http://www.lindsay-preston.com Lindsay Preston Zappas Mon, 06 May 2013 12:17:01 +0000 http://www.lindsay-preston.com en http://lindsay-preston.com/Fruit-Bowl http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Fruit-Bowl Mon, 06 May 2013 12:17:01 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 5558572 Title: Fruit Bowl Materials: paint and screen print on plywood, zip ties, framed digital prints, performers Dimensions: dimensions vary Date: Spring 2013 <img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="638" width_o="900" height_o="638" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959165" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web detail2_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="860" width_o="900" height_o="860" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web detail2_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959161" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web detail_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="724" width_o="900" height_o="724" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web detail_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959159" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web perf_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="1165" width_o="900" height_o="1165" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Fruit bowl web perf_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959163" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Zappas_fruitbowl_1_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="1159" width_o="900" height_o="1159" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Zappas_fruitbowl_1_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="30442370" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Zappas_fruitbowl_2_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="1241" width_o="900" height_o="1241" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Zappas_fruitbowl_2_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="30442374" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Zappas_fruitbowl_3_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="1334" width_o="900" height_o="1334" src_o="http://payload162.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5558572/Zappas_fruitbowl_3_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="30442376" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Fruit Bowl Materials: paint and screen print on plywood, zip ties, framed digital prints, performers Dimensions: dimensions vary Date: Spring 2013 http://lindsay-preston.com/Fruit-Bowl-1 http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Fruit-Bowl-1 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:22:07 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 5278771 Title: Fruit Bowl 1 Materials: paint and screen print on plywood, foam Dimensions: dimensions vary Date: Spring 2013 <img src="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5278771/fruitbowl 1_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="647" width_o="900" height_o="647" src_o="http://payload148.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5278771/fruitbowl 1_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959387" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Fruit Bowl 1 Materials: paint and screen print on plywood, foam Dimensions: dimensions vary Date: Spring 2013 http://lindsay-preston.com/Web-Art-Magazine http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Web-Art-Magazine Fri, 15 Mar 2013 10:57:19 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 5188203 <img src="http://payload144.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5188203/CARETS_WEB.jpg" width="670" height="339" width_o="996" height_o="504" src_o="http://payload144.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5188203/CARETS_WEB_o.jpg" data-mid="27954041" border="0" align="left"/> Carets & Sticks is an international forum for emerging contemporary artists. Our global contribution base provides unique critical discourse, artist interviews, studio visits, and reviews – allowing for a vast network, news source, and meeting place for those entering the art world. Join the conversation HERE. Carets & Sticks is an international forum for emerging contemporary artists. Our global contribution base provides unique critical discourse, artist interviews,... http://lindsay-preston.com/Obelisk http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Obelisk Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:01:34 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 5052302 Title: Obelisk Materials: Performance Still (including live performer, projection, GIF) Date: 2013 <img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29961123" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk detail_web_900_2_900.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk detail_web_900_2_o.jpg" data-mid="29961169" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk-vers3_220colors_web_downsized_bf48.gif" width="640" height="893" width_o="640" height_o="893" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk-vers3_220colors_web_downsized_bf48_o.gif" data-mid="29961193" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk-B_WEB.gif" width="670" height="935" width_o="670" height_o="935" src_o="http://payload137.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/5052302/obelisk-B_WEB_o.gif" data-mid="29961229" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Obelisk Materials: Performance Still (including live performer, projection, GIF) Date: 2013 http://lindsay-preston.com/Box-and-Broom http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Box-and-Broom Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:41:39 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 4647248 Title: Box and Broom Materials: Digital Print Date: 2012 <img src="http://payload117.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4647248/stucco_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="1328" width_o="900" height_o="1328" src_o="http://payload117.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4647248/stucco_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959802" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Box and Broom Materials: Digital Print Date: 2012 http://lindsay-preston.com/A-Rose-is-a-Rose-is-a-Rose http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/A-Rose-is-a-Rose-is-a-Rose Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:16:22 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 4636523 Title: A Rose is A Rose is a Rose Materials: Digital Print Dimensions: 34X64 Date: Fall 2012 <img src="http://payload116.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4636523/rose_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="501" width_o="900" height_o="501" src_o="http://payload116.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4636523/rose_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959501" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload116.