Lindsay August-Salazar

Born in Los Angeles, CA to a Pascua Yaqui father and Prussian-Jewish mother, Lindsay August-Salazar lives and works in Los Angeles. As an undergraduate, she studied at the University of California, Los Angeles, and she received her Master’s of Fine Art with honors from The University of California, Irvine.

In exploring tropes of formalism, from the history of abstract painting, to typographic form, to a modern-day phenomenology of the social; Salazar’s works engages us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space – which posits a public image beyond the boundaries of algorithmically driven media.

Salazar’ s work is informed by a multitude of sources including acts of political resistance, philosophy of the mind, and loss of history in contemporary culture. Most recently some of her paintings have incorporated English alphabet characters alongside the artists’ own bespoke ACC alphabet characters, which depicts and infers a deeper connection to a crossover between internal and external consciousness structures.  

Seen through the lens of interdisciplinary painting, Salazar’s choreography and painted works articulate one another with a chameleon like slip between authenticity and appropriation, difference and repetition, figuration and abstraction, male/female, white/othered. Painting and performance constitute a large, conceptual image, which acts as an intellectual and compositional point of departure; ultimately occluded on the canvas. They remain as a phantom presence in the highly abstracted gestural completed works. 

Recipient of many awards including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, the State of California & The Regents of the University California Grant, and The Claire Trevor School of Arts Graduate Research and Travel Grant, additionally, Salazar has been recognized as both a Medici and Sylvia Easton Scholar. Her work has been acknowledged in publications including The New York Times, Art in America, and Modern Painters. She is currently working toward a solo show that will be accompanied with a residency at Outono Projects in Lisbon, Portugal.