Elizabeth Lind

https://www.elizabethlind.art/

As artists, we all contemplate the underlying truth and direction of our artwork, as well as the honesty of our daily practice. This work represents my passion, my personal experiences, my hopes, and the direction my work is currently taking.
I am consistently inspired by the natural world- it’s objects, beings, motions, and cycles. The energy and unremitting sanity of nature makes sense of a world that seems to have over- embraced technology at the expense of contemplative thought. The environment of my art is populated with sirens, birds, branches, beautiful, serene women, and water. I am most drawn to figurative work, and consistently return to women and their environments, either real or imagined.
Carving stone invigorates my ideation process as the stone reveals countless possibilities, while the painstaking process provides time to compose and create. I dive into a stone’s form and enjoy the process, watching the forms shift and evolve. Assemblage work is the result of a recurring thought that I compose as a visual poem made up of objects, textures, and implied symbols.
My work is an alternate reality, rejecting the very real dangers and sadness that surround us.
It is an organic escape to a place I know well. Each piece celebrates the vivid reality and solace of nature, and the “peace of wild things”.

The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.
I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light.
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Originally from Seattle, Elizabeth Lind grew up in New York City where she studied and performed ballet. Studies in studio art led to figure sculpture and eventually the ownership of a bronze casting foundry in South Carolina. Relocating to Rhode Island, she earned her master’s degree from the Rhode Island School of Design while also managing an art gallery.
She has maintained a sculpture studio since finding her passion for carving while studying at RISD. Employing simple hand tools- a mallet and steel chisels, Lind carves life-size alabaster, marble, and limestone figures of women and their environments- either real or imagined. Mixed media and Found Objects are also used to create a visual poetry, reflecting the natural world. She has been the recipient of awards and recognitions throughout New England. Her work has been exhibited at the Newport Art Museum, Phoenix Gallery NYC, Attleboro Art Museum, New Bedford Art Museum, Newport Spring Bull Gallery, and Hera Art Gallery.