Lindsay Gardner’s paintings capture fleeting memories; distilled instants of the ever-transforming landscape and the perpetually changing psyche. Experimenting with abstraction and semiotics, the artist explores shape, color, form and meaning in each piece. Size and scale coupled with layers of text, script and bold brushstrokes allude to vast space and depth. Words and text are left noticeable but sometimes enticingly illegible, drawing the viewer closer to the work but also creating a sense of distant whispering. These are ephemeral recollections, psychologically charged locations. Gardner’s technique layers color, varied texture, text and sub-text, to call attention to how memory and time are constructed.
Lindsay Gardner was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1980 and received her BA in American Literature and Studio Art from Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont in 2003. After briefly living in Manhattan, she moved to San Francisco in 2005. Gardner currently divides her time between painting in her San Francisco studio and working in Arts Education at the San Francisco Arts Commission. She spends as much time as possible outdoors exploring the San Francisco Bay Area, and finds much of her inspiration in Northern California’s varied coastal, pastoral and urban landscapes. She will begin graduate studies in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in fall 2007.
