NEWS
Coming Soon:
Solo show at Tiger Strikes Astroid, Chicago
Up Now:
Object Lessons, a group show at T.Mari gallery
Through November 9
1023 N. Western Ave, Chicago
Making Arrangements, a solo exhibition at Material Exhibitions
November - December 2024
Artwork and info on
Extended Practice LINK
BIO
Emily Lindskoog lives and works in Chicago, where she is also helping to raise two small children. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She has participated in many group exhibitions which include Heaven Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, Roman Susan Gallery, Circle Contemporary, and St. Mary’s College as well as solo exhibitions at Material Exhibitions, Carlson Tower Gallery and Parallax Art Lab. Emily was a SPARC (Seniors Pairing with Artists in Residence Citywide) grant recipient through the Brooklyn Arts Council, a resident in Chicago Artist Coalition’s Field/Work residency, and participated in the inaugural Pollinator residency. She founded her own Love Road Artist Residency in 2018; a nomadic, annual residency for artist-mothers. She currently works as the gallery director and assistant professor of art at North Park University.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Taking cues from my environment, found objects, repeated movements, and family photos, I discover a network of formal patterns and coincidences, intersections in time, and a connection between all things.
The birth of my two children and the death of my dad hold prominent positions in my mixed-media drawings and collages. In work I refer to as unfixed collage (alluding to the objects arrangement on a horizontal paper surface without adhesive) I can play with and re-stage the work. The resulting composition is committed while maintaining the energy of moveable parts. These artworks could be the site of an archaeological dig, an altar, a board game still in play.
Oil pastel and charcoal drawings, watercolors, and mixed media on paper contain bright colors and energetic mark making reinforcing the sense of playful symbolism. The bold shapes feel familiar yet unknown - perhaps an ancient symbol or a balled-up sock. Sharing space with two small children while grieving the loss of a close family member makes time-travel seem entirely possible; everything feels both permanent and precarious, instantaneous and eternal, funny and deadly serious. The gestures of stacking, sorting, and rearranging follow me into my studio, where I’m again confronted with a question from the children: What is this?
C.V.
EDUCATION
2010 M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2005 B.A. in Studio Art and K-12 Art Education
North Park University, Chicago, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Find Something You Know — Parallax Art Lab, Chicago, IL
2016 This Too — Carlson Gallery, Chicago, IL
2014 Trip — Salter Gallery, University of Wisconsin Barron County, Rice Lake, WI
2012 Unrolled — goodyoga, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Left Hand, Right Hand: MFA Thesis Exhibition — Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Bounce Back — Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
E Plurbus Unum — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 Art in Isolation — North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Home Work — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Extended Self:Transformations and Connections — Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Quilt — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Extended Practice — Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Mysterious Feelings — Circle Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2017 AKUKO UWA — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
Certain Obscurities — Brandel Library at North Park University, Chicago, IL
2016 La Mère / La Mer : The Mother / The Sea — Moreau Art Galleries at Saint Mary's College, South Bend, Indiana
2015 Square Foot Show — The Arts of Life, Glenview, IL
Uncharted — Lewis Art Gallery at Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
2014 Black & White — Brandel Library at North Park University, Chicago, IL
2012 Middling — Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Chain Letter — Samson Gallery, Boston, MA
Seriously Funny — Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
In the Flat Field, curated by Jason Stopa — Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2010 15th Annual Juried Exhibition, curated by Phong Bui of the Brooklyn Rail — SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY
Sustainability — Schafler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Speaking to a Kitchen Mouse — Steuben Galleries at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Homecoming Invitational — Carlson Tower Gallery, North Park University, Chicago, IL
From Across the River — MFA Gallery at Montclair University, Montclair, NJ
2007 Alumni Exhibition — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Five Second Rule: Undergraduate Senior Exhibition — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Carl G. Setterburg Scholarship Exhibition for Success in the Visual Arts — Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Night with Cameron McGill — Schuba's Tavern, Chicago, IL
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019 Love Road Artist Residency — Chicago, IL
2018-19 Field/Work — Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2018 Love Road Artist Residency — Roscoe, IL
2012 SPARC Grant Award Winner (Seniors Partnering with Artists in Residence Citywide)
New York Department of Cultural Affairs and Brooklyn Arts Council
Art Educator and Resident Artist — Tompkins Park Senior Center, Brooklyn, NY
WRITING / PRESS
2020 Lori Waxman, “Four fantastic shows to catch before they’re gone”. Chicago Tribune. Online review. January 22.
201 Tim Ortiz. “Mysterious Feelings at Circle Contemporary”. Disparate Minds. Online review and interview. April 12.
2016 Tim Lowly. “La Mère / La Mer”. Catalogue for La Mère / La Mer : The Mother / The Sea
Exhibition at St. Mary’s College and St. Mary’s University. Print.
2010 Sioban Lombardi. “Left Hand, Right Hand”. Art and Thinking. Online. April 1.
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2014 Teaching Artists: A Homecoming Invitational — Carlson Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 SPARC Exhibition — Artwork by the residents of Tompkins Park Senior Center, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Transport — Alabina Café, Chicago, IL
VISITING ARTIST TALKS
2020 Artist Talk for Jill Lanza’s Undergraduate Class, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, April 15.
2016 Public Artist Talk and Critique for Undergraduates, University of Wisconsin, Barron County, Rice Lake, WI, November 5.
TEACHING, etc.
2013 - Current
Lecturer in Art — North Park University, Chicago, IL
Drawing, Two-Dimensional Design, Renaissance Art History, 19th Century Art history,
Classical Art History, & Creative Guild Collaborative Workshop.
2014
Puppet and Prop Designer for Handbook for the Recently Deceased — InGen Productions, Chicago, IL
Stage adaptation of Beetlejuice at The Den Theatre
2009
Teaching Assistant to Professor Lisa Bateman — Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY