Tenderly
On display in the hallway gallery of the Central Bank of Boone County
July 7 - August 24, 2026
Artist Statement
In Tenderly, I capture my experience of space, particularly the quiet, isolated, domestic interiors we might apply the word “home” to. I work primarily with watercolor in order to access the immediacy and transience I feel in my own life.
So many of the places I have inhabited have been provisional spaces: temporary apartments, hotel rooms, stays with family, and childhood houses that I moved away from. Every place becomes fleeting, as I know I will not be there for long. In all my work, I translate my own photographs of these interiors, usually bedrooms, into paintings. These images shift and meld together in my memory, so I respond by overlapping representational drawings, abstract marks and fields of color, using the translucency of watercolor to allow each layer and gesture to remain partially visible. I do this in hopes of interrupting the space, and altering expectations of stability and permanence. Through this process, contradictory emotions emerge: confusion alongside comfort, loneliness alongside tenderness, fatigue and pain alongside softness and rest. These opposing forces, clashing within safe and intimate spaces like bedrooms, allow me to ponder themes of insecurity, belonging, and the feeling of being both at home and not at home in any given place.
Artist Bio
Lindsay Lennon Picht is an artist, art educator, and the current Education and Outreach Director at Columbia Art League. Throughout her life, drawing and painting have stayed constant means of expression, communication, and exploration for her, and she loves sharing this passion with others.
Lindsay received her BFA from Truman State University in 2020. She worked as an artist, barista, and art educator for three years before attending Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and Düsseldorf, Germany, where she received her MFA in Painting through the Alfred-Düsseldorf Painting program. Since acquiring her degree, she taught as a Lecturer in Art at her alma mater and continues to teach watercolor classes at Columbia Art League.
