ARTIST STATEMENT 2022
After spending nearly two years in or near my home, I discovered details in viewpoints I used to drive by daily and identified subjects for my paintings while walking through local streets and hillsides. I visited and photographed each of my favorite spots several times before identifying which colors and compositions to explore. Some of the trees and plants have become recurring characters in my work and the resulting paintings feel like portraits of friends I watched grow and change through seasons. As a group, they celebrate the qualities of light and outdoor living that I love about Los Angeles and that locals and visitors alike can recognize as specific to this city.
My paintings are representational depictions of places I encounter and document, later comparing the photographic images to my memory of the space. The resulting images are interpretations of these memories with details added and subtracted throughout the process. Foreground silhouettes are simplified and assigned colors that suit the overall palette and interrupt or frame the colorful skies beyond. The paintings are visual responses to my past and current homes and stem from observations of basic daily encounters that are commonly overlooked. Since returning to Los Angeles (my hometown) in 2015, I have been focusing on representing the magical light and diverse landscapes of this city, resulting in portraits of viewpoints and neighborhoods that I frequent and love.
BIOGRAPHY
Lindsey Warren is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States with recent shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and Laguna Beach. Lindsey has been a studio artist in Chashama’s Workspace Program in NYC and a participant in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program. Her public works and murals have been installed in Boston and New York City. Lindsey's paintings have focus on the urban landscape, using systematic processes, perception and memory to translate specific moments in time.
After spending nearly two years in or near my home, I discovered details in viewpoints I used to drive by daily and identified subjects for my paintings while walking through local streets and hillsides. I visited and photographed each of my favorite spots several times before identifying which colors and compositions to explore. Some of the trees and plants have become recurring characters in my work and the resulting paintings feel like portraits of friends I watched grow and change through seasons. As a group, they celebrate the qualities of light and outdoor living that I love about Los Angeles and that locals and visitors alike can recognize as specific to this city.
My paintings are representational depictions of places I encounter and document, later comparing the photographic images to my memory of the space. The resulting images are interpretations of these memories with details added and subtracted throughout the process. Foreground silhouettes are simplified and assigned colors that suit the overall palette and interrupt or frame the colorful skies beyond. The paintings are visual responses to my past and current homes and stem from observations of basic daily encounters that are commonly overlooked. Since returning to Los Angeles (my hometown) in 2015, I have been focusing on representing the magical light and diverse landscapes of this city, resulting in portraits of viewpoints and neighborhoods that I frequent and love.
BIOGRAPHY
Lindsey Warren is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles. Her paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States with recent shows in Los Angeles, New York City, and Laguna Beach. Lindsey has been a studio artist in Chashama’s Workspace Program in NYC and a participant in the Bronx Museum’s AIM program. Her public works and murals have been installed in Boston and New York City. Lindsey's paintings have focus on the urban landscape, using systematic processes, perception and memory to translate specific moments in time.
RESUME
EDUCATION
2008 MFA in Painting , Boston University , Boston, MA
2006 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate , Brandeis University , Waltham, MA
2004 BFA in Painting, Psychology , Boston University , Boston, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 The View From Home, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Los Angeles Light, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 The View Outside , saltfineart (virtual), Laguna Beach, CA
2019 A Love Letter, LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Native , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Lindsey Warren, New Work, Hollis Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
2013 Recent Work: Lindsey Warren, Gild NYC, A Curatorial Project by Emma Katz
SELECTED TWO-PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Cityscape Show XI , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2021 Of Modest Mystics , Idolwild , Los Angeles, CA
2021 Keystone Artists Group Show , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2020 The Cityscape Show X , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2020 FROM THE STUDIO: A Virtual Exhibition , George Billis Gallery
