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Born in 1954 and reared in Southern Pines, North Carolina, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier began painting as a
child. She took up photography in 1986 and attended the Atlanta College of Art where she graduated with honors in 1990.
In 1989, she worked with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, the Center for the Study of Southern Culture
at the University of Mississippi, and Jackson State University on a collaborative project entitled "Mississippi Self-Portrait".
This project included traveling the State of Mississippi to collect photographs and stories of African Americans who lived
there.
Marshall-Linnemeier has received numerous awards for her work including an NEA fellowship and a Lila-Wallace
Reader's Digest Arts International Travel Fellowship which took her to Adelaide, South Australia to photograph and collaborate
with the Aboriginal people of that region. In 1996, she was commissioned by Hartsfield International Airport in Atlanta to
create a permanent installation and was included in the photographic exhibition "Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present"
at the High Museum of Art.
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lynnlinn@earthlink.net
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Her exhibitions include: The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA; the Houston Center for Photography in Houston, TX; Tandanya
National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Adelaide, South Australia; The University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in Newcastle, England;
two Exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC; and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Museum and Library in Austin,
TX and many others.
Marshall-Linnemeier has presented two solo works in 2001. "A Slave Speaks of Silence" and "Recurrences
and Incantations". The exhibitions were reminiscent of the thread that runs through the artist's work--her keen sense of
the spiritual world.
"A Slave Speaks of Silence" at Clark/Atlanta University Galleries in Atlanta, Georgia, explored the forced
silence of black slaves in America--the inability to respond and how that inability affects humankind's most precious gift-imagination.
Marshall-Linnemeier writes "for the slave there was security in silence. The silence is obscure and cannot be accurately
expressed. There are too many missing parts. The silence is composed of abstract layers of perception, emotion, reality
and imagination. The silence is a part of who we are as a black people and the reality of our existence. It is these layers
of silence that form the basis of this installation."
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