ABOUT MINDY

Mindy Seidlin does not have a standard artist’s biography. She is a physician who spent her career in academic medicine and development of novel drugs. The desire to see art evolved into a passion to create art and, in 2007, she left her full-time career in drug development to begin making collages and mixed media pieces.  

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“Collage and assemblage are ideal for reflecting the many layers of my personal and professional experience. My experiences as a physician, scientist, mother, and member of a participatory Jewish community are the sources of the materials and imagery that I use and are also the scrim through which I view the world. That scrim sometimes illuminates and sometimes obscures the source materials. The work is always experimental, testing and exploring the materials that surround me. Lacking formal art training is a great stimulus to experimentation and simple playful manipulation of the objects and images that appear in my work.”

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In making collage and mixed media pieces, she is deeply engaged with the physicality of the materials, their shapes, colors and textures. Often, she disregards the original meaning or purpose of the material and uses it for purposes for which it was never intended. She can take “useful” items and turn them into “useless” objects for mere display. Conversely, she can take matter that is no longer suitable for its intended use and “upcycle” it to make art.