I am only now beginning to understand that my work is a reflection of my womanhood. I am drawn to the paper because I seek to express vulnerability. I am drawn to the ink because I seek to make peace with the ebbs and flows of my body and soul and spirit. I am drawn to the beauty of the man and seek to mirror his strength in my own way.
I am drawn to the paper because it does not fear pain despite its fragility. I am drawn to the ink because it moves freely and embraces change despite its uncertainty. I am drawn to the man because I am a reflection of him in spite of it all.
BLXCK RABBIT is the pseudonym for Celeste Lindsey, an artist from San Antonio, Texas. In 2020, Lindsey graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting. She works primarily with India ink and cyanotype on paper. Using narrative, symbolism, metaphor, and abstraction, she creates both small-scale drawings and large-scale paintings that abandon the traditional stretched canvases and frames.
Lindsey participated as an artist in residence in the 2023 Summer Session of the ON::View Artist Residency Program, and exhibited her work in the 2024 show ON::View Revue at Sulfur Studios in Savannah, Georgia. Under BLXCK RABBIT, she has shown at the Tobin Center in the 2024 exhibition titled Blues on Blues through the San Antonio Ethnic Art Society (SAEAS). In 2023, Lindsey exhibited paintings in Contracommon Gallery’s exhibition Undercurrent as well as the Everybody Everybody exhibition at Clamp Light Artist Studios and Gallery, at which Lindsey was a resident artist. In 2019, Celeste Lindsey was accepted as one of twenty-six artists to spend the summer in residence at Yale Norfolk School of Art. In the fall of 2019, she exhibited a series of ink drawings in her first solo show titled Youth at Southtown Art Gallery in San Antonio, Texas.