Lindsay D’Amour Williams is a contemporary artist and storyteller whose work explores memory, Americana, travel, and personal mythology. Drawing inspiration from roadside relics, found objects, animals, folklore, and lived experience, she creates paintings that blur the line between autobiography and invention.

Williams earned her BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in New York City in 2008 and has worked across publishing, performance, and independent visual practice. Her creative career has included commercial illustration, touring performance throughout the United States and Europe, and an appearance on America’s Got Talent.

She is also the creator of published tarot and oracle decks, including The Desert Illuminations Tarot (U.S. Games Systems).

Artist Statement

My paintings explore the places where memory, folklore, and the American landscape blur together. Working primarily in acrylic, I create scenes that feel both familiar and impossible like neon-lit motels, roadside diners, jukeboxes, horses, abandoned objects, and interiors suspended between recollection and dream.

Growing up surrounded by the visual language of twentieth-century America, I became fascinated with the way the past shifts over time. CRT television static has become a recurring symbol in my work, representing fragmented remembrance.

I create imagined environments assembled from personal history and collective American mythology. Mid-century design, desert architecture, vintage advertising, motel culture, folklore, and cinematic lighting collide to form a world outside of chronology.

Light serves as an emotional anchor, guiding viewers through quiet, uncanny spaces where familiar objects become relics. My work explores how places continue to haunt us long after we leave them, asking what remains when history dissolves into atmosphere and the ordinary becomes myth.

About

Exhibitions

  • 2025 — Desert Illuminations Tarot (Solo Exhibition), The Center Gallery Fine Art, Truth or Consequences, NM

  • 2023 — Full Spectrum (Solo Exhibition), The Center Gallery Fine Art, Truth or Consequences, NM

  • 2023 Guadalupe Group Art Show, Eye On The Mountain Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

  • 2021 — In Bloom, The New Mexico Art League, Albuquerque, NM

  • 2021 — Journada Del Meurto, 2nd Place Award, New Mexico Wilderness (juried), Leyba & Ingalls, Silver City, New Mexico

  • 2020 — Desert Archaic, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

Publications

  • 2026Desert Exposure, featured artist, Thresholds abstract series

  • 2023Inked Paper, cover feature featuring the Desert Illuminations Tarot series

  • 2022New Mexico Magazine, Riverbend Hot Springs mural feature

  • 2020Desert Exposure, artwork feature, Poppyland