About Me.
Lindsey Kiser (formerly “Jaeger”) is an exhibiting visual artist, published illustrator, and mother of two darling daughters. As a naturalist, she enjoys creating images of natural found objects, usually nestled into polished crystal vessels, in acrylic and scratchboard.
After fourteen years of practicing patent prosecution before the United States Patent and Trademark Office for Fortune 1000 companies, Lindsey opened her online art gallery, LinZ Art Gallery LLC dba Lindsey Kiser, in September, 2022.
Recently reappointed by the governor to the board of the Kentucky Arts Council, she has enjoyed for over 30 years the detail, light, and drama that may be captured in the unforgiving scratchboard medium. Lindsey Kiser is an active member and board member of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists.
In October 2020, Lindsey’s first children’s book, A-Z for Me!, written by Mitzi Adams was published on Amazon. Lindsey’s second children’s book, The Royal Red Bird, written by Angela Rice, was published in the fall of 2022.
From January 13-30, 2020, Lindsey’s solo exhibition Greater Than These was on display in the Eva G. Farris Gallery at Thomas More University. A workshop, gallery talk, and closing reception was held on January 30, 2020.
The Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) in Bowling Green, Kentucky exhibited a solo exhibition of her work in November and December 2019.
The Janice Mason Art Museum exhibited Lindsey Kiser’s Reflecting on New Beginnings solo exhibition of acrylic paintings and scratchboards from August 8 through October 3, 2019.
On May 17, 2019, Lindsey’s Rooted in Kentucky was awarded the Memorial Award during the opening reception of the Eighth Annual Exhibition of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists at the Kentucky Artisan Center in Berea, Kentucky. The juried exhibition ran from May 17 to July 31, 2019.
Lindsey’s Dutchman Breeches scratchboard was selected from more than 300 local, national, and international submissions for inclusion in Botanik 2019, which is a group exhibition of botanical art at the Las Laguna Gallery in Laguna Beach, California that exhibited in April 2019.
Her solo exhibition Reflecting Nature: The Art of Lindsey Jaeger was on display at the Boone County Public Library in Burlington, Kentucky in March 2018, and at The Nest Center for Women, Children, and Families in Lexington, Kentucky on May 18, 2018.
In January 2017, Lindsey Kiser produced a series of thirty scratchboards in thirty days, #30paintingsin30days. This series of Kentucky wildlife and wildflowers were on display during her live demonstration in the Kentucky Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky on February 20, 2018, as part of the commonwealth’s celebration of Kentucky Arts Day (#KyArtsDay2018) and in March 2018, as a part of her Reflecting Nature solo exhibition.
Lindsey Kiser has completed about 20 murals in public spaces and many more in private residences in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Kentucky.
Lindsey Kiser’s fascination with understanding nature and her budding artistic talents led her to enter and ultimately win Kentucky’s first Junior Duck Stamp Contest with her acrylic painting of a pintail entitled Pin Stripes. She published her first limited edition print of her acrylic painting, Kentucky in Bloom, in the same year.
Kiser earned her undergraduate degree in fine art with minors in biology and chemistry from Georgetown College. She studied 19th Century British art history under the late Ilaria Bignamini, a curator for the Tate, and drawing at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford in England. She studied portrait painting under a former president of the Royal Academy of Portrait Painters. She earned her juris doctor from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University.
My
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Living just down the road from Big Bone Lick Historic Site, the source of the fossils that inspired President Thomas Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark on their great expedition that opened the west, has had a profound impact on Lindsey Kiser’s worldview. Lindsey studied Thomas Jefferson, a classicist and a 18th C Renaissance Man, at an early age and heralded him a hero of thought, culture, and history. His example showed her that one does not have to choose one path in life. Instead, curiosity can lead the way to build a beautiful, inspired life.
As a result, Lindsey majored in art and double minored in biology and chemistry. Later, she put herself through law school at night by painting murals during the day and became a patent attorney who helped Fortune 1000 Companies secure patents on portfolios of innovations. While these varied disciplines of art, science, and law do not make sense to some, she finds at the center of it all is her passionate fascination with the land, basic science, and applied science. Hence, Lindsey creates art for the purpose of enlivening our innate sense of wonder and to restore our lost connection to the land.
Like Jefferson, Lindsey draws inspiration from found natural objects (nature’s “readymades”), such as fossils, birds’ nests, and acorns. Instead of sending out scientists and adventurers on a quest across the continental divide to bring back evidence of mastodons, she cradles her found natural objects in man-made, highly reflective goblets and vases, photographs her constructed compositions hundreds of times, paints from the photographs, and then exhibits each new series of artwork. Prior to the pandemic, Lindsey Kiser exhibited her work at the Janice Mason Art Museum, Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center, and Thomas More University. Her work pivoted to illustrate two published children’s books for Kentucky authors in 2021 and 2022. Lindsey Kiser is currently working on two upcoming exhibitions and illustrating an anthology of poems.
It is her hope that her artwork brings you as much wonder and renewed connection to the land as it does for her during the process of making the artwork.