Lindsay Cashews
Lindsay Cashews' work has transformed in the last year from being strictly white cube to performance, interaction with the body, and soundscapes.
She uses traditional craft mediums that have a rich social and political history such as bead-weaving, metal work, embroidery and knitting to create objects through a series of filters. The pieces serve as relics in the gallery, from a performance where there is no hierarchy of work existing on a podium. Instead the human body is a podium.
Taking many narrative techniques from baroque painting, and Greek and French architecture, she creates imitations that only are parodies due to Western consumerist culture and classes established from it. She takes Western constructions of gender, advertisements, and pop culture to “mirror” what it is happening in the U.S. today: people so detached from their instinctual selves. She finds humor to be an interesting thing due to the psychological and sociopolitical reasons that people laugh. Her parodies become structured much as the Shakesperian idea of comedy functions: without tragedy there is no comedy, entertainment and performance unveil the realities surrounding the human condition.
In African story telling, the character of the Trickster walks around in a half blue and half red costume. On each side of the street the people see different things based off of their perspective. By the time the Trickster has left, the people have began arguing and discussing which side was right in what they saw. By the time they realized what has transpired, the Trickster is long gone.
A Happening or a moment of chaos too brings people into a social symposium, and perhaps a realization OF (or INQUIRY INTO) the human condition.
In her fibers work, Cashews finds that not any one piece stagnantly hanging on the wall was all inclusive to the political or philosophical notions she has as an artist, rather they become traces and relics of a processes she has learned through extensive research and discipline
"I find it curious that so much of art has an end result is based around the conversation it creates, and often times I never experience it with simply shipping a piece of work into a gallery. There is an insincerity to it."
BIO/CV:
Lindsay Cashews is a performance artist, designer, model, writer, and musician.
She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH with double majors in Drawing and Fiber/Material Studies and minor in Creative Writing. She was chosen for a competitive 3-month fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI in 2013, and currently lives and works out of Detroit, MI.
Her work investigates the psychology of gender and class, specifically narrowed to gender roles portrayed in contemporary culture, and consumer culture’s impact on human identity. She uses embroidery, chainmaille, and other traditional craft processes along side their political histories. She attempts to use expectations of femininity metaphorically through references to surrealism and pop-culture alongside highly accessible consumer materials. Parody and human interactions become more important as her work develops. She has begun exploring sculpture, video and performance work in relationship to the human figure through means of the runway.
She created her production company, Skandoughless (TM) in 2013, and premiered her first runway show in September 25th, 2014 at the Agora Theater in Cleveland. In this performance she was the costumer, writer, soundtrack creator, curator, and designer, creating her first gesamtkunstwerk.
Cashews continues to perform using the runway as a set means of stage and audience and creates all of her work by hand.
Education
www.lindsaycashews.com
2013 Double BFA Drawing/Fiber and Material Studies,
Emphasis in Creative Writing
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Awards and Fellowships
2013 Nancy Dunn Memorial Scholarship,
Presidential Traveling Award, Cleveland, OH
LeRoy Neiman Foundation Fellowship, Ox-Bow,
Saugatuck, MI
Ellen Garms Memorial Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
Francis J. Meyers Scholarship Excellence in
Drawing, Cleveland, OH
Kendall, Kelly Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
LEAF Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Grant,
Cleveland, OH
2012 Ellen Garms Memorial Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
Francis J. Meyers Scholarship Excellence in
Drawing, Cleveland, OH
Kendall, Kelly Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
LEAF Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Michael & Martha Horvath Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
2011 Academic Competiveness Grant, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Michael & Martha Horvath Scholarship,
LEAF Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
2010 Cleveland Institute of Art Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Melvin & Beverly Butor Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Michael & Martha Horvath Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
LEAF Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
2009 Cleveland Institute of Art Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Melvin & Beverly Butor Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Grant,
Cleveland, OH
Michael & Martha Horvath Scholarship,
Cleveland, OH
LEAF Scholarship, Cleveland, OH
Exhibitions
(To Come in 2015)
July Performance, Tangent Gallery,
Detroit, MI
August Skandoughless 3-day Performance, Roots and
Culture Gallery, Chicago, IL
September Skandoughless Performance- New York Fashion
Week, Venue TBA, New York, New York
2015 Walk 11th Edition Presents Skandoughless,
Performance/ Fashion Show, Garden Theater,
Detroit, MI
2014 from wHIPLASH to tUMERIC: A story of Kinetics,
Skandoughless’ Performance/Fashion Show.
Agora Theater, Cleveland, OH FIBER FEVER,
Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, MO
2013 FIVE, Art Spot Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Young Blood: Tyler Blackiston, Lindsay Cashews,
and Mathew Grady, Forum Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Pop Up: David Torres and Lindsay Cashews,
Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, Michigan
Bitch Beaters Versus The Masters of Zen,
Ox-Bow Gallery, Oxbow School of Art,
Saugautuck, MI
Roman a Clef: Lindsay Cashews BFA
Exhibition, The Cleveland Institute of Art,
Cleveland, OH
Summer Show, Reinberger Gallery, The Cleveland
Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
The 67th Annual Student Independent
Exhibition, Reinberger Gallery, The Cleveland
Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
4U Printmaking Exhibition, Zygote Press,
Cleveland, OH
2012 In-TURN: Divided Attentions, Zygote Press,
Cleveland, OH
Bizaarbeque II, Forum Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Summer Show, Reinberger Gallery, The Cleveland
Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Double Feature Gallery, Cleveland, OH
ArtCares, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, OH
2011 "Gesamtkunstwerk:" Group Exhibition, The
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
2010 Visual Arts and Technologies Group Show, The
Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Commissions and Collections
2013 Hernan Bas, Cross-Cultural Values, Detroit,
MI
Private Collection, Surface Fame, Tallmadge,
OH
Todd Carlson Weddings, Screenprinted and sewn
logo/sign, Cleveland, OH
2012 Stebal Drums, Graphic Design, Cleveland, OH
2011 Private Collection, Painting, Cleveland, OH
Bibliography
Megan Moe Beitiks, “Putting the Pussy on a Pedastal,” Ox-Bow Fellowship Book, Winter 2013.
Ann T. McGuire, “Senior Chosen For Fine Art Fellowship,” Link Magazine, Spring 2013. 6.
