George Adams Gallery is pleased to present Road trip, an exhibition of landscape paintings by Linda Gottesfeld. Spanning works from 1997 to 2016, Road trip, explores the East Coast landscape as seen from the vantage point of a moving car. Highways, gas stations, and pastoral scenes are depicted with a dynamic energy that reflects both the motion of travel and the evolving relationships between the built environment and nature.

A defining aspect of Gottesfeld’s practice since the late 1990s, each painting is executed on salvaged metal materials, including car body panels and locker doors. The contours of these found objects dictate her compositions, merging the built environment with the painted image. Her three-dimensional surfaces expand and distort across irregular forms, reinforcing the interplay between structure and landscape.

Gottesfeld earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she sought to engage with landscape painting in a contemporary context. Her coursework included welding and ceramics, leading her to experiment with dimensional surfaces and non-traditional materials. She later received her MFA from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Elmer Bischoff, worked as a teaching assistant for Joan Brown, and was mentored by Roy De Forest, whose ties to Bay Area Funk were a significant influence.