Lindsey is a self- taught 35 mm photographer and mixed media artist living and working in Logan Square. She was born in the northeast suburbs of Chicago, and attended the Chicago Academy for The Arts. Lindsey studied theater at The Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, danced on scholarship at the Joel Hall Dance Center and graduated from the University of Southern California with an honors degree in Psychology. Ms. Meyers is the proud mother of Emmie Toulouse and Macartny Laveau, and derives much inspiration from simply being with them.
Lindsey recently exhibited her work at the 2011 Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival and curated “Word to the Mother” and “April Showers”- the first shows to be held at the I Am Logan Square Gallery in Logan Square, Chicago. Ms. Meyers is currently preparing to open Beauty & Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space, also in Logan Square, in the Spring of 2012.
Lindsey Meyers :: On Photography & Mixed Media
"...most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."
-Rainer Maria Rilke
INSPIRATION
I make photographs because it puts me at ease- makes me feel connected to the world and its secrets without completely exposing my own self. I never intended to become a photographer. Taking pictures began as something just for me. I hope one photo of one moment can move one person. I primarily shoot 35 mm pictures on my Canon- which is my most important possession and my most trusted friend. I don’t retouch my photos and so many of them are happy accidents.
My mixed media work is the result of a random trip to the art supply store and years and years of writing in journals, on the backs of parking tickets, gas receipts, leftover strips of canvas or whatever else I could find. The pieces are large format photographs on layered canvas- which are submerged in gels, glitter and acrylic paints, and the words are intended to have a rhythmic feeling and can be interpreted in multiple ways.
