Abandoned Village

Kristin A Lindseth

As a Sculptor and Printmaker, I have long focused on the human condition through figurative sculptures in bronze and in wood. Recently, my work has dealt with the global refugee crisis and with the concept of home in bronze and in wood multimedia sculptures, and the human presence has been more symbolic.
The bronze sculptures represent ocean going vessels and the kinds of homes that are being lost in the violent conflicts around the world and of historic architecture that is also being lost to all of humanity. The state of being homeless, stateless and fleeing violent conflict has now affected over 130 million people who have been displaced worldwide, more than at any time in history since WWII.

The wood multimedia sculptures are ones that I began as the fires of August 2020 began to destroy homes in the Santa Cruz redwoods. During the three years from 2021-2024, I created a town of small-scale wooden buildings; houses and community buildings called San Ardo Refuge. The buildings are made from basswood, metal, fabric and plastic with lights and sound, and they represent relocation, resilience and rebuilding. The first two community buildings are based loosely on the library and diner that I saw in San Ardo, an actual almost ghost town off highway 101. There is a library, a café, a “Midnight Diner”, a pool hall, a general store, a clinic, a theater and motorcycle repair shop as well as several houses. Warm lights illuminate the buildings and blues music, talking, and café sounds can be heard emanating from within the buildings. They are especially captivating at night when the warm lights are an invitation to peer inside like a voyeur. The furniture and other elements are hand made and the buildings contain paintings of my own that have been miniaturized.

KRISTIN LINDSETH
An internationally exhibiting sculptor, painter, printmaker and college art Instructor, Lindseth lives and works in the South Bay Area, and her work has been represented in over 250 exhibitions regionally, nationally and internationally. Her Sculptures and Intaglio Printmaking are found in private collections in the United States, Sweden, Germany, Spain, France, England, Greece and the United Arab Emirates, and in four museum collections in California.
Kristin Lindseth is known for her intensely felt paintings and sculptures of the human experience. In her art Lindseth expresses the experience of men and women of diverse cultures through figurative and symbolic sculptures and paintings. She has sculpted in clay and made unique cast sculptures in bronze for 20 years, and she also works in wood multimedia sculpture.
Solo museum exhibitions of Lindseth’s work have been held at the Euphrat Museum of Art, 2023, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, 2021, the Siskiyou Arts Museum, 2020, New Museums of Los Gatos (NUMU) 2020, the Peninsula Museum of Art, 2016, the Morris Graves Museum of Art, 2013 the Los Gatos Museum of Art, 2011. Lindseth’s work has been included in numerous other museum and gallery exhibitions such as the two-artist show entitled Into the Unknown with Karinna Gomez at the Siskiyou Arts Museum, Far from Home at Gallery Route One, a solo show on Immigration,2023 San Ardo at the Olive Hyde Art Center, 2023, the invitational exhibitions entitled Women Pathmakers, Resilience and Showing up with Care, at the Euphrat Museum of Art. The Marin MOCA, Palm Springs Art Museum, the Vesterheim Museum and others have also shown her work in group exhibitions.
Kristin is a college Art Instructor who has taught Drawing, Sculpture, and Digital Art since 2005.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
New Museums of Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
Fayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
MACCA The Museo de Arte y Cultura Contemporaneo de Acuna, Mexico

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