Mark Lindquist’s approach over forty years as a sculptor has been to appropriate the tools and techniques of woodturning as elements on his sculptor’s palette. Known for aesthetic innovations such as celebrating wood’s irregularities and fibrous structure, and expressing the concepts of ancient Asian art in his work, Lindquist has pieces in numerous collections, including the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Art Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the High Museum in Atlanta, and the Chicago Art Institute. Lindquist is also a technical innovator who views his work as a three-way collaboration of man, material, and machine. His aesthetic approach and his technical breakthroughs laid the groundwork for the contemporary studio woodturning movement.