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Greg Lindquist (born May 9, 1979) is an American artist, painter and sculptor based in New York City.


Biography

Greg Lindquist was born in
Wilmington, North Carolina Wilmington is a port city in and the county seat of New Hanover County in coastal southeastern North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 at the 2020 census, it is the eighth most populous city in the state. Wilmington is the ...
, graduated from
Emsley A. Laney High School Emsley A. Laney High School is a public high school in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. The school was named after Emsley Armfield Laney, a business and community leader for several decades in Wilmington. It is a part of New Hanover ...
in 1997, studied art and English at
North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1887 and part of the University of North Carolina system, it is the largest university in the Carolinas. The universit ...
, and attended graduate school in New York at
Pratt Institute Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was ...
, earning an MFA in painting and masters in art history. He also was a studio participant at the
Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), ...
Independent Study Program (ISP). During graduate school, Lindquist was a research intern at the
Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, writing wall labels for the permanent collection. He also worked as an assistant for the artist
Ryan McGinness Ryan Joseph McGinness (born January 9, 1972) is an American artist, living and working in Manhattan, New York. Known for his original extensive vocabulary of graphic drawings which use the visual language of public signage, corporate logos, ...
. Lindquist's early work addressed landscape as a memorial, confronting the gentrification of the deindustrialized Brooklyn waterfronts of
Williamsburg Williamsburg may refer to: Places *Colonial Williamsburg, a living-history museum and private foundation in Virginia *Williamsburg, Brooklyn, neighborhood in New York City *Williamsburg, former name of Kernville (former town), California *Williams ...
and Red Hook in late capitalism. Addressing the entropic forces in architecture, he traveled to
Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...
, Georgia to research decay from the Soviet Union era. The Dan River coal ash spill in 2014 has been the conceptual, visual, thematic, and political driver of his Smoke and Water project. Working in partnership wit
Working Films
he created an installation of paintings and murals from an image shared by a waterkeeper 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 wa
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.


One-person exhibitions and projects

2017
Smoke and Water: Catawba
, Partnership with Art in Buildings, Monroe, NC 2014 *"Smoke and Water", Partnership with Working Films, Wilmington, NC 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.


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 2012 *"Broken Desert - Land and Sea", University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ *"Art on Paper 2012", Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, 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


Bibliography

2017
"Murals with Morals"
Creative Loafing Charlotte 2016
Smoke and Water Catalogue
2015
"By this River: Greg Lindquist Paints Against Coal-Ash Pollution"
artcritical.com 2014
"Culcalorus 20: Q+A with installation artist Greg Lindquist"
Wilmington Star News
"Coal Ash Impact Concerns Expressed through Art, Film"
Lumina News
"Focus on Coal Ash Art at Festival"
Wilmington Star News
"Surface Tension: Greg Lindquist in Conversation with Charlie Schultz"
Artslant
"Greg Lindquist on WetLand, Empathy, and Boat Cuisine""On PAINTING, PLACE AND THE POLITICAL"
by Greg Lindquist
"Greg Lindquist"
by Orit Gat, Bomb

The Huffington Post
"Environmental Art"
The News and Observer
"Kline and Lindquist Talk Site Specificity and Art Fairs"
NY Arts Magazine 2013 *Warsza, Joanna, ed. Ministry of Highways: A Guide to the Performative Architecture of Tbilisi, Sternberg Press 2012 *Corwin, William. "Must-See Shows in New York", Saatchi Magazine Online *"Greg Lindquist in conversation with Tom McGrath", BOMBlog *McClermont, Doug. "Greg Lindquist at Elizabeth Harris Gallery", ARTnews *McKee, Christina, "Past the City Limits: Greg Lindquist Breaks New Ground", artcritical.com 2011 *White, Amy. "New American landscapes at Flanders", Independent Weekly *Tikhonova, Yulia. "Greg Lindquist at Elizabeth Harris", Sculpture *Neil, Jonathan TD. "Planet of Slums", Art Review 2010 *Frazier, La Toya.
La Toya Frazier and Greg Lindquist
", Bomb Magazine *Landi, Ann. "Critic's Pick", ArtNEWS, March *Miller, Daniel. "Postcard from Tbilisi", Frieze Magazine on-line 2009 *Laneri, Raquel. "The Wasteland: Greg Lindquist's Industrial Landscapes", The South Wing, NY, NY *Distil, Sara. "Jen Bekman Artist to Watch: Greg Lindquist", Flavorwire, NY, NY *"Plenty for $20: Greg Lindquist's 20x200 Edition", New York Press, NY, NY 2008 *"Greg Lindquist at Elizabeth Harris", Art in America, October 2008 *"On the Waterfront", Independent Weekly, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, NC, September *"Artist Freezes Urban Landscape in Flux", The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, August 24, 2008 *"Art picks: Greg Lindquist at NCSU College of Design", The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, August 22, 2008 *"Urban Landscapes at Elizabeth Harris", Art News, September, 2008 *"Remembrance of Things Present, " Essay b

for NCSU and Bethel Exhibition Brochure, August, 2008 *"He Paints the Town", NC State Alumni Magazine, Summer 2008 *"Testing the Urban Topography", ''
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", June 18, 2008 *"Findings", ''
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'', July issue, 2008 *"Brooklyn Industries", interview, ''New York Arts Magazine'', May–June issue, 2008 *"Memorializing the Industrial Brooklyn", feature, ''Greenpoint Gazette'', Mar 6, 2008 *"Rackstraw Downes at Betty Cuningham and Greg Lindquist at Elizabeth Harris", review, ''artcritical.com'', Mar 1, 2008 *"Factory Guy", review, ''The New York Sun'', Feb 21, 2008 *The
James Kalm The artist Loren Munk (born 1951) is primarily known for his YouTube nickname James Kalm as an uploader of videos about New York exhibitions, amongst others. He presents himself as a maker of contemporary art, contemporary paintings for several ...
Report ''YouTube Channel'', Feb 20, 2008 *"Fade to Grey", review, ''New York Arts Magazine, Feb 19, 2008 *"To Brooklyn" interview feature, The Morning News, Feb 11, 2008 *"Construction Sight" feature, ''Brooklyn Based'', Feb 7, 2008 *"Brooklyn Construction and Destructoporn as Art" feature, ''Curbed.com'', Feb 7, 2008 2007 *"A 'Naked' Lure for Artists", ''The New York Sun'', June 28, 2007 *"Brooklyn in Ruins", review in the ''New York Observer'', March 21, 2007 *"I Art Brooklyn", review in Brooklyn Paper, March 24, 2007 *"Q & A with Greg Lindquist", interview in ''Go Brooklyn'', March 24, 2007


External links


Official website
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