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Lindsey Waters

Lindsey Waters is a contemporary abstract collage artist based in Shreveport, LA. She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Louisiana Tech University, graduating in 2012. Waters creates intricate and highly detailed collages from original paintings, which she meticulously cuts into strips no wider than ¼ inch. Her paintings are crafted using acrylics, watercolors, alcohol inks, and various textural materials on synthetic paper, which are then transformed into collage strips. The themes in Waters’ work revolve around change, reincarnation, impulsivity, and improvisation. Each collage represents a transformation, an exploration of beauty and creation emerging from destruction. Her pieces often feature woven designs and spontaneous, seemingly random patterns, with the intention of capturing the impermanence and unpredictability of life. Every collage is a unique composition, born from multiple nonobjective paintings, each an individual study of color, shape, and texture. Waters’ process is highly intuitive and process-driven, with an emphasis on color as a psychological and emotional tool. The interplay of form and color in her work invites viewers to experience the dynamic tension between order and chaos, transformation and stasis. Through her art, she pushes the boundaries of abstraction, offering a space to contemplate the beauty of change and the fluidity of experience.

Artist Statement: My art is rooted in process and material exploration. The tactile, meditative act of collage: cutting, layering, and rearranging—guides me into a flow state where intuition overrides intention. Much of my process involves taking apart what I’ve already made—cutting into abstract paintings and breaking them down into fragments. It’s both destructive and liberating: an invitation to let go of control and reimagine what something can become. By tearing things apart and putting them back together, I create new relationships between shapes, colors, and moments of gesture—giving earlier work new life through recomposition. As a kid, I would build and dismantle Lego structures or redo puzzles over and over—drawn to the current, the sense of order, and the quiet focus those processes offered. That same impulse continues to shape my creative practice today, where repetition, improvisation, and risk guide each piece. I work with synthetic paper, acrylics, inks, and gel mediums—materials that invite both resistance and surprise. Bold, bright, and saturated color dominates my compositions, serving as both release and structural device. The interplay of intense hues, muted tones, and stark white space reflects the tension and balance within emotional landscapes. These contrasts are not just visual—they're symbolic—expressing a desire to find calm in chaos, and clarity within complexity. Ultimately, my collages are visual meditations. They are introspective spaces where I process emotion through action—cutting, rearranging, disrupting, and resolving. By doing so, I offer myself and the viewer moments of stillness, reflection, and transformation.
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