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Mark Lindquist, artist/sculptor
Using monumental works of turned wood, Mark Lindquist speaks abstractly and eloquently of interior and exterior worlds. Each sculpture is a meditation and spiritual reflection as well as a physical act. Lindquist directs our attention to ideas of presence and absence, to marks made by man and by time, and to an underlying unity that connects all living things. Lindquist received an MFA from Florida State University, was

Photo by John McFadden
instrumental in starting the wood
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turning program at Arrowmont School of Crafts, and received the American Association of Woodturners Lifetime Career Award in 2006.

“He [my father] taught me how to use the chain saw when I was ten years old. He was very much involved with technology, being with General Electric. He was a tool maker as well as a tool user, and I essentially learned how to work with wood at a very early age, and my father taught me about forestry and about conservation and about working with my hands at a very early age and I followed in his footsteps.”

- Mark Lindquist

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