Lot C

According to Toronto-based painter Jean-Luc Lindsay, the act of noticing is a reflective activity. The works contained within these works look to this diaristic analogue as their primary prompt. Paintings such as Kitchen Door with Coat were created during the period of late December 2022 to mid-April of 2023 at Lindsay’s home studio. The images he produced during this time describe interior scenes taken from throughout the artist’s house. Each painting was completed over the course of one or two days. They are painted from photographic references that were themselves taken during that same span of time. Specifically, Lindsay took the photos during the periods before and after making each painting. The collection grew out of this rhythm and, perhaps predictably, reflects it. These are pauses in places of domestic passage: the hallways, windows, doorways, stairwells and rooms that surround the studio and its activity. Set dressing to wandering thoughts and idle time, Lindsay takes these moments of candid reflection with him, and he builds descriptions out of and into them through painting. Small junctures of uncanny recognition are protracted in the studio. Passing moments are revisited in paint, their details and their specificity studied and re-examined. The resulting paintings contain a reflective circularity – portraits of portraits of portraits – at each level they drift from their origin, but in doing so they grow outward as memories.