Lindsay Iliff: Eleven Years

Join us for the Opening Reception on April 12th, from 4:00pm-6:00pm.
On view: April 12–May 2, 2025
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11–4

This eleven-year survey exhibition, curated by Francesca Yorke of FOMA Gallery, casts a fresh eye on the visual explorations of Santa Fe artist, Lindsay Iliff. This show promises to integrate earlier paintings, small sculptures in wax, paper, and wire, and cardboard sculpture-both freestanding and wall pieces-with her most recent ceramic sculptures honoring ancient Baobabs and slow-growth llaretas.

In the artist’s own words:
“My work may be regarded as animated abstraction. Content may be shaped by the associations of the viewer. I am a sculptor by disposition- a maker and a builder. How forms evolve in space is a kind of choreography. Imagery emerges from sources both organic and human-made; from the resistance and cooperation of the materials, themselves. My work is informed by drawing, gesture, dance, stillness; by animism as an energetic and heart-based reality. My practice also provides me with a stage to acknowledge and process a fierce reverence for what lives, as well as grief and loss in a rapidly changing world.
I am drawn to old growth trees and ancient species whose time on earth predates our own. I like to imagine that Baobabs, in particular, have witnessed our becoming. Many are now endangered. Our lives are simply and profoundly intertwined. How to discover the secrets they hold. I want to learn that deep listening.”