Go Tell Alice Judith Linhares (b. 1940) 2022, oil on canvas, 35 1/2 x 26 in. Courtesy of the artist and P.P.O.W., New York City
Ever since Dennis Elliott met the artist Judith Linhares in 1978, he has followed her work, along with the white rabbit she has frequently included in her paintings. Like Alice who chased that animal down the hole into Wonderland, Elliott, a prolific artist himself as well as the founder of the International Curatorial Studio Program (ICSP), has followed the progression of scenes Linhares paints and produces in her Brooklyn studio.
“Much of her work is a bit like what you'd find in Wonderland, as if Lewis Carroll might have constructed his stories in paint,” says Elliott, who in 1994 founded ICSP, an influential nonprofit which,…
