Greg Lindquist is an American artist, living and working in New York City.
Biography
Greg Lindquist was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, graduated from Emsley A. Laney High School in 1997, studied art and English at North Carolina State University and attended graduate school in New York at Pratt Institute, earning a MFA in painting and masters in art history. He also was a studio participant at the Whitney Museum of American ArtIndependent Study Program. During graduate school, Lindquist was a research intern at the Museum of Modern Art, writing wall labels for the permanent collection. He also worked as an assistant for the artist Ryan McGinness. Lindquist's early work addressed landscape as a memorial, confronting the gentrification of the deindustrialized Brooklyn waterfronts of Williamsburg and Red Hook in late capitalism. Addressing the entropic forces in architecture, he traveled to Tbilisi, Georgia to research decay from the Soviet Union era. The Dan River coal ash spill in 2014 has been the conceptual, visual, thematic, and political driver of his Smoke and Water project. Working in partnership with , he created an installation of paintings and murals from an image shared by a water keeper documenting ash swirling with river water. The work was completed collaboratively with the local art, ecology, and activist communities. Lindquist works with the guiding principle that art can facilitate social change, actively creating space for the possibility of mobilizing political action and reshaping common values. In 2015, he was of The Brooklyn Rail and curated a concurrent show, which focused on the intersections and ruptures between art and ecology. Returning to NYC as a site of research, Lindquist has continued his engagement with community-centered, ecologically driven interventions through research on the Newtown Creek, a critically polluted waterway on the Brooklyn and Queens border. Working with the Newtown Creek Alliance, he has assisted with water quality collection and has reviewed EPA clean-up plans while serving on a technical data committee. He also co-organized an ongoing series of collaborative research events on a human-powered rowboat in the Newtown Creek's autonomous zone with up-close, site specific fieldwork and painting.
One-person exhibitions and projects
2017
"", Partnership with Art in Buildings, Monroe, NC
2014
"Smoke and Water", Partnership with Working Films, Wilmington, NC
