Eva Lundsager's abstract paintings evoke expansiveness and a sense of watchful waiting. Structured as an imagined, changing space, imagery simultaneously specific and indeterminate suggests life forms moving through atmosphere, over a planet's surface, and deep into solid ground. The paintings are built of varied processes of paint application; layers of pours, drips, glazes, and brushstrokes, and use complex color, sometimes seductive, sometimes alienating. Paint becomes animated forms on the edge of recognition. Lundsager's paintings describe unfamiliar territory in the midst of transition as events of indeterminate consequence unfold.

Born in Buffalo and raised in Maryland, Eva grew up exploring the fields and woods of her semi-rural surroundings, and received a BA in art from the University of Maryland, studying with artists Sam Gilliam, Anne Truitt, Claudia DeMonte and Nick Krushenick, and writer and theorist Jack Burnham. She moved to New York in 1985 to attend the MFA program at Hunter College, working with painters Ralph Humphrey, Marcia Hafif, and Susan Crile, art critic and historian Rosalind Krauss, and ceramicist and writer Susan Peterson. Simultaneous to her MFA pursuit she was the registrar for the ground-breaking Gracie Mansion Gallery in the East Village, getting a parallel education from owners Gracie and Sur Rodney (Sur) and the gallery artists. After sixteen years in New York, she lived a decade in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she spent a fair amount of time watching the quickly changing sky; compelling, beautiful, and occasionally frightening. Since 2012 she has lived and worked in Boston.

An early group exhibition at alternative space White Columns, New York, was soon followed by her first solo outing at Stephanie Theodore, New York. Subsequent solo exhibitions were held at Jack Tilton, Elizabeth Koury, Lauren Wittels, Greenberg Van Doren, and Van Doren Waxter, all in New York, and Galerie Von Lintel, in Munich.

Significant group exhibitions include the deCordova New England Biennial 2019, curated by Sarah Montross and Sam Adams, at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA; American Genre, curated by Michelle Grabner, at the ICA in Portland, Maine; and Outside the Lines, a survey of contemporary abstract painting, curated by Bill Arning at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. Significant solo exhibitions include Liquid Terrain, 20 Years of Works on Paper by Eva Lundsager at the Sheldon Art Galleries in Saint Louis, Other Light Other Night at Van Doren Waxter, and Elsewhere: Eva Lundsager at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, MD, where Lundsager’s exhibit was held in conjunction with an exhibition of work by her former teacher, Anne Truitt.

Publications on her work include Ascendosphere by Regency Art Press, Eva Lundsager: New Paintings and Works on Paper by Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, and Other Light Other Night by Van Doren Waxter. Lundsager's work is in the permanent collections of the Dallas Art Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, and the Whanki Foundation in Seoul, among others, and she has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting.

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