As an artist working in the tradition of minimalism, my work evokes multi-sensory experiences heightened in solitude, creating spaces that are quiet but also rich with emotion and memory. I grew up in Minnesota. Experiencing (vanishing) wild pockets of land around my suburban home shaped my adult desire to explore landscape that is both familiar and foreign to me, while using my artistic voice to investigate the innate need to be outside. A vital part of my practice includes frequent long-distance hikes along with sporadic travel to wild and remote wilderness. I ask questions about how our human bodies relate to the global ecological systems that surround us and support our existence. I think about boundaries of otherness–the self-imposed edges that we create for ourselves. Most of us have psychological separations in the social and political realms of our lives, but we might also imagine borders between our human lives and global ecology.
As a whole, my work explores barriers, patterns, and tension between infinity and closed space. I use the gradient as a beacon of optimism. A reminder of infinity. A refusal of the binary. Our connection extends beyond a slowly thinning veil of atmosphere. The works invite the viewer to look beyond the bounds, questioning our own limitations and capacity as the works themselves push beyond their own containers of space and light. Even in spaces that seem vast and void we can seek to gain understanding—we find their value, and we find that they are changing along with us.
Photo: Madalyn Rowell
Lindsy Halleckson’s work lives at the intersection of art, philosophy, and science. She uses painting to illuminate the invisible atmospheric implications of climate change. Combining scientific research and emotional inquiry, her work highlights human interconnection with the living planet.
Halleckson has served as an invited collaborator working with atmospheric chemists on projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and one of her paintings appears in the Art x Climate collection as part of the 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5).
Her work has been shown in galleries across the US and internationally, and her paintings have been commissioned for public and private collections from Martha’s Vineyard to Los Angeles. Her work has been recognized through numerous awards and grants including the Minnesota State Arts Board (2018, 2021, 2024), Metropolitan Regional Arts Council/McKnight Foundation (2017, 2023) and Puffin Foundation (2013).
Influential in her work, she has taken Arctic expeditions to conduct artistic research, including during The Arctic Circle residency program aboard tall ship Antigua in Svalbard (2018) and aboard ship Skydancer in Greenland (2023). Other art residencies she has enjoyed include residencies at Hinge Arts at The Kirkbride (2016), as a Jerome-funded Emerging Artist Fellow at Tofte Lake Center (2011) and at the New York Mills Regional Cultural Center (2010). She was an Art(ists) on the Verge 10 Fellow. Her work is currently represented by Wally Workman Gallery in Austin, TX. She has her BA in Studio Art and Art History from St. Olaf College and MBA from the University of St. Thomas.