Lindsey Meyers :: Portrait of the Artist

Lindsey was born in the northeast suburbs of Chicago, and attended the Chicago Academy for The Arts. She studied theater at The Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and graduated from the University of Southern California with an honors degree in Psychology. Lindsey is the proud mother of Emmie Toulouse and Macartny Laveau, and derives much inspiration from simply being with them.

Lindsey’s work can been seen in the cutting edge publication RAW 2008. This book features a collection of photographers and artists known to push limits and to set the tone for what is now. Lindsey was featured online in the September 2009 issue of Photography Showcase Magazine, and recently gave an interview for www.manufactureddissent.com. Ms. Meyers will being showing new work at the upcoming Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival- July 23-25, 2010 in Logan Square, Chicago.

Pieces from Ms. Meyers’ collection of photography and mixed media can be viewed at www.lindseymeyers.com.

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

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 shoot only 35 mm pictures. I shoot on a Canon, and it is my most important possession and my closest friend. I don’t retouch my photos and so many of them are happy accidents.

My mixed media work is a 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 to achieve a glazed appearance. The words are intended to have a poetic/scroll-like feeling, and can be read and interpreted in multiple ways.