Anders Lindseth (b. 1990, Cleveland, Ohio) is a multi-media artist who makes paintings, drawings, and sculptures. By demonstrating the omnipresent lingering of the ‘end of the world,’ his works reference Tibetan Buddhism as well as fauvism and expressionism, while subverting the traditional labels of painting or drawing.
His pieces demonstrate how life extends beyond its own subjective limits and often tell a story about the nature of death. They challenge the binaries we continually reconstruct between existence and the absence thereof. By exploring the concept of landscape and object-portraiture in a destructive way, he investigates their dynamics, including the manipulation of the work’s effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what these types of images mean to us. By presenting forests, houses, and cars in the process of being destroyed, he proposes the idea that by removing the primary function from an object, we are left with an artwork, a sort of reincarnation.
By referencing romanticism, Buddhist death meditations, and the American West, he creates works that serve as a tool for coming to terms with the unpredictability and inevitable loss of our future. They are inspired by an early twentieth-century tradition and the Hudson River School, in which the landscape was seen as the pinnacle. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence.
In his more recent work, Anders Lindseth has shifted his focus to imagery of sunsets, the green flash, and other mirages that affect the sunset. This imagery is a vehicle for exploring themes of endings, renewal, and the impermanence of the natural world. He has begun creating intricate drawings on postcards, which he mails to recipients alongside text fragments drawn from poets such as Wendell Berry and films like The Triplets of Belleville. These smaller works are intimate gestures, connecting personal narrative with broader existential themes.
Larger works on panel and canvas further extend this exploration. These pieces adhere to a strict set of rules, constructed in linear, grid, or stacked compositions. Using materials such as crayon, oil paint, and colored pencil, Lindseth’s visual language draws inspiration from artists like Dan Flavin, Jasper Johns, and Piet Mondrian. By doing so, he bridges a lineage of American artistic excellence with a forward-looking meditation on the end of Western civilization, mourning the loss of the natural world through the lens of climate change.
This combination of intimate, mailed works and structured, large-scale compositions reflects Lindseth’s broader ambition: to reconcile personal reflection with global concerns, and to reimagine art as a means of navigating both the tangible and the transcendent. Anders Lindseth currently lives and works in New Jersey.