2020 RECENT WORKS: Painting and Sculpture by Gallery Artists , George Billis Gallery
2019 The Cityscape Show IX , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2019 Faculty Art Show , Rio Hondo College Art Gallery , Whittier, CA
2019 Keystone Artists Group Show , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2019 LA Flora , LAUNCH LA , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Gracias , saltfineart + RAW Salt Gallery , Laguna Beach, CA
2018 Intersection Presented by Launch LA , Korean Cultural Center , Los Angeles, CA
2018 California Open , TAG Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Cityscape Show VIII , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 LA Artcore 4th Annual Juried Exhibit , LA Artcore Brewery Annex , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Keystone Artists Group Show, Spring & Fall , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2017 Beautiful Cityscapes , RAWsalt Gallery , Laguna, CA
2017 Color Colectiva , saltfineart + RAWsalt , Laguna, CA
2017 Keystone Artists Group Show, Spring & Fall, Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2016 Back to School , RAWsalt Gallery , Laguna, CA
2016 Keystone Artists Group Show , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2015 AIM Biennial , Bronx Museum of Art - Bronx, NY
2015 Ryman Arts Alumni 25th Anniversary Exhibition , Maker City LA at the Reef , Los Angeles, CA
2015 Back to School , RAW Salt Gallery , Laguna, CA
2014 Convergence, Curated by Andrea Champlin , 808 Gallery, Boston University
2014 chashama Studio Artists, Curated by Katie Fischer Cherry & Janusz Jaworski , 4 Times Square , NYC
2014 Staycation , Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Sight Specific: A Selection of American Perceptual Paintings, curated by George Nick , Concord Art Association, MA
2014 Art From the Boros II , Denise Bibro Fine Art , New York, NY
2014 Wide Open, curated by Paulina Pobocha , Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition , Brooklyn, NY
2013 Unhinged , Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition , Brooklyn, NY
2013 Greenpoint NOW , Presented by Greenpointers, Ugly Art Room and The Yard , Brooklyn, NY
2013 An Affair of the Art, Ryman Arts , Los Angeles, CA
2013 Color War , Recession Art , Brooklyn, NY
2013 Nature/Culture , Front Street Gallery , Patterson, NY
2013 Color Effects , Fuller Projects , Bloomington, IN
2013 Crossroads , Fred Parker Giles Gallery , Richmond, KY
2012 An Affair of the Art, Ryman Arts , Los Angeles, CA
2011 School of Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition , 808 Gallery, Boston University
2011 Faculty Exhibition, New Hampshire Institute of Art
2011 The Vermont School, Caseworks , Memphis, Tennessee
2010 Faculty Exhibition , New Hampshire Institute of Art
2010 Reunited , Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 Celebrating Women , Xavier University Art Gallery , Cincinnati, OH
2010 Faculty Exhibition , New Hampshire Institute of Art
2010 Axis Gallery , Sacramento , CA
2010 Return to Departure , Kirkland Arts Center , Kirkland, WA
2010 North East Prize Show , University Place Gallery , Cambridge, MA
2010 St. Tammany Art Association , Covington, LA
2010 Pinnacle , Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery , Tallahassee, FL
2010 Something About Nothing , Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery , Marion, OH
2008 Natural Elements: Images from Ecuador , Sherman Gallery , Boston, MA
2008 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2008 Off the Wall , Danforth Museum of Art , Framingham, MA
2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2008 Contemporary Absurdity , Rubin-Frankel Gallery , Boston, MA
2007 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2006 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2006 On the Verge , Brandeis University , Waltham, MA
2005 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts , Brandeis University , Waltham, MA
PUBLIC ART, MURALS
2016 Bronx Museum Community Mural at Bronx Terminal Market , Bronx, NY
2012 Watercolor , Douglass & Degraw Pool Mural , Brooklyn, NY
2012 Urban Progressions , PS/MS 96 , New York, NY
2012 Science & Technology , PS 198 , New York, NY
2011 Progress , PS 5 , Brooklyn, NY
2011 Secret , PS 19 , Brooklyn, NY
2010 Organized Beauty , Malden Center MBTA Station , Malden, MA
WORK IN PRINT, BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 New American Paintings , Issue 157, December 2021 (printing delayed until 2022)
2020 American Art Collector , Issue 179, September
2020 Shoutout LA , Meet Lindsey Warren, Artist , online interview
2019 Riot Material , A Love Letter to LA Offers a Haunting Magic, exhibition review by Genie Davis
2019 Kipton Art Advisory Curator’s Journal , Get to Know LA-Based Painter, Lindsey Warren , online interview
2019 20x200 Blog , Peep Lindsey Warren's LA studio + get the 411 on her painting practice , online interview
2019 FULL BLEDE issue seven , curated by Sacha Baumann
2018 20x200 Blog , Lindsey Warren’s Luminous Landscape is a Love Letter to LA , by Jen Bilik
