Meet Eric Lindsey

Lindsey worked as an apprentice to sculptor Dan Lowery from 1977 to 1979. He spent the next year at the Kansas City Art Institute as a student of ceramic artist Ken Furguson. Lindsey spent the next two years at S.I.U. Carbondale working with Tom Walsh casting metal.

As a young student in the late ‘70’s, Lindsey worked as a traditional painter influenced by magic realism at the time. In 1977, he accepted a position as a sculptor’s apprentice to Daniel Lowery at his studio in O’Fallon, Illinois. It was in this capacity that he learned mold making, woodcarving, clay, metal casting, and iron forging. These experiences motivated him to commit to craftsmanship in a wide spectrum of materials and gave him a vision of what would be his life’s work.

Lindsey moved to Chicago after graduating in 1981 to begin his career, where he discovered stone working. He has exhibited work throughout the United States and France, and annually participates in Chicago's outdoor sculpture exhibits.

Lindsey absorbed and investigated everything from Bernini to Brancusi. It was during those days, in 1984, that he met Isamu Noguchi. After that conversation, he felt determined to combine elements of all of these materials to create a singular body of work that became something it already was.