Artist Bio
Tabatha Lendquvist works from her private studio located in Walker county, Alabama. She is an Interdisciplinary Artist who's body of work encompasses a variety of mediums to include painting, bookmaking, and poetics. Tabatha has been involved in a number of community arts projects with At-Risk youth and has experience teaching art to youth and adults at various private and public schools, institutions, and art organizations. She earned a BA in Studio Art from the University of Alabama in Huntsville and a Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She taught drawing foundations at the University of Alabama Huntsville, Design I & Art Appreciation at the University of North Alabama, as well as, Art Appreciation at the University of South Alabama. She is currently the Walker County Schools Art Teacher and teaches all 3rd and 6th grade students of Walker County as a Traveling-Teaching Artist.
"Art is interdisciplinary by nature. Once a thing is made, it will speak to a history and culture that is inherent to the materials and the maker." Tabatha Lendquvist
Artist Statement
"My practice is in the making, literally. I engage in creative acts, visual experiments, and the crafting of tangible objects. I spend time with these objects and document them. They in turn, inform me, teach me, about myself and the larger world of which I am a part. I work as an Interdisciplinarian, approaching art as though it were made of breath, blood, and bone, a source and container for the perpetual flow of energy, and therefore cannot be defined by medium.
I work with and explore the multiplicity that is inherent in all things. I work from the parts to the whole, always mindful of the parts, investigating the numerous relationships among them. The content of my work builds narratives around internal struggles and conflicting desires. I feel out locations of tensions in our social, political, and natural world and in my personal lineage and experience, and then I sit with them, spend time with these tensions, and re-imagine them. I work to insert distractions into the regular flow of life. My intent is to craft my own language, meaning, and history into a tangible form."
I work with and explore the multiplicity that is inherent in all things. I work from the parts to the whole, always mindful of the parts, investigating the numerous relationships among them. The content of my work builds narratives around internal struggles and conflicting desires. I feel out locations of tensions in our social, political, and natural world and in my personal lineage and experience, and then I sit with them, spend time with these tensions, and re-imagine them. I work to insert distractions into the regular flow of life. My intent is to craft my own language, meaning, and history into a tangible form."