2018 Voyage LA , Check out Lindsey Warren’s Artwork , online interview
2018 FULL BLEDE issues four, five and six , curated by Sacha Baumann
2018 Create Magazine, Issue X , curated by Jennifer Rizzo
2017 FULL BLEDE issues two and three , curated by Sacha Baumann
2017 Your Huddled Masses , an exhibition in print to benefit the Florence Project
2016 Artzray , The Private Life and Public Art of Lindsey Warren , online interview
2015 Bronx Calling, the Third AIM Biennial , exhibition catalogue
2014 Grading Students’ Handiwork , by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
AWARDS , FELLOWSHIPS , RESIDENCIES
2015 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) , Bronx Museum, NY
2014 Resident, Sponsored by Recession Art (Brooklyn, NY) , Wassaic Residency Program , Wassaic, NY
2010 Resident and Fellowship Recipient , Vermont Studio Center , Johnson, VT
2009 First Prize, North East Prize Show , Cambridge Art Association , MA
2008 Ecuador Travel Fellowship , Boston University
2007 Dean’s Scholar Award , Boston University
2005 Grant Recipient , Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts , Brandeis University
ARTIST LECTURES
2014 New Hampshire Institute of Art , Manchester , MAAE Program Visiting Artist and Artist Lecture
2013 Taylor University , Upland, IN , Visiting Artist and Lecturer
2013 Indiana University, Bloomington , Color Reactions
TEACHING , EXPERIENCE
2018–Present Part-Time Faculty , Rio Hondo College , Whittier, CA
2012-2013 Substitute Instructor , Cooper Union School of Art , New York
2012-2013 Visiting Assistant Professor in Fundamentals , Indiana University Bloomington
2010–2011 Lecturer in Painting , Boston University
2008-2011 Lecturer in Foundations , New Hampshire Institute of Art , Manchester
2011-2012 Project Assistant , New York Cares
2006-2008 Teaching Assistant in Painting and Drawing , Boston University
2006-2008 Gallery Assistant , Sherman Gallery , Boston, MA
2007 Coordinator , Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition
2006 Teaching Assistant in Printmaking , Brandeis University
2008 MFA in Painting , Boston University , Boston, MA
2006 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate , Brandeis University , Waltham, MA
2004 BFA in Painting, Psychology , Boston University , Boston, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 The View From Home, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Los Angeles Light, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 The View Outside , saltfineart (virtual), Laguna Beach, CA
2019 A Love Letter, LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Native , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Lindsey Warren, New Work, Hollis Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
2013 Recent Work: Lindsey Warren, Gild NYC, A Curatorial Project by Emma Katz
SELECTED TWO-PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Cityscape Show XI , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2021 Of Modest Mystics , Idolwild , Los Angeles, CA
2021 Keystone Artists Group Show , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2020 The Cityscape Show X , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2020 FROM THE STUDIO: A Virtual Exhibition , George Billis Gallery
2020 RECENT WORKS: Painting and Sculpture by Gallery Artists , George Billis Gallery
2019 The Cityscape Show IX , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2019 Faculty Art Show , Rio Hondo College Art Gallery , Whittier, CA
2019 Keystone Artists Group Show , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2019 LA Flora , LAUNCH LA , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Gracias , saltfineart + RAW Salt Gallery , Laguna Beach, CA
2018 Intersection Presented by Launch LA , Korean Cultural Center , Los Angeles, CA
2018 California Open , TAG Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Cityscape Show VIII , George Billis Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2018 LA Artcore 4th Annual Juried Exhibit , LA Artcore Brewery Annex , Los Angeles, CA
2018 Keystone Artists Group Show, Spring & Fall , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2017 Beautiful Cityscapes , RAWsalt Gallery , Laguna, CA
2017 Color Colectiva , saltfineart + RAWsalt , Laguna, CA
2017 Keystone Artists Group Show, Spring & Fall, Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2016 Back to School , RAWsalt Gallery , Laguna, CA
2016 Keystone Artists Group Show , Keystone Gallery , Los Angeles, CA
2015 AIM Biennial , Bronx Museum of Art - Bronx, NY
2015 Ryman Arts Alumni 25th Anniversary Exhibition , Maker City LA at the Reef , Los Angeles, CA
2015 Back to School , RAW Salt Gallery , Laguna, CA
2014 Convergence, Curated by Andrea Champlin , 808 Gallery, Boston University
2014 chashama Studio Artists, Curated by Katie Fischer Cherry & Janusz Jaworski , 4 Times Square , NYC
2014 Staycation , Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Sight Specific: A Selection of American Perceptual Paintings, curated by George Nick , Concord Art Association, MA
2014 Art From the Boros II , Denise Bibro Fine Art , New York, NY
2014 Wide Open, curated by Paulina Pobocha , Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition , Brooklyn, NY
