Central to the strength of Lindquist’s works is their painterly experimentation. By this I don’t simply mean a more physical sense of the medium, but more specifically a resonant relationship built between color, application and subject matter – a rapprochement of form to content. The grayscale precision of Lindquist’s earlier work is now translated into color: Tone-by-tone chromatic amplification yields powerful imagistic presence. Particularly effective is the way Lindquist constructs form through staggered layers of color. This superimposition effect visually references stencil or silkscreen techniques. It brings to mind a step-by-step process of image making, and by extension serves as a reminder of the selective and successive properties of perception.  CHRISTINA KEE (2012)

Greg Lindquist: Smoke and Water: Dispatches, at Central Booking, 21 Ludlow Street, between Hester and Canal streets on the Lower East Side. May 4 to May 28, 2017. Reception: Thursday, May 11