Artist of the Month: A Vibrant June with Lindsay Overbey
6/5/2025

Lindsay Overbey.Touch and Go, 2023. Acrylic, Spray Paint, Graphite on Canvas. 24 × 24 inches.
This June, The CAMP Gallery proudly features Lindsay Overbey as our artist of the Month. A Memphis, Tennessee native, Overbey’s artistic journey is rooted in resilience and self-discovery. After battling skin cancer at a young age, she turned to art as a form of healing and exploration using her experience as fuel to tap into her unique creative voice.
Overbey’s work is marked by bold textures, vibrant colors, and unexpected shapes that immediately draw the viewer in. These elements aren’t just aesthetic choices—they act as a getaway, a portal into memories and emotions. Through layered surfaces and experimental forms, she invites us into abstract environments that feel deeply emotional and entirely individual. She uses experiences, both lived and imagined, to tap into her creativity. Each piece becomes a meditation on life’s complexities, encouraging us to reflect on our own inner landscapes. The vibrant colors and odd shapes can trigger emotions of uncertainty, apprehension, and curiosity—but along with these feelings comes the joy and a sense of freedom that define Overbey’s riveting work.
As a multimedia artist, Overbey draws inspiration from the environments she explores. Many of her pieces resemble collages, where contrasting elements are united into a singular emotional narrative. There is no fixed subject in her work; rather, the focus lies in the emotional impact. What do you see? What do you feel? What past experience does this awaken in you? Freedom and letting go of the difficulties in life, as well as diving into the unknown, are key when viewing Overbey’s work. Her abstract forms serve as both release and revelation, encouraging the viewer to surrender to the moment, to feel fully, and to find meaning in the intangible.
Join us in this Q&A and step into a space where color, form, and emotion collide.
What is impacting your practice at the moment?
Lindsay Overbery: Being open to trying new things and always learning. Exploring new landscapes and environments ignites my creativity and deeply inspires my work. There is an excitement and urgency to relay that information- colors, shapes, movement and remnants that stay with me. I have been using mark making and shapes as secret symbols to represent memories, feelings and desires much like icons on a map.
What work are you most excited to make next?
LB: I am excited to be participating in CAMP’s Women Pulling at The Threads of Social Discourse: Don’t be Absurd & look forward to creating a new fiber piece for the gallery. I am excited to showcase the dichotomy, tension and insanity of the characters' differing perspectives in the text All Men are Mortal (1946) by Simone de Beauvoir through applique, textiles, free motion sewing and hand quilting.
I am also seeing a shift in focus to exploring shapes as solitary objects in my paintings.
What work are you most excited to make next?