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4636523/rose_web detail_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="525" width_o="900" height_o="525" src_o="http://payload116.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4636523/rose_web detail_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959499" border="0" align="left"/> Roses video compress web - Wi-Fi from Lindsay Preston Zappas on Vimeo. Title: A Rose is A Rose is a Rose Materials: Digital Print Dimensions: 34X64 Date: Fall 2012 Roses video compress web - Wi-Fi from Lindsay Preston Zappas on... http://lindsay-preston.com/selected-published-work http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/selected-published-work Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:56:21 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 4493863 <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/HORSES.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/HORSES_o.jpg" data-mid="25168488" border="0" align="left"/> Published on January 4, 2013 on Art21 Beauty. In 1993, Dave Hickey posited that the the art world was due for a reinvestigation of beauty. Here we are two decades later. The world hasn’t ended, and the subject of beauty in art remains a contentious one. In the face of a meta culture, the concept of beauty in art is still a hard one to contend with. Why? Because we have become jaded about beauty. Kathleen Marie Higgins writes that “we are more likely to resent beauty to than to love it. Beauty too easily becomes identified with a more perfect time, the imaginary point from which things have gone downhill.” View Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/GOOD-WORK.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/GOOD-WORK_o.jpg" data-mid="23859900" border="0" align="left"/> Published November 21, 2012 on Art21 Just as Hickey is leaving the world of contemporary art criticism, artists are leaving in droves from the gallery and museum systems, in trust of the alternative. In my experience, artist-run spaces and projects don’t facilitate the kind of market on which artists rely in order to be able to afford the making of their next piece. I am skeptical of the way in which this new faith in artist-run spaces tends to demonize the art object as being implicit in art market capitalism.... View Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/void-art-21_1.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/void-art-21_1_o.jpg" data-mid="23859912" border="0" align="left"/> Published October 17, 2012 on Art21 Artists are constantly trying to distract themselves in order for their brains to arrive at their next idea, or a solution to a problem in the studio. Artists drive, take showers, swim, or have sex as a way to occupy the body with one task, while allowing the mind some freedom to roam. I turned to my colleagues at Cranbrook Academy of Art for their responses to the question, “How do you distract yourself from studio stress to allow your brain some creative space?” View Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/swimsuits_2_5.jpg" width="368" height="373" width_o="368" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/swimsuits_2_5_o.jpg" data-mid="23859895" border="0" align="left"/> Published September 12, 2012 on Art21 I read two great biographies this summer: Robert Irwin’s biography, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, by Lawrence Weschler, and Will You Take Me as I Am, Joni Mitchell’s Blue Period, by Michelle Mercer. I find truth in these types of narrative accounts–I put faith in seeing other creative lives unfold. This blog post is my attempt to tie together a myriad of ideas that I’ve been thinking about over the past couple of months, much in relation to these two. Joni Mitchell and Robert Irwin were both constricted by labels throughout their career, and turned to a dedicated “studio” practice (often resulting in reclusive behavior), to sustain their creative acts. I’d like to tie these biographical accounts to the art world at large. Rather than embracing labels and discipline categories, the introspective studio act of making is the current modus operandí for many young artists. View Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/SUMMER.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/SUMMER_o.jpg" data-mid="23860039" border="0" align="left"/> Published August 1, 2012 on Art21 School’s out for summer. School’s out forever…until it starts again in the fall. This summer has been filled with many projects, residencies, art making, etc, yet these efforts have been laced with lounging near bodies of water, sunbathing, great mix tapes, warm breezes, and vodka lemonades. After my first year in the sculpture department at Cranbrook, this summer has proved to be a much-needed reprieve from the intellectual and emotional rigor of grad school. It’s been seriously jam-packed with projects and art making, yet perhaps it’s the visceral nature of the summer that has allowed me to approach my work with a more relaxed and exploratory attitude. Lots of bare-feet-in-the-sand have reminded me not to take the work or myself too seriously, and taught me that a little space from the studio (whilst canoeing about or laying in the sand) is a healthy part of an art practice. This BB King album cover is exactly what I’m talking about. Let me expand. Read Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/EAST-TO-WEST.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/EAST-TO-WEST_o.jpg" data-mid="23860165" border="0" align="left"/> Published June 13, 2012 on Art21 I have just traveled from Michigan to New York to San Diego, a task worthy of some sort of honorable mention, or a cold beer on the finish line at least; both of which I have received informally. After the end of year flurry at Cranbrook Academy of Art, my husband and a friend of ours packed our studios and cars, and headed east at 3:00 am. Call us crazy, but we wanted to make it to a friends’ first solo show in the Lower East Side the next night at 6:00 pm. With our map unfolded in front of us (via Google), and the darkness of the Detroit sky around us, we headed East. I have transcribed here notes from the road, where art and life somehow spilled together; sites, sounds, galleries, and landscape equally enticing our active minds. From the concrete jungle of New York, to the open skies of the desert, both art galleries and roadside attractions seemed to fufill the same visual longing for us travelers. Read Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/MEMES.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/MEMES_o.jpg" data-mid="23860269" border="0" align="left"/> Published April 11, 2012 on Art21 There is a popular meme floating around on the internet called “What People Think I Do / What I Really Do.” Most of them are images pulled from pop culture depicting the heroic and the mundane versions of the same job. But it got me thinking: what exactly does the public think an artist does? In a recent video chat with a friend of mine, who is a social worker, I got off on a rant about how nobody understands artists or validates what we do. I think I may have been channelling some latent teenage angst, or experiencing some full moon cosmic vibes. As a social worker, my friend has a very real impact on people’s lives every day, and can feel that appreciation tangibly. However, my daily experience as an artist paints (no pun intended) a much bleaker picture. Read Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/SHOWERS.