Lindsay Mueller

Sculptural painting and drawing

My landscape paintings consider outdoor spaces, often parks and roadsides, close to me. I am interested in the layers of time and collective use of public spaces, and I try to observe closely the sheer amount of visual information that exists outdoors. I am influenced by American tendencies to romanticize landscape, both historical and contemporary. I explore these projections while depicting leaves, branches, and other natural remnants of the mid-Atlantic region where I live. Over time, I imbue these painted collections of living and inert beings with emotive qualities—sections of romanticism, anxiety, dread, and wonder, communicated through color and mark. I’m continually curious how my surface textures can support and undermine the representation of place, ideally performing both at once. Through this, my works become tactile fragments of my perception, reflecting the unstable, shifting dynamics of human-landscape relationships

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