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Megan Lindeman is an artist and a professor. She mixes paint and pigments with oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone and acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain and is involved in a lot of complex brain behavior like bonding and trusting.





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Red, White and Blue, 2006 Oil Paint on canvas 26" x 20" 66.04 x 50.8 cm Easy, 2006 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 16" 50.8 x 40.64 cm I’m On It, 2006 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm Call and Response, 2006 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm Stars and Stripes, 2006 Oil Paint on canvas, 24" x 20" 60.96 x 50.8 cm



Good For Bad, 2007 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm Mom Wow, 2007 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm F.U., 2007 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm For Real, 2007 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm God Damn, 2007 Oil Paint on canvas 20" x 26" 40.64 x 50.8 cm

Magic Objects #1-3 and Painting Mirrors #2-5


Make up the installation titled Megan Lindeman: For US, exhibited at Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, in 2008. The large elliptical paintings are referred to as Magic Objects and the hybrid objects are referred to as Painting Mirrors. The Painting Mirrors function as part paintings part furniture and are based on Shaker design proportions and a belief that the simple and functional object is an embodiment of beauty. This work also implicates the viewer as part of its co-menaing maker; the Painting Mirror swivels 180 degrees and requires the viewer to determine the work’s orientation. The wall paintings titled Magic Object #1, It's High Time for A Peace Sign; Magic Object #2; and Magic Object #3 are oil on canvas and each measure 84" x 41”, 213.36 x 104.14 cm. The Painting Mirrors include oil paint on canvas, antique ribbon, walnut wood stands and each measure 80" x 41”, 203.2 x 104.14 cm.







2011 Flower Shop Collages



01. Flowers In A Flower Shop Like In A Film, 2011; Gouache and archival inkjet prints on paper; 40.5" x 26.25", 103 x 66.6 cm 02. Flowers in a Flower Shop, We're In A Story, 2011; Gouache and archival inkjet prints on paper; 40.5" x 26.25", 103 x 66.6 cm 03.Flowers in a Flower Shop, The Good Beginning, 2011; Gouache and archival inkjet prints on paper; 40.5" x 26.25", 103 x 66.6 cm 04. Flowers in a Flower Shop, Lights and Dark, Foreshadowing 2, 2011; Gouache and archival inkjet prints on paper; 40.5" x 26.25", 103 x 66.6 cm05. Flowers in a Flower Shop, Lights and Dark, Foreshadowing 3, 2011; Gouache and archival inkjet prints on paper; 40.5" x 26.25", 103 x 66.6 cmThe Flower Shop series includes seven collages made from archival inkjet prints and gouache on paper. This work presents a hyper-real environment built around cut flowers. Photographs of flowers and lighting and cooling systems speak towards human efforts to preserve captive beauty; an act not dissimilar to efforts to keep temporal love alive. The painted brushstroke provides a kind of ephemeral container for both the beauty and it’s hyper-real environment.

Love and It’s Case; Flowers and Oxytocin

01. Love And Its Case; Flowers and Oxytocin #1, 2012
Archival pigment print on matte paper, gouache mixed with oxytocin, and glass bottle encased in an acrylic glass box
17.5” x 14”02. Love And Its Case; Flowers and Oxytocin #2, 2012
Archival pigment print on matte paper, gouache mixed with oxytocin, and glass bottle encased in an acrylic glass box
17.5” x 14”03. Love And Its Case; Flowers and Oxytocin #3, 2012
Archival pigment print on matte paper, gouache mixed with oxytocin, and glass bottle encased in an acrylic glass box
17.5” x 14”04. Love And Its Case; Flowers and Oxytocin #4, 2012
Archival pigment print on matte paper, gouache mixed with oxytocin, and glass bottle encased in an acrylic glass box
17.5” x 14”

Love and Its Case; Flowers and Oxytocin #1-4 is a series of four encased collages made from photographs of cut flowers and paint that has been mixed with hormones, specifically the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin is a hormone involved in complex brain activity such as bonding and trusting. The photographs in this series are shot at a close range so to limit the “perspective” that one gains from an outside or panoramic view. In certain cognitive reasoning processes, “perspective” is gained after hormones have run their course on the brain. The materials of Love and Its Case; Flowers and Oxytocin #1-4 present evidence of the human desire to preserve temporal beauty, likening it to the desire to preserve the feeling of falling in love.  Oxytocin is conceived of as the tangible substance pulsing through the intangible complexities that make up “love” and allow bonding and trusting to occur.