My work is about ideas and solving the problems that are generated by them. It is about everything that I care about – whether it be color, surface texture, pattern, light, space, energy, nature, silence or hope. It is about order under appearances.
As a native of Fargo, North Dakota, Nancy Lindburg studied at Mills College in California and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before settling in Salem, Oregon with her family in the 1960's. An arts administrator as well as an artist, she was the executive director of the Salem Art Association in the 1970's and visual arts coordinator for the Oregon Arts Commission from 1978 until 1991.