment and depict resilience in the face of death, age, trauma, and change.

Judith Linhares (b. 1940) was born and raised in Pasadena, CA. She earned her BFA and MFA degrees from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. She was included in the influential Bad Painting exhibition at the New Museum, organized by legendary curator Marcia Tucker and has participated in numerous group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and multiple grants from the National Endowments for the Arts. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA; the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others. Her work was recently on view at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Contemporary Art: Five Propositions; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Sea Change: Highlights from PAFA’s Collection of 20th-century Art; and Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles in All of Them Witches, organized by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons. In 2022, the Sarasota Art Museum presented Judith Linhares: Artist as Curator, a solo exhibition with works spanning Linhares’ career.