2013 Unhinged , Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition , Brooklyn, NY
2013 Greenpoint NOW , Presented by Greenpointers, Ugly Art Room and The Yard , Brooklyn, NY
2013 An Affair of the Art, Ryman Arts , Los Angeles, CA
2013 Color War , Recession Art , Brooklyn, NY
2013 Nature/Culture , Front Street Gallery , Patterson, NY
2013 Color Effects , Fuller Projects , Bloomington, IN
2013 Crossroads , Fred Parker Giles Gallery , Richmond, KY
2012 An Affair of the Art, Ryman Arts , Los Angeles, CA
2011 School of Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition , 808 Gallery, Boston University
2011 Faculty Exhibition, New Hampshire Institute of Art
2011 The Vermont School, Caseworks , Memphis, Tennessee
2010 Faculty Exhibition , New Hampshire Institute of Art
2010 Reunited , Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 Celebrating Women , Xavier University Art Gallery , Cincinnati, OH
2010 Faculty Exhibition , New Hampshire Institute of Art
2010 Axis Gallery , Sacramento , CA
2010 Return to Departure , Kirkland Arts Center , Kirkland, WA
2010 North East Prize Show , University Place Gallery , Cambridge, MA
2010 St. Tammany Art Association , Covington, LA
2010 Pinnacle , Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery , Tallahassee, FL
2010 Something About Nothing , Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery , Marion, OH
2008 Natural Elements: Images from Ecuador , Sherman Gallery , Boston, MA
2008 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2008 Off the Wall , Danforth Museum of Art , Framingham, MA
2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2008 Contemporary Absurdity , Rubin-Frankel Gallery , Boston, MA
2007 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2006 Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition , 808 Gallery , Boston, MA
2006 On the Verge , Brandeis University , Waltham, MA
2005 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts , Brandeis University , Waltham, MA
PUBLIC ART, MURALS
2016 Bronx Museum Community Mural at Bronx Terminal Market , Bronx, NY
2012 Watercolor , Douglass & Degraw Pool Mural , Brooklyn, NY
2012 Urban Progressions , PS/MS 96 , New York, NY
2012 Science & Technology , PS 198 , New York, NY
2011 Progress , PS 5 , Brooklyn, NY
2011 Secret , PS 19 , Brooklyn, NY
2010 Organized Beauty , Malden Center MBTA Station , Malden, MA
WORK IN PRINT, BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 New American Paintings , Issue 157, December 2021 (printing delayed until 2022)
2020 American Art Collector , Issue 179, September
2020 Shoutout LA , Meet Lindsey Warren, Artist , online interview
2019 Riot Material , A Love Letter to LA Offers a Haunting Magic, exhibition review by Genie Davis
2019 Kipton Art Advisory Curator’s Journal , Get to Know LA-Based Painter, Lindsey Warren , online interview
2019 20x200 Blog , Peep Lindsey Warren's LA studio + get the 411 on her painting practice , online interview
2019 FULL BLEDE issue seven , curated by Sacha Baumann
2018 20x200 Blog , Lindsey Warren’s Luminous Landscape is a Love Letter to LA , by Jen Bilik
2018 Voyage LA , Check out Lindsey Warren’s Artwork , online interview
2018 FULL BLEDE issues four, five and six , curated by Sacha Baumann
2018 Create Magazine, Issue X , curated by Jennifer Rizzo
2017 FULL BLEDE issues two and three , curated by Sacha Baumann
2017 Your Huddled Masses , an exhibition in print to benefit the Florence Project
2016 Artzray , The Private Life and Public Art of Lindsey Warren , online interview
2015 Bronx Calling, the Third AIM Biennial , exhibition catalogue
2014 Grading Students’ Handiwork , by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe
AWARDS , FELLOWSHIPS , RESIDENCIES
2015 Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) , Bronx Museum, NY
2014 Resident, Sponsored by Recession Art (Brooklyn, NY) , Wassaic Residency Program , Wassaic, NY
2010 Resident and Fellowship Recipient , Vermont Studio Center , Johnson, VT
2009 First Prize, North East Prize Show , Cambridge Art Association , MA
2008 Ecuador Travel Fellowship , Boston University
2007 Dean’s Scholar Award , Boston University
2005 Grant Recipient , Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts , Brandeis University
ARTIST LECTURES
2014 New Hampshire Institute of Art , Manchester , MAAE Program Visiting Artist and Artist Lecture
2013 Taylor University , Upland, IN , Visiting Artist and Lecturer
2013 Indiana University, Bloomington , Color Reactions
TEACHING , EXPERIENCE
2018–Present Part-Time Faculty , Rio Hondo College , Whittier, CA
2012-2013 Substitute Instructor , Cooper Union School of Art , New York
2012-2013 Visiting Assistant Professor in Fundamentals , Indiana University Bloomington
2010–2011 Lecturer in Painting , Boston University
2008-2011 Lecturer in Foundations , New Hampshire Institute of Art , Manchester
2011-2012 Project Assistant , New York Cares
2006-2008 Teaching Assistant in Painting and Drawing , Boston University
2006-2008 Gallery Assistant , Sherman Gallery , Boston, MA
2007 Coordinator , Boston Young Contemporaries Exhibition
2006 Teaching Assistant in Printmaking , Brandeis University
