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Full Name
  
Greg Lindquist

Education
  
Pratt Institute

Role
  
Artist


Name
  
Greg Lindquist

Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Painting

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Born
  
May 9, 1979 (
1979-05-09
)
Wilmington, North Carolina

Awards
  
Pollock-Krasner Grant, Sally and Milton Avery Grant, Marie Walsh Sharpe Residency

Greg Lindquist (born 1979) is an American artist (painting, sculpture, installation), living and working in New York City.

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Biography

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Greg Lindquist was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, graduated from Emsley A. Laney High School in 1997, studied art and English at North Carolina State University and attended graduate school in New York at Pratt Institute, earning a MFA in painting and masters in art history. During graduate school, Lindquist was a research intern at the Museum of Modern Art, writing wall labels for the permanent collection. He also worked as an assistant for the artist Ryan McGinness. Lindquist's early work addressed landscape as a memorial, confronting the gentrification of the deindustrialized Brooklyn waterfronts of Williamsburg and Red Hook in late capitalism. Addressing the entropic forces in architecture, he traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia to research decay from the Soviet Union era. The Dan River coal ash spill in 2014 ll has been the conceptual, visual, thematic, and political driver of his Smoke and Water project. Working in partnership with Working Films, he created an installation of paintings and murals from an image shared by a water keeper documenting ash swirling with river water. The work was completed collaboratively with the local art, ecology, and activist communities. Lindquist works with the guiding principle that art can facilitate social change, actively creating space for the possibility of mobilizing political action and reshaping common values. In 2015, he was Guest Critic for the November issue of The Brooklyn Rail and curated a concurrent show, Social Ecologies which focused on the intersections and ruptures between art and ecology. Returning to NYC as a site of research, Lindquist has continued his engagement with community-centered, ecologically driven interventions through research on the Newtown Creek, a critically polluted waterway on the Brooklyn and Queens border. Working with the Newtown Creek Alliance, he has assisted with water quality collection and has reviewed EPA clean-up plans while serving on a technical data committee. He also co-organized an ongoing series of collaborative research events on a human-powered rowboat in the Newtown Creek’s autonomous zone with up-close, site specific fieldwork and painting.

Critical reception

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  • Lindquist’s work is more social indictment than contemplation. The land portrayed in his work withers at the hands of humans, not of time. Still, within this framework of devastation and despair, Lindquist’s paintings embrace the eternal flow of the water in them"... -- Art Papers
  • Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled "Duke Energy's Dan River" series. -- Independent Weekly
  • As if looking at multiple screens open on a laptop, Smoke and Water simulates a space of interconnected thoughts, urgency, and action. The painted walls invite and sensitize its inhabitants to the viewing space — a platform for discussion and contemplation. -- Art Critical
  • He is noticeably more open to let chance enter his painting process in a way that mimics the visual surprises found in decaying civilization. A myriad of textures activate the pictures. -- Art rated
  • Wonderfully, Lindquist seems to be captivated by the possibilities and presences of painting as much as he is by any ideological drive, and he achieves a tense ambiguity as beauty and rue vie for control of his panoramic canvases. --Art in America
  • Lindquist conveys the weird beauty of mounds of debris, weed-choked pavements, and walls covered in graffiti, over which cranes often loom like sci-fi apparitions. --ARTnews
  • Greg Lindquist['s] cityscapes bring a Morandi-esque blur to subjects that recall Rackstraw Downes. -- artinfo.com
  • Lindquist makes spooky paintings of industrial Brooklyn that capture the raw charm of the borough without the syrupy sentimentalism that so many have for spaces like the Williamsburg waterfront or desolate stretches of Red Hook.—New York Press

    • One-person exhibitions and Projects

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    2017

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  • "Smoke and Water: Catawba," Partnership with Art in Buildings, Monroe, NC

    • Greg Lindquist BOMB Magazine LaToya Ruby Frazier and Greg Lindquist

    2014

  • "Smoke and Water," Partnership with Working Films, Wilmington, NC

    • 2012

  • "You Are Nature," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY, NY

    • 2010

  • "Nonpasts," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY, NY

    • 2009

  • "Brooklyn Industry," Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

    • 2008

  • "Remembrance of Things Present," NC State University, College of Design, Raleigh, NC. Travels to Bethel University, St.Paul, MN.
  • "Industry," Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY, NY.

    • 2007

  • "To Brooklyn," McCaig-Welles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

    • Awards and residencies

  • Marie Walsh Sharpe Residency Participant (2013-2014)
  • Milton & Sally Avery Foundations Grant (2009)
  • 2008-09 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grantee (2009)
  • Art Omi International Artists' Residency Participant, (2009)

    • Group exhibitions

    2016

  • "Altered Land," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

    • 2014

  • "On Land", Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC

    • 2012

  • "Broken Desert - Land and Sea," University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
  • "Art on Paper 2012," Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
  • "Wanderings," Y Gallery, NY, NY

    • 2011

  • "You are Here Forever," Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL
  • "After Destiny: The Contemporary American Landscape," Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
  • "No One is an Island," LMCC Building 110, Governors Island, NY
  • "Rising into Ruin," Artspace, Raleigh, NC

    • 2010

  • "Planet of Slums," curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and La Toya Frazier, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (2010); Third Streaming, NY, NY (2011)
  • "Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back," Ministry of Transportation Project, organized by Laura Palmer Foundation (Poland), Tbilisi, Georgia
  • "New Paintings," curated by Renne Bonvenzi, Stanley Wise Gallery, NY, NY

    • 2009

  • "Materia," collaborative, Co-organized by Suzanne Stroebe and Matthew Wilson, Cabinet Magazine
  • „Varketili 3.4mr 425,“ Tbilisi, Georgia
  • "Party at Chris's House," curated by Phong Bui, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

    • 2008

  • "Urban Landscapes," Elizabeth Harris Gallery

    • 2007

  • "Site Matters: Brooklyn Represents" curated by Julie McKim and Lauren Dickens, BAC Gallery

    • References

    Greg Lindquist Wikipedia
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