Meet the Artists:
AiB in Conversation with Emily Noelle Lambert, Greg Lindquist, and Brian Willmont
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Artists Lambert, Lindquist, and Willmont have each been featured in Art-in-Buildings' temporary exhibition spaces, as well as installed as part of our rotating permanent collection across Time Equities' buildings. The artists will talk about their public projects and their studio practice, giving us a behind the scenes peek at the artistic process. Bring your questions and a glass of wine to learn about their work and what Time Equities, Inc. Art-in-Buildings program is doing in our properties.
Emily Noelle Lambert's Tangle was on view in the lobby of 55 Fifth Ave in 2017. The monumental, site-responsive painting was the artist's largest single-panel work to date and spanned the entire curved wall of the lobby, creating a vibrant and immersive environment. Her painting Open and Close can also be found at 50 West condominiums in New York City's financial district, bringing the same rich color and texture to residents. Lambert received her M.F.A. in Painting from Hunter College and her B.A. in Visual Art from Antioch College. Lambert has shown nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions in New York City at Denny Dimin Gallery, Lu Magnus Gallery and Priska Juschka Fine Art, Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago, and IMART in South Korea. She has been awarded fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Yaddo Foundation, Fountainhead Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Dieu Donne, The Alfred and Trafford Klots International Artist Residency, and the Lower East Side Printshop. She lives and works between Harrisville, New Hampshire and New York City.
Greg Lindquist has worked with Art-in-Buildings on projects in two of our spaces. In 2017 he created Smoke and Water: Catawba, a 16 by 70 foot mural, in collaboration with Art-in-Buildings and the local community in Monroe, North Carolina. Lindquist was also resident artist in Mary Mattingly's Flock House at 125 Maiden Lane in 2012, producing a site-specific installation that incorporated the Flock House's geodesic structure in a networked, multi-canvas painting. Several of Lindquist's paintings are in the Francis J. Greenburger Collection, and can be found installed in New York City and in Southfield, MI. Lindquist studied art and design as well as English literature at North Carolina State University and earned an MFA in painting and a masters in art history from Pratt Institute. Lindquist co-edited the Art Books in Review Section of The Brooklyn Rail from 2011–17 and guest-edited Social Ecologies. Lindquist’s work has been exhibited at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and University of Arizona Museum of Art, among others, and has been awarded the Sharpe-Wolentas Space Program, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Grant, the Pollock-Krasner Grant, and ArtOMI residency. He teaches at Rhode Island School of Design and Pratt Institute and participated in the Whitney American Museum of Art’s Independent Study Program in 2017–18.
Brian Willmont's Manufacturing Desire is the current exhibition at Art-in-Buildings' 55 5th Ave lobby space. His immersive installations navigate the ideals of beauty, desire, and representation in a digital age. A recently acquired painting by Willmont will also be installed at Casa Mara in West Palm Beach, FL, opening Fall 2020. Brian Willmont is an artist and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. Willmont has mounted solo exhibitions at VICTORI + MO (NY), Guerrero Gallery (CA), Driscoll Babcock (NY), Field Projects (NY), LaMontagne Gallery (MA) and others. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Asya Geisberg (NY), Andrew Edlin (NY), Spring Break Art Show (NY), Allouche Gallery (NY, The Hole (NY), Mrs. Gallery (NY), Steinsland Berliner (NY), County Gallery (FL), Spring Break (NY), Frieze (UK), and many others. Willmont has an upcoming exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art in Albany, Georgia. In addition to his art practice, Willmont runs Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn.
Meet the Artist: AiB in Conversation is sponsored by the Time Equities Inc. (TEI) Art-in-Buildings. TEI is committed to enriching the experience of our properties through the Art-in-Buildings Program, an innovative approach that brings contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists to non-traditional exhibition spaces in the interest of promoting artists, expanding the audience for art, and creating a more interesting environment for our building occupants, residents, and their guests.