Antonia Lindsey | Damascus, Oregon USA

Horizontal forces of land, sky or water in contrast with vertical elements like trees or rocks have an endless appeal to me.  Using unorthodox combinations such as paper & paint with metal, helps me show how I experience the surfaces, textures, and colors inherent to the NW.  Moisture, layered light, and movement are not so much subjects to me, as patterns.  Thinking visually is how I solve problems and express my changing connection to life.  I choose to work primarily in ReUse materials because of a love for puzzles and abstraction, but also sensory properties of common industrial materials that help me think about my relationship to the environment.  I lived for a time on water instead of land, which taught me how quickly what is dislodged or discarded shifts due to nature’s ways, taking on a new context. It is my hope that visual surprises in art and nature will help people to see, as in ‘see differently’, our surroundings and how things work together as part of a larger pattern with profound intricacy, in which nothing is wasted, either in a human or an ecological sense.

I completed my formal training in visual art through the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture & Allied Arts, earning a Bachelors degree in Fine & Applied Art, focused on painting, jewelry & metalsmithing. After a few years in the commercial jewelry industry I went on to obtain a Masters degree at Marylhurst University and have worked for the past 26 years as an art therapist and professional artist. 

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Education:
1989 – Master of Arts in Art Therapy, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, Oregon
1985 – Bachelor of Arts in Fine & Applied Arts - School of Architecture & Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
1973 – Sommer Akademie der Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria

Previous Exhibit / Commission Venues:
2009  Art in Windows Group Exhibit – TRAG Gallery, Oregon City
2009  Clackamas County Arts Alliance Group Exhibit – Art in Public Buildings, Oregon City, OR
2009  “Fast Bird” published in Institute on Disabilities, U of New Hampshire national calendar art
2008 Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival Auction, Portland, Oregon
2008  Group Show, Gallery L’Une, Manzanita, Oregon
2008  Juried Exhibition, Pacific NW Art Annual, Adele McMillan Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
2008  Solo Exhibit, BRING Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
2008  Solo Exhibit, Cascadia Homes Gallery, Sellwood, Oregon
2007 Audubon Society Wild Arts Festival Group Show, Portland, Oregon
2007  Starbucks Community Art Exhibit, Milwaukie, Oregon
2007  Starbucks Community Art Exhibit, West Linn, Oregon
1989  Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon
1986  Collection of the Rev. Judy Bartels, Portland, Oregon
1985  Collection of the Rev. Brian Thom, Portland, Oregon
1983  Collection of the Rev. Sally Shippen, Grace Church, Astoria, Oregon
1982  Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Portland, Oregon
1981  Goldworks, Portland, Oregon
1980  Element 79, Portland, Oregon
1979  Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1978  Collection of the Rev. Elise Donahauer, St. Bartholomew Episcopal Church, Beaverton, Oregon
1977  Trinity Episcopal Church, Ashland, Oregon
1974   School of Architecture & Allied Arts, Eugene, Oregon
1969   Union Street Gallery, San Francisco, California