Lindsay Costello

Lindsay Costello is an experimental artist and writer in Portland, Oregon, with an academic background in textile research at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. Her critical writing can also be read at Hyperallergic, Art Papers, Art Practical, 60 Inch Center, this is tomorrow, and Textile: Cloth and Culture, among other places. She is the founder of plant poetics, an herbalism project, and soft surface, a digital poetry journal/residency. She is the co-founder of Critical Viewing, an aggregate of art community happenings in the Pacific NorthwestHer artistic practice centers magic, ecology, and folkways in social practice, writing, sculpture, and installation.

VizArts Monthly: February 2023

Don't miss Lindsay Costello's gathering of February's most enticing art exhibitions and events. There's augmented reality, calligraphy, and monsters.

VizArts Monthly: Spirit lifters and tech experiments

January's art offerings are the perfect antidote to the gray skies. Lindsay Costello surveys what's on view in this month's VizArts Monthly.

VizArts Monthly: December 2022

The weather outside may be frightful but there is plenty of art (inside!) to explore this month. Lindsay Costello rounds up December's noteworthy offerings.

VizArts Monthly: November 2022

The weather may be gloomy but Lindsay Costello has plenty of art offerings and happenings to brighten up the shorter days.

VizArts Monthly: Connecting fibers

October means falling leaves and the return of Portland TextileX Month. Lindsay Costello's VizArts Monthly has October's art to see and events to attend.

VizArts Monthly: TBA and Beyond

PICA’s Time-Based Art Festival is the marquee event in the September art scene, but there are plenty of other offerings from watercolors to pen-and-ink drawings to multimedia cairns.

VizArts Monthly: Giving nature a voice

August is for art and there's plenty to see! Lindsay Costello rounds up the month's offerings in galleries and alternative venues.

VizArts Monthly: Photographs in new light

Lindsay Costello has the scoop on July's art offerings in Portland and around the state.

VizArts Monthly: Here on Earth

Summer is here! Time for graduations, picnics, and quality outdoor time. Lindsay Costello rounds up June's art offerings.

VizArts Monthly: Collaborative justice

May's art offerings tackle everything from hopscotch to plant-made music to Antarctica. Lindsay Costello has the scoop on what to see this month.

VizArts Monthly: In or out?

April's art offerings provide an opportunity to reflect on quotidian existence, the notion of home, and our relationship with the natural world.

VizArts Monthly: Spring reflections

Art on view in March includes quilts, photographs, installations, paintings, and films. Lindsay Costello previews the shows that will welcome spring around Oregon.

VizArts Monthly: Innovation and Representation

Lindsay Costello highlights February's not-to-be-missed art offerings. Possibilities include visual explorations of identity construction, the potentials of cast-off materials, and imagined worlds.

VizArts Monthly: Spotlight on BIPOC artists

New year, new art! Lindsay Costello has the scoop on January's art offerings.

VizArts Monthly: Cozy interiors and the natural world

Art exhibitions, gallery shows, and other not-to-miss art events in December.

VizArts Monthly: Exploratory work in fresh spaces

Lindsay Costello's monthly column highlights some of November's art offerings in Portland and around the state.

Faith in nature and one another: Hannah Krafcik and Emily Jones at TBA

Emily Jones and Hannah Krafcik's experimental performance "apogee" explores themes of nature and intuition.

Invitation To Being A Future Being

TBA Festival: Exploring Indigenous culture, history, and memory in dance, sound, words, and images.

VizArts Monthly: Textiles and true stories

Lindsay Costello's monthly roundup of shows and events in October.

Facing the sun (tunnels)

Lindsay Costello reviews Thunderstruck Collective's exhibition of works made after a group pilgrimage to Nancy Holt's "Sun Tunnels."

VizArts Monthly: TBA is here! Plus other happenings in September

Lindsay Costello has the inside scoop on September's arts offerings in her monthly column.

Spring and other cycles: Thesis exhibitions from PNCA’s Low-Residency Visual Studies

Lindsay Costello reviews "some rights from a spring reckoning," a thesis show installed in five parts by five artists at PNCA.

Showing off in Aurora: “Bitter Cherry, Bleeding Heart”

Lindsay Costello reviews Jeanine Jablonski’s (of Fourteen30 Contemporary) latest curatorial project at the Courtyard House in Aurora.

VizArts Monthly: Nature, culture, and Indigenous viewpoints

August's offerings draw inspiration from diverse areas of lived experience, a refreshing respite from the slow dog days of summer.

Abundance under blacklights

Morgan Rosskopf and Manu Torres's "Color Burn" at Well Well Projects celebrates maximalism and artificiality.

VizArts Monthly: Experiments with space

July's art offerings provide plenty of opportunities to beat the heat and see art in alternative spaces.

Howard Fonda: Birds, cages, and flying away

Lindsay Costello discovered birds in 2020. Fonda’s paintings speak to her new pastime and pandemic confinement.

Balancing Acts: Dawn Cerny at Melanie Flood Projects

Dawn Cerny’s “Weeping Willow Folding Chair” pairs intricate tabletop mobiles and gouache paintings of faces in tears.

VizArts Monthly: New openings and moments of nostalgia

Lindsay Costello's monthly roundup of not-to-miss shows and events for June.

Weaving the future: Jovencio de la Paz at Holding Contemporary

Jovencio de la Paz's new exhibition at Holding Contemporary probes the space between the digital and the analog. Lindsay Costello reviews.