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Eva Lundsager

 
Eva Lundsager

American 20th-21st century Abstract painter
(Buffalo, NY, 1960 – )

From the artist's website: Eva Lundsager's abstract paintings evoke expansiveness and a sense of watchful waiting. . . .The paintings are built of varied processes of paint application; layers of pours, drips, glazes, and brushstrokes, and use complex color . . . Paint becomes animated forms on the edge of recognition. . . . "Born in Buffalo and raised in Maryland, Eva grew up exploring the fields and woods of her semi-rural surroundings, and received a BA in art from the University of Maryland, studying with artists Sam Gilliam, Anne Truitt, Claudia DeMonte and Nick Krushenick, and writer and theorist Jack Burnham. She moved to New York in 1985 to attend the MFA program at Hunter College, working with painters Ralph Humphrey, Marcia Hafif, and Susan Crile, art critic and historian Rosalind Krauss, and ceramicist and writer Susan Peterson. Simultaneous to her MFA pursuit she was the registrar for the ground-breaking Gracie Mansion Gallery in the East Village, getting a parallel education from owners Gracie and Sur Rodney (Sur) and the gallery artists. After sixteen years in New York, she lived a decade in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she spent a fair amount of time watching the quickly changing sky; compelling, beautiful, and occasionally frightening. Since 2012 she has lived and worked in Boston. . . . Publications on her work include Ascendosphere by Regency Art Press, Eva Lundsager: New Paintings and Works on Paper by Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, and Other Light Other Night by Van Doren Waxter. Lundsager's work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Art Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Whanki Foundation in Seoul, among others, and she has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting."

1 objects

Ascendosphere 59

n.d.
watercolor on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.217