Whitney Art Works: Lydia Badger

Lydia Badger

Eurasian Red Squirrels and Cacti

Duck with Bees, pencil on paper

ARTIST STATEMENT
I make drawings, paintings and sculptures that depict the natural world. My most recently body of work consists of a series of miniature dioramas constructed with animals made in clay, painted and preserved in landscapes under bell jars, in the tradition of Victorian curiosities. The animals depicted are either threatened, endangered or extinct and placed in environments that suggest unexpected narratives. By preserving these moments in time under glass, it’s my hope that viewers will reflect on the tenuous and fragile nature of life.

BIOGRAPHY
1975 Born Mount Kisco, NY
1996 Semester Mobility Program, Sculpture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1997 BS Fine Art, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Lives and works in South Portland, ME

EDUCATION
1997 BS Fine Art, Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY
1996 Semester Mobility Program, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001Recent work,Hay Gallery, Portland, Maine

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006Living Mobile, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009
Windowkammers, Space Gallery, Portland, Maine
Wonderland, Whitney Art Works

2008Maine Contemporary Art: Forever Young, The Farnsworth Museum at the Elan Gallery, Rockland, ME

2007
Tiny, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
Intelligent Design, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
Polaroid Auction, SPACE Gallery, Portland, Maine

2006Holiday Mixer, Whitney Art Works, Portland, Maine

2005Monkey Business, Ubu Studio Gallery, Portland, Maine

2004
Holiday Show, Filament Gallery, Portland, Maine
Portraits, Highland Artworks Gallery, Portland, Maine
Small Works, Highland Artworks Gallery, Portland, Maine
Super Salon, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts

2003
Holiday Show, Filament Gallery, Portland, Maine
Creatures, Filament Gallery, Portland, Maine
PLOW, SPACE gallery, Portland, Maine
Spooktacular, SPACE gallery, Portland, Maine
In My Backyard 3, Yarmouth, Maine

2002
Bacon, 31 Withers Street, Brooklyn, New York
Opening Exhibition, SPACE gallery, Portland, Maine
Festival of the Sacred and Profane, Peaks Island, Maine
Juried Alumni Exhibition, Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY

2001On a Very Small Scale, Dyer Library & Saco Museum, Saco, ME

2000Masters Influence, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ

1997Senior Exhibition, Starbuck Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

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