MJ Lindo Painter USA 1988

MJ Lindo speaks with vulnerability and self-awareness that is sometimes rare for a 36 year-old.
The Santa Rosa-based artist has always painted what she felt, using her childhood, dreams and nightmares as muses, but she knows this opens up her insides to criticism, and she doesn’t pretend that it’s easy.
Lindo’s first solo gallery show opened Aug. 22 at Lux Quaubas Gallery in Old Sacramento. Speaking with her just a week prior, she said she was excited but extremely nervous.
“I don’t know anyone in Sacramento, so it’s scary, especially because I worked so hard. I’m still trying to finish pieces I will have to drop off the day of,” she says as she walks her Neopolitan Mastiff puppy near her new house in Roseland, an unincorporated area within Santa Rosa with diverse cultural influences on art, food and local events.
Lindo has been drawing for as long as she can remember, but only started painting at age 15. She began by working for a Santa Rosa mural restoration project with the city, and worked in groups on large murals until she was 21.
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