Elizabeth Mihaltse Lindy combines paper sculpture with moving images to create illuminated entities. Reflecting on classical antiquity and the ritualized body, the self-supporting, fragmented shells are transformed by light into otherworldly votives that preserve what is felt when there are no words. The body’s visibility and the need for protection drives the binary systems present in this work: internal and external, presence and absence, spiritual and material, unknowing and being. 

In her paintings, actions captured in pigment are psychic assertions of an interior power struggle embodied in a forceful flood of chroma. They are made with the body in action: expressing momentum, yet yearning for repose. They constrain that which they exude. The result is a material apparition caught in stasis between emergence  and disappearance.

Mihaltse Lindy is a multidisciplinary artist and award-winning book cover designer living and working in Beacon, NY. She earned her BFA from RISD, and her MFA from Lesley University College of Art + Design.