June Linowitz has been engaged with art her whole life. While pursuing an active studio practice she has been, at varying times, an art teacher, a gallery director, an exhibition curator and an art consultant with her own business, ArtSeen Inc.
Linowitz is an active member of the greater Washington, DC art community. She has served on numerous boards, including Arts on the Block and the McLean Project for the Arts. During 2020 & 2021 Linowitz was on the steering committee of the Arts Forward Fund, which made grants to non-profit arts organizations struggling with the financial challenges of the Covid economy. In 2015 she was honored by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center as one of the 50 women included in “Images and Expressions – Maryland Women in the Arts”.
Several themes dominate June Linowitz’ art. She is interested in the intersection between painting and sculpture and is primarily figurative in subject matter. Her themes tend to be psychological. She uses the media that best expresses the idea she is exploring. In the 1990’s she worked on a series of segmented figurative sculptures composed of polystyrene, epoxy resin and acrylic paint. After that she created a series of large personal narrative acrylic paintings. In 2017 Linowitz’ work was featured with a solo exhibition of her 24 three-dimensional wall hanging Heads at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. The Heads are mixed media with encaustic and explore emotions and states of mind.
In the last decade June Linowitz has started making paper. She has experimented with this very versatile medium, creating works that integrate photo transfer, casting, sewing and three-dimensional construction. For a while her subject matter was highly personal, creating a series of mixed media portraits of the important people in her life followed by a series of nostalgic works that were based on photographs from her childhood. Increasingly however, Linowitz has been concerned and overwhelmed with climate change and the destruction of our planet. Planet In Peril is her plea for humanity to look at what is happening and to act to avert disaster.
June Linowitz has shown her work both nationally and internationally. She lives with her husband in Bethesda, MD.