Artist Statement

Patterns, colors, and textures deluge our sights daily. They are things that we see, but don’t see. They sit at the periphery of our perception for a flicker of a second. Then are washed away in favor off bits of information we rank in our brains as more important and relevant to our daily existence.

Musicians are said to hear things differently and artists see things differently. I, like most in the agency of art making, commit visual flickers to long-term memory. I reflect on them, I catalog them, I try to find a place for them to be noticed and admired. I pull them out of their original contexts, I shift them, I mash them together. I alter, I borrow, I steal.

I work towards integrated form and surface. I intend to present visual parts as potential verbal narratives all the while using the patterns, colors, and textures I have experienced and cataloged along the way.

Lindsey A. Weigel honed her artistic meanderings while receiving her BFA at UW-Milwaukee in 2004. Her scholastic discoveries cemented her deep fondness for the ceramic arts. She creates series and multiples, as well as mono-printed, and large scale objects that suggest a domestic or functional intent obscured by embellishment. Her pursuit of life experience has led her to live all over the great state of Wisconsin including Door County only to return to Milwaukee to accrue a teaching certification in art education also from UW-Milwaukee in January of 2011.  Lindsey is currently an artist in residence at RedLine as well as an art educator in Milwaukee.