File:Linda Fleming Accumulated and Readjusted 1993.jpg

Sculpture by Linda Fleming, Accumulated and Readjusted (wood and steel, 68"h x 76"w x 57"d, 1993). The image illustrates a key early body of work in artist Linda Fleming's career extending from the early 1970s to the early 1990s, when she created large, abstract sculptures out of raw, found materials. In works such as this one, she used salvaged wood beams, planks and timber and steel elements to make something new out of old, while retaining visible evidence of the material's history. Notable are the work's bold geometry, weathered materials and emphasis on fabrication through the conspicuous bolted steel plates. This work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Linda Fleming. Copyright held by the artist.

Linda Fleming

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in the career of sculptor Linda Fleming: her large, abstract wood and steel sculptures fashioned out of raw, found materials, which she produced in indoor and outdoor formats from the early 1970s to the early 1990s. These works explored how complex constructions evolve out of simple forms, typically basic geometric shapes, planes and lines. Their vernacular, handmade quality foregrounds the work's fabrication and the foundational relationship in her work of part to whole. The fabrication mimics the way subatomic particles combine into new particles and matter. Critics summarize the conceptual underpinnings of Fleming's work as a mix of lyrical abstraction, inspired by inquiries into scientific theory; muscular geometry, stemming from her early association with sculptor Mark di Suvero; and hippie utopianism. Because the article is about an artist and the work that makes her notable, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand her significance, which first arose in large part from this distinct body of work. It brought Fleming recognition through commissions and exhibitions and coverage by major critics and publications. Fleming's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Linda Fleming, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.