Lindsay Martin Gryskewich
Lindsay Martin Gryskewich
b. Akron, Ohio
”My work explores memory, color and materiality through painted space. I retrace surroundings and connections made with place, objects and landscape. I am interested in how we spatially orient ourselves and wander through the sites of our lives. Place is a fluid illusion: both general and detailed, permanent and temporary. Painting emerges as material amalgamation of the body’s translations of memory. My work means to connect and study the phenomenology of new perspectives on place, memory and the long history of painting.
In my work, one can see mapping and tracing of familiar rooms and biographical sites, weaving a comparison between interior and exterior situations. While these sites are rooted as representative observations, they are abstracted through daydream and nostalgia: searching for past and future connection. Color is used as a means for rich playful territory that rethinks the habitual sites on the canvas. Material investigations work tandem with studying every day relics as well as the objectood of a rectilinear painting. Currently, my paintings make many connections between a home filled with children and objects and spaces that are playful and chaotic with other memories. The work honors daily life while also retelling both simple and impactful memories and offering escapist fantasies, sharing the complicated portrayal of place within painting. “
Lindsay Martin Gryskewich is a painter from Cleveland, Ohio. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2019 and her Bachelor of Arts from Denison University in 2013. Her work has been included in regional and national galleries and project spaces including Waterloo Arts Gallery and BayArts Center near Cleveland, Ohio, Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College, Riffe Gallery for the Ohio Arts Council in Columbus, Ohio, the galleries at Kent State University and Troppus Projects of Kent, Ohio, Wavelength Space in Chattanooga, TN, Troy Laundry Building, X Gallery and Ford Gallery, ArtReach Gallery and the Hoffman Gallery of Portland, OR. Her work is frequently included at Summit Artspace, where she also led gallery installation in 2021. Residencies include Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts and Suttle Lodge in the Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. Lindsay Martin Gryskewich teaches visual art at Old Trail School in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where she lives with her two children and husband.
Contact
lindsaymartingrys@gmail.com