Greg Lindquist

Critic - Painting
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BA, North Carolina State University
MFA, Pratt Institute
MS, Pratt Institute

Greg Lindquist is an artist and writer living in New York. He studied art and design as well as English literature at North Carolina State University and attended graduate school in New York at Pratt Institute, earning an MFA in painting and a master’s in art history. Lindquist co-edited the Art Books in Review Section of The Brooklyn Rail from 2011–17 and guest-edited Social Ecologies, a section of the publication on the ruptures and intersections of art and ecology that ran in November 2015. The piece was created in parallel with a show of the same name he curated at Rail Curatorial Projects, which will travel to Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia.

Lindquist’s work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum and University of Arizona Museum of Art, among others, and has been awarded the Sharpe-Wolentas Space Program, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Grant, the Pollock-Krasner Grant and ArtOMI residency. His recent paintings and participatory installations have focused on using the beauty of landscape and abstraction to raise awareness of environmental concerns. He also teaches at Pratt Institute and participated in the Whitney American Museum of Art’s Independent Study Program in 2017–18.

Courses

Spring 2025 Courses

PAINT 4503-01 - INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4503-01

INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: F | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM; M | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM Instructor(s): Greg Lindquist Enrolled / Capacity: 16 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of sophomore year, describes five defining features of modernity, providing the broad historical backdrop for their invention: the individual, globalization, nature, industrialization, and abstraction. The first half of the class will be devoted to the visual art of varied geographic and cultural settings prior to and during the rise of these paradigms. The second half of the class slows to focus in greater detail on the high modernist manifestations of each of those themes (interiority, capital, environment, technology, and narrative), and uses them to contextualize the art and culture of the 20th century. Periods, places, and subjects will be introduced through secondary sources, providing a critical lens through which to connect the material to present day art, culture, politics, and experience (for instance, the rise of global trade will be seen through the lens of postcolonial theory). The material for the course ends at approximately 1989, setting the stage for a more in-depth look at contemporary art, culture, and criticism in their junior year course.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4503-02 - INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4503-02

INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: F | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM; M | 11:20 AM - 12:40 PM Instructor(s): Greg Lindquist Enrolled / Capacity: 16 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of sophomore year, describes five defining features of modernity, providing the broad historical backdrop for their invention: the individual, globalization, nature, industrialization, and abstraction. The first half of the class will be devoted to the visual art of varied geographic and cultural settings prior to and during the rise of these paradigms. The second half of the class slows to focus in greater detail on the high modernist manifestations of each of those themes (interiority, capital, environment, technology, and narrative), and uses them to contextualize the art and culture of the 20th century. Periods, places, and subjects will be introduced through secondary sources, providing a critical lens through which to connect the material to present day art, culture, politics, and experience (for instance, the rise of global trade will be seen through the lens of postcolonial theory). The material for the course ends at approximately 1989, setting the stage for a more in-depth look at contemporary art, culture, and criticism in their junior year course.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4503-03 - INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4503-03

INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: F | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM; M | 12:40 PM - 2:00 PM Instructor(s): Greg Lindquist Enrolled / Capacity: 16 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of sophomore year, describes five defining features of modernity, providing the broad historical backdrop for their invention: the individual, globalization, nature, industrialization, and abstraction. The first half of the class will be devoted to the visual art of varied geographic and cultural settings prior to and during the rise of these paradigms. The second half of the class slows to focus in greater detail on the high modernist manifestations of each of those themes (interiority, capital, environment, technology, and narrative), and uses them to contextualize the art and culture of the 20th century. Periods, places, and subjects will be introduced through secondary sources, providing a critical lens through which to connect the material to present day art, culture, politics, and experience (for instance, the rise of global trade will be seen through the lens of postcolonial theory). The material for the course ends at approximately 1989, setting the stage for a more in-depth look at contemporary art, culture, and criticism in their junior year course.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4503-04 - INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4503-04

INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: M | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM; F | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Instructor(s): Greg Lindquist Enrolled / Capacity: 16 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of sophomore year, describes five defining features of modernity, providing the broad historical backdrop for their invention: the individual, globalization, nature, industrialization, and abstraction. The first half of the class will be devoted to the visual art of varied geographic and cultural settings prior to and during the rise of these paradigms. The second half of the class slows to focus in greater detail on the high modernist manifestations of each of those themes (interiority, capital, environment, technology, and narrative), and uses them to contextualize the art and culture of the 20th century. Periods, places, and subjects will be introduced through secondary sources, providing a critical lens through which to connect the material to present day art, culture, politics, and experience (for instance, the rise of global trade will be seen through the lens of postcolonial theory). The material for the course ends at approximately 1989, setting the stage for a more in-depth look at contemporary art, culture, and criticism in their junior year course.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

PAINT 4503-05 - INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

PAINT 4503-05

INTRODUCTORY PREHISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Level Undergraduate
Unit Painting
Subject Painting
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: F | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM; M | 3:20 PM - 4:40 PM Instructor(s): Greg Lindquist Enrolled / Capacity: 16 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This class, required for painting majors in spring semester of sophomore year, describes five defining features of modernity, providing the broad historical backdrop for their invention: the individual, globalization, nature, industrialization, and abstraction. The first half of the class will be devoted to the visual art of varied geographic and cultural settings prior to and during the rise of these paradigms. The second half of the class slows to focus in greater detail on the high modernist manifestations of each of those themes (interiority, capital, environment, technology, and narrative), and uses them to contextualize the art and culture of the 20th century. Periods, places, and subjects will be introduced through secondary sources, providing a critical lens through which to connect the material to present day art, culture, politics, and experience (for instance, the rise of global trade will be seen through the lens of postcolonial theory). The material for the course ends at approximately 1989, setting the stage for a more in-depth look at contemporary art, culture, and criticism in their junior year course.

Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Painting Students.

Major Requirement | BFA Painting

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BA, North Carolina State University
MFA, Pratt Institute
MS, Pratt Institute