AUDREY LENDVAY
Painting out of bounds.
Tallahassee, FL
STATEMENT AND RESEARCH
2025
2024
2023 AND EARLIER
AUDREY LENDVAY
Painting out of bounds.
Tallahassee, FL
STATEMENT AND RESEARCH
2025
2024
2023 AND EARLIER
CV
2027 Master Degree in Art Education (pending), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2026 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art (pending), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Minor: Museum Studies
2025
Apricari, WJB Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Turning Pink: A Material Exploration of Color, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Myriad: A Celebration of Community in the Arts, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2024
Of the Archive: Artistic Engagements in Research, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Excellence in the Visual Arts, juried group exhibition, Honors Scholars and Fellows House, Tallahassee, FL
National Association of Schools of Art and Design Show, Carnaghi Arts Building, Tallahassee, FL
Interplay, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
You By My Side, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Ouroboros, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2023
Roads (Un)Known, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Ends and In-Betweens, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
The Powers That Be, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2018 Scholastic Art and Writing National Exhibition, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
2025
Turning Pink: A Material Exploration of Color, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Myriad: A Celebration of Community in the Arts, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2024
Zooarchaeology: Decoding Decay, museum exhibition, Carraway Building, Tallahassee, FL
The Art of Persistence: Exploring Symbols, Materials, and Function in Southwestern Indigenous Art, online museum exhibition (inactive) and pop-up at Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL
Of the Archive: Artistic Engagements in Research, group exhibition, Fine Arts Building, Tallahassee, FL
Interplay, group exhibition, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
You By My Side, group exhibition, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Ouroboros, group exhibition, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2023 Roads (Un)Known, group exhibition, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Ends and In-Betweens, group exhibition, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
The Powers That Be, group exhibition, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
2025
Harbinger: Ecological Dysfunction and Gamescape Failure
2024
Open Worlds: An Exploration of Unacknowledged Spaces, hybrid digital and painting investigation concerned with the synthesis of art and games, engaging critically with the “rules'' that inform our lives, and with living meaningfully through play.
2023-24
Salvage Material Supply: Making Eco-Friendly Art Accessible, worked to establish a community supply for the exchange of sustainable materials accompanied by a catalog and article library to educate and inspire artists alongside mentor professor Katie Kehoe.
2025 Susan and Mark Messersmith Art Scholarship, awarded for excellence in painting or sculpture, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2024 Idea Grant, independent research stipend, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2022-25 President’s List, awarded for sustaining a 4.0 GPA, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Honors College, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Bright Futures Academic Scholarship
Vires Scholarship, awarded for excellence in a rigorous academic setting, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2019-20 Bravo Award, for distinctive leadership to the Visual Arts department and meritorious service to the school, Douglas
Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL
2025 Collections and Research Internship, Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, FL
2024 Gallery Director, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
President, Art Students League, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2021-22 President, National Arts Honor Society, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, Jacksonville, FL
2020-22 Visual Art Liaison, Elan International Literacy Magazine, Jacksonville, FL
2024 Fall Presidential Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Of the Archive: Artist Talk, Fine Arts Building Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Gallery Talk: Open Worlds, Phyllis Straus Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Spring Presidential Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2024 Audrey Lendvay, “Looking Under the Wallpaper: Reconciling Painting and Digital Art,” Honors, Scholars, and
Fellows House Blog, David Montez, July 15, 2024.
https://hsfhouseblogs.fsu.edu/2024/07/15/looking-under-the-wallpaper-reconciling-painting-and-digital-art/
Audrey Lendvay, “Walking through Walls: Dérives into the Gamespace,” Honors, Scholars, and Fellows House Blog,
David Montez, April 22, 2024. https://hsfhouseblogs.fsu.edu/2024/04/22/walking-through-walls-derives-into-the-
gamespace/
2022 Audrey Lendvay, “Pisgah,” Élan International Student Literary Magazine, Spring/Summer 2022 Edition, page 3.
https://www.elanlitmag.com/spring-summer-2022
2021 Audrey Lendvay, “Coming Apart at the Seams,” Élan International Student Literary Magazine, Fall Winter 2021 Edition, page 4. https://www.elanlitmag.com/fallwinter2021
2018 Charlie Patton, “Six area students win seven gold medals in the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards,” Jacksonville.com, The Florida Times-Union, April 22, 2018.
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/entertainment/local/2018/04/22/six-area-students-win-seven-gold-medals-in-national-
scholastic-art-amp-writing-awards/12589599007/
Last Updated 24.10.31
STATEMENT AND RESEARCH
READING LIST / ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Boluk, Stephanie, and Patrick LeMieux. Metagaming: Playing, Competing,
Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Boluk and Lemiuex’s Metagaming is a crucial introduction to any discussion on the broader social uses, impact, and potential of video game media and is particularly useful for understanding the ways in which video games can be repurposed and subverted for creative experimentation. A long history of players participating in “metagames” can be analogized to traditions of art making and performance, in which artists and players alike work together to critically engage with and undermine the rules imposed by a system.
