www.elizabethmclindon.com

Elizabeth McLindon

Online Gallery

 

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Paper Dolls, 2008

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Paper Dolls, detail

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Paper Dolls, detail

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Untitled, 2008

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Untitled, side view

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Untitled, detail

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Dream House, 2007

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Dream House, back

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Dream House, right

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Dream House, bedroom

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Dream House, bathroom

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Patorale, 2006

Biography

 

Elizabeth has lived in Buffalo, Dublin, New York City, Boston, Cape Cod and now lives on Cape Ann. Her academic background in both two-dimensional and three-dimensional work has coalesced into a unique mixed media.  Having worked in reductive and additive sculpture, relief, textiles, drawing, pastels, oil and acrylic painting, and in gallery installation, Elizabeth is now working in assemblage (3-dimensional collage) using found, painted, sculpted and constructed elements.

  

Elizabeth is a member of seARTS, the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, and Rocky Neck Art Colony in East Gloucester, the oldest working art colony in the country. She has shown locally, nationally and internationally.

Artist’s Statement

 

“Environmental issues are a strong influence in my work and so is the passage of time. A sense of chronology and anachronism is also present, expressed in physical aging of the materials. It questions how memories change through the effects of time and through nostalgia.

 

My work is figurative and narrative. Whether depicted or absent, the subject of the work or the viewer him- or herself, the figure is always a presence in my work.  Story telling is evident in all of the work. The stories range from personal to political, humorous to spiritually and meditatively introspective."

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Photo - Jason Grow

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I Upstate, 2006

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II Not All Who Wander Are Lost, 2006

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III Sammy, 2006
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IV Big Time, 2006

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V Falling, Floating, Flying, 2006

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VI Red Rock, 2006

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Red Rock, detail

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VII Regression, 2006

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Regression, detail

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VII Nepenthe, 2006

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IX Elysium, 2006

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Only Human, 2005, mixed media

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Only Human (detail right)

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Pray for Us, 2005, mixed media

Curriculum Vitae

                             

Education 

1984        Master of Fine Art in Sculpture, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

 

1981         Bachelor of Science in Textile Design, Minor in English, Buffalo State College

 

1979        Exchange Student, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland

 

Grants and Awards

2006      Gloucester New Arts Festival Honorarium/Grant, Gloucester, MA

 

 Partner with an Artist Grant from seARTS, Gloucester, MA

 

1985/6    Artist-in-Residence, Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side, New  York City,

 

1983      Project Director, Collaborative Mural funded by University of Massachusetts Art Council

 

Solo Exhibitions

2007      Dream House, Partner With an Artist Grant exhibition at Bananas, Gloucester, MA

 

2006      Long Strange Trip or All Roads Lead to Gloucester, series of works on the theme of mapping as part of the Gloucester New Arts Festival, installed at Gloucester City Hall, Dale Avenue, Gloucester, MA

 

2005       Three Graces, Installation, Gloucester New Arts Festival, at Mystery Train Records, Gloucester, MA

 

1986      Summer Works, One-Woman Show, The Painted Lady, Provincetown, MA

 

1985      Installation: The Feminization of World Politics, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

1983            Window Installation, Gallery 345, Manhattan, NY

             Passion of the Sacred Heart, MFA Thesis Show, UMass, Amherst

 

1981              Energy, Matrix Room, HallWalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007     Weather, Rocky Neck Art Colony Juried Spring Show, Gloucesterr, MA

 

200      Pathways For Children Chairs For Children Project, one of 44 artists chosen to create original artworks on Adirondack chairs to be displayed and auctioned for the benefit of Pathways’ children’s programs

            Rocky Neck Goes to Town Winter Show, Main Street, Gloucester, MA

            Inhibition/Exhibition, Exhibition/Inhibition – A Celebration of the Human Form, Rocky Neck Art Colony Juried Spring Show, Gloucesterr, MA

           

2005     Rocky Neck Goes to Town Winter Show, Main Street, Gloucester, MA

 

2004     New Members Show, Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA

 