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/SHOWERS_o.jpg" data-mid="23860381" border="0" align="left"/> Published February 1, 2012 on Art21 A recent article on Dailyserving.com by Catherine Wagley (also an Art21 blog columnist) discussed methodology — the artist’s bread and butter. Catherine states that “figuring out how to put objects and stories out into the world without imposing yourself on your audience is a perpetual problem artists will indefinitely grapple with. But having a methodology, like a having a diet and a bedtime, allows you to keep making work as you keep living, in spite of the unanswered questions. It’s an old trick, using method to combat uncertainty—still, it’s the most stalwart, honest fail-safe, and it doesn’t stifle the questioning; it just keeps the work coming.” My last blog post for Open Enrollment went through the ABC’s of graduate art student insecurities and fears. I have moved forward from many of these paralyzing thoughts, but as a first year in grad school, I am still learning the things I need to get the most out of my time in the studio. I’ve found that having the ingredients for making readily available is half the battle. In my case, this means having plenty of fabric around and some quality tunes on the stereo. But what then? Sometimes even Joni Mitchell can’t get me out of my rut. So I decided to turn to some of my peers who are in their second year in the program (each from a different department at Cranbrook) who have put in the hard time to cultivate a personal methodology. Ian Jones from Print Media, Anne Vieux from Painting, Will Connally from Photography and Mackenzie Schubert from 2D Design joined me around my living room table to have a beer and talk shop. View Full Article HERE <img src="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/SPAGHETTI.jpg" width="359" height="373" width_o="359" height_o="373" src_o="http://payload109.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4493863/SPAGHETTI_o.jpg" data-mid="23860475" border="0" align="left"/> Published November 2, 2011on Art21 There is a scene towards the end of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where Gene Wilder, who plays Wonka, screams at the earnest and kind-hearted Charlie Bucket, “You lose, you get nothing, good day sir!” In my first semester studying sculpture at Cranbrook, I have found myself immersed in a paralyzing fear of grad school–or rather, of being rejected in grad school. It’s as if at any moment, Gene Wilder is going to pop into my studio and shout, “You lose, you get nothing, good day sir!” I feel like a fake. I feel like I know nothing. These are normal feelings. Not only do other students share my plight, but so do the authors of a book that serves as a security blanket to many artists: Art & Fear, by David Bayles and Ted Orland. I constantly refer back to its dog-eared pages, re-reading my highlighted mantras. So yes, this fear is normal, others share it, but it’s still a bitch. Here, I look to Charlie Bucket as my guide. After being ostracized by Wonka and screamed at to leave, he takes a stand with virtue as his guide, and returns Wonka’s beloved Everlasting Gobstopper. He stands up in the face of his fears to do that which he believes in. Read Full Article HERE Published on January 4, 2013 on Art21 Beauty. In 1993, Dave Hickey posited that the the art world was due for a reinvestigation of beauty. Here we are two... http://lindsay-preston.com/Cactus-Series http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Cactus-Series Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:08:56 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 4376009 Title: Cactus Series, Bust and Crouch) Materials: Digital Print Date: Fall 2012 <img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4376009/cactus bust_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="601" width_o="900" height_o="601" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4376009/cactus bust_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959688" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4376009/cactus crouch_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="600" width_o="900" height_o="600" src_o="http://payload103.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4376009/cactus crouch_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959692" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Cactus Series, Bust and Crouch) Materials: Digital Print Date: Fall 2012 http://lindsay-preston.com/Grass-on-Grass http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Grass-on-Grass Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:01:52 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 4329279 Title: Grass on Grass Materials: Digital Print Date: Fall 2012 <img src="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329279/grass_web_900_900.jpg" width="900" height="1185" width_o="900" height_o="1185" src_o="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329279/grass_web_900_o.jpg" data-mid="29959835" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Grass on Grass Materials: Digital Print Date: Fall 2012 http://lindsay-preston.com/Diaphanous http://lindsay-preston.com/following/lindsay-preston.com/Diaphanous Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:49:57 +0000 Lindsay Preston Zappas 4329237 <img src="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329237/Diaphanous_install_72.jpg" width="670" height="458" width_o="750" height_o="513" src_o="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329237/Diaphanous_install_72_o.jpg" data-mid="22876809" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329237/diaphanous_detail.jpg" width="670" height="469" width_o="750" height_o="526" src_o="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329237/diaphanous_detail_o.jpg" data-mid="22876774" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329237/video_web.jpg" width="670" height="510" width_o="720" height_o="549" src_o="http://payload101.cargocollective.com/1/5/180800/4329237/video_web_o.jpg" data-mid="22876778" border="0" align="left"/> Title: Diaphanous Materials: Projected video, contact paper, hardboard, pegboard, contact paper, zip ties, Lite Bright, Bart Simpson pez dispenser, foam, electric candle, chicken wing dog toy, digital prints Venue Grand Rapids Public Museum Grand Rapids, MI Date: 2012 diaphonous FINAL from Lindsay Preston Zappas on Vimeo. Title: Diaphanous Materials: Projected video, contact paper, hardboard, pegboard, contact paper, zip ties, Lite Bright, Bart Simpson pez dispenser, foam,...