Challenger, M. (2022). How to Be Animal: What it Means to be Human. Canongate.
How to Be Animal is a reexamination of human history through a lens of environmental philosophy that challenges our species’ self-proclaimed exceptionality. Challenger argues that our species is growing increasingly dissociated from our animal nature in response to an increasingly threatening reality, and that we need to make peace with ourselves and all other animals whom we have historically deprioritized. In doing so, in relearning how to be animal, we would be learning how to be better humans and how to live more meaningfully in cooperation with others.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Black & Red, 1977.
Guy Debord’s notable work argues that contemporary life is largely characterized by passive consumption of spectacle, referring to how lived experiences are now often replaced by mediated images and media. Debord’s idea of a deficiency in modern life informs my investigation into humanity’s dissociation from the natural world, with spectacle and new media being used to reinforce ideas that we are somehow separate from nature and that there is no absence to be concerned with. With this in mind, I intend for my sculptures to represent a loss of opportunity for genuine connection with another living species.
Halberstam, J. (2020). Wild things: The Disorder of Desire. Duke University Press.
Wild Things is a radically queer, anticolonial, and anticapitalist take on the anthropocene and human regimes of meaning and order. Halberstam is principally interested in the epistemology of wildness, a constantly evolving classification that reveals our relationship with otherness and social constructs. He argues against binary logics that exclude ourselves from the natural world and excludes humans from our own animality, and he critically examines the way wildness has historically been used to subjugate people and enforce hierarchy. Instead of a natural state of being, Halberstam argues that wildness is a cultural construct which has been instrumental in the suppression of queer histories and experiences.
Haraway, D. J. (2009). The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, people, and significant otherness. W. Ross MacDonald School Resource Services Library.
Donna Harraway’s The Companion Species Manifesto is an in depth exploration into humanity’s shared history with animals, taking particular interest in dogs as humanity’s preferred companion species, but also arguing more broadly for a sense of ethical responsibility for all species we cohabit the planet with. The extinct animals in my sculptures persist in human consciousness despite their physical disappearance, and the artworks reflect on the ways their histories are deeply entangled with human histories and technologies.
Haraway, D. J. (2018). Cyborg manifesto. Camas Books.
Donna Harraway’s Cyborg Manifesto argues against the limiting nature of socially imposed identities and for a more liberated, hybrid sense of self while eroding the boundaries between human, machine, and animal. My hope is to create sculptural works as totemic representations of all three categories, and to use Harraway’s work in my investigation into the digital transformation of these animals, whose existence in our shared memories is now upheld by data-driven, artificial entities in text and images.
Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.
Staying with the Trouble is a call to action in times of war, late stage capitalism, and climate crisis for readers to stay radically present in turbulent times and to make meaningful connections with other people and species as a survival and activism strategy. Haraway critiques the anthropocene and imagines the “Chthulucene” as the next stage of life characterized by a shared cultivation of the interconnectedness of species on Earth. She argues that individualism is no longer a productive ethos, and that by working alone we succumb more easily to despair and inaction. To combat this, she emphasizes the idea of kin-making and seeking unexpected collaborations and combinations across people and species.
Jacques, Peter J, Kenneth Broad, William Butler, Christopher Emrich, Sebastian Galindo, Claire Knox, Keith W Rizzardi, and Kathryn Ziewitz. “Human Dimensions And Communication Of Florida's Climate”. Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts, November 9, 2017. http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1515439925_2b405adb.
“Human Dimensions and Communication of Florida’s Climate” is a detailed overview of the unique environmental threats faced by Florida with an emphasis on how local social systems impact and are impacted by climate change. The authors acknowledge that Florida faces some of the most serious climate threats and that sea level hazards have expansive implications in social, political, and health related dimensions. The authors relay climate predictions for the state, with the most realistic SLR estimating a four foot higher shoreline in 2100 than in 1990, and highlight the importance of planning for adaptation, mitigation, and improved resilience in the most vulnerable Florida communities. The authors acknowledge the difficulties in individual climate mitigation efforts which are limited by broader institutions, social norms, and available infrastructure, and they explore various paths forward to achieve collective collection while protecting disadvantaged populations from climate change impacts.
Kaprow, A., & Kelley, J. (2003). Essays on the blurring of Art and Life Expanded Edition. University of California Press.
These essays represent Kaprow’s philosophy from the 50’s through the 90’s and represent a valuable resource into the history of performance art and the philosophies shared by various art movements that are invested in play and the synthesis of art and life.
Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkweed Editions.
