Linda was raised in  California, completed her MA degree at Central Washington University, studied with Cynthia Krieble and George Stillman.  

Painting is the language I use to explore my intuitive attraction to light, space and color.

For 20 years I have worked in my studio surrounded by the Benicia industrial waterfront on the Carquinez Strait. This environment challenges me to move from natural landscapes to urban landscapes. My Arsenal, Cargo Ships and Industrial series evolved from living among diverse transport vehicles, bridges, long walkways and slanting rooftops. Subjects seen daily become my imagery, as shapes of light transform immense ships, shadows filter across structural planes, light settles softly on buildings and distant hills.

The Yuba Site series began by observing the ruined architecture of the 1850s Yuba Factory in Benicia before its 2007 demolition. Shafts of light poured through decayed roofs to encompass detritus left behind by people who had repaired paddlewheel steamers, fabricated gold dredging machines and howitzer guns, until finally the space became artists’ studios.

Although the subject of my artwork continues to change over time, the search for a connection between light, space and structure remains the same. After painting ambient light permeating space from a distant view, I’m now working with direct light on small objects, in still lifes of toys. In this series called Play-Things, objects interact in humorous luminance, and at times their shadows are strong physical presences.

I work primarily with oil paint and monotype printmaking but also with encaustic, pastel, and watercolor. Each material’s unique fluidity guides my exploratory process from subject to image; and painting in Series helps me to discover my intentions alongside formal concerns, looking in-depth at the many variations.

Leaving the expansive horse country of Eastern WA after my graduate work, I returned to Northern CA and began my Battle series using the horse as a personal and global subject. I appropriated Rubens and Delacroix artworks for their rhythmic compositions, and explored my process of handling paint alongside my reactions to historical subject matter. Concurrent to this series, I painted the natural Landscape in WA, OR and CA.

Portside exhibit extended through December 2018

2018 – exhibit “Portside: Linda Grebmeier – concurrent with RiverBorne, moments of confluence”
Sept. 20 – December 1, 2018 presented the United States Forest Service, Vallejo Community Arts Foundation, and the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum to celebrate the Visions of the Wild Film and Arts Festival 2018
Reception: Thursday Sept. 20 from 6:00-9:00 pm
Artist Talk: 7:30 pm Friday Nov. 9, 2018
Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum, 734 Marin Street, Vallejo CA 94590
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12:00 to 4:00 pm, Saturday 10-4
(707) 643-0077
www.visionsofthewild.org/event/riverborne-exhibition-2/
www.vallejomuseum.net

2015 – included in exhibit & book “Why Make Art, Twenty-Five Benicia Artists Respond”
Desuyo project: Artists respond to the question “Why Make Art?” alongside their artwork and portraits by photographer Hedi. B. Desuyo
www.hedibdesuyo.com
www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=Why+Make+Art+by+Desuyo&filter=bookstore

William J. Carroll Government Center, Vacaville CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/vacaville-hills-bucktown

Solano County Events Center, Fairfield CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/reflect-learn-live-triptych-paintings

City of Richmond Art Collection, Richmond CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/cargo-ships-147

Doyle Library Art Collection, SRJC Santa Rosa CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/cargo-ship-benicia-arsenal

Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Hospital Art Collection, Vallejo CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/arsenal-201-mp-industrial-site-ev-7-7-tower-02-mp

Benicia Historical Museum, Benicia CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/cargo-ships-50
www.beniciahistoricalmuseum.org

Sonoma State University Imagery Collection, Rohnert Park CA
www.publicartarchive.org/work/yuba-site-1-ev-1-4-0
www.sonoma.edu/artgallery

Your capturing of light always amazes me. I feel like I can tell the time of day; the stillness or wind in the air. There’s something about it that frees my senses and my imagination.
–– Barbara Intersimone CA

She takes what would be the most mundane topic or detail and turns it into this rich visual experience.
–– Anne Toxey, Toxey/McMillan Design Associates TX

Poetic and almost audible landscapes draw the viewer in, as the late afternoon light softens the grit and rust.
–– Dolby Chadwick Gallery CA

Since moving to the Benicia Arsenal 19 years ago, Grebmeier has interpreted the industrial environment surrounding her studio in striking paintings and prints suffused with golden light and deep shadows, profoundly expressive of her connection to the area. Her use of unexpected vantage points results in atmospheric, light-filled images bordering on abstraction.
–– Kathryn Weller-Renfrow CA

Benicia’s Arsenal may appear to casual visitors to be a jumble of buildings, some forlorn, others restored. But Benicia artist Linda Grebmeier knows how to transform them with heightened color and geometric form in the golden light of a setting sun.
–– Robert Taylor, Contra Costa Times CA