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Lindsey Day

Lindsey Day

Artist
Profile Location
Omaha , NE
Biography

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Lindsey Day is a visual artist living in Omaha, NE. Born and raised in the Midwest, Day earned an MFA in Painting and Drawing from University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2019. Her visual language is familiar to that of urban environments where harmony and balance rely on the destruction, preservation, and metamorphosis of space. Through painting, drawing, and collage, Day emphasizes her own drama and spirit using the modern landscape as her guide. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and the LUX Center for the Arts. In addition to teaching higher education, Day is a proud mentor to emerging artists throughout the Midwest, teaching private art lessons and group workshops. She is currently the Properties Artisan at the Omaha Community Playhouse, where she designs and builds artistic and functional props for one of the largest non-profit theatres in the nation.

Artist Statement

Through her visual art practice, Day appreciates and challenges the modern landscape for its formal energy and rich implications. Much of her work is composed using imagery inspired by construction sites, public and private work zones, and traffic control and road navigation symbols. Day focuses on the habitual reactions to the shapes, colors, and forms of these objects and signs. Orange, yellow, red, and anything neon, stand out in nature; they vibrate against the cool blues, greens, and browns of the sky and land. Even without the pulse of human traffic, the world moves and speaks within its structure, color, and sign language. With this in mind, the modern designs and functions of our landscape align closely with the pursuit of painting, drawing, building, and making as lively navigational tools.

Day uses scenarios familiar to urban environments to express nuanced concepts of risk, caution, action and inaction, free will and systematic development. Through painting, Day inserts herself into a system of her own fabrication, becoming a contractor, an urban planner, a material contributor, and a liberal performer. In the studio, she is both the recipient and the conductor of any possible risk. It is a controlled place to openly evaluate and represent experience with and exposure to danger, harm, and loss. Day obliquely considers her subjects for their visual potential and influence through line, form, and metaphor. Her invented landscapes manifest warning, but the active threat has been removed. They instigate both the fear and the thrill of the unknown. They advocate for vigilance and embrace chaos. Each piece becomes its own object of caution, a permanent icon of inherent risk.

Medium
Drawing
Painting
Mixed Media
 
 

Exhibitions Featuring this Artist

Lindsey Day
G.V. Kelley
Elise Loomis
Maria Spiess
Nov
01
11/1/19 to 12/28/19
Multiple Mediums
Owen Buffington
Lindsey Day
Sam Herron
Chris Ivey
Nicole Renaud
Alexis Spina
Bart Vargas
Sep
04
9/4/20 to 10/17/20
Multiple Mediums
Jim Aden
Liana Agnew
Joel Anderson
Mark Arnold
Michael Ashley
Posey Bacopoulos
Shawn Teseo Ballarin
Green Bee
Jessica Brandl
Wes Brown
Matt Bukrey
Larry Buller
Donna Burdic
Anne Burton
Elaine Buss
Jen Carlson
Neil Celani
Austin Coudriet
Drew Curtright
Lindsey Day
Amanda Durig
Adrienne Eliades
Paul Eshelman
Katelyn Farneth
Lynette Fast
Anna Gadek
PJ Hargraves
Mark Hargraves
Sarah Jentsch
Kyle Johns
G.V. Kelley
Josh Knutson
Mary Koziol
Brad Krieger
Louis LaBudda
Lynn Latta
Clay Leonard
Sam Loeffler
Carol Long
Anika Major
Susan McGilvrey
Tom Meyers
Catie Miller
Katie Nieland
Kyle Nobles
Samantha Oliver
Sarah Olsen
Cathy Patterson
Christy Puetz
Brittany Rea
Sarah Rowe
Sophia Ruppert
Erin Ryan
Agnes Seebass
Sarah Shoot
José Sierra
Sarah Smelser
Shannon Smith
Maria Spiess
Susan Stark-Johnson
Evan Stoler
Patty Talbert
Harry Tompkin
Tara Tonsor
April White
Tara Dawley
Nov
06
11/6/20 to 12/30/20
Multiple Mediums
Lindsey Day
Aug
06
8/6/21 to 8/28/21
Multiple Mediums
Jim Aden
Kristine Allphin
Posey Bacopoulos
Shawn Teseo Ballarin
Margaret Berry
Ashley Buchanan
Larry Buller
Donna Burdic
Anne Burton
Elaine Buss
Neil Celani
Kelly Cook
Austin Coudriet
Lindsey Day
John Dennison
Amanda Durig
Robin Erfe
Lynette Fast
Allie Feezell
Belle-Pilar Fleming
Barbara Greving
Luke Huling
Mike Jabbur
Sarah Jentsch
Lauren Karle
Anthony Park Kascak
Josh Knutson
Brad Krieger
Margie Magnuson
Susan McGilvrey
Andrew McIntyre
Nicole McLaughlin
Bri Murphy
Kyle Nobles
Samantha Oliver
Sarah Olsen
Teddy Osei
Brent Pafford
Cathy Patterson
Sarah Rowe
Agnes Seebass
Chanakarn Semachai (Punch)
Annie Sinton
Susan Stark-Johnson
April Stevenson
Evan Stoler
Dan Terpstra
James Tingey
Lisa Truax
Sara Truman
Kat Wiese
Kate Marotz
Max Reis
Nov
05
11/5/21 to 12/24/21
Multiple Mediums

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