Lindsay L Benedict

bio:
Lindsay Benedict is an Adjunct Professor in the Fine Arts department at Parsons, The New School in New York City. She received a BA from Williams College, an MFA from UC Berkeley and was a studio fellow at the Whitney Museum of Art Independent Study Program (Whitney ISP). Benedict lives in Brooklyn and has shown at Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers, Le Confort Moderne, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma in Europe; and in New York City at JACK HANLEY Gallery, Rotunda, Bose Pacia, and PS 122, and performed at The Chocolate Factory, The Tank, Dixon Place, and in the Movement Research 2009 Spring Festival. And, while she was living in California, her work was also exhibited/screened at the Berkeley Art Museum, the Emergency Biennial, the Detroit Museum of New Art (MONA), New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA.

artist statement:
Primarily through physicality and the use of the body to articulate emotions, I use film, photographs, paintings, performances, and sound pieces to play with the boundaries of documentation, representation, and marking (personal) history. Constantly humbled by life’s unpredictability and richness, I attempt to amplify it as itself. -Lindsay Benedict presents us with fragments and gestures that examine and question social relations. In her work, affect and raw emotion are often deployed to disrupt and destabilize any simple reading of human connections. Self-presentation is central to her practice, throwing light on the cultural coding and constructedness of our identities. By using her body to work through issues of race, culture, religion and gender, Benedict sets out a unique set of DIY parameters to explore.