Lydia Crouse (b.1995) is a visual artist from Indianapolis currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY.
Lydia works to visualize figurative dramas in oil paint scripted by her inner-monologues. Utilizing her writing as cues she creates drawings to stage fictional narratives. Lydia renders these drawings further into speculation with painting. Her ambition as a painter is to make in order to conceive a counternarrative where the characters, landscape, and medium itself perform with abstraction in hopes of animating the critical imagination and curiosity of the viewer.
Lydia continuously draws on existential humor, her own everyday, moments of naïveté, and obnoxious levels of affection in order to subvert dominant myths with better ones. And by finally constructing scenes of fiction she paints to set the stage for any spectator to consider not only the absurdity of our human endeavor, but perhaps, also the possibility of love on the eve of every antagonism.