Greg Lindquist

Greg Lindquist
Born	Greg Lindquist (1979-05-09)May 9, 1979 Wilmington, North Carolina
Nationality	American
Known for	Painting
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.

Biography

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. He also worked as an assistant for the artist Ryan McGinness. Lindquist's work addresses landscape as a memorial, presently documenting parts of former industrial Brooklyn as they are developed into luxury condos in Williamsburg and Red Hook. His work has dealt with the entropic in architecture, traveling to Tbilisi, Georgia to research decay from the Soviet Union era. He also works with the subject of coal ash spills in North Carolina, making large community-based murals.

Critical reception

• 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

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

Bibliography

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
• "Duke Energy, Greg Lindquist and Mary Mattingly," 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 by Cary Levine for NCSU and Bethel Exhibition Brochure, August, 2008
• "He Paints the Town," NC State Alumni Magazine, Summer 2008
• "Testing the Urban Topography," The New York Sun", June 18, 2008
• "Findings," Harper's Magazine, 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 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