The large paintings of Linda Schrank are primarily done on wood using a scale that is coincident with her span. Pushing the color around the surface with very large hard rubber combs places the artist at a different distance from that afforded by the monotype process. One of the biggest paintings measures 68 x 54 inches. This is not exactly what Pollock called “a portable mural” but it is large enough to get absorbed into the visual field.
The stylistic effect of the paintings and the monotypes remain consistent: the structure of the elements is conceptually in place. Her expressive content is not limited by her style. Schrank is literally pushing the boundaries of what she knows, and what she knows is the result of years of perfecting and instilling a method and an approach that, if anything, give credibility to the significance of feelings operating through the conduit of a heightened formal energy.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records
