Humboldt Arts Council

Lindsay Coats
Oil and Mixed Medium

Contact: lcoats@hotmail.com

Meeting, oil, 2004, 20”x 16.”	Meeting, oil and oil stick, 2004, 30”x 24.”
Not Talking, gesso and graphite, 2004, 11”x 8.5.”	Meeting On Paper, oil, 2005, 40”x 30.”
Meeting In There, oil, 2005, 40”x 30.”	Meeting In A Bottle, oil, 2005, 40”x 30.”
Meeting in Clam Box, acrylic, 2006, 8”x 8.”	Meeting, oil, 2004, 48”x 24.”
Meeting, photocopy on acetate, 2004, 11”x 8.5.”	Expression, ceramic, 2004, 2”x 4”x 5.”

ARTIST STATEMENT

The horse as imagery is loaded. It has baggage. Yet, for me this imagery acts as a conduit, a reflection, or a meeting, which filters the interactions between the viewer, the world, and myself. The pain, uncertainty, and frustrations of the world are transmitted to us through confused and interrupted means. Ceramic abstractions of horses and elements of the still life act as stand-ins for my divided and conflicted reactions to this information. Through a dissection of space, the paintings become self-portraits by proxy.

RESUME

EDUCATION
M.F.A.                 2005                University of California, Davis, Studio Art
Post-Bacc. Cert. 2000-2003       Brandeis University, Painting
B.A.                     2000                Wheaton College, MA, Studio Art, magna cum laude

EXHIBITIONS
2006           Group Show, Home Grown Art Gallery and Nursery, West Yarmouth, MA
                  North Coast Open Studios, 1223 Wood Street, Eureka, CA
                   North Coast Open Studio Group Show, Plaza Grill, Arcata, CA
                   Works on Paper Benefit Exhibition, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY

2005           Light Patterns, Bettiga Gallery Holiday Sale, Morris Graves Museum of Art,
                         Eureka, CA
                  47th Annual Fall Exhibit, Redwood Art Association, Eureka, CA
                   Meetings, Solo Exhibition, Piante Gallery, Eureka, CA
                   Red: City of Davis Annual Juried Art Show, Juried by Cornelia Schultz, Pence Gallery,Davis, CA.
                   MFA Thesis Show, Nelson Gallery UC Davis, Davis, CA
                   F.C. Maud Collaboration: Western Biennial, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

2004           Art Bowl IV, Graduate Studetns, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, CA
                   Up Against the Wall, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
                   ARC, Juried by Barry SakataMemorial Union Art Gallery, Davis, CA

2003          Winter Formal Dance Spectacular, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
                   Paintings and Prints, Solo Exhibition, The Collected Horse, Rockland, ME
                   Bristol Benefit Exhibit and Auction, Old Bristol Days, Bristol, ME
                   Celebrating Women 2003, Topsfield Town Library, Topsfield, MA.

2002 Post-Baccalaureate Final Show, Dreitzer Gallery, Waltham, MA

2000          Chrysalis, Wheaton College Art Gallery, Norton, MA
                  Contemporary Representations of Animals in Art, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
                  Lindsay Chutter, Solo Exhibition, Gallery 44, Norton, MA

ACADEMIC APOINTMENTS

2006       Accepted into Part-Time Faculty Pool, Beginning Painting, Humboldt
                           State University, Arcata, CA
2004       Associate Instructor, Instructor of Record, Introduction to Drawing, University
                           of California, Davis, CA
2003-05 Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, CA
                          Bryce Vinokurov, Painting I, 2005
                           Wayne Thiebaud, Theory and Criticism, 2005
                           Gina Werfel, Figure Painting, winter and spring, 2004
                           Hearne Pardee, Contemporary Visual Culture, 2003
2000-02 Teaching Assistant, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
                            Nadine Zanow, Drawing I, 2002
                            Jennifer Nuss, Technical Assistant for Printmaking, 2001
                            Joseph Wardwell, Painting I, 2005

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2005                   Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award
2004                   Osborn Memorial Award, University of California, Davis
2003-05              Block Grant Fellowship, University of California, Davis
2000                   Maria Victoria De Luca Forsythe Prize in Studio Art, Wheaton College
1999                   Suzanne Golden Fellowship Grant
1999                   Wheaton College Fellowship Grant, January
1998                   Wheaton College Fellowship Grant, Summer
1998                   Wheaton College Foundation Grant

COMMISSIONS AND WORKSHOPS

2006                   Painting and Drawing from World Music Through Mark Making, Third Thursday Family Arts Night,                            Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2006                   Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Third Thursday Family Arts Night,
                           Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
2003                   Painting Commission, Rosaline Applebaum, Waltham, MA
2003                   Painting Commission, Marya DeCarlen, Boxford, MA
2002                   Painting Commission, Jan Marks, Searsport, ME
1999                   Drawing Commission, Sherri Rayson, Louden, TN
1999                   Drawings for Educational Placards, Marketing and Development
                           Department, Knoxville Zoological Gardens, Knoxville, TN

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrea Arnot, “Year of the Dog at Morris Graves,” The Eureka Reporter, January 22, 2006.

“Gallery Poses Three Creative Perspectives,” Times-Standard, September 30, 2005.

Linda Rentner, “Adventures in Form and Context: Sad Wretched Forms are Powerful,” Davis Enterprise, June 16, 2005.

Jackson Griffith, “The Little Connections,” Sacramento News & Review, March 11, 2004.