INDUSTRIALS
by LJ Lindhurst January 9 – April 2, 2011
Dizzy’s, 511 9th Street, Brooklyn Artist Statement I like to explore the colors and textures of objects at a macro level. My paintings typically feature close-up views of tiny objects; I am particularly drawn to toys, candies, and other often-overlooked detritus of our popular culture. I find that when you isolate and magnify small details from these otherwise insignificant objects, they reveal more than just their hidden beauty; the mere act of enlarging these items to thousands of times their natural size and rendering all of the detail in paint creates a distinctly absurd sense of comedy. I like to think that my work makes people laugh, or at the very least it makes them more aware that there are entire worlds of beauty in even the tiniest object in their landscape. A large portion of my work is based on the philosophy that Photorealism painting should be approached without style or embellishment, and adhere with devotion to reproducing the photographed image as accurately as possible in paint. Form, composition, and style occur naturally, and are illuminated as a result of this neutral approach. BIO
LJ Lindhurst was born in Antonia, Missouri, and currently lives and work in Brooklyn, New York. She is a self-taught Photorealist artist, producing medium- to large-scale paintings of imagery from our daily lives and mass culture that communicate a sense of isolation, alienation, comedy, threat, and modern decay. Recent solo exhibits include Mad Art in St. Louis, and Gawker HQ in New York City. In 2006, LIndhurst received an Emerge Fellowship from Aljira Contemporary Art Center in Newark, NJ. Group exhibitions have included General Electric Headquarters, the Brooklyn the Pelham Arts Center, the Butler Institute of American Art, and SCOPE Hamptons with Jack the Pelican Presents. Her work was recently featured in the June 2010 issue of American Artist magazine; in May 2010, Lindhurst was a finalist in the MTA Arts for Transit program.