Braiding Sweetgrass is a reexamination of the gift economy concept and the Original Instructions stories that passed through generations of Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes conducted in response to the climate crisis and humanity’s ongoing dissociation from the natural world. Kimmerer explores an Indigenous cosmology rooted in the Skywoman story, in which the first human falls into the ocean and is aided by the animals she meets there to create a plentiful land to share between one another and their descendants. She contrasts the worldview that comes of growing up with this story with that of Christian cosmology, in which the first woman is banished from her garden for tasting its fruit and merely passes through a life of exile until she reaches her true home in heaven. As a professor, Kimmerer notes that she observes little hope in her students that mankind and nature can coexist and benefit one another, and in this book she resolves to reinterpret the Original Instructions and their lessons not as artifacts of the past, but as pathways to better futures.
Smith, J. E. H., & Fannon, T. (2022). The Internet is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning. Recorded Books, Inc.
This text makes an impactful case for the overlapping of technology and nature, particularly in its chapter “Internet Ecology,” in which various forms of natural communication networks found in the natural world are analogized to the structure of the internet. Smith argues that humanity’s technological advancements don’t separate us from nature, but continue to be natural extensions of the universe.
Stys, Beth, Tammy Foster, Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes, Bob Glazer, Kimberly Karish, Natalie Montero, and Joshua S. Reece. “Climate Change Impacts On Florida’S Biodiversity And Ecology ”. Florida's Climate: Changes, Variations, & Impacts, November 29, 2017. http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1515510476_b6a1e65a.
“Climate Change Impacts on Florida’s Biodiversity and Ecology” is an in-depth look at the unique challenges faced by Florida plant and animal species in the face of expanding human activity and changing environmental factors. The authors establish Florida’s ecosystems as uniquely diverse within the United States, ranking 4th for the state with the greatest number of endemic species, referring to plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Florida also possesses a great number of ecological biomes, such as coastal ecosystems, freshwater wetlands, and upland ecosystems, all of which are impacted differently by climate change. Human modification of the landscape, rising sea levels, and changes in weather conditions impact biodiversity in numerous ways including species phenology, or timing of life cycle events, as well as species vulnerability to foreign and domestic pathogens and parasites. Habitat loss continues to be the leading cause of extinctions in Florida, which severely limits species migration in response to changing environmental factors. The authors explain how impact assessments, adaptation scenario planning, research, and monitoring are all important steps that need to be taken in order to preserve Florida biodiversity for the future.
Solecki, W., Long, J., Harwell, C., Myers, V., Zubrow, E., Ankersen, T., Deren, C., Feanny, C., Hamann, R., Hornung, L., Murphy, C., & Snyder, G. (1999). Human–environment interactions in South Florida’s Everglades region: Systems of ecological degradation and restoration. Urban Ecosystems. https://doi.org/ 10.1023/A:1009560702266
“Human-environment Interactions in South Florida’s Everglades Region” is a comprehensive history and analysis of human intervention on South Florida Ecosystems. Prior to European settlement, Indigenous communities primarily lived in hospitable coastal zones that were naturally separated from the Everglades and exerted minimal effect on natural systems. The authors identify the year 1900 as an acceleration point during which the construction of coastal railroads and the initiation of major drainage activities ushered in a surge of population settlement, economic growth, and land transformation. Examining data drawn from primary and secondary sources between 1845 and 1900, the authors look at societal drivers of environmental change consisting of interlinking variables and compartmentalized into five major time periods. This article traces the rapid degradation of South Florida’s ecosystems within recent history and evaluates efforts towards restoration at the conclusion of the 20th century.
Tsing, A. L. (2021). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press.
The Mushroom at the End of the World is a comprehensive collection of stories and observations derived from fieldwork conducted during matsutake mushroom seasons around the world between 2004 and 2011, in addition to conversations with scientists, foresters, and matsutake farmers. The matsutake mushroom itself is Tsing’s starting point, a highly prized Japanese edible mushroom that thrives in human disturbed ecosystems and represents a poignant conversation starter for discussing possibilities of collaborative survival and multispecies coexistence after environmental ruin. Tsing’s argument begins with an acknowledgement of indeterminacy and precarity as defining conditions of contemporary life as results of the climate crisis and modern capitalism, but firmly argues against resigning to the idea that only one future is possible.
Valentukonis, M. (2025, January 29). Mantas Valentukonis - Drifts Gallery. DRIFTS gallery -. https://driftsgallery.com/mantas-valentukonis/
Mantas Valentukonis is an experimental painter whose hybrid digital-physical installations evoke the increasingly fragmented way we experience the world. Like Valentukonis, I am also interested in creating works that exist at the intersection of traditional and digital aesthetics, and I am informed both conceptually and technically by his paintings, which examine the concept of overlapping realities through the language of video games.
Zetterstrand, Kristoffer. “About.” Kristoffer Zetterstrand, zetterstrand.com/about/. Accessed 17 Aug. 2024.
Kristoffer Zetterstrand is known for his synthesis of classical and digital elements in his surreal oil paintings. Inspired by both art history and early 3D computer games, his works represent another understanding of hybridity that spans across time and technology. I continue to be informed by his process and the way he convincingly renders digital objects in paint.