Lindsey De Ovies

As an American artist living in Paris, Lindsey De Ovies is a cultural hybrid straddling two vastly different civilizations, remaining somewhat alien in both. Observing her reality from this bifocal vantage point has informed the art of Lindsey De Ovies and provided her with an exceptionally fertile breeding ground for new material.

Lindsey de Ovies is a self-taught sculptor. Following her studies at Parsons School of Design, Lindsey De Ovies worked as a fashion designer for 15 years in New York, Asia and Europe. After moving to Paris in 1989, her passion for fashion design slowly evaporated, and in 2000 Lindsey De Ovies began her career as an artist. Over the past ten years, Lindsey De Ovies has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe and her work is part of private collections around the world.

Both absurdly humorous and subtly disturbing, the sculptures of Lindsey De Ovies of anthropomorphic raw chickens, nail-studded birthday cakes and oversized pharmaceuticals delicately displayed on cake trays represent the artist’s turmoil with regard to various human matters and relationships.

The bronze sculptures by Lindsey De Ovies question all things conventional: commitment, responsibility, social integration, stereotype, and identity. The art of Lindsey De Ovies is inspired by all the stages of maturing (birth, youth, marriage, family, mid-life, the randomness of death & beyond). In an effort to defy gravity, the sculptures of Lindsey De Ovies are often light on the surface, but multi-layered in message. 

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Caged Series & Mixed Media Sculptures

Extracting humor from the seriousness of life stokes the creativity of Lindsey De Ovies and allows her to communicate on a very cherished level. The caged series of sculptures by Lindsey De Ovies discusses main questions related to different adventures and stages of life.