Performance still from CALL AND RESPONSE: TRANSPOSITION, Created and performed with Anaïs Maviel, September 21, 2019, ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, NY. Image credit: Cameron Kelly McLeod courtesy ISSUE Project Room
Generative relationships between luminous color and ephemeral form propel Lindsay Packer’s site-responsive work in performance, installation, film and video, photography and streaming media. She plays with the call and response of color and light, form and site, engaging an analog/digital continuum of shifting chroma and temporary geometries in which color and form are inseparable, reciprocal correlatives. Her working process pre-supposes all the elements she requires are inherent in any scenario and that it is her role to meet the unique circumstances of a particular time and space with non-hierarchical curiosity and rigorous attention. Site, movement, chance, and improvisation inform color and composition in all her work.
A 2022 LMCC Artist-in-Residence at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Packer’s video works were featured this spring at drj art projects (Berlin) and Lamont Gallery (Exeter, NH) and are part of Color Forms at Project: ARTspace (NY, NY) thruoughout the summer. In 2021, she performed light work live as part of the virtual relaunch of MoMA’s Modern Mondays series and again as part of the The Moving Company and Friends: Vernal Equinox, produced by Essex Flowers. Also in 2021, Packer performed her on-going analog/digital project Viewfinder with collaborator Lathan Hardy as part of Summer Showers at Essex Flowers and brought a solo iteration of Viewfinder to ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 12, an international conference focusing that year on John Cage’s legacy. Packer and Hardy performed new work in sound and light as part of the Fire Over Heaven series at Outpost Artist Resources in March 2022.
A Fulbright Fellow to India in Installation Art and two-time Artist-in-Residence at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Packer received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Architecture/Environmental Structures/Design for her work across disciplines and was a 2019 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn, NY). Recent solo exhibitions include Phase Space at James Madison University’s Duke Hall Gallery (Harrisonburg, VA) and Motion at a Distance: Dusk to Dawn at MONO NO AWARE (Brooklyn, NY). Her performances, photography and videos have been featured in Cream City Review, The Hoosac Institute Journal and Caddisfly Projects among other publications. Packer lives and works in Brooklyn.