Lindsy Davis (b. 1990, Mahwah, NJ) is an artist living and working in Nashville, TN. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2014 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Lindsy spent time in South Africa studying papermaking and printmaking at the University of Johannesburg.

In New York’s Hudson Valley, she studied organic farming and while working with the land Davis realized the necessity of sustainability, community, and skill sharing in her practice. Lindsy has been included in notable group museum exhibitions with the Parthenon Museum in Nashville, TN, the Cleve Carney Museum of Art in Chicago, Illinois and with the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is featured in Soho House’s permanent collection, Four Seasons Hotel Nashville permanent collection, and several private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and South Africa. Recently Lindsy was an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center and received a Robert J Spring Endowment for sculptors micro grant.

For the past ten years I have been playing with how the eye filters what the mind perceives as spacial depth. I use slight temperature/tonal shifts, varying mark-making gestures, and different paint finishes that demonstrate Gestaltism in my practice. Gestaltism is a psychological theory postulating that the mind uses negative space, shape association, and tonal cues to dictate depth and meaning through vision. My goal with this present body of work is to experiment with what is necessary for the mind to see depth with minimal visual cues to grasp on to and how that process can fabricate memory and nostalgia, which elongates the time it takes for the eye to filter and the mind to decipher meaning and depth.