January 15, 2026 | 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
January 16, 2026 | 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
ARTIST TALK
January 16, 2026 | 5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
ARTIST’S RECEPTION
January 16, 2026 | 6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
The Lincoln Center Art Gallery’s new exhibit Kristy Deetz: Disrupted Gardens features a series of hyper-realistic acrylic paintings that imagine a future where nature and artificial intelligence respond to pollution and climate change by reshaping the Earth (our “Garden”) and populating it with new, often evolving creatures. Kristy calls these creatures Specimens and first creates them as small sculptures made from beeswax, pigments, and found materials. She photographs the Specimens outdoors and refines the images digitally to use as the basis for each of her detailed paintings.
The Specimen sculptures are quick, experimental studies of a transformed world, the paintings are slow, carefully crafted illusions. Together, they suggest a future full of humor, darkness, and hope. The work invites viewers to consider how life might adapt, what role humans may play, and how creativity can spark new ways of thinking about our environment.
Artist Visit:
Kristy will be visiting from Green Bay, Wisconsin. She will live sculpt in the Art Gallery, demonstrating how she creates her Specimens, from 1 to 6 pm, Thursday, January 15, and from 3 to 5 pm, Friday, January 16. The sculptures she creates will remain on view for the duration of the exhibit. To end the day on January 16, the Art Gallery will host an Artist Talk at 5:30 pm and celebrate her visit with an Artist’s Reception at 6:30 pm.
The Lincoln Center Art Gallery is open to the public from 1 to 6pm Wednesday and Friday and before most performances.
Artists
Kristy Deetz
Kristy Deetz is emerita professor at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay (UWGB). She has exhibited extensively at national and international venues. As curator, Kristy has organized exhibitions that have traveled to art museums, university art galleries, and art centers. She frequently serves as a visiting artist and has led numerous painting/drawing workshops at venues including Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME; Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI; Penland School of Craft, Bakersville, NC; Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO; and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN. UWGB awarded her the 2011 Founders Award for Excellence in Scholarship. She received SECAC (formerly Southeastern College Art Conference)’s 2016 Award for Excellence in Teaching and a 2015 Silver Award from Graphis Design Annual, New York. Her paintings have been featured in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Ashley Rooney and Anne Lee (Shiffer Craft, 2016), Encaustic Art—The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax by Lissa Rankin M.D. (Watson-Guptill, 2010), and Dynamic Color Painting for the Beginner by Diane Edison (Abrams, 2008). An Erasmus Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kassel, Germany, Kristy has also been Artist-in-Residence at The Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland and recently at Baer Art Center in Hofsós, Iceland.