1986      Group Material’s MASS Project, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, touring internationally

            Images of Power: Heroic Females, New York Feminist Art Institute, New York City

SpiRITUAL: Acts of Faith, Artists-in-Residence group exhibition, Henry Street Settlement, Lower East Side, NYC

 

1985      Homeless at Home: A Public Project, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City

            Group Exhibition, NADA Gallery, Lower East Side, New York City

            World Festival of Youth Exhibition, Moscow, USSR

            Microwave, Smallworks Show, NOW Gallery, East Village, New York City

            Massive Political Art Show II, ABC No Rio Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC

Auction Show, Limbo Gallery, East Village, New York City

            Diversity, Group Show at Avenue A Restaurant, East Village, NYC

            Choice Works, Central Hall Gallery, SoHo, NYC

            Reflections, Ceres Gallery at the New York Feminist Art Institute, NYC

            State of Mind – State of the Union, Women’s Interart Center, NYC

            Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ

 

1983             Against Apartheid, Westbeth Gallery, Greenwich Village, NYC

             Artitide, Limbo Gallery Inaugural Exhibition, East Village, NYC

             Artists Call Against Military Intervention in Central America,  Work Gallery, East Village, NYC

 

1983      4 by 27: Women Collaborate, installation, work created at the Visual  Artists Exchange For Collaborative Art at the NY Feminist Art Institute,  Gallery 345, NYC

 

1982            39th Annual Western New York Artists Exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

 

1981       Works, Two-Person show with painter Kevin Kintner, Gallery 229, Upton Hall, State University College at Buffalo, NY

 

Murals and Related Work

1986       The Mural in the Community, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, NYC

            The La Lucha Murals, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NYC

 

1985      Organizer and Muralist, “La Lucha Continua  (The Struggle Continues)”  Mural Project, East 9th Street, NYC

             “Self-Determination: Popular the World Over,” 12’ x 20’ individual mural, part of  “La Lucha Continua” Project

 

1983      Sammy Pyramid, temporary chalk drawing on Fine Arts Center exterior as part of Graduate Anti-Thesis Project

 

Collaborative Work

2006       Pathways For Children Chairs For Children Project, one of 44 artists chosen to create original artworks on Adirondack chairs to be displayed and auctioned for the benefit of Pathways’ children’s programs

 

2005     Ten Pound Island Project, Gloucester New Arts Festival, created art on an island in Gloucester Harbor

 

1986            International Shadow Project marking the 40th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Anti-Racism Banners, collaboration at New York Marxist School, New York City

 

1983      Collaborative Artist, Visual Artists Exchange for Collaborative Art, New York Feminist Art Institute, New York City

 

Teaching and Public Speaking Experience

2005    

 

2004-present Little Red Studio, Gloucester, MA, Art Instructor, group and individual lessons and mentoring

 

1992-93 McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, Art Therapy Volunteer, along with an Occupational Therapist,

 

1986      Henry Street Settlement, NYC, Artist-in-Residence, taught art classes as an Artist-In Residence

 

1983            Gallery Talk on Art and Politics in New York City, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

 1983-84 University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Teaching Assistant, Two and T hree-dimensional Design

 

Publications

2003      Annual Town Report, Cover Photo, Town Of Rockport, Massachusetts

 

Offices Held

2005-6  Vice-President, Rocky Neck Art Colony

 

1982            Vice-President, Graduate Art Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

1983            Member, Arts Council, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

1982           Vice-President, Graduate Art Student Association, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

1983            Member, Arts Council, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

Memberships and Affiliations

Rocky Neck Art Colon

Society for the Encouragement of the Arts

College Art Association

To contact Elizabeth McLindon regarding her work, email her at eam@elizabethmclindon.com

 

For information on Elizabeth McLindon’s teaching, both lessons and classes, at LITTLE RED STUDIO, email her info@littleredstudio.org

www.littleredstudio.org

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Goddess of Perf , 2005

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Goddess of Perf, detail

Elizabeth McLindon, MFA

53 East Main Street

Gloucester, MA 01930

978.281.4336