Linda King Ferguson makes paintings with an abstracted figurative language using geometric and biomorphic forms to process and express lived experience. She begins with gathering shapes, expressions and gestures, and visual fields from her environment. Through an ongoing drawing practice she starts by outlining armatures, expanding and altering them through tracings that flip, erase, and reverse imagery until an intuitively proportional amount of figure and ground is revealed and concealed. With a background in textiles, the grid of the woven canvas provides for her paintings an actual structure and a metaphorical plane. Color becomes by degree and material an atmospheric local and palpable host remembering and imaging moments of presence and being, both empty and full. She intends for her paintings to express elements of the unity and optimism, even humor, given and available when individuals come together after crisis and personal trauma.

Her research includes color phenomena, walking and meditative practices, labyrinth designs, mid-century architecture, Neo Constructionism, Gutai, and Bauhaus periods, textile arts, and places